Jericho 1.11: Vox Populi
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drewbearPreviously: Explosion! Election hijinks! Hurt/comfort! Ass Bandits! Say Goodnight, Gracie!
8 weeks after the intial explosion, huh. At least the writers realized that no-one can keep track of the wacky timeline.
It took 8 WEEKS for someone to think of putting in hand pumps on the ground wells? Good Lord... It's a miracle they haven't died of dehydration yet.
So Jake is gonna try to get into Emily's pants, then? Jackass. Of course, Emily's leading him on, so for equal opportunity's sake: Bitch.
Poor Dale... with Gracie dead, he's now officially lost everything: mother is dead, home is burnt down, lost his job and Gracie is dead.
Please... Mitch is so obviously setting up Jonah so he can take over the Ass Bandits. Conniving little plan, though.
Oh, Jonah... I know that Emily is possibly the only person in town who'd believe you, but starting off by holding a gun on her is probably not the best way to get things started.
When Gracie said she wasn't going to do business with jonah any more? Mayor Dad, you blackmailed her into kicking out Jonah. Of course, now Dale is filled with righteous rage and is going to go after jonah.
Oh, Paranoid Cop, how you've been played like a fiddle by Gray's similar paranoia.
Geez. Mimi's a slob. And you'd think that Stanley would've learned to lock his door for privacy. I liked that we finally saw Bonnie "talk" instead of being the silent background character.
Hawkling, your dad told you that he didn't know how to play football. And Hawkins gets awfully frustrated awfully quick when he isn't good at something, doesn't he?
Mama Green is way too placid. I'm starting to buy into the joke theory over at TWoP that she's the sinister evil mastermind behind everything.
Gracie left everything to Dale? I KNEW that she loved him, albeit in her crusty way.
Gray is complaining about vigilantes while leading a group of angry fearful men on a raid of a private home... Hypocrit much?
Jonah's last name is Proust, not Sullivan, huh? Did Emily keep her mother's last name, then?
The scenario that Jonah described is completely believable, considering that the Ass Bandits (and Mitch Cafferty in particular) are nasty assholes (no pun intended).
Jesus! Why haven't those street punks' parents taken them off the street and put them to some kind of work?
I still like Darcy and Allison best of the Hawkins family. They're the realists about the situation. For instance, Hawkins is still abandoning his family, even though he's still living in the house.
Drunken Doctor fixes up Jonah. This situation won't end well and al of them are going to end up in deep shit with the townsfolk, methinks. And good ol' Jonah's playing possum. I'm really surprised that Jake wasn't standing outside that gate just waiting for Jonah to try to escape, though.
So it's finally Hawkins' test of family vs. work.
So Gray advocates corporal punishment for all offenses, then? Good to know.
Aww, Mimi's trying to salvage the relationship between Stanley and Bonnie.
HAHAHAHA!! Stanley/Mimi = Steamy!
You'd think that Jonah would know better than to run in plain sight. The whole "most dangerous game" thing is pretty blantant, though. I wonder whether Gray&Co. will just string him up without bothering with due process. Considering Gray's little speech earlier, I think that "innocent until proven guilty" is gonna get reversed pretty quickly.
Not surprised that Gray won, with his rabble-rousing. Handing out all the food without keeping some kind of reserve is pretty stupid, though.
Mitchell is totally going to strong-arm Dale. Or try, anyway. Stupidly, at that. All Dale has to do is go straigh to Gray (or Jake or whoever) with his story and Mitchell's screwed.
Mimi knits! She has a marketable skill! She might actually contribute to the general welfare of the household!
Bonnie is obviously still pissed, not only at Mimi but also at Stanley. She's been taking care of the farm for 13 years or so, she said?
And there's Dale, unraveling Mitchell's threat immediately. And the secret tribunal and holding camps aren't subtle AT ALL.
Gray's immediately incapable of handling the mayorship although he only dimly realizes that. At least he decided to exile Jonah for... not being guilty. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Aww, Hawkins and his son are bonding over having absent fathers. How sweet and touching. ::retch::
Time is acting wonky again. It was just daytime and now it's duskish at the Sullivan hosue.
Gah! The writers are strengthening the Emily/Jake thing and it's just.. wrong.
Oh, Bonnie, please don't hook up with Street Punk. He's just going to hurt you.
I kinda like Mary for her decision: cold coffee and candles for just a little music now and then. Plus, she's happy. People tend to be more beautiful when they're happy.
Okay, that may be "their song", but how is the sweet name of the lord did Jake manage to get it to start playing just when Emily showed up? Oh, that's right... plot hole. ::sigh:: And of course, now that the Jake/Emily thing is being officially rekindled, Emily's fiancee is going to show up.
They've been walking for weeks? How the hell did they know Jericho was there? Why, because of Emily's fiancee Roger, of course!
Toldja that Dale was going to go after Gracie's killer. Didn't expect him to actually become a murderer, though.
So Hawkins' black ops group is coming after him just as he's decided to defect. Why am I not surprised.
Next: nada 'til February. But it looks like Darcy's going to shoot Hawkins, which I can support.
8 weeks after the intial explosion, huh. At least the writers realized that no-one can keep track of the wacky timeline.
It took 8 WEEKS for someone to think of putting in hand pumps on the ground wells? Good Lord... It's a miracle they haven't died of dehydration yet.
So Jake is gonna try to get into Emily's pants, then? Jackass. Of course, Emily's leading him on, so for equal opportunity's sake: Bitch.
Poor Dale... with Gracie dead, he's now officially lost everything: mother is dead, home is burnt down, lost his job and Gracie is dead.
Please... Mitch is so obviously setting up Jonah so he can take over the Ass Bandits. Conniving little plan, though.
Oh, Jonah... I know that Emily is possibly the only person in town who'd believe you, but starting off by holding a gun on her is probably not the best way to get things started.
When Gracie said she wasn't going to do business with jonah any more? Mayor Dad, you blackmailed her into kicking out Jonah. Of course, now Dale is filled with righteous rage and is going to go after jonah.
Oh, Paranoid Cop, how you've been played like a fiddle by Gray's similar paranoia.
Geez. Mimi's a slob. And you'd think that Stanley would've learned to lock his door for privacy. I liked that we finally saw Bonnie "talk" instead of being the silent background character.
Hawkling, your dad told you that he didn't know how to play football. And Hawkins gets awfully frustrated awfully quick when he isn't good at something, doesn't he?
Mama Green is way too placid. I'm starting to buy into the joke theory over at TWoP that she's the sinister evil mastermind behind everything.
Gracie left everything to Dale? I KNEW that she loved him, albeit in her crusty way.
Gray is complaining about vigilantes while leading a group of angry fearful men on a raid of a private home... Hypocrit much?
Jonah's last name is Proust, not Sullivan, huh? Did Emily keep her mother's last name, then?
The scenario that Jonah described is completely believable, considering that the Ass Bandits (and Mitch Cafferty in particular) are nasty assholes (no pun intended).
Jesus! Why haven't those street punks' parents taken them off the street and put them to some kind of work?
I still like Darcy and Allison best of the Hawkins family. They're the realists about the situation. For instance, Hawkins is still abandoning his family, even though he's still living in the house.
Drunken Doctor fixes up Jonah. This situation won't end well and al of them are going to end up in deep shit with the townsfolk, methinks. And good ol' Jonah's playing possum. I'm really surprised that Jake wasn't standing outside that gate just waiting for Jonah to try to escape, though.
So it's finally Hawkins' test of family vs. work.
So Gray advocates corporal punishment for all offenses, then? Good to know.
Aww, Mimi's trying to salvage the relationship between Stanley and Bonnie.
HAHAHAHA!! Stanley/Mimi = Steamy!
You'd think that Jonah would know better than to run in plain sight. The whole "most dangerous game" thing is pretty blantant, though. I wonder whether Gray&Co. will just string him up without bothering with due process. Considering Gray's little speech earlier, I think that "innocent until proven guilty" is gonna get reversed pretty quickly.
Not surprised that Gray won, with his rabble-rousing. Handing out all the food without keeping some kind of reserve is pretty stupid, though.
Mitchell is totally going to strong-arm Dale. Or try, anyway. Stupidly, at that. All Dale has to do is go straigh to Gray (or Jake or whoever) with his story and Mitchell's screwed.
Mimi knits! She has a marketable skill! She might actually contribute to the general welfare of the household!
Bonnie is obviously still pissed, not only at Mimi but also at Stanley. She's been taking care of the farm for 13 years or so, she said?
And there's Dale, unraveling Mitchell's threat immediately. And the secret tribunal and holding camps aren't subtle AT ALL.
Gray's immediately incapable of handling the mayorship although he only dimly realizes that. At least he decided to exile Jonah for... not being guilty. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Aww, Hawkins and his son are bonding over having absent fathers. How sweet and touching. ::retch::
Time is acting wonky again. It was just daytime and now it's duskish at the Sullivan hosue.
Gah! The writers are strengthening the Emily/Jake thing and it's just.. wrong.
Oh, Bonnie, please don't hook up with Street Punk. He's just going to hurt you.
I kinda like Mary for her decision: cold coffee and candles for just a little music now and then. Plus, she's happy. People tend to be more beautiful when they're happy.
Okay, that may be "their song", but how is the sweet name of the lord did Jake manage to get it to start playing just when Emily showed up? Oh, that's right... plot hole. ::sigh:: And of course, now that the Jake/Emily thing is being officially rekindled, Emily's fiancee is going to show up.
They've been walking for weeks? How the hell did they know Jericho was there? Why, because of Emily's fiancee Roger, of course!
Toldja that Dale was going to go after Gracie's killer. Didn't expect him to actually become a murderer, though.
So Hawkins' black ops group is coming after him just as he's decided to defect. Why am I not surprised.
Next: nada 'til February. But it looks like Darcy's going to shoot Hawkins, which I can support.
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Date: 2006-11-30 03:06 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-30 03:20 am (UTC)Honestly, the only people who're acting realistically (sorta) are the ones being shown as unequivocal "bad guys". Gray is paranoid and xenophobic, the Ass Bandits are strong-arming the townsfolk (or trying, anyway), the Ravenwood mercs (apparently) went rogue and are pillage-and-burning towns. The townsfolk are just unifromly acting STUPID. As I said in a review a while back, the town's water supply must come from the Well Of Stupidity.
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Date: 2006-11-30 03:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-30 04:06 am (UTC)