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Re: Jericho (the show, not the band)
« Reply #15 on: October 25, 2006, 03:01:01 AM »
They've got the full episodes up on cbs's website, and since the web interface was giving me problems I'm ripping the streams.

I watched the first episode and thought it was pretty cool. It was too intense for Karen though so I'll be watching this one on my own.
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« Reply #16 on: October 27, 2006, 04:04:31 PM »
Yeah, it can be pretty gutsy in the content. When I started thinking about what it would be like to live through an attack like that, I had to push it out of my head before long.

I think my favorite quote for this week is this:
DAUGHTER [speaking of Jake]: Daddy, is he a good man or a bad man?
FATHER [the ex-cop]: Baby, there's no such thing.

Oh, and I think the "It's A Wonderful Life" type ending in the corn field was kinda hokey but cool.

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« Reply #17 on: October 29, 2006, 03:30:23 AM »
It's taking me DAYS to get through this episode. I still haven't watched the last 15 minutes.

To Ent's IM objection that there wouldn't be an airfield in Jericho: actually we have a private airfield about 5 miles west of my hometown in the midwest, and they're not uncommon. Usually just about 10 different plane owners of little Cessnas.

The EMP thing makes me think of how this is the generation before Dark Angel--what happened in Kansas 13 years before Max lives in Seattle. :)
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Re: Jericho (the show, not the band)
« Reply #18 on: October 29, 2006, 07:41:56 AM »
No, i wasn't complaining that there was an airfield. I was complaining that they didn't use them to scout over denver or nearby towns. This show keeps doing things like that: ignoring obvious solutions to problems in order to make them look bigger.
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Re: Jericho (the show, not the band)
« Reply #19 on: October 29, 2006, 12:25:40 PM »
Ah, yeah. That would have been the obvious solution--though it could have easily been shot down by a "but what if someone saw us on the radar, someone we didn't want seeing us?" Should have been addressed either way.
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Re: Jericho (the show, not the band)
« Reply #20 on: October 30, 2006, 01:25:03 PM »
I've finally caught up on this, and though I'll probably be watching the rest of the episodes, there sure seem to be a lot of missed opportunities and things that lose focus.

Like, the clinic. What exactly happened to the clinic during the 2 weeks the power has been out? They were making such a big deal about the clinic's power woes just in the previous episode, but this time not a peep. Now, motors are affected the least by an EMP, so they should be able to repair any shorts in the generator and get the power back on, but all that sophisicated medical equipment like the EKG monitor etc should be fried by now and impossible to fix.

And they didn't talk about ANYTHING getting repaired from the EMP. The lower tech something is, the easier it should be to repair. That tractor on the farm didn't look supermodern; farm folks should be used to fixing their own equipment.

And the satellite dish on the roof of the bar--they should have marked positions and tried a bunch of different satellites instead of sticking on that repeating loop one for so long. And when it went out after being on that presidential seal podium, she called up and said "keep moving it around"...but it had been stationary for a long time so I doubt anyone was on the roof at that moment.

The writers of this show aren't being careful enough. Well, I guess I just expect them to be better because of their serious subject matter. I'm much more willing to forgive errors in Heroes or Stargate SG-1 than I am in this.
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Re: Jericho (the show, not the band)
« Reply #21 on: October 30, 2006, 01:56:04 PM »
Yeah, I'm about with you on this, Peter. It just keeps missing so much that would make it so interesting, and instead goes for the fighting and such that isn't so interesting at all.
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Re: Jericho (the show, not the band)
« Reply #22 on: June 11, 2007, 10:00:27 PM »
Well, we watched the last episode after having missed quite a few, and it had a heck of a cliffhanger. And then it got canceled.

But Jericho fans sent 25 tons of peanuts to CBS headquarters, and they relented. Seven more episodes have been ordered, but they have asked the fans not to TiVO it.
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Re: Jericho (the show, not the band)
« Reply #23 on: June 11, 2007, 10:03:22 PM »
Which actually has nothing to do with ratings (Neilson actually does add TiVo) and everything to do with TV studios don't like TiVo because it lowers what they can demand for ads.

What hurt Jericho's ratings was American Idol.
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Re: Jericho (the show, not the band)
« Reply #24 on: June 12, 2007, 02:25:36 AM »
I can't imagine that they haven't figured out a way to measure how many times someone watches the show online on their own website. TiVo might be harder to measure, but really, the Nielsens don't measure an actual signal going into a broadcast at a particular time. They have a set number of people who they survey. How in the world do they think their online blitz to get the younger generation--a generation who specifically uses different media with ease and doesn't like to be told "sit down and watch at this time on this day"--would then make people suddenly stop using the very media by which they reached those viewers??
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Re: Jericho (the show, not the band)
« Reply #25 on: June 12, 2007, 06:51:39 AM »
Yeah, I don't get that. They have ads during the episodes on the website; are they not charging enough to those advertisers? One of those articles says that Jericho was the #3 show watched online (legally) behind Heroes and Ugly Betty. That ought to count for a whole lot. That business model should be made sustainable. The media corps are currently in transition though, while they figure this whole thing out.
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Re: Jericho (the show, not the band)
« Reply #26 on: June 13, 2007, 12:39:06 AM »
All hail the power of peanuts! What a creative way to to protest cancellation (considering the last ep). I'm so glad this show will be coming back.

I agree that it seems like the legal download ratings should count for more. I usually DVRed the show. I always thought they must be able to keep track of who is recording what show.

Anyway, I hope they order at least 12 or 15 episodes for the next season--and don't make us wait too long to start it.
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