Jericho on DVD

Goweigus said:
I agree however, if memory serves me we were talking a dozen major cities nuked. I think realistically the fallout would be enough to define the situation as an apocalypse. Then again, this has been argued here before. No one has seen that many nukes go off and could only guess at the outcome. All be it, I think a fairly bleak one.
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its still being disputed... but is much closer to about 2 dozen
probably about 22 ish
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Yeah, I forgot about OUR missiles as well... Ohhh a small minor technicality!

Edit: Learned a neat little bit of info via the commentary on 'Rogue River'. Season two is partially filmed and has been for some time... Makes me wonder if the 7 episodes CBS will be airing next summer are all ready filmed. They then base their judgment on whether to pick up the show or not off of those results...
 
oh dude, they have finished filming the 7 episode season 2 (they decided to compress season 2 into 7 rather than spread it out and tell it from the original 3 city perspective they had hoped for)

go to the website and check out the forums

its very unlikely they will pick up jericho for more the way they have been treating it since the reruns tried to rerun...

unless of course the 7 new episodes are met with a significantly higher number of LIVE viewers...
 
The show started yesterday in Portugal. Since it's on SIC (funny name, I know) tv channel one will never know at what hours is going to be on, they suck on that.
 
Briosafreak said:
The show started yesterday in Portugal. Since it's on SIC (funny name, I know) tv channel one will never know at what hours is going to be on, they suck on that.
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sounds like CBS :roll:

I'm watching a Q&A DVD that came with the season now. Not all that much on the special features of the season... All be it, this was a sort of on-the-fly release.
 
Wasteland Stories said:
I can't watching anything in Sci-Fi (include Post-Nuclear) after Firefly/Serenity. Hope Joss Whedon'll make a Fallout movie :)
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Or maybe... A 2nd movie? Allan said Nathan told him that there are talks about Serenity 2. Youtube that for the video.
 
Kinda necrobumping this, but I'm watching the first season now so.

I've watched the first 5 episodes, and so far it seems to match other peoples impressions around here. There are flashes of interesting stuff, even brilliance. But man is it ever buried under extremely boring character interactions at the moment.
I don't give a damn about the "weird kid interacting with the popular girl", or the lovetriangles and whatever. Gah, it's so boring.
I want to know more about what the hell is going on with the bombs/war/whatever, and I'd love to see more more focus on the survival. As it stands now, the setting feels way to safe, with the city suffering various "accidents" like the fire in the last episode.

Get the fuck out of town and start discovering what the hell happened. It plays more like a soap opera or something now. More danger and dead bodies please. :mrgreen:

Some of the imagery has been extremely nice though, really loved some of the scenes where you see the mushroom clouds.

Hope it gets better like some people here seem to suggest.
 
Starwars said:
Hope it gets better like some people here seem to suggest.
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I recently picked up episodes from 17 (where I previously stopped) to the end of the season just to see if "those people" were right... they weren't, IMO.

A show like "Firefly" was not about the battle between the Alliance and the rebels, it was about how the characters survived in this post-war world.

It worked because
a) characters always traveled places in a colorful universe
b) characters were excellently portrayed and written

"Jericho" is not about the nuclear war. It's about "the characters and how they survive in this wild-west world".However, since

a) the show's world is extremely small and lacking in variety
b) the characters are poorly written, flatly acted rednecks

the end result is that the average episode revolves about who gets to milk today's cow, which improbable argument flares up for entirely inane reasons, and who accidentally stepped on someone's foot... eventually interrupted by a vague radio transmission to end an episode on a "mysterious note".

Mediocrity, thy name is Jericho.
 
Mediocre or not, we are close to season two supposedly coming this January or February.
 
Watched more episodes (about to watch 13). It still suffers from the boring character interactions, but there were 2 episodes that I really liked. Some spoilers I guess.

The two brothers going out of town to find the meds for their father was quite good I think, and the following episode with the merceneries threatening the town. That stuff is just way closer to what I want to see with this series. The episode that told the story of some of the characters before the bombs fell was also pretty good, despite that I've always disliked the format of flashbacks (which I have Lost to thank for I suppose).

I find myself fast forwarding some of the character interactions I don't care about now. I read somewhere (I think on wiki) that the creators originally were gonna make Jericho a movie, but that they couldn't fit it in a movie format so they turned it into a TV series instead. Watching the series, I can't help but feel that it backfired the other way on them, as so much of the show is so boring and well... So irrelevant to the whole idea.

But, I'm still watching so I guess it's doing something right. :P

EDIT: Well, I found the last batch of episodes to be way better overall, and I actually got really pulled in. If only the entire season had been of that quality, it would've been a whole different thing. There's still some character rubbish, but it got a whole lot more exciting.

Some spoilers:

Only thing that I'm not overly fond of is the 'conspiracy' theme going on. While it's still interesting, I don't want it to be sort of mixed up with the basic struggle for survival that the series turned to towards the end. Unfortunately, it looks like it will be judging from the events of the last episode. I think I would've rather had the series about a "regular" war so to speak, with the citizes of Jericho just trying to survive in the aftermath of that.
Was also rather sad to see that the Mayor (or former Mayor I guess) died, he was an extremely likeable character (despite not being the usualy type of character that I like all that much) and I would've liked him to go on a bit longer. I think the actor did a good job with that role.

Hopefully the new episodes will be about the same quality as these last ones, I think it really started to roll finally.
 
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