Okay, see? Now that's better.

[apocalypsos]

Now that's definitely better than last week.

It turns out that Heather is awesome (she was already pretty cool, but knowing all that stuff about the wiring was wicked), and I think I love Robert to pieces. Yeah, his family life seems a little off to me, but I love the fact that he didn't tell the mayor the exact nature of just how bad the attacks were. That shot of the red push pins at the end and his hand just picking them out of the drawer over and over was creepy.

And thank God the radiation is finally arriving. Granted, I'm not sure exactly how far they're going to take the poisoning, but it's cool to see everybody but Robert just completely out of their element.

The rolling hills in the background are throwing me off, though. Dude, I'm not even from Kansas and they don't look right.

I'm still touch and go on Emily, though. Just when I think she's cool by stealing that gun, she goes and does something stupid like flipping through the radio like that. (Which saved her ass, okay, but she didn't notice the faux cops having theirs? You'd think you'd check that before you try something like that.)

I like Bonnie, too. I think she's adorable.

Also, Dale is a puppy. A dorky little puppy.

And that preview for next week? The shot of the crashed planes lying all over made me squeak.

*

Here's the thing that gets me about the nuclear attacks, though. That there wasn't any warning.

If they were flying in from another country, it would make sense that the U.S. would spot them before they got here, respond in kind, and give alerts to its citizens as a warning through radio and television. But they didn't. At the time of the mushroom clouds, there were news reports about Congressional meetings and presidential announcements on the radio. Nothing about an oncoming nuclear attack.

My guess? A synchronized terrorist attack on the ground in each city involved. I'm not exactly sure how you'd do that with atomic weaponry, but that's just my shot in the dark.

Comments

[exsequar.livejournal.com]

...oops. Completely forgot! Ah well, not like I need a new show anyway.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

I forgot to watch that. I'm only watching it for Richard Speight, Jr., who has a small role. I wonder if he got to do more this week than he did in the first ep.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Who was he? It says "Bill" in the IMDb, but I can't remember who he was supposed to be in that first episode.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

He was a sheriff or a policeman or something.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

The only ones I remember seeing specifically were the ones who found the bus at the end of the last episode. They were tied up (but alive) in the trunk of their cruiser, and ended the episode in the storm cellar of Bonnie the deaf girl.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Last episode meaning the first one? Or the one that was on tonight which you'd just posted about? I can't remember what happened in the first one exactly. What I'm trying to say is, when was the tying-up?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Last episode, they found the bus and disappeared. This episode, Emily was walking down the road when a cruiser with two men in uniforms picked her up. It took her a little bit, but she figured out they weren't deputies. When she was sneaking around trying to figure out what to do, she opened the trunk and found the sheriff and another deputy tied up and bound with duct tape. After the two felons were shot by her and Jake, they went down into the farm's storm cellar with Bonnie, Emily, and Jake.

[anne-jumps.livejournal.com]

Oh God. If I missed seeing him tied up and bound with duct tape I'm really going to be annoyed with myself. @___@

[squee1123.livejournal.com]

AGH! I thought it was MONDAY. *falls over* I misssed the episode...maybe it'll replay?

gah.

[medie]

Hmm...maybe it was ala Harsh Realm? Suitcase sized nuclear bombs?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It would certainly make more sense than the kind of nuclear attack you usually picture with bombs dropping from airplanes or shot from other countries or something.

[medie]

Yeah I don't see that one working here, you're right. With all the warning systems and the like. That many missiles being fired from overseas would be impossible to overlook. Something like sneaking smaller bombs into cities with operatives is the only thing I can think of.

[ficangel.livejournal.com]

And thank God the radiation is finally arriving. Granted, I'm not sure exactly how far they're going to take the poisoning, but it's cool to see everybody but Robert just completely out of their element.

This is really fascinating to me, and where I'm hoping that most of the show's storylines wind up coming from. 18 inches? That's going to remove most of their topsoil, and that's not counting what will happen to the water table, or how they're going to cope with trying to plant crops when they don't have any good seed stock.

....I'm really waiting for the moment in Season Three, if the show makes it that far, when a deer with an extra leg dangling from its stomach bounds out from the underbrush or something. If you're going to go to the Dark Tower place, then own it.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

If you're going to go to the Dark Tower place, then own it.

Exactly. I want to see some people getting radiation poisoning while they're at it. I really don't want it to be a town full of people who are perfectly fine two years down the road (if we make it to season three) and having the only people who suffer from the side effects of the radiation be people who stumble into town with patches of hair gone and big old tumors and things.

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

I think they have to now, especially if they were so determined to keep the visual of having people living behind mountains being able to see the cloud. If they can see it they should have been affected by something other than the radiation. Like a storm or winds or something.

It's like they wanted the visual but aren't fond of the after effects. Depends on what kind of apocalypse they are after, External World Suddenly Gone or Survivalist.

[obeetaybee.livejournal.com]

I saw your post earlier, but had to skip it because I tivo'ed it but hadn't watched it yet. Now. *knuckles cracking* let's get down to some Jericho discussing business.

Okay, first off...can I just tell you how heartbroken I was for Heather when Jake just up and ran off from the mine? Here she was thinking 'hey, he's pretty cool and cute too, I think I feel a connection there' and then blamm-o! he's gone.

I think their might be a fic in that, hmmm.

I hate that Jake was calling Emily babe or baby or whatever the heck he was calling her to get her into the storm cellar. She's too pretty to live!

My first thought at the end when Robert was sticking all the push pins in was it was something we did to ourselves. Somehow.

(I think the only reason I thought this was because I had watched V for Vendetta a week or so ago.)

But yeah, I think I'm in it for the long haul.

Now, if only Heather (damn her broken leg) could go off with Jake next week, I'd be a happy fangirl.

Sheesh. Two episodes in and I have a OTP already. New record for me, I think.

Oh, and because I'm rambling...I kinda wish they hadn't killed off the prison escapees so soon, you know?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking the next three push pins were for New York, LA, and DC, because they'd be the first three places that would probably get it in a nuclear attack and were the three largest American cities Robert hadn't already marked yet. (Of course, there's St. Louis, Dallas, Seattle, Las Vegas, Detroit, etc. to consider. And New Orleans, but I doubt they'd bother a year after Katrina, no matter how large a city it is.)

Putting those three push pins in, though ... that makes it really bad. If Congress was in session at the precise time the bombs went off like it looked like in that first episode, that means the government's gone. And if we're at war now, that's not good news.

Emily annoys me. I want to have faith in Jake that he'll tell her to shove off and go after Heather, but ... *shrugs*

I'm not sure that's all the prison escapees, though. Just all of the ones that they had uniforms for. There might be another one out there ... we really don't know how many prisoners were on the bus. (Unless I missed something.)

[random-serious.livejournal.com]

See, now I'm all jealous. Is there a way to download Jericho, not in torrent, preferably. They are so slow.

[kirana-44.livejournal.com]

Finally watched my tape. Yeah the pins at the end where creepy.

Am I the only one who finds the fact Jake seems to know how to do everything just a little annoying?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

No, it's not just you. Tracheotomies! Explosives! Engines! I didn't know they were teaching those sorts of things to guys IN JAIL.

Honest to God, can they telegraph that he was gone all those years because he was IN JAIL a little more? And what for, because I'm starting to think it was for taking waaaaay too many majors in college, which I didn't know was criminal.

[kirana-44.livejournal.com]

Glad to know I'm not alone. I'd like him better if there was something he couldn't do. Maybe he doesn't know how to run a lawn mower or something. Grass will be his down fall.

And what for, because I'm starting to think it was for taking waaaaay too many majors in college, which I didn't know was criminal.

Ahahah, not criminal, just time consuming. Not that I'd know I never even bothered to change my major when I realized I hated it.