Jericho

[PeppyGPhiB]

Does anyone here watch Jericho? My boyfriend and I have gotten really into it.

[DaffyKD]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

Does anyone here watch Jericho? My boyfriend and I have gotten really into it.

Good show. Getting really interesting.

DaffyKD

[jwright25]

Yep. We have watched it from the beginning. I get the constant cliffhanger thing (like Lost), but it kind of annoys me every now and then. I like resolution. The story is great though. I just feel like we haven't gotten anywhere yet. They still don't know what happened. I have to believe that if something like this were to actually take place, we would know what happened by now. I guess I get into my entertainment too much!

[PeppyGPhiB]

I thought we did find out what happened on the first episode of this new season? The one called "The day before" where they went over events for all the characters, but mainly Hawkins and his shady gf, made it look like a small renegade terrorist cell set off the bombs. Hawkins was one of the people in that cell, and that's why he's got "the package" in his house in Jericho now...he couldn't bring himself to trigger his bomb. Now we're waiting to find out who is killing the other cell members, what Hawkins is going to do now with his life and with The Package, and how the town is going to move on and repair itself.

The show has made me wonder what it would be like in my town if something like those events actually happened. If that's what Kansas is like, what would a metropolitan area resemble?

[jwright25]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

a small renegade terrorist cell set off the bombs.

You are right - I do remember that one. For some reason it just didn't stick with me as being the whole story. I really don't know why though! I guess it's because WE as viewers know, but the people in Jericho / the US in the show don't know. Outside of Hawkins and the others who were in on the package thing. Last week they believed the "Marines" who said it was Iran and North Korea. I guess I just figured some sort of "government official" would have figured it out and/or figured out how to communicate with everyone out there.

Also - assuming the bombs were radioactive from the mushroom clouds and all the radiation sickness - wouldn't the fallout / nuclear winter be much worse than it is? I seriously don't know anything about nuclear physics, so I'm clueless as to the reality of nuclear bombs going off in the US like that.

Plus - did we ever figure out where the electromagnetic pulse came from that threw off all the electricity, etc? I may have missed that somewhere.

For all my stupid criticism and thinking about the reality of it, I do really like the show. I have ALWAYS thought Skeet was HOTT so staring at him for an hour a week is quite nice!

[PeppyGPhiB]

WWSUD?

What would Skeet Ulrich do?

[AlphaSigOU]

Originally Posted by jwright25

Also - assuming the bombs were radioactive from the mushroom clouds and all the radiation sickness - wouldn't the fallout / nuclear winter be much worse than it is? I seriously don't know anything about nuclear physics, so I'm clueless as to the reality of nuclear bombs going off in the US like that.

Plus - did we ever figure out where the electromagnetic pulse came from that threw off all the electricity, etc? I may have missed that somewhere.

There is a brief scene in an earlier episode depicting some ICBMs launching before the EMP hits. (Though in reality there are no ICBM fields anywhere close to Kansas - you'd hafta go to NE Colorado and the Nebraska panhandle to find 'em, cause those are part of 'Frankie's Rocket Ranch' (aka F.E. Warren AFB, home to the 90th Space Wing.)

All it would take is a nuke of sufficient power detonated high up in the atmosphere to produce an EMP effect that covers the USA.

The nukes were probably small, but enough to do some serious damage and disrupt the US infrastructure. The days of city-busting nukes (such as the 10 megaton behemoth once carried on the Titan II missile) are history. Most missile-launched and bomber-borne nukes are less than 1 megaton (around 200-500 kilotons, as the 'yield' (read: destructive power) can be adjusted.