Jericho's back!

[Football_Bat]

One-hour recap tonight at 7 p.m. Central. A good chance to catch up if you didn't see the first 11 episodes.

The first episode of the spring season will be next Wednesday and will be a flashback to the day before the bombs went off.

 

[HejiraHenry]

I DVR'd this tonight, so I could catch up.

 

[HejiraHenry]

I watched the recap show. Never would have gotten on the air but for the success of Lost, I'm thinking.

 

[Oz]

I thought this thread would be about Jericho returning to WWE Raw.

 

[HandsomeHarley]

I thought this thread would be about Jericho returning to WWE Raw.

Rumor has it that he's negotiating with TNA.

 

[Football_Bat]

This episode didn't do much for me except tell me Hawkins has a nuke hidden somewhere in his basement. And his erstwhile girlfriend / co-agent is coming after it ... and him. Nice cliffhanger for next week.

Next week looks good with the amusement park. We start seeing more survivalist stuff. That's what I want to see. The radioactive giant ants can't be far behind.

 

[GimpyScribe]

No one has said much about the last two episodes, but I've really come to enjoy this show. It's one of those that, I don't make a point of watching it first chance I get, but whenever I do get a chance to sit down and watch the episodes, I'm really entertained. They've progressed the stories along nicely and each character has some good depth.

Anyone else on the board still watching it regularly?

 

[Freelance Hack]

Still watching it. It's a good but not great show. Didn't really care for the way they handled Heather -- it was almost as if she was an afterthought. It's predictable, but enjoyable.

BTW Bat, I don't think the package is at the house. I seem to recall Hawkins going out in the radioactive rain and putting it in a storage facility.

 

[beefncheddar]

Still watching it. It's a good but not great show. Didn't really care for the way they handled Heather -- it was almost as if she was an afterthought. It's predictable, but enjoyable.

BTW Bat, I don't think the package is at the house. I seem to recall Hawkins going out in the radioactive rain and putting it in a storage facility.

Nah, they showed him cementing it into a wall in his workroom back in one of the first episodes, IIRC.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

I'm with Oz; every time this comes up, I keep thinking it's Chris Jericho. They'd probably job him to Umaga on his first night back, though, so maybe it's just as well.

 

[Freelance Hack]

Still watching it. It's a good but not great show. Didn't really care for the way they handled Heather -- it was almost as if she was an afterthought. It's predictable, but enjoyable.

BTW Bat, I don't think the package is at the house. I seem to recall Hawkins going out in the radioactive rain and putting it in a storage facility.

Nah, they showed him cementing it into a wall in his workroom back in one of the first episodes, IIRC.

You sure about that? I thought the cement wall was for his own bunker.

 

[beefncheddar]

You sure about that? I thought the cement wall was for his own bunker.

I'm pretty sure. I actually rewatched that episode because I couldn't figure out what he was hiding. Later I figured it was one of the bombs. Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure he's got a nuclear warhead hidden in his basement.

 

[Freelance Hack]

You sure about that? I thought the cement wall was for his own bunker.

I'm pretty sure. I actually rewatched that episode because I couldn't figure out what he was hiding. Later I figured it was one of the bombs. Could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure he's got a nuclear warhead hidden in his basement.

I may be wrong, but I could have sworn he took the Ryder truck to a storage place, wheeled out the oil drum nuke and put the cement wall up there. Again, I might be wrong but that's how I thought it went down.

 

[beefncheddar]

According to wikipedia (believe at your own risk, I suppose):

From the third episode:
With the town's remaining stocks of meat about to spoil, a cookout is held in the streets of Jericho. Robert Hawkins and his family are absent from the event. His wife tells him that their children would like to attend, but Hawkins vetoes the idea saying, "We're not ready," and continues to build a cinder block wall in his basement, apparently to hide materials he retrieved from the storage unit. At the cookout, a reflective Mayor Green poignantly observes that this may be the last time they will see the town in such a mood.

 

[JayFarrar]

I thought it was in the basement as well.
But I do remember a trip to the storage locker. It was full of guns and gear.
It was during the rainstorm that kept everyone else inside since it was radioactive rain.
Jericho is one of those shows that I just want to see how it ends. I don't really care about how they get there.

SPOILER ALERT, SPOILER ALERT



The Tivo lookahead reveals in the next episode that North Korea and Iran were also hit by nuclear weapons.

 

[beefncheddar]

I thought it was in the basement as well.
But I do remember a trip to the storage locker. It was full of guns and gear.
It was during the rainstorm that kept everyone else inside since it was radioactive rain.
Jericho is one of those shows that I just want to see how it ends. I don't really care about how they get there.

Back to the wiki:

According to a caption, the episode begins 18 hours after the bombs had exploded. Robert Hawkins is shown donning a yellow NBC suit and gas mask. Stepping out into the rain, he attends to a cache of assault rifles and other supplies, moving a single barrel from a storage unit to a large U-Haul rental truck. The truck bears Kansas license plate KVJ 572.

 

[Football_Bat]

I actually thought this was the best-acted episode yet. Ulrich and McRaney were very convincing this time.

But four well-fed dogs snacking on home human flesh in the opening scene? I didn't think the producers were ready yet to go there. In fact, if the town is scavenging for food so desperately, I'd start with putting Fido on a dinner plate.

The final scene where Sarah breaks the bald guy's neck and says, "Because this one's different" was kind of corny, too.

I went back to Episode 3 on TiVo, and the device in a barrel that Hawkins took out of the storage shed does resemble one of the nukes shown in Episode 12. Hawkins definitely cements it in a corner of the basement with cinder blocks. (He's doing the work while the town is holding its cookout.)

 

[HeinekenMan]

Damn. This episode started with a bang.

 

[Football_Bat]

Now Jericho has a tank! And a nuke!

Delish.

I knew the Marines were fakers as soon as the private called the gunny "sir."

And I'm noticing on this show, everything you see has an implication down the road — such as Hawkins' daughter learning how to shoot.

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Next week's episode is pre-empted, I noticed. What's up?

 

[HeinekenMan]

Well, CBS has a full slate with the tournament next week. Maybe that somehow had an impact on Jericho.