Jericho

steve12553 said:
Wasn't there a Showtime production of the same story a very few years ago? I wasn't subscribing to Showtime, so I never saw it but I'm sure I saw it advertised. Different actors, though.
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You might be thinking of "Jeremiah", a post-apocalyptic TV series by Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski that lasted two seasons.

In Jeremiah the premise was that a global plague had wiped out everyone over the age of about 13 in the early 21st Century leaving the children behind to fend for themselves. The story is set 20 years after the plague ended as the (now grown-up) children who survived try to rebuild a society in the ruins of America. It was a good show.
 
williamjm said:
You might be thinking of "Jeremiah", a post-apocalyptic TV series by Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski that lasted two seasons.

In Jeremiah the premise was that a global plague had wiped out everyone over the age of about 13 in the early 21st Century leaving the children behind to fend for themselves. The story is set 20 years after the plague ended as the (now grown-up) children who survived try to rebuild a society in the ruins of America. It was a good show.
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Yes, I certainly might be.
 
Jeremiah was KICK ARSE!! i am still so so so sore about it being cancelled. but at least we got two seasons i guess, that's more than a lot of other shows get... (ie Firefly...)
 
For some reason, I also got Jerico confused with Jeremiah, the 2002 series with Luke Perry and Malcolm Jamal Warner. Never saw it though....

Just saw the preview for Jerico yesterday and it looks like it could be interesting.
 
well it's not hard to get the titles mixed up, they're very similar.
 
After seeing the pilot for Jerico last night, I felt like I was watching a TV movie of the week from the 1970's. The characters were unrealistic but predictable and there basically wasn't anything else. I happened to catch Serenity on a premium channel right afterward and the quality contrast was so dramatic that I felt better about the world in general. Jerico is definitely poor melodrama rather than Science Fiction.
 
oh, i was afraid of that :( the pilot is just about to come on here in half an hour. i'll be watching it, even though it will be very very fuzzy because my aerial hasn't been installed yet!
 
Im watching the first episode right now.............
 
I watched it. What did everyone think?
It could have been better, could have been worse. I think Id give it a C+. Ill watch it if there's nothing else on and I dont feel like reading....

The story takes a tremendous amount of liberties in terms of realism. Its like Prison Break in that sense, if you can swallow the parts that dont make any sense, you could be entertained enough to keep watching.
Otherwise it looks like its trying to incorporate some elements of Lost into the story. A group of people survive a disaster, need to work together etc...
 
I watched it - Hohumm - It was alright, nothing to get excited about, though. A few plot holes - and a couple of things i openly guffawed at, but still. I might watch it anyways, so long as nothin' better is on.
 
Since there's not much else on at the moment, it's going on the list. But I thought it could have been so much better. Or maybe that was just because of the fuzzy black and white picture I was watching!
 
Sadly I can forsee it getting very crappy fairly soon
 
Its **possible** that it might get better. Theres always hope.

I always hate first episodes anyway. They always have the same lame catch-the-audience-up-on-events conversations:
"Hi Joe, remember me, Bob? Remember that time I stole your girlfriend at you father's funeral?"
"Ah yes, that was right before I joined the Navy, realized I was gay, got out on a medical discharge and came home to tend the farm for the last 3 years."
"Ahhh yes...good times!"
 
I watched the pilot episode. I couldn't help but compare it to ALAS,BABYLON, a great post holocaust novel published in the early 60's. However, the weakness of the show was that it all hit the fan too early. They should of taken at least a few weeks to establish characters, and then they could have demonstrated how the radical lifestyle change effected them. That was one of the strengths of the novel.

All in all, the show was just OK. I will probably give it another two times, and if it doesn't totally hook me, then just give up.
 
I watched the pilot with bated breath, hoping against hope that it wouldn't be another formulaic, cliche-ridden hack-fest.

Sadly, I think it will become very much like "Lost" but set in Kansas. Everyweek the ads will promise startling events and ground-breaking drama with mad hyperbole.
They will trot out the crappy taglines "A stranger arrives in town with shocking information! But can they be trusted?"
Who will cheat on whom? What is the Jack's big secret? Jane loves Jack, but does Jack really love Jane?
All soap-opera schlock. Why don't they tackle the big questions? Why don't they ever run out of toilet paper? :D

Trey Greyjoy said:
I always hate first episodes anyway. They always have the same lame catch-the-audience-up-on-events conversations:
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Too true Trey!
 
steve12553 said:
After seeing the pilot for Jerico last night, I felt like I was watching a TV movie of the week from the 1970's. The characters were unrealistic but predictable and there basically wasn't anything else. I happened to catch Serenity on a premium channel right afterward and the quality contrast was so dramatic that I felt better about the world in general. Jerico is definitely poor melodrama rather than Science Fiction.
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I tried and tried to watch it. Finally Gerald McRaney got off the couch and I heard he had the flu. I've gone to work with the flu and took care of three kids. I was very disappointed in the show.
 
I definitely found that it got better towards the end of the season, but I hate how at the end of each episode everyone learns a valuable life lesson and everything is wrapped up in a neat little package. I was waiting the whole season for two thirds of the town to die, but I'm unsure whether that will happen. That's what would make it interesting!
 
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