Stream of Consciousness TV Blogging: Jericho

Previously on Jericho - pointless drama.

War.  War never changes.  Oh wait, this is Jericho, not Fallout.

Talk about overloading your music.

Phones ringing - are people calling or is it a voltage spike in the lines?

How does that work, actually?

Cellphones are working?  WTF?

"The internet's supposed to survive a nuclear war.  So why can't I check my email?"  Dude, it barely survived a snowstorm.

Oh god, it's MovieOS.

Lots of strategizing about repairs.  If I want this, I can just watch the news.

Mystery family.  Oh, the drama.

More backstory about the black sheep of a family I care nothing about.

He has a secret?  Do I care?

And the transformer, like everything else on this show, blows.

Oh no, kids in danger.

He has a MovieOS account, apparently.

Am I supposed to check the freeze frames to see what he was doing?

Bah.  Stupid kid.

Very fake looking flames.

I'm not sure that's quite true - it's more that there are short circuits, right?

They still have water pressure?  Oh, guess not.

Another pointless rescue drama.

What does he see in her?

Idiot plot.

This camera work doesn't add anything.  I guess they were going for immediacy, but I don't feel it.

Until the writers find a way to make me care about these specific characters, there's never going to be much tension.  As it is, the only character I care about has had about two minutes of screen time this episode.

Oh, there he is.

So did fire #3 come from somewhere, or was it just convenient for the plot?

Everyone's got a mysterious past.

These fire effects still look really fake.

How long do you think it will take them to forget entirely about the fire damage?

Divorce papers?  How cliche.  And they had to tell us what the papers were.  Seriously, nuclear war isn't gonna save your marriage.

This is so cliche.  Thank gods there isn't a drinking game, or I'd be dead from alcohol poisioning.

Is that the son?

They should stop the episode there.

Ok, TV feed is the end of the ep?

And the feed that they're already getting doesn't happen to come on until the main characters arrive.

Or not.

Planes?  Whatever.