If I had been making the call I would have blown the whole bridge up while the bad guys were parked on it.

The old mayor's argument was they are going to need the bridge in the future so he didn't want to blow the whole thing up. So if that is your reason then I think they should have hidden those explosives just on the other side of the bridge inside some old cars. When the bad guys went to try move it out of the way blow them to bits. In a real TEOTWAWKI those guys would just come back later when your guard is down. Plus by letting them go you just shoved your problem off onto other less armed towns.

They always seem to be burning a dozen candles, in addition to a couple of battery lamps.
Twoo weeks ago I see many now have oil lamps... guess the local Walmart is still open.

I liked today's show becaue of the very emotional "to not be seen" thread over on the other board. Not once on that thread does it talk about the capacity for law enforcement/military to be corrupt, impersonators or any other type wolf in sheeps clothing. At any rate, let's stay on track and not go there. Just seemed that that discussion over the past couple of days has made tonights show all the more interesting...

Tonight I have two minor complaints:

1. If pseudo marine gang had been going from town to town, how come they haven't been aquiring guns and ammo along the way?

2. It is now several weeks after TEOTWAWKI and not only do the people still appear to be in perfect hygene with nicely laundered and pressed clothes, but there is barely any trash on the streets. Public Works in Jericho must be the leanest, meanest and most dedicated group of people around!

I do have a couple more gripes about the show that I thought of driving to work today.

1. Why is it that there are only about 10 individuals in all of Jericho that are rational, freethinking, problemsolving and smart? Everybody else is just so stupid that nobody could figure out that they were not marines. Jericho is a small, gun-friendly, rural, farming town and I am sure a number of the residents would have been Marines at one point. It just strikes me funny how everyone but the main characters is so incredibly stupid.

2. They ex-mayor said that they gave the gang enough food to make it a few days down the road, yet the gang left walking with nothing but the clothes on their backs, and I am sure they do not have lifeboat rations stuffed in their BDUs.

3. Keep in mind that it is the middle of winter and on other episodes, couples have died of hypothermia in their houses under blankets in the fall, and the gang appeared to take no shelter/warmth with them as they happily left town at the wishes of the Jericho leadership.

4. They took a tank off of the military instead of a humvee?

5. Where did the caravan of people leaving Jericho in cars get all that fuel from more than 12 weeks after the bombs?

Well, thats all for now...

I live in a small, gun-friendly, rural, mining town and as sad as it is to say this is one aspect of the show that they got right. In fact I think it holds true for just about any town/city, of any size, anywhere in the US. When you are in a natural disaster or SHTF situation the vast majority of the population are going to very quickly settle into the PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER./follower mode and only a very small percentage of the total population in any given area are going to step up and rise to take on leadership roles. We can criticize the show all we want but I honestly think they got this aspect of it right.

Plus being a TV show it is all written around the main characters. That's the formula that works. Look at LOST. There are 30 or 40 people, but everything revolves around 8 - 10.

I just re-watched the episode online from 2 weeks ago where people are freezing to death in there homes, but all the trees around the Trading post are GREEN. Some of the trees were evergreens, but some of them weren't. Pretty funny.

I will still keep watching the show though...

Maybe this week was an Indian summer?

"You never know when you might need a tank."

I sort of lost my way a bit in the last series when I started calculating how much ANFO they would have to make in order to blow up the bridge. They had 3 hours to make more than 500 gallons of the stuff, move it to site and rig the bridge for demolition. Not a hope in hell. Obviously this is my own personal opinion, only ever having to mix ANFO in 50 gallon batches before.

You always neeed a tank