The Walls of Jericho
I should read IMDB more. Well, maybe everyone should. It’s becoming the movie bible, the google of movies. One of my things on the Wish list If-you-win-the-Big-one is a professional account in that site, just for the fun of it.
But this was not the point.
I’ve found a small treasure that I hope will succeed.
Sometimes on IMDB I scroll down to the rants, to take a look at the village crazies, so to speak, and under ‘Jericho’, the recently canceled show of CBS, read the topics of uniting fans that want to save the series.
So hopped over to the site www.jericholives.com, not a bad name. Over 70.000 folks have signed already and you can find all the numbers of people of CBS to call, or, as they nicely put it, “keep that mailbox full.”
My heart is warmed.
Again.
Because I like Jericho, and there was another show who died, and was resurrected in a way by the petitioning of the fans. Be sure, this is not a comparing of the quality of both shows.
I like Jericho because I didn’t especially hate Skeet Ulrich, never saw him much before this. I liked it because they took the premises, a nuclear attack in America, pretty serious. And I like that idea.
When I was 14-16 I wrote some stories in a post nuclear world, and became fascinated by the research. The more you get to know about nuclear weapons the more scared you get. I’m still convinced the first nuclear terrorist attack will happen in my lifetime, and I’m thinking that since the 1980ies.
And for a TV show Jericho took the greater story arch pretty far. From a well paced out development off the nuclear attack to survival in isolation ending in war with a neighbor town. And the final episode was one of the best season ending I saw this year. Better then Shark, an end I still do not understand.
No, not better then Battlestar Galactica. That would be like comparing God to a grapefruit.
And so the acting is tame, the shooting is lame, but what hurts me the most in Jericho is the dialog. That the actors get that out of their mouth is prize worthy alone. But still the whole average of the show made it my favorite B-series. And those we need also.
So for you, true fans of Jericho, my best wishes, you have my signature.
From a Browncoat.
But this was not the point.
I’ve found a small treasure that I hope will succeed.
Sometimes on IMDB I scroll down to the rants, to take a look at the village crazies, so to speak, and under ‘Jericho’, the recently canceled show of CBS, read the topics of uniting fans that want to save the series.
So hopped over to the site www.jericholives.com, not a bad name. Over 70.000 folks have signed already and you can find all the numbers of people of CBS to call, or, as they nicely put it, “keep that mailbox full.”
My heart is warmed.
Again.
Because I like Jericho, and there was another show who died, and was resurrected in a way by the petitioning of the fans. Be sure, this is not a comparing of the quality of both shows.
I like Jericho because I didn’t especially hate Skeet Ulrich, never saw him much before this. I liked it because they took the premises, a nuclear attack in America, pretty serious. And I like that idea.
When I was 14-16 I wrote some stories in a post nuclear world, and became fascinated by the research. The more you get to know about nuclear weapons the more scared you get. I’m still convinced the first nuclear terrorist attack will happen in my lifetime, and I’m thinking that since the 1980ies.
And for a TV show Jericho took the greater story arch pretty far. From a well paced out development off the nuclear attack to survival in isolation ending in war with a neighbor town. And the final episode was one of the best season ending I saw this year. Better then Shark, an end I still do not understand.
No, not better then Battlestar Galactica. That would be like comparing God to a grapefruit.
And so the acting is tame, the shooting is lame, but what hurts me the most in Jericho is the dialog. That the actors get that out of their mouth is prize worthy alone. But still the whole average of the show made it my favorite B-series. And those we need also.
So for you, true fans of Jericho, my best wishes, you have my signature.
From a Browncoat.
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