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On to episode 13 through 16 of Jericho.
The 13th episode, Black Flag, opens with Jake and Jimmy, one of our intrepid (incompetent) deputies, finding an elderly man frozen to death in front of his own fireplace... given that this guy was apparently living alone, I'm more than a little bit boggled that there is no mention of an effort to get people to share space in the houses that are best suited to wood-fire heating. You'd think that might be a useful thing for the town government to organize, given that there is no power or oil shipments after the apocalypse. Instead of letting people freeze to death one by one in houses designed for modern heating, might trying to get people in houses that can be heated by their fireplaces in groups so that the fire can be tended throughout the night have been a good idea? Just maybe?
Then we get to a town hall meeting and the Blackboard of Doom, with all of the town's critical supplies listed on it. This blackboard makes me wince -- someone put those numbers up, and to make them look dire, they complete skipped researching anything about Kansas.
( By the Blackboard of Doom, Jericho has the following resources: ).
In ep 14, ( more things go wrong... )
It's not that isn't an interesting show... but it's also an intensely frustrating show, because the world-building fails often enough that I can't tell what of the drama is deliberate, and what is me noticing that things aren't working because they weren't thought through by the writers
The 13th episode, Black Flag, opens with Jake and Jimmy, one of our intrepid (incompetent) deputies, finding an elderly man frozen to death in front of his own fireplace... given that this guy was apparently living alone, I'm more than a little bit boggled that there is no mention of an effort to get people to share space in the houses that are best suited to wood-fire heating. You'd think that might be a useful thing for the town government to organize, given that there is no power or oil shipments after the apocalypse. Instead of letting people freeze to death one by one in houses designed for modern heating, might trying to get people in houses that can be heated by their fireplaces in groups so that the fire can be tended throughout the night have been a good idea? Just maybe?
Then we get to a town hall meeting and the Blackboard of Doom, with all of the town's critical supplies listed on it. This blackboard makes me wince -- someone put those numbers up, and to make them look dire, they complete skipped researching anything about Kansas.
( By the Blackboard of Doom, Jericho has the following resources: ).
In ep 14, ( more things go wrong... )
It's not that isn't an interesting show... but it's also an intensely frustrating show, because the world-building fails often enough that I can't tell what of the drama is deliberate, and what is me noticing that things aren't working because they weren't thought through by the writers
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