"Jericho?" Gun-related? Proper for the "General" category?

[230RN]

Ok, bear with me. This is The High Road, right?

You've got to remember I'm not "with it" in a lot of respects, since I'm a World-Class fuddy-duddy.

I was raised without television --our first one was in 1948, so TV is not a big part of my life. It's usually on, but I pay attention to it only for brief minutes at a time, if at all. I do watch certain shows with some attention, but few of them.

OK, so I hear out of the corner of my ear that a show called "Jericho" is going to be on Channel 4 in Denver tonight, and I recall a lot of posts on that show on the old packing dot org, but I rarely read them, except to determine that the posts were related to "a TV show."

OK, so since it was subject to a lot of posts, it must be more-or-less gun related.

OK, should I watch it tonight?

OK, so what's the premise?

OK, so what should I be "looking for," gun-wise?

OK, so bear with me.

After all, I'm an old fuddy-duddy.

 

[ilbob]

show synopsis

23 US cities are nuked
Jericho is a small town in KS dealing with the aftermath

a newcomer to Jericho is a major character. he has the 24th nuke hidden in his garage, and is some kind of secret agent. not real sure early on if he is a good guy or bad, or who he works for.

eventually it is revealed that evil republicans were behind the bombing (the show referred to them as neo-Nazis and militia sympathizers, but that is just left wing code words for republicans as we all know)

last season ends with revelation that US has broken up into several parts.

new season starts with 10th mountain division occupying Jericho to restore order.

fair amount of gun stuff. surprisingly decent portrayal of guns being useful to self defense. most of the guns you saw early on were hunting rifles and shotguns. somewhere along the line they morphed into FA M16s. don't see a whole lot of handguns.

 

[wuluf]

i watched a few episodes when it first started and liked it. Then (it IS tv) it turned into a who's-sleeping-with-whom soap opera. So i stopped. Baseball will be back soon...

 

[doc2rn]

go to three letter accronym .com and watch all the old episodes so you can be up to date when you watch it tonight

 

[SammyIamToday]

It's on CBS, not ABC?

It has a pretty good portrayal of guns though. The day that the nukes happened people are walking around with shotguns immediately. You see some handguns, but not a lot. Nobody ever talks badly of guns, they all seem to realize their importance.

 

[rodregier]

In the first season, it built a little slow. It wasn't until around mid-season that we had scenes of a bunch of guys standing around the streets with long guns Handguns did appear at appropriate places in the earlier and later episodes.

First season is available on DVD from Amazon, etc.

http://www.amazon.com/Jericho-First-Season-Skeet-Ulrich/dp/B000SQFC2C

 

[230RN]

Thanks for the synopses!

(Maybe I got the channel wrong.)

I think I'll turn it on tonite, though.

Thanks!

 

[Intrepid Dad]

i watched a few episodes when it first started and liked it. Then (it IS tv) it turned into a who's-sleeping-with-whom soap opera. So i stopped. Baseball will be back soon...

That was the first half of last season. In the second half of the season the show picked up considerably. If the 2nd season premier is any indication, this shortened, 7 episode season should be much tighter.

The real question is if the show can pick up in ratings over the next 2 or 3 weeks. If it doesn't, well, there's always American Idol.

 

[TonyB]

I'm a big fan...however,I'm waiting for the "new Army guy"(Esia Morales) to start taking people's guns away..it would be realistic I guess.The show does have a good portayal of guns over all.There are a few shows out there that do:The Unit for one......of course then there's CSI's and Law and Orders that take every pot shot at guns and shooters.I've stopped watching these shows.I can take bad gun handling(heck some of US do things wrong)but blatant anti-gun retoric bugs me....L and O is the worst.

 

[gunsmith]

APS has several Jericho threads

you should check it out.

 

[mec]

I'm about to watch it tonight. Big blow when they killed off Jerald McRainey and I hope it turns out he isn't really dead. I missed any Evil Republican connection but continue to be surprised that the positive take on guns for self defense appears on a basically anti american /communist television network.

 

[baz]

I was raised without television --our first one was in 1948...

1948. Are you sure you got that right? That's right at the beginning of broadcast TV in this country. Some states didn't have broadcast TV until into the '50's. And lots of homes didn't have TV's for a long time. If that date is right, if you were not raised on TV, it isn't because you didn't have one, it is because you didn't watch it. Getting your first TV in 1948, and remembering it, would make you one of the oldest members of THR, I suspect.

We got our first TV in 1954 or 1955. Guns? Lots of early TV shows had guns on them. "The Lone Ranger" and "Roy Rogers" were two I remember from the '50s. Oh, "Dragnet," too.

As for Jericho, well, in the shootout with New Berne, I see AR-15's, but then when the Rangers trot out on horseback to go get Constantino, its all hunting rifles, or so I recall.

I've enjoyed the show. We (the wife and I) watched it all the first season, and looked forward to its return this season. We're also enjoying "The Sarah Conner Chronicles," where in the first episode, as they have to go on the run, she says to son John, "Get the guns." The lady knows her priorities.

 

[230RN]

Baz: Yeah that year is about right. Don't forget I lived in NYC and they were transmitting TV off the Empire State Building, and had been doing so, at least experimentally, since about 1939.

I'm pretty sure we had the first TV set on the block. Yes, I'm an old phart.

We also had an ammonia-cycle gas refrigerator when most families were still getting ice from the corner grocery store.

And we had a coal furnace for steam heat. I was charged by my Pop with shaking the grate and stoking it in the morning when I was old enough to handle the monstrous coal shovel. At night I had to bank the fire by shutting off vents and sprinkling ashes from under the grate over the glowing coals. I also had to keep an eye on the water gauge and give it feedwater from time to time. It was almost like I was a Stationary Engineer by the time I was about nine.

I did my first "blacksmithing" by heating iron in that furnace (by then I guess I was twelve or so) --my Pop had showed me how the glowing iridescent hunks of iron with that funny pattern that would flow around the surface of the iron indicated it was ready to hammer-weld. It would throw sparks off and hiss faintly at that almost-white heat.

Anyhow, re "Jericho," one thing I was impressed with was when the elderly black dude went to clear the yard and told his wife, "You know what to do" before he went out.

I guess she did, because when someone got the drop on him, she showed up behind the guy and got the drop on him. (Shades of "Get Smart!")

What impressed me was that in fact she did know what to do, and I wondered how many wives or SOs had been trained in a similar manner to effectively "back up" the person who was clearing the house.

Maybe that's a subject for a thread in "tactics," but since the subject is open here, I wondered about effective training for "backup" in your own homes or yards by wives or SOs.

I didn't appreciate the marriage proposal (yuck poo) but from what you guys are saying, they need to enhance their ratings, so I guess they had to put in some femmy stuff.

I frankly had a hard time following situations with no previous referents to who was who and what was what, but I think with those referents I would have enjoyed it more.

Thanks for the info.

(BTW, CBS and NBC "traded" call signs and channels here in Denver about six or seven years ago. For reasons which I cannot fathom and do not care to fathom. There was apparently some confusion when I mentioned it was on "Channel 4.")

 

[myrockfight]

Jericho

somewhere along the line they morphed into FA M16s

The M16s were provided by the character Robert Hawkins (played by Lennie James). In one of the earlier episodes, or maybe one of the webcasts, a cache of weapons is shown in a storage unit of Hawkins while he is picking something up from there.



Oh. The "elderly man" referred to in another post is Hawkins. He is all of forty something.


I wasn't terribly impressed with the first show. However, they have been dealing with a writer's strike. All in all, I would say it is a heck of a lot better than most of the crap they have been putting on television lately. The only new shows that come on are "reality" shows, which are anything but.

Quite frankly, I am very glad there is a popular show on television that casts our 2nd Amendment rights in a positive light. There is no better scenario to do that. I can't think of one, unless you throw an outright revolution against the govt. into this season. It looks as though that may happen this season anyway.

 

[230RN]

Duplicate. Gr.

 

[230RN]

Oh. The "elderly man" referred to in another post is Hawkins. He is all of forty something.

Young whipper-snapper, eh? All things are relative. I only added the "elderly" part as a referent because he was referred to as being "old" by the guy who got the drop on him and I didn't catch his name.

I agree re this being the only thing on TV that casts 2A in a positive light. Guns were commonplace and ordinary in that show... which is a goal toward which we should all work... to make guns commonplace and taken for granted.

The show will be on again on Tuesday, here in the Denver area.

 

[Bowfishrp]

I thought it was 13 nukes, not 23. This show is semi-believable that is what makes it fun to watch. Demos get control of the government again and pull our troops out of Iraq and Afghan and those terrorists come over here. I doubt they will get nukes, but car bombings could easily be the norm. They take down strategic infastructure and yeah I could see a Jericho scenario. T best episode was the season finale last season....this new one kind of sucked. It was all about revenge killings and I dont see that in normal people. Irrational types tend to die quickly during gun fights.

The only good thing about it is that they said TEXAS stands alone and has tons of guns!!! Which ever side they join will probably win the US back. I only wish that were true...Texas does have tons of guns but we are so overrun with illegals I have my doubts about whether that could actually happen or not.

I know I need to quit analyzing the show and enjoy it, but it is tough knowing that those liberal hollywood types are trying to make gun owners look bad in any way possible.

 

[gym]

Mc raney is dead, they buried him, doubt he's coming back this season, one of the more interesting shows, maybe because that's the way it could happen.

 

[Titan6]

Mc raney is dead, they buried him, doubt he's coming back this season, one of the more interesting shows, maybe because that's the way it could happen.

McRainey has lung cancer so he it is very unlikely he will return even if they could work it into the plot. Shame he was the best actor on the show.

Kind of hard to believe the plot unless you are willing to accept that a large number of government types across the board in different agencies would cooperate to destroy the country and a good portion of the world (literally) for no reason and not get caught doing so. If you can accept that premise, than enjoy.

 

[ilbob]

Kind of hard to believe the plot unless you are willing to accept that a large number of government types across the board in different agencies would cooperate to destroy the country

sounds a lot like the 9/11 truth types.

I did like the part about how TX holds the balance of power. Somehow I feel better knowing that.

 

[Donut]

The M16s were provided by the character Robert Hawkins (played by Lennie James). In one of the earlier episodes, or maybe one of the webcasts, a cache of weapons is shown in a storage unit of Hawkins while he is picking something up from there.

Also, their armament was supplemented when they disarmed the fake Marines.

 

[RocketMan]

The M16s were provided by the character Robert Hawkins (played by Lennie James).

It was quite the disconnect for me when I saw an interview with Lennie James the first time. He is a British actor with a pronounced English accent.
I wasn't expecting that. He covers it very well; only occasionally does it slip through on the show, and you really have to listen for it.
A talented guy.

 

[the_doctor]

Lennie James is pretty good at acting. I have seen some of his British stuff and I did not connect him with Jericho at first!

Bill

 

[HarryB]

McRainey has lung cancer so he it is very unlikely he will return even if they could work it into the plot.

Has the cancer returned or is this referring to his surgery of 2004?

 

[ilbob]

The M16s were provided by the character Robert Hawkins (played by Lennie James). In one of the earlier episodes, or maybe one of the webcasts, a cache of weapons is shown in a storage unit of Hawkins while he is picking something up from there.

Also, their armament was supplemented when they disarmed the fake Marines.

I know. The fake marines had no ammo though, and what little ammo they showed in hawkin's storage bin would have lasted about a minute during the firing scenes.

But, minor details are not that critical.