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I should preface this with the fact that "world-falling-apart" scenarios generally scare the hell out of me and double as source of much fascination. I had a contingency plan tonight of letting Burma sleep on the bed with me despite house/cat-owner's express wishes to the contrary. This was in case Jericho was as bad (and by bad I mean as fucking terrifying) as Threshold was to me at Fandomedia last year. That totally won't be necessary tonight.
The beginning held my attention, and I was kinda interested in why the central character was routinely lying about what he'd been doing the last five years (although, seriously, you want to pull that off? Pick one story and stick to it. No, really). I was rather impressed that they got right into it: the bomb went off quite early in the piece. Then after the bomb goes off, things deteriorated into "Won't someone think of the CHILDREN?" and medical 'procedures' that made me want to throw something at the TV, stirring speeches by the mayor with stirring music* and oh woe, escaped convicts!
There was one or two good parts though. The scene of the boy sitting at home alone listening to his parents on the answering machine: "Honey, we're going to stay in the city for a few more days... Oh, my god, what is that --?" over and over was rather effective, as was the way they used that to reveal there had been a second bomb.
Talk of the fallout heading their way is probably going to be enough to make me tune in next week, but I'm not enraptured.
*That said, they had a pretty cool soundtrack. A bunch of songs I've heard on the radio over the last year or so, but never quite got a handle on enough to track down. Hopefully now it'll be much easier.
I should preface this with the fact that "world-falling-apart" scenarios generally scare the hell out of me and double as source of much fascination. I had a contingency plan tonight of letting Burma sleep on the bed with me despite house/cat-owner's express wishes to the contrary. This was in case Jericho was as bad (and by bad I mean as fucking terrifying) as Threshold was to me at Fandomedia last year. That totally won't be necessary tonight.
The beginning held my attention, and I was kinda interested in why the central character was routinely lying about what he'd been doing the last five years (although, seriously, you want to pull that off? Pick one story and stick to it. No, really). I was rather impressed that they got right into it: the bomb went off quite early in the piece. Then after the bomb goes off, things deteriorated into "Won't someone think of the CHILDREN?" and medical 'procedures' that made me want to throw something at the TV, stirring speeches by the mayor with stirring music* and oh woe, escaped convicts!
There was one or two good parts though. The scene of the boy sitting at home alone listening to his parents on the answering machine: "Honey, we're going to stay in the city for a few more days... Oh, my god, what is that --?" over and over was rather effective, as was the way they used that to reveal there had been a second bomb.
Talk of the fallout heading their way is probably going to be enough to make me tune in next week, but I'm not enraptured.
*That said, they had a pretty cool soundtrack. A bunch of songs I've heard on the radio over the last year or so, but never quite got a handle on enough to track down. Hopefully now it'll be much easier.
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I had chocolate and John ready to hold me, but I love nuclear war fantasies with a horrifying passion. And this just ... didn;t grab me. It was kind of ... one story please, too distracting, just focus...
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And I'm so with you on the random story lines, the whole escaped convict thing made me want to scream.
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Did you tell your dad you have to watch so you have more to yell about? ;)