Jericho
July 17, 2008You know what’s a really good way to spoil Martini Bianco? Well, these crazy folk out there put wodka in it, and then stir or shake it.
Season one of Jericho is the Martini Bianco. Season two is the wodka.
Season two of Jericho is really, really, really bad. I mean, really bad. I can accept the fact that some dude forgot to fix teh c0lours. I can (teeth-grindingly) accept the EPIC FAIL fake user interface in episode 2. But what I can’t accept is the utterly, utterly crappy storyline.
The storyline does away with everything that made Jericho so darn interesting. I’m a small town boy, I’ve been living in one all the 23 years of my life. Even when everyone else started moving to the city, I stayed put. My hometown is the exact same size as Jericho - in other words, I can relate to that imaginary Kansas town. That imaginary Kansas town in season one, that is.
Season two isn’t about Jericho. It’s about bringing down this big bad new government (Allied States of America? I mean, wait, what? Someone actually thought that sounded right?), and in focussing on that, the show has now caught lostities - one big überplot, with no real subplots going on.
Sometimes, it’s better not to do something. The creators, writers, actors, producers of Jericho should not have agreed to make this mere reflection of what Jericho once was. This is absolute garbage, and I’ll see when I can find some time to finish the remaining few episodes.
Wodka is for unimaginative drunks anyway.
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Sorry you didn’t like season 2.
The subplots left since the budget was cut, and we hope they will be back when Jericho finds it’s new home.
Gwen
http://www.jericho-kansas.com
Comment by Gwen — July 17, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
BTW it’s vodka, not wodka. And vodka is meant for hardcore drunks, not wimpy beer lovers :)
Comment by h.a. — July 18, 2008 @ 11:25 am
@h.a: Probably because wodka is the dutch word for vodka. Thom has a nasty habit of sneaking in dutch word in english sentences… ;)
Carl
Comment by Carl — July 18, 2008 @ 1:25 pm
“Hello, Mr. The Shark? LOST, Battlestar Galactica, and Jericho are all here for their 12 o’clock jumping.”
Ah. Thought he was imitating Michael Koenig’s Russian “accent.”
Comment by StephenB — July 18, 2008 @ 3:16 pm
I have to disagree. Jericho was an amazing show and season two was meant for the fans.
Jericho had been cancelled but the network caved into the the “Nuts” campaign and brought it back in order to give some closure to the fans. I think the second season did just that.
Sure, it could’ve been better. They had to rush things a bit in order to close out the storyline. Sub-plots had to fall by the wayside but what we got was exactly what Jericho was all about.
In fact, I think Jericho as a whole is near-perfect television. I’ve blogged about it, if you want to check it out.
Comment by Chase March — July 19, 2008 @ 2:48 pm
I agree season 2 wasn’t as good. CBS wanted it that way. After the fans forced the network to bring it back, CBS decided to do it in a half assed way. They made the first season with a full 22 episodes, and then wrapped up the entire series with a 7 episode season 2. It was just a “screw you” to the fans to try to shut them up.
Comment by John S. — July 21, 2008 @ 4:51 am