On r.a.sf.tv, "Nyssa" <Nyssa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> KalElFan wrote:
>
>> SPOILER warning in the thread title and note crossposts. Major
>> ending SPOILERS below...
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>> The episode aired last night on the A-Channel in Canada, and it'll
>> presumably be the same ending that airs tonight on CBS. It isn't
>> a cliffhanger, but at the same time sets it up very well for not just
>> a continuation of the series, but as a good reboot point that would
>> allow new arrivals to get on board.
>>
>> There's good action and effects, with a much broader scope
>> that still preserves a Jericho-centric core. Jake and Hawkins
>> follow the bomb to Cheyenne and, with the help of the Texas
>> Embassy there, get it out in a "diplomatic" plane. Hawkins gets
>> shot along the way but survives, and the Texas Air National
>> Guard has to shoot down two Cheyenne jets just outside Texas
>> airspace to escort Jake and his plane in. Meanwhile, by the end
>> of the episode Major Beck and his company commanders have
>> ripped off the bogus Allied flags on their uniforms. So the scenario
>> is that Texas and Jericho are both set up as siding with Columbus
>> and the legitimate government there.
>>
>> The episode ends with Hawkins having a line to Jake about them
>> making history, by exposing the Cheyenne deception and giving
>> the legitimate government a better chance to prevail. The line can
>> also be taken as a meta reference to the efforts to save the series.
>> It's as good an ending as Journeyman gave us, in the sense that it
>> leaves lots of creative room to continue but if it ends here we can
>> also fill in the blanks.
>>
>> If Jericho does continue, though, it could easily be viewed as a
>> substantially new series from here. The first 29 episodes become
>> the preamble or prequel and the premise is viewed as something
>> like this:
>>
>> "After a domestic conspiracy, including foreign terrorist elements,
>> launches a nuclear attack on 23 U.S. cities, the nation is split into
>> East and West. Because of the destruction of Washington, the
>> legitimate government is now in Columbus, Ohio. An illegitimate
>> government based in Cheyenne, Wyoming, with ties to both the
>> conspiracy and an unaccountable corporation called Jennings &
>> Rand, has used disinformation and fear to unite the Allied States
>> of the west under a new flag. Jericho, Kansas is caught in the
>> middle..."
>>
>> The premise could then go on to describe why Jericho, Kansas is
>> key, because of its geographic location, some of its residents, and
>> now Major Beck and his troops and so on, while Texas has just
>> thrown its support to Columbus and the U.S. is on the brink of a
>> second Civil War.
>>
>> It's a series that should get picked up, and with Battlestar Galactica
>> ending maybe Sci-Fi is the best bet. They've already been carrying
>> reruns (its Canadian equivalent the Space Channel also airs Jericho).
>
> Sounds good to me. I don't have cable, so I wouldn't
> be able to watch a transplanted Jericho...
It needn't be the only way to see it, for example if Sci-Fi and The CW
(say, Sunday at 7) shared the show. In Canada the A-Channel was
carrying it and then Space on the weekend.
Also, just correcting my first post it's "Jennings & Rall" not Rand (I've
corrected it in the quote above as well).
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