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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 3083553" data-attributes="member: 2572">Everything I feared from the promo thread earlier was true when I watched it. The acting wasn't bad the the science and scrip had lots to answer for. It was established in the opening that Jericho is between 150 and 250 from Witchita and much more likely to be in the 150-200 mile range (Road sign driving in said Jericho 47, Witchita 197). This puts Jericho likely close to Witchita than Denver and probably about the same distance from Topeka. A mushroom cloud is seen in the direction of Denver but not anywhere else (And it is unlikely to have been set off in the nothingness between Denver and Kansas). So why is it assumed that they are cut off when there is nothing to the east and the major population centers which are 2-3 hours away by car and less than a tank of gas round trip. I saw planty of police and Firemen and the Mayor read the disaster plan that said contact the Govenor. The show took place over at least 3-4 hours since the cloud and maybe up to 6. So why wasn't anyone sent to establish contact. Even assuming ALL the police and Firefighters were busy (And given the nature of the overall emergency one should have been pulled off anyway) why didn't the mayor apoint soneone to drive to Topeka or even a state police station to check in as called for in the emergency plan. I also was disapointed that nobody seemed to have satellite TV service. Power remained on for hours after the cloud and electronics remained working (so no emp in the area) so why didn't anyone watch national news. The "threat" being talked about by the president was aparently terrorism and while I can possibly believe that terrorists could get maybe 6 nukes, I don't see how they could have gotten enough to take out every major city and then some. Sure alot of sattelite stations are uplinked from major cities not all are (ESPN is in Connecticut) and all Networks will have backup power generation so there should be some stations still up and they would be commendeered and used to broadcast news. This is still a good idea because even if the national grid goes down local generators would produce enough power to watch sattelite TV. So the premise is really hurting me. Lost works in isolating the Losties because it is on a island in the middle of the pacific. Jericho wats to be a isolated community show but it is streching reallity too much for me to buy it.</blockquote>

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