Jericho (New TV Show) - ComicCon Review (Spoilers)

[KaosDevice]

Being a Kansas boy I am looking forward to this. (And just about anything that shows something apocalyptic happening to my home state, dunno why). With all the talk about fuel, etc. is forgetting that there are a number of working ranches around the state with horses for the riding. Saddle up and head out!

 

[WayneLigon]

I'll definately check it out. I have no problem with characters that don't behave like a bunch of RPG PC's who act with calm hive-like Special Forces efficiency when confronted with unknown danger.

 

[Arnwyn]

The concept sounds fascinating, and I'll be sure to at least give it a try.

Hopefully they don't drag out unanswered questions for too long, though.

 

[Mark Chance]

I'll definately check it out. I have no problem with characters that don't behave like a bunch of RPG PC's who act with calm hive-like Special Forces efficiency when confronted with unknown danger.

Hear, hear!

I'm also both amused and annoyed by people who say things like, "Well, if that happened to me, alls I'd have to do is...." It's not too much presumption to say that 99% of everyone would be utterly paralyzed and irrational if confronted with the horror of a nuclear attack. This probably most especially applies to those who think that RPG PC solutions to crises are viable.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Hear, hear!

I'm also both amused and annoyed by people who say things like, "Well, if that happened to me, alls I'd have to do is...." It's not too much presumption to say that 99% of everyone would be utterly paralyzed and irrational if confronted with the horror of a nuclear attack. This probably most especially applies to those who think that RPG PC solutions to crises are viable.

Not to mention, have you ever seen the average RPGer in a crisis? I have, and almost all of them go as much to pieces as anyone else. Playing a Special Forces op with nerves of steel doesn't make you one. Not even close.

 

[Crothian]

Hear, hear!

I'm also both amused and annoyed by people who say things like, "Well, if that happened to me, alls I'd have to do is...." It's not too much presumption to say that 99% of everyone would be utterly paralyzed and irrational if confronted with the horror of a nuclear attack. This probably most especially applies to those who think that RPG PC solutions to crises are viable.

While it is true that RPGs are not realistic neither is TV. They will have plot holes and ignore things people see as obvious so the show goes the way they want the show to go.

 

[Shalimar]

It sounds a lot like the Stirling trilogies "Island on the Sea of Time" and the "Dies the Fire". Both outstanding sets of books. They both start at the same point, 1998, a blinding flash of light occurs, and things go to hell. In Dies the Fire, everything technological dies right along with the flash of light, electricity, explosive chemical reactions, etc, sending the modern world back to the technology level of the middle ages. In the "Island on the Sea of Time" the flash occurs, and the Island of Nantucket is completely cut off from the main land (by about 3,000 years). In both sets of novels the people have to deal with the sudden dramatic upheavals. I think it makes for a really neat story, and it definitely puts Jericho on my must watch list.

 

[WayneLigon]

It sounds a lot like the Stirling trilogies "Island on the Sea of Time" and the "Dies the Fire". Both outstanding sets of books.

Wow, those sound really cool. I'll have to add those to my want list.

 

[Vigilance]

I'll definately check it out. I have no problem with characters that don't behave like a bunch of RPG PC's who act with calm hive-like Special Forces efficiency when confronted with unknown danger.

Yeah the idea that anyone would see a mushroom cloud, completely lose power, have no contact with the outside world and calmly say "well there was only one nuke that we know of, probably terrorists, let's leave our homes and drive north".

Yeah... *THAT* is what normal people would do.

Not.

I certainly have seen plenty of people acting calmly during disaster footage, boldly striking out into the unknown at the first sign of serious danger demanding information.

Actually what I usually see is people staring around stunned, crying, and meandering aimlessly.

Chuck

 

[Abraxas]

Yeah the idea that anyone would see a mushroom cloud, completely lose power, have no contact with the outside world and calmly say "well there was only one nuke that we know of, probably terrorists, let's leave our homes and drive north".

Yeah... *THAT* is what normal people would do.

Of course it is perfectly normal in a small town in rural Kansas for someone to have a geiger counter

Actually what I usually see is people staring around stunned, crying, and meandering aimlessly.

and trying desparately to get somewhere where somebody knows whats going on.