Jericho: A.K.A.
Apr. 14th, 2007 11:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaznettiIs lj really slow tonight, or is it just me?
This week's episode did something the show really needed -- revealed some information about Hawkins' mysterious past and brought him (and his family) into contact with the rest of the town, and it did a great job of it. Jake corners Hawkins and pretty much forces him to start talking -- and what a story it turns out to be, with Hawkins as an undercover CIA agent in a terrorist cell, Sarah as his handler, and the deeply suspect Thomas Valente in charge of an operation ostensibly aimed at retrieving twenty five missing nuclear weapons on US soil. I'm left with a couple questions -- is Valente just trying to take advantage of the chaos resulting from the operation's failure, or was he involved from the beginning with the conspiracy? And if so, for what purpose? I mean, you don't usually expect to find Homeland Security trying to topple the US government, at least outside of 24.
Hawkins and Jake were amazing: Hawkins building the story, and Jake's growing apprehension and horror, first at the murder and then, of course, at the bomb, which leaves him completely dumb. I was relieved that Hawkins is not in fact a bad guy, but also that Darcy has good cause to feel the way she does -- because all she knows is that he promised not to desert their family, and then did just that.
And now Hawkins is on Valente's trail, and Jake too.
And I liked the little moment between Alison and Emily -- because Emily's relationship with her father is probably the most interesting thing about her, and the parallel is not exact. And the show left us to draw it. I think this is the strength of the show, in the long run -- that it has so many characters to draw on, and they all have complicated stories, so that a little scene like that one can call up all kinds of possibilities. (In the first episodes, it was just overwhelming, but now it works.)
Mimi and the chicken was just the comic relief needed -- and had just enough seriousness to be worthwhile. I like that she gets it wrong more than half the time.
The more I think about this show, the more I hope it gets a second season -- it got off to a slow and (at least in my memory) awkward start, with a lot of characters and plotlines. But now it's built up to something really satisfying and complex.
The one thing that doesn't exactly bother me, but I do notice it, is that despite the way the lack of food is a major plotline, no one actually looks like they've gone without. No one looks like they're starving -- and more to the point, most of the time no one is trying to make the actors look like they're going hungry. I do a lot of handwaving on this point.
This week's episode did something the show really needed -- revealed some information about Hawkins' mysterious past and brought him (and his family) into contact with the rest of the town, and it did a great job of it. Jake corners Hawkins and pretty much forces him to start talking -- and what a story it turns out to be, with Hawkins as an undercover CIA agent in a terrorist cell, Sarah as his handler, and the deeply suspect Thomas Valente in charge of an operation ostensibly aimed at retrieving twenty five missing nuclear weapons on US soil. I'm left with a couple questions -- is Valente just trying to take advantage of the chaos resulting from the operation's failure, or was he involved from the beginning with the conspiracy? And if so, for what purpose? I mean, you don't usually expect to find Homeland Security trying to topple the US government, at least outside of 24.
Hawkins and Jake were amazing: Hawkins building the story, and Jake's growing apprehension and horror, first at the murder and then, of course, at the bomb, which leaves him completely dumb. I was relieved that Hawkins is not in fact a bad guy, but also that Darcy has good cause to feel the way she does -- because all she knows is that he promised not to desert their family, and then did just that.
And now Hawkins is on Valente's trail, and Jake too.
And I liked the little moment between Alison and Emily -- because Emily's relationship with her father is probably the most interesting thing about her, and the parallel is not exact. And the show left us to draw it. I think this is the strength of the show, in the long run -- that it has so many characters to draw on, and they all have complicated stories, so that a little scene like that one can call up all kinds of possibilities. (In the first episodes, it was just overwhelming, but now it works.)
Mimi and the chicken was just the comic relief needed -- and had just enough seriousness to be worthwhile. I like that she gets it wrong more than half the time.
The more I think about this show, the more I hope it gets a second season -- it got off to a slow and (at least in my memory) awkward start, with a lot of characters and plotlines. But now it's built up to something really satisfying and complex.
The one thing that doesn't exactly bother me, but I do notice it, is that despite the way the lack of food is a major plotline, no one actually looks like they've gone without. No one looks like they're starving -- and more to the point, most of the time no one is trying to make the actors look like they're going hungry. I do a lot of handwaving on this point.
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Date: 2007-04-15 06:00 pm (UTC)I think the whole food-shortage thing is so bizarre, but it's important to the show so I do a lot of handwaving.
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Date: 2007-04-15 07:53 pm (UTC)Oh, right. Heh. Forgot about that hand-wave. But, okay, we can say that all the deer, geese, ducks, turkeys, doves, possum, raccoons, squirrels, rabbits, fish, snakes, turtles, etc. ALL DIED in the toxic rain. And then move on. ;-D
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Date: 2007-04-16 02:20 am (UTC)