Yahoo has the first episode online. Not an impressive start. Reminded me of the Invasion start but not as good. And seeing as none of the alien shows made it I don’t have high hopes for this.
None of the actors are that compelling and there isn’t much of a set up other than the nuke going off. invisoThere is the prisoner bus with no prisoners in it but that should be resolved fairly quickend inviso Seems like it wants to be a little like Lost.
It’ll get a few more episodes but the excitement factor better be raised because I was bored through out most of it.
Underwhelming, but I had big expectations. From the given scenario, a possible nuclear explosion, it was quite leaden. The music - from Spy Game or Bourne Identity, didn’t help at all.
TV shows have gone through a period in recent years where anything without an established acting name has flopped, creatively and comercially. It’s a pity that reasoning causes me to want to skip “Jericho” because SKEET ULRICH, GERALD MCRANEY and ASHLEY SCOTT doesn’t do it for me. C’mon, at least throw me a Paula Marshall or William Devane or something.
It’s still only a pilot episode, so I have hope that the show will take off. I watched it early as well, and I thought it had a really good premise. With a lot of characters and development to do in the first ep., sometimes it’s hard for a pilot to be the best example of what a show can be IMO.
I give it 4 episodes and it’s gone…I’m not saying it’s a bad show and i’m definatly giving it a chance but I’m wondering how many people are gonna want to tune in to see the end of the world…My biggest complaint is that the characters just aren’t that interesting…But it’s just the first episode so there is plenty of room for improvement.
The police find a bus off the road, at first they think its the school bus, but ends up being a prision bus. Unforuently, at least one of the prisioners has decided "you know, I’m going to wait here for no reason until someone comes, then I can kill them:
After all the drama on the schoolbus, Skitt decides to try to drive them home, but oh no, the fuel gague is on empty. Leaving one question, how was the bus driver intending to get them back home with so little fuel (maybe the bus driver knows something because they got home fine anyway).
Skeet Ulrich was good for Miracles but has is a bad lead for the show, zero charisma or likeability the first episode.
The prison bus thing was dumb because once the cons come to Jericho in the cop cars the townies will know. The whole town will have guns and I if they have a hostage situation I’ll just quit watching there.
I’d rather see a few people straggle into Jericho and have the town not know which are the cons.
And ditch the school bus in favor of concentrating on the nuke going off.
It better pick up because I don’t find one of the charcters compelling enough to keep tuning in for long.
well i dont think I’m ready to let them cancel the show. i thought the first episode was really good, and i want to know what the cause of the explosions is. if that takes a long time to develop, i’m fine as long as the storyline keeps working.
Originally Posted by DerekT Ok premise, two moments I hated though. 1) The police find a bus off the road, at first they think its the school bus, but ends up being a prision bus. Unforuently, at least one of the prisioners has decided "you know, I’m going to wait here for no reason until someone comes, then I can kill them: 2) After all the drama on the schoolbus, Skitt decides to try to drive them home, but oh no, the fuel gague is on empty. Leaving one question, how was the bus driver intending to get them back home with so little fuel (maybe the bus driver knows something because they got home fine anyway).
I hated the Prison bus part…It was so atypical and Christopher has it pretty much nailed it…The “Cop” from St. Louis is anything but a cop.
As for the schoolbus and the fuel gague…My best guess is that the impact from the crash probabaly disabled the gague…There really was no point in it.
Watched it On Demand last night, since there was nothing else on. I liked it. Of course its just the pilot episode and they cant tell us everything in one hour.
Saw nothing bad about the prison bus, the guy who shot the cop was, after all, a CRIMINAL and maybe he likes killing people.
As for the gas, maybe when the bus hit the deer, the bus was still running and ran for a while.
What i didnt like was how calm the kids were the whole time. and if i woke up with something jammed in my throat, i’d freak out!
There’s more than just the end of the world going on, if it was, they’d all be dead from fallout.
