{"id":456,"date":"2008-03-25T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/wordpress\/?p=456"},"modified":"2011-12-17T12:25:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T16:25:49","slug":"a-new-jericho-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/2008\/03\/a-new-jericho-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"A new Jericho Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nOver the weekend my brother-in-law Ted came up for Easter. He wanted to catch up on a few Jericho episodes he had missed this month because he lives in the country and I have Comcast HD On Demand which replays Jericho (sweet). Ted is the guy who put in my wood floor – he stars in the my hardwood floor video<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nSo I watched five straight episodes with him – and now I am hooked. Tonight is the finale – which I will miss because I am teaching – Drat!<\/p>\n

\nThe plot is really cool. It is a post-apocalyptic USA where things got lawless for a while and then a series of new governments tries to take over and restore order.<\/p>\n

\nIt is so cool – there is a kind of bumbling new government\/army which is secretly under the control of a company and the army is always running around trying to fix things but never really gaining control. Then company that controls the government is called Jennings and Rall (J and R) Because J & R controlls the government, they are always above the law and doing bad things all the time. The civilians are just mostly confused – they dislike J & R all the time – the army\/government claims to be on the side of the people and only interested in order – but the government always lets J & R do whatever they want with no consequences.<\/p>\n

\nSo the people go between almost revolting, hiding, and timidly working with the government and J&R. All of the characters from all the groups are always conflicted – they do the right thing some times and the wrong thing at other times – even some J & R employees seem nice and do the right thing at times – but J & R seems evil most of the time.<\/p>\n

\nLots of cool symbolism around current events. Plenty of action – a neat ensemble cast – and a large enough cast that lots of drama happens – like folks getting killed etc etc.<\/p>\n

\nIt all comes to a head tonight in the finale. So don’t tell me how it turns out. And now that I like the show – of course it is cancelled – drat.<\/p>\n

\nAnd the funny thing is that I think that one of the characters (Major Beck<\/a>) looks a lot like Michael Korcuska in a flak jacket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend my brother-in-law Ted came up for Easter. He wanted to catch up on a few Jericho episodes he had missed this month because he lives in the country and I have Comcast HD On Demand which replays Jericho (sweet). Ted is the guy who put in my wood floor – he stars […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dr-chuck.com\/csev-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}