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Jericho Episode 8 – Rogue River

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Here is the eighth of a weekly installment discussing an episode of the popular TV series – Jericho – which aired originally back in 2006. Every Tuesday night we are watching an episode and then will discuss what happens the following day. It can be watched free on Netflix or purchased on VUDU. Jericho is also available on DVD.

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Summary:

Mayor Green is in a desperate situation and needs medicine which is unavailable in Jericho. Eric and Jake take off for Rogue River where there is a hospital. The hope is they can find the necessary drugs to save their father. After arrival it is discovered that a team of mercenaries have taken over the hospital. Eric and Jake run into trouble getting the needed drugs.

This was an action packed episode.

 

Discussion:

Jericho’s continues to show how the absence of modern services can mean the difference between life and death. Risk assessment is featured as the trip to Rogue River is decided on. What would have happened if Eric and Jake had been captured or killed? Of course Mayor Green would have died but additionally the resources in Jericho would have been diminished. Risk assessment will become a much bigger deal than in the comfortable conditions we live today.

Hawkins continues to be under suspicion. Paranoia –  and possibly rightly so – will increase dramatically under SHTF conditions and change people’s judgements. These changes may be for the better depending on the situation.

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8 Comments

  1. Matt says:

    I’ve binge-watched to catch up. Funny that a rural Colorado town doesn’t have any citizens with a decent semi-auto firearm. That was a pretty pathetic cluster of a bridge roadblock!

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    1. JR says:

      Yeah – thought the same thing. Figured there would be more people with semi-auto’s. Of course back when this show was aired the number of AR’s and AK’s were a lot fewer. Now it seems like everyone AND their grandmother has one.

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  2. Fred says:

    I’ve gone ahead S2E1 but no spoilers. Some of the episodes strike me as realistic and well written, others not as much but the characters are engaging and lots of surprises. Getting gut shot does not seem survivable in the boonies to me but…Kind of uneven prep wise, with folks sometimes appearing with it, other times clueless. It might be interested after you’ve gone through all the episodes to summarize what we might have learned as preppers.

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  3. JBernDrApt says:

    I wish they would remake the series. I think with what we now have and know it could be a better presentation. Think we would see more AK, AR’s, and updated pistols around. But I enjoyed the series then and like re-watching it now. I think a lot of what we see we would experience as well when our SHTF. I have family, friends and neighbors who haven’t a clue and there will be a huge difference how they handle it and how do or don’t survive. That is why we keep the knife sharp, powder dry and larder full. – Keep Looking UP

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    1. jh says:

      PR, for “ME” it was a series that was outside the norm of tv programming that had a bit of preparedness (things to think of within a community during a SHTF event) and drama included of a possible scenario of what could have happened in the U.S. Is it possible? Sure. Did the writers do a crappy job of showing just how dark a world would be if it did happen? Nope, but seriously, we have in our heads that as soon as SHTF event X happens – people are just going to lose their stuff and Mad Max life will occur. It may not happen that way. For ‘Us’, it was entertainment and a thinking experiment if somewhat far fetched at times.

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  5. Panhandle Rancher says:

    Thanks JH. I watch so very little of television that I hear people talking about this and that and have not a clue, kinda like trying to keep up with all of the names of new model cars. Apparently there is a lot of passion for the series but I think in time it will be like watching the original Star Trek – hokey to the max. Both series probably had the same budget constraints.

    The only reasonable metric of what will happen in an extended crisis is in what happens to the citizens of failed states. Rapid descent into anarchy, poverty, oppression, wretched hopelessness and desperation. Our founding fathers did us a very wonderful and great service and yet many citizens are are doing their very best to destroy and tear down that which was once splendid.

    ‘Tis indeed a dark time I see on the horizon.

    PR

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