I'm not sure how, or if, you could translate the amounts in commercial iodine into a useful dose.

You can't, because elemental iodine doesn't have the same effect, and more importantly because iodine is toxic. So even if it worked, drinking that much iodine would kill you a lot faster than radiation would.

Thus, my rage.

I love Jericho - it's family drama meets nuclear apocalypse. So much to love. If you want a really depressing nuclear war tv series, watch the UK 80s drama 'Threads'. Stunning television.

Ginger, don't stop ranting. I'm always enthralled by how much knowledge you have packed in your skull. Actually, the same is true for Strega.

I seem to like Jericho, despite myself. I liked it before the hiatus. I like it now, although it does seem way better since the hiatus, and we already know more from it, than we've learned from Lost in three freaking seasons. Sometimes, what I like about it is mocking it, but it's an enjoyable mock, as opposed to the mock evoked by Studio Aaron Sorkin on the Aaron Sorkin Strip.

Finally, I'm glad the Jericho characters are not bald and covered in sores and whatnot, because then they wouldn't be pretty. I hate that sort of realism visual realism in any extended showcase. I also hate movies about the dark ages or middle ages when everyone all dirty, and yes I know everyone was all dirty, but I don't want to look at it for hours.

The town I used to live and work in was the proud home to three nuclear reactors in the local power plant. Soon after moving in, the town mailed me a happy little packet of potassium iodide pills. It was very apocalyptic-welcome-wagon of them.

If they'd had that kind of exposure, without modern medical care, many of them wouldn't have lived longer than a miniseries. I like Jericho, mostly because I'm a sucker for post-apocalypse fiction, and it really has gotten better. I got a little dizzy being beaten with the exposition anvils in the first couple of episodes. Let's face it. I'm still watching 24. Clearly massive errors of fact are not going to deter me from watching. I've watched as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Jericho reminds me of Alas Babylon, making me all nostalgic for that type of scifi and almost completely removing fact-checking from the circuits that are active when I watch it.

Alas Babylon is one of my favorite books, and I thought of it also in connection with Jericho.

I didn't read it until the 80s, and that gave it a surreal quality it didn't, I imagine, originally have. I'm quite unreasonably fond of it.

I like watching Jericho the way I like watching Dawson's Creek. But saying it's better than it was last fall is kind of a low bar. I'm not sure it's actually possible for a TV show to get even more ridiculous than it already was. Unless they brought in Roger Corman.

Let's face it. I'm still watching 24. Clearly massive errors of fact are not going to deter me from watching. I've watched as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I like watching Jericho the way I like watching Dawson's Creek. But saying it's better than it was last fall is kind of a low bar. I'm not sure it's actually possible for a TV show to get even more ridiculous than it already was. Unless they brought in Roger Corman.

Too too true, but at least it got better.

I also sort of root for it, because Sprague Grayden is a local. I used to drink eat at her parents' restaurant in college, and I hated her character on Joan of Arcadia so much that I jumped off the couch in glee when she died a horrible death (one I think was supposed to be touching, but just made me deliriously happy). So it's nice to like her character in something (and really, there's not enough of her character for me, let's lose Emily).