I was thinking about the munitions question while I was watching Jericho (Where the hell is Heather?) and I would accept the gloss that New Bern had a National Guard armory or something. I'm disappointed that they're heading for warfare rather than the building a society that works under these circumstances story that I wanted them to tell, so I'm not caring very much.

Having not seen anything else under discussion, yet, I will shut my eyes and flee.

So, I guess they are wasting all their electricity running blast furnaces to make the shells for the mortars?

Sometime last night, I decided that what Jericho is REALLY about is NOT what an actual post-nuclear apocalypse would be but it's an opportunity to put modern Americans in the frontier and how would people fare w/o the stuff that they're used to.

Oh, and the Morse code this week was "We pledge."

I don't get how that or the episode title (One if by land) ties into what we saw.

Dale was poised to be so interesting just a couple episodes ago and now he's just not. It's a shame.

I loved Ted chickening out.

I used to know how you make gunpowder. Saltpetre, charcoal and sulphurl? Sulfur is the part that's hard to come by, I think. Thogh saltpetre being easy to come by might depend on having livestock. And if the kind of gunpowder you can whip up at home will successfully launch mortars is a hole other question. I kind of doubt it.

Sometime last night, I decided that what Jericho is REALLY about is NOT what an actual post-nuclear apocalypse would be but it's an opportunity to put modern Americans in the frontier and how would people fare w/o the stuff that they're used to.

Hm. Maybe. I would be okay with that premise, too, if they were consistent about it but the whole driving everywhere thing is really annoying.

Title and code just referencing the American Revolution for no good reason? It's reminding me of John Adams asking Abigail to make gunpowder in 1776, but I doubt that's what the producers had in mind.

During the first episode (all I watched, sadly) I kept wondering if it was all some grand sociology experiment and there weren't any bombs at all.

They really do need to stop using horsepower and start using more horses and bicycles. Because - while not everyone will have horses LOTS of people have bikes and know how to ride them.

And how the heck are Stanley, Mimi, Bonnie and Bonnie's slackery bf supposed to plant that entire farm with no machinery?

They already hit the point of the whole town having to work together to bring in the harvest, right? So it should be a known issue within the show.

Good call on the bikes.

I'm guessing that Skylar's (is that how you spell it? And where did I get my crazy Schuyler spelling from?) parents will make it home after she has made herself a comfortable place in the town's hierarchy and mess it all up. I kind of like that.

I've seen that name spelled Schuyler. . . is it German?

FNLish: Kristin had an interview with Daniel Dae Kim up on the E! website and he is a fan! Apparently, he used to play quarterback in highschool. Anyway, he said something about it being one of the only shows he watches that he can't see himself on. When Kristin pressed him he said he could be the owner of the drycleaner or the liquor store.

Now I want both Ben Browder and DDK on the show.

(I would link -- but there are random spoilery links on the page. Do you guys want a link anyway?)

Schuyler is probably Dutch. Like Schuykill (for Philadelphians)