Blame Game

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Would you know a disgrace if it slapped you in the face?
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I have been put upon, put off, put down, put on a pedestal, put in my place and now I am putting it on the table.

I have said mean things about folks in the fandom through private messages with people I trust and a few times in more public settings.

There are people I blame for certain things and reasons I blame them but I do not always have to be right for someone else to be wrong. I am not innocent. Who is?

The Blame Game; Do you play it?

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Jericho on AMC?

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Join the Discussion

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From the CBS board Ratkeeper Writes:

"Hi Everyone,

PMary2 has alerted Junction Entertainment to this blog entry and they will check it out through official channels. I'm adding AMC to my letter writing list. For those who wish to write, here is the information:

American Movie Classics (AMC)
11 Penn Plaza
15th Floor
New York, NY 10001

Names:
Mr. Joel Stillerman, SVP Original Programming, Production & Digital Content
Ms. Christina Wayne, SVP Original Programming
Mr. Joshua Sapan, President/CEO

Gwen"

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Nuts to Nielsen, Jericho and World Peace

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You can't always get what you want

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By coupling a combined effort by international fans to honor General McAuliffe with the controversial NTN movement I believe the stateside leaders of the campaign did the effort a disservice. Participation was tepid at best which is too bad because like a similar situation several months back with the Great Jericho Rewatch this could have been avoided.
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Nuts were integral in saving Jericho so there was no need to accompany this campaign with "Friendly Shelling" by the Nuts to Nielsen Crew. In my opinion it was especially dangerous to do so given NTN's obvious ability to divide the fandom. I say it was obvious because it was. Anyone could see it. A good press release could have accomplished the same goal. This is not a reflection on NTN as an idea. Things have divided the fandom before for various reasons. However, if you are looking to amass support for an initiative isn't it is best to let it stand on its own merits and to keep it far from any controversy?
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I am not an NTN hater. I actually thought the idea was pretty brilliant. It was a perfectly natural leap to start sending nuts to the company who, by virtue of its shortcomings, has helped to cause the cancellations of so many good shows. But where I think NTN went wrong was keeping its efforts so pinpoint focused on Jericho. It's leaders might have done better to widen the spotlight and recruit fans of other cancelled shows to the effort. Yes, it might have meant that the Jericho cause would have suffered a loss of energy devoted to saving the show but in the end it appears to have lost that anyhow and I am not so sure, had a larger NTN movement taken off, anything would have been lost at all.
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NTN could still bring much attention to Jericho as a less Jericho specific movement that continues to pay homage to the show that inspired it. The story after all is legendary and the press will continue to bring up Jericho time and again to explain the significance of nuts.
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It now seems that much of the NTN crowd has left the CBS boards. There were some seriously bad moves made by individuals both within NTN and without that helped to bring this about. There is a lot of blame to go around, but I am really sorry this effort to honor General McAuliffe by the International fans was caught in the crossfire.
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Two Months for the Price of One

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From the CBS Board

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PMary Posts:

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"Happy Anniversary! We are still up and have just crossed the 2 month mark! Billboard still proudly showing Hollywood that over 6 million Jericho fans (and those are just the ones Nielsen counted) want a new home! -7/28/08"

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Jericho: The Boo has Landed!!!

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Home Again!

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This story is unbelievable.

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Kestral,

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I know this must have been difficult for you and your family but it is such a wonderful thing you have done. Thank You for looking after Boo. You are a saint.

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Jericho: As The World Burns

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"What light through yonder window breaks?"

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-Romeo And Juliet Act 2, scene 2, 2–6

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In college I ran with a pretty tough crowd. Well, for an arts school that is and a fenced in art school at that where my new buddies who were full of angst were going stir crazy. On many a weekend night we ended up way too drunk and literally fighting amongst ourselves. It would start with wrestling and before you know off to the side one of our group would start saying “It’s going to turn real!” And then, of course, to some extent it did…

I had another friend attending the school who was from my hometown. She was a rebel herself but her cause was truth. One night she said to me that she believed the reason we boys fought was to express our love for one another.

My point is that as I have followed these relationships, closely and not so closely, over the last 16 months the fact that we all seem to congregate in conflict is starting to feel as much like love as anything else.

Call me crazy…

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Jericho: Milestones

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Read All About it!

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Today’s interview with Carol Barbee makes it clear that amongst other possibilities for continued Jericho storylines a graphic novel is a highly possible and very exciting prospect for the creators of the show.

I grew up reading a breed of comic books that were simple no matter how you sliced them. They presented the world in black and white despite the brightly colored, well laid out pages. Nuance was forsaken for grand themes of good and evil and it was never hard to tell who you were supposed to root for. Somewhere around the time I was headed off to college the Graphic Novel started to get a foothold. To mix my mediums and metaphors it was like the blues had had a baby and they named it rock and roll. Suddenly, thanks to visionary authors and artists, the comic book had matured with remarkable swiftness. The stories traded their over simplified landscapes for the key’s to dingy apartments and plush lonely mansions. The previously mentioned spaces are still alive in my memory from my first graphic novel experience. I have been thinking about it a lot of late because the movie of roughly the same name has just now hit the theatres. It was called the Dark Knight Returns and it was written and illustrated by Frank Miller and it was out of this world. Miller showed us what could happen if you took stock, archetypal characters and infused them with relentless reality. Miller’s Batman is a tragic hero juxtaposed against a superman who has become a puppet of the American military. More happened in this story on the first page than I was used to getting from an entire comic. The writing did absolutely no pandering; a fact I appreciate to this day. I remember thinking at the time that often the reasons we love things, such as my love of the comic book, is for the potential they hold inside of them. I am really happy that such potential has not been lost on the creators of Jericho.
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This is only a test...

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. July 20th, 2008

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Today is the official test of

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The Jericho Emergency Broadcast System

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All subscribers should have recieved their messages.

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If you subscribed to Jebs but did not recieve a message today please contact:

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gwen@az-technology.com

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If you would like to learn more about Jebs and possibly subscribe the original thread is HERE.

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Esai Nominated / Boo Update

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“I am consistently amazed with the exponential growth in both the quantity and quality of the entries we receive each year,” stated Helen Hernandez, Founder of The Imagen Foundation and creator of the pioneering Imagen Awards, which annually draws A-list stars and luminaries from the world of Latino entertainment.

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Imagen Foundation nominations for Best Supporting Actor

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Danny Pino, Cold Case, CBS/Paramount Network Television

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Esai Morales, Jericho, CBS/Paramount Network Television

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Jorge Garcia, Lost, ABC, American Broadcasting Company

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Shalim Ortiz, Heros, NBC

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Tony Plana, Ugly Betty, ABC and Touchstone Television

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Congratulations Esai!

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BOO: Homeward Bound

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JFF Dodges Bullet

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On July 2nd, Robin, the Owner/Admin of the Jericho Fan Fiction Board announced to the community that on august 1st the board would close. JT, another admin on the board, contacted Robin and learned that the reasons for the impending closure were money and lack of interest. JT has offered to step up to the plate and take the site over and apparently Robin has agreed. It appears the members of JFF will not lose their home. If you have never visited the Jericho Fan Fiction forum or it has been a while then why not click over there and share in the celebration.
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The lack of interest aspect in this story is one I hear repeated more and more around the Jericho fandom. Hints and whispers about various sites activity being down are not mere rumors. I can verify that this is the case with Jericho Junction and I know of other folks with access to site statistics who tell a similar story. In a post to the JFF community announcing the reprieve JT says:

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“Please note that it was YOUR (OK... an’ mine ) apparent lack of interest that led her decision to close JFF. That means that you (members and lurkers) need to become more active. It’s not enough just to read and enjoy the stories. Unless you are posting/commenting or in some other way showing your interest, this site will eventually go away.”

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JT’s signature holds the very honest and straightforward quote: “Will write for feedback.I write, so that others may appreciate, otherwise I would leave it in my head.Writer's Catalog” I understand the sentiment as there have been many times I have spent long hours working on the Junction without knowing if anyone would really care or even notice if it went away.

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Ichthus of Jericho Town Hall has been saying for months that it would behoove us to spend more time being fans of the show. Would this include spending more time being fans of the various sites in the fandom? Hopefully and more activity would certainly go a long way toward avoiding further Jericho Cancellations.
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Thank You Jericho Fans

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In our movement everyone has mattered and our collective accomplishments would be diminished had just one of us not taken part.
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Congratulations Jericho

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Jericho - 2008 Emmy Nomination

Outstanding Special Visual Effects For A Series

Jericho • Patriots And Tyrants • CBS • CBS Paramount Television

Andrew Orloff, Visual Effects Supervisor

Blythe Dalton, Visual Effects Producer

John Stirber, Special Effects Supervisor

Chris Jones, Compositing Supervisor

Michael Cliett, CGI Supervisor

Lane Jolly, Lead Visual Effects Compositor

Johnathan R. Banta, Lead Matte Artist

Josh Hooker, Lead CGI Artist

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Creative Fandom: Reality Agent ~ The Nina

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THE NINA

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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and ancient post,

My fingers tapping, gently rapping

On my keyboard on the floor,

I saw a message-it's been cancelled!

Quoth the Nina, "Nevermore!"

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Deep in the darkness I was peering, with a gnawing, growing fearing,

While the frantic posts were flowing,

Tension growing!

"What?" we screamed, still somehow knowing

This was no joke for Jericho,

Quoth the Nina, "Nevermore!"

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Quickly we assimilated; never pausing, never jaded.

We would fight the powers who've underrated our precious Jericho!

But, wait, we wondered, fight with what?

Why, we will send them lots of nuts!

Somehow we'll bring back the show!

Quoth the Nina, "Nevermore!"

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But the silence was unbroken, and the media gave no token.

Not a single word was spoken

About returning our beloved show.

Until one day, the Nina said,

"Fine, okay, the show's not dead!

We'll give you a 2-hour wrap up show."

Merely this and nothing more.

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Back in my chamber I was burning,

This is not the show returning!

Nothing less than Season 2!

The nuts kept coming, as nuts will do;

The media, though too much influence bore,

Quoted the fans, "We want more!".

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Now 7 episodes we've been given,

but still the fans-they stay driven.

They talk, they write, they digg, they post.

Their love of Jericho is enough

To keep them going, but still it's tough.

The comeback of Jericho is now lore,

But a future cancellation??

Quoth the fans of Jericho, "Nevermore."

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Reality Agent writes:

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"I had fun toying with "The Raven". I wrote it during the long, dry spell we had to go through with no word from CBS. We were all tired and frustrated, and Nina had placed the burden of the show's success on us. One day the addictive beat of the poem got stuck in my head, and combined with the ongoing saga of Jericho, "Quoth the Nina" seemed like a good ending to the stanza. As she was always the bearer of bad news for us and I felt like we were at her mercy, I just manipulated Poe's work of art into our Jericho story."

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If you would like to compare it with the original you can find it HERE

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Jericho's Fuzzy Future

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To say that to some extent Jericho Fans are frazzled would be an understatement. 4 Months have gone by since the cancellation of the show a second time; 4 months of waiting with very little to sustain them. This is no ones fault per se; the producers of the show have been attempting to negotiate new deals for Jericho while continuing on with their daily responsibilities. Such things take time so the fans mission, which they have chosen to accept, is to wait and believe in tomorrow.
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The “chosen to accept” part is important here. Yesterday on the CBS message board Cingramaol wrote: “Those of us who are still here, four months post-cancellation, are probably the most hardcore of the show's hardcore fans.” This is true but we have all witnessed and welcomed a slow influx of new fans as well. I can only imagine what it would be like to come into the fandom at this point. They are brave souls who come in with pure excitement for the show and they inspire us to continue.
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Of course we have lost a few along the way. The face of Jericho Blogging has changed decidedly over the last 6 months as Jane from the Jericho Monster dropped down to one daily Jericho blog from three and then finally decided to morph the Monster itself into a blog about change in new media. Jane inspired me to begin blogging and I will never forget first getting to know her and realizing just how much content she was taking in and filtering on a daily basis. Her interviews with the fans, cast and crew were ground breaking. Two more Jericho bloggers it appears we have lost are Amber from Watching Jericho and Teresa from the Jericho Bulletin. The latter sadly has completely removed her blog from the web. Kystorms from Jericho on CBS dropped the CBS and also came close to ending her blog. But now I see that MikesMom has been added to the list of contributors to the newly designed Jericho blog. I look forward to reading her posts.

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We also nearly lost the popular forum Radio Free Jericho when the owner openminded1 decided it should close. A member, Ka4ist, took it over and with the help of Maybei and a whole host of dedicated mods has overseen its revision and growth. I visited the other day and the place looks great.

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I could go on, but that is enough for now. Fuzzy is fine by me as long as we keep moving and in this fandom the movement is the one thing you can really hold onto.

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The Song is "Spinning Away" by Eno/Cale

The videos creator is poncodama

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Playing it cool: CBS.com

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So much of how CBS has handled their online dealings suggests a company that is foolishly looking to get by on the cheap while creating the appearance of being much more together and hip than they actually are. The communities that they themselves expressed a desire to grow around their programming are an unstable and precarious environment and a recent 2 day lockout of the majority of the CBS Jericho message boards residents is a prime example. No attempt was made by the company to communicate a cause for the disruption in service. This either means that CBS does not consider what they are providing in the message boards to be a service (after all we do not pay for it) and therefore no apologies or explanations are necessary or they simply do not have the personnel to handle any problems and communicate about them simultaneously.
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If it is the former, well, then shame on you again CBS for we do indeed pay a price in the form of loyalty and time invested in your products. This coupled with your cooperation and willingness to invest in us could set off a chain reaction of good will that no other type of publicity could buy. But you must stay invested and not yank these communities out from under people's feet when a show gets canceled. This will mean hiring more moderators along the way but the return will be that all the CBS message boards will develop a reputation for being user friendly and the network will enjoy the long term loyalty of these fans.
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But truthfully I think it is the latter of the possible explanations above. I think CBS simply is not investing enough hard cold cash into building their online presence. To this I say, wake up CBS, the internet is about users and growth you are definately not in Kansas anymore but you do have just as much potential to shape and sculpt where you are as any other dot com out there. As Cat Stevens once wrote "You can make it all true or you can make it undo you see…"
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We now return you to your regularly scheduled program.
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Rubber Poultry interview on Fancast

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Thank You RP, you speak for all of us enthusiastically and with great care.

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Jeanine123 has arranged a Digg party for this interview.

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The article was submitted at 9:15 PM EST and we will try to get as many Diggs as we can in four hours in hopes that our concentrated Digging can make this one go popular.

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Digg it HERE.

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Johnny Cash / Jacob Green

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Johnny Cash had a way of reaching into our culture and pulling out our stories. He set them to music so we could recognize ourselves. This song is not about the Jacob Green we know but it might be about someone he once resembled and that, along with the title, is enough for us to feature it here.

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This Is Priceless

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The Internet Movie Database is a massive site that is utilized by the movie and television industry to gauge the popularity of it's products. Sometimes those products are the shows we love and in Jericho's case the IMDb has done us a favor by keeping the series ending date open and thus making the important statement that the little show that could still might.
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Surf the IMDb searching Jericho and the actors and crew associated with the series to bring still more attention to our cause. Every click on a Jericho related link is a vote for Jericho.
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Speaking of voting for Jericho check out THIS post and see how you can help the show to get into the TV Vote Hall of fame.

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Compelling Drama

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If it truly is the thought that counts...

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...then why do human bother with the gift?

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After yesterday's post on the differences between Star Trek and Jericho Debby left this comment:

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"The connection I see between the two besides the brought back from cancellation one is that they both are epic stories. Star Trek was not a serial but did tell a story about exploring a new world and so does Jericho but in serial fashion."

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I believe this is essentially true. Both shows are epic tales of humanity faced with the unknown. Here are some more similarities which come to mind:

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Hawkins and Spock are both outsider characters who operate on many levels at once. They are grounded in logic and yet, seek to understand the nuances of those close to them and their surroundings. Spock is half human by birth and Robert Hawkins has become so by training. With both characters we become heavily invested in their journey.

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Equality of the sexes is a theme which runs through both shows. In Star Trek we see this more vividly in the next generation and subsequent spin offs. In Jericho there seems to be a slow unraveling of gender roles until the useless and stubborn attitudes fall away in favor of more practical and mutually beneficial arrangements. Still, I believe Jericho has a golden opportunity to take this further by making Gail Green an active and intelligent leader in the resistance movement which is to come.

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Both shows also contain a visionary component emphasizing the vast possibilities for good (and evil) by humanity.

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The Great Jericho Rewatch is a fandom wide effort to let CBS/Paramount know we are still here by simultaneously streaming Jericho on CBS.com or Comcast owned Fancast. The latter links through CBS and has the added bonus of letting Comcast, a Jericho suitor, know our numbers. Please join us tonight and every Tuesday to watch the episode of the week.

It's life Jim but not as we know it...

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Can Jericho break through to Star Trek Success?

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Is it even fair to compare them? Star Trek snowballed into the powerful franchise it is in an age when the shows re-runs were only up against 6 or so other channels of programming. It made it's way to the silver screen in part because of the wildly successful "Star Wars". Each show had a beginning a middle and an end and was independent of the next. Examining these shows side by side they could not be more different. Still, Jericho has already gone boldly where no other show has gone before and if it can pull off a third resurrection then the C in Cult could mean Cash to the company that chooses to back it. Whomever that would be they will need to see Jericho as a new phenomena and market it as such. They should look at what Jericho isn't so they can capitalize on what it is.

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Jericho, like the town it was named after, has found itself all alone in the television world and that could prove to be it's most valuable asset.

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Nuts to Nuts

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RAMSES - In the history books where he belongs.

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"The tomb of Ramses II is located in the Valley of the Kings and remains empty. After years of being looted and weathered, it remains destroyed. Great amounts of effort are in progress with the hope of returning the tomb to a somewhat presentable stage."

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