Mistakes and unrealistic things about Jericho

-Defending yourself from automatic rifles by hiding behind wooden pallets.

Jake asked Hawkings that same question and Hawkings responding with some like "I didn't think I would be defending my town." Also, Hawkings didn't have anyone who knew his secret during Raven Wood (not Blackwater) incident.

When Hawkins takes him to his storage locker:


Jake: "You had this stash of weapons the whole time?"

Hawkins: "I never thought I would be calling this town my home."

When you said Blackwater you meant Ravenwood right?😄

Yes, Tomrachio said that he ordered the launching. Why the EMP and how the hell he managed to get them launched without the Football, the writers only know.

-in heart of winter stanly takes his jacket off and puts it around jake. then they cut the camaras and the jacket isn't on jake. then they cut the camara's agian and it's back on jake. lol.

*^*^I Like being WEIRD*^*^

I thought Dail moved all the food from the train???? Yeah but that's true.

-Suzanna is going to kill her husband on their honey moon-

Thank you tay-14, my thoughts exactly.

Just one last thing about the food from the train. Nobody was moving pallets since there was no fork lift or truck available. Which means only one thing, the food had to be pulled out by hand... Then again, pallets are wrapped in impenetrable plastic wrap, so who knows?

I wonder if I was sarcastic enough?

I always believed that the reason that Hawkins never shared the guns when Ravenwood came knocking was that he didn't want to tip his hand. Right when he started distributing the rifles, he told Darcy something along the lines of, "I never thought I'd find myself fighting for this town."

Hawkins didn't share before because the town and its inhabitants didn't really matter to him at that point. Ravenwood shoot everything up? Any that tried to mess with him or his family would be dead very quick, and the nuke would remain safe and hidden no matter what. Worst case scenario, he hides the nuke somewhere else, takes his family and leaves.

Just a few quick responses most of which was already brought up.

First: A 20KT bomb is still plenty destructive. Hiroshima and Nagasaki had death toolls in only the thousands yes but they were small cities. In NYC the population is tightly compact so in the same area in a big city like New York a 20KT bomb could easily take out 1-2 million+ depending where it was detonated. Some city streets and skyscrappers alone have more people in them than Hiroshima! Imagine a few buildings each with 10-50,000 person capasities being in the blast radius? Even those outside of the blast area would have to be evacuated and the fires and fallout would likely burn away their homes as the fire will just keeping spreading with so many flamable buildings for miles around. We are talking the evacuation of maybe 10 million or more people many of whom will be injured and diseased. With this happening in our 23 largest cities simultenously with our government wiped out completely unable to assist or coordinate any rescue effort. That would be total chaos. According to the series though the deathtoll was 15 million so that means each city had an average deathtoll of maybe a half million or so with a few having more. In addition 40 million were reported as homeless so the numbers do seem to add up taking into account the bomb size, locations and # of targets.

Second: Yes as has been pointed out Tomarchio appeared to have launched the missles causing the EMP. It was never revealed in the series why he'd want to wipe out the power in his own country. Perhaps it was an accident during launch. My own personal speculation was that the EMP was stage two of his plan, wipe out communication so that when his people come and restore communications they'll have total media control and will be able to moniter every communication going on in the country.

Third: Point taken. I imagine that is a goof but as someone said how hard is it to make candles and it's not like they get used up that fast. In AKA Hawkins explained that Jericho was picked as a rally point if they failed to prevent the attack. Jericho was picked because it was far from most major targets, had salt, an uncontaminated underground water table and alot of farms which under normal circumstances would probably sell most of the crops rather than survive on them personally. When the fake marines and later Tomarchio's men came around they each mentioned Jericho was faring better than the majority of the country and that is saying alot as they had little food or supplies still. In New Bern the next town over people were starving leading to war. So for Jericho's supplies to last as long as they did is realistic.

Fourth: You have a point here too. The fallout probably shouldn't even have reached them that far away but since Stanley was ok we might suppossed to assume people panicked too much to very light fallout. As was shown in the series they had no idea how to deal with any of this stuff, better safe than sorry. Their info came solely from Hawkins and a phamphlet from 1957!

And yes Hawkins does mention that he kept the guns secret cause he didn't yet consider Jericho home and wanted to avoid being outed as a terror suspect. He was already a suspect so just happening to have a huge stockpile of guns doesn't help to draw suspicion away from him! Generally speaking even huge gun enthusiasts don't have guns to supply a town like that. You figure anyone with that many guns is planning on doing more than hunting and personal self defense, you don't need an armory for that!

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yea, i think during one episode I was getting laid.
NO NO NO not the outside, it scares me, don't make me.

Well just what are you doing here then?