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My wife gets on me for my inability to engage in "willing suspension of disbelief"...but even she's starting to see that the writing on "Jericho" is borderline hack. Rather than taking a little extra time to inject maximum believability into a scene, the writers seem to take a cheap shortcut every time. I mean, c'mon...I don't think you'd find a utility transformer mounted high up on a school wall. I would've accepted one a on a pole nearby, with some sort of failure causing an electrocution and igniting a fire...but the scenario presented elicited a huge groan from me. And...why would Jericho's "power grid" be controlled from the basement of city hall? Even the use of the term "power grid" is a cheap hack shortcut. "We need gas for the hospital generator!!! I know...we'll just stick garden hose down into the storage tank at the station and pump it into this really ratty tank i found!!!" (wild eye rolling from me) Oh, well.....I'll give it a couple more episodes and see if the writers have clued up a little.
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