goffy59 said:
What parts about it make it so bad?
I'll give you an example of what bothers me about it.
Early on in the first season, the town of Jericho is realizing that they need to restructure the economy; the American Dollar doesn't have the value it once did, there's no supply of gasoline coming in, and most jobs that people had before are now useless. Questions of ownership and collective necessity come into play.
But neither side states their cases passionately. The private property owners are just being 'selfish' - they're no recognition that this selfishness can be resolved through the capitalist system, the way it was before. (What happens is that the shopkeeper is charging too much for her pesticide, so the farmer jacks up the price of his corn to ridiculous levels - both try and get the city government to force the other to do something; neither recognize that they can achieve a new price that's equitable, and to both their benefit).
At the same time, given the disaster situation, some heavy handed policies would be necessary to maintain peace and order; gasoline especially, being so much more finite than it was before, would no longer be something that could be treated as private property - no more than air or water are nowadays (in that you can't pollute without regard for the people down stream).
But instead of the characters resolving these difficulties by falling back to science, economics, and reason - instead of having an interesting look at how normal people would change their behaviour into a sort of militaristic organization - we have a pretty speech from the main character about how everybody should be nice to eachother, and evidently they sleep it off and somehow resolve it in the morning.
But despite porblems like these, I find other parts of the show captivating.
