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14th May '13 9:20:22 AM DarkRonin

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* ArtisticLicense:NuclearPhysics – The fallout from [[spoiler: Denver]] seems to only last about 4 hours, then washes away in the rain. Once the townspeople come out from the shelter, the radiation has magically disappeared. In RealLife the radiation from nuclear fallout can last up to 6 weeks before fading to safe levels. Most fallout shelters have supplies for a minimum of two weeks. While having the first season take place entirely in a shelter might be boring, the show itself lampshades this fact. [[spoiler: Robert Hawkins states clearly that “surfaces will need to be scrubbed and the top 18 inches of topsoil will have to be removed.]] These are both real jobs that would need to be done before it would be safe to be outside. None of these actions are taken. Then, [[spoiler: Mimi]] places her hand in wet ash, and has a mini-freak out that she is going to get radiation poisoning. Unfortunately, she is right. Having that amount of fallout ash touching the skin would result in beta radiation burns at the least. To take this even further, look at the fallout prediction maps the show itself uses. [[spoiler: Robert intentionally chose Jericho as it was outside of this fallout pattern.]] So, if the point was to avoid the fallout, and Jericho was supposed to be outside the zone, but it wasn’t, haven’t you missed the goal here?
** Also the young kid on the roof watching the mushroom cloud and the whole town should have been destroyed. The general rule of thumb is that if you have line of sight to a nuclear explosion, you will die. If not from the initial blast and shockwave, then from the huge burst of gamma radiation you just absorbed, which moves 5% slower than the ‘’speed of light’’.

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* ArtisticLicense - NuclearPhysics – The fallout from [[spoiler: Denver]] seems to only last about 4 hours, then washes away in the rain. Once the townspeople come out from the shelter, the radiation has magically disappeared. In RealLife the radiation from nuclear fallout can last up to 6 weeks before fading to safe levels. Most fallout shelters have supplies for a minimum of two weeks. While having the first season take place entirely in a shelter might be boring, the show itself lampshades this fact. [[spoiler: Robert Hawkins states clearly that “surfaces will need to be scrubbed and the top 18 inches of topsoil will have to be removed.]] These are both real jobs that would need to be done before it would be safe to be outside. None of these actions are taken. Then, [[spoiler: Mimi]] places her hand in wet ash, and has a mini-freak out that she is going to get radiation poisoning. Unfortunately, she is right. Having that amount of fallout ash touching the skin would result in beta radiation burns at the least. To take this even further, look at the fallout prediction maps the show itself uses. [[spoiler: Robert intentionally chose Jericho as it was outside of this fallout pattern.]] So, if the point was to avoid the fallout, and Jericho was supposed to be outside the zone, but it wasn’t, haven’t you missed the goal here?
** Also the young kid on the roof watching the mushroom cloud and the whole town should have been destroyed. The general rule of thumb is that if you have line of sight to a nuclear explosion, you will die. If not from the initial blast and shockwave, then from the huge burst of gamma radiation you just absorbed, which moves 5% slower than the ''speed of light''.

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14th May '13 9:16:12 AM DarkRonin

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14th May '13 8:47:22 AM DarkRonin

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* ApocalypseHow: Class 1 within Jericho and many of the other towns and cities of the US, whereas many other areas are described as being Class 2. [[spoiler:North Korea and Iran]] are implied to be Class 3.
* ArtisticLicense:NuclearPhysics – The fallout from [[spoiler: Denver]] seems to only last about 4 hours, then washes away in the rain.  Once the townspeople come out from the shelter, the radiation has magically disappeared.  In RealLife the radiation from nuclear fallout can last up to 6 weeks before fading to safe levels.  Most fallout shelters have supplies for a minimum of two weeks.  While having the first season take place entirely in a shelter might be boring, the show itself lampshades this fact.  [[spoiler: Robert Hawkins states clearly that “surfaces will need to be scrubbed and the top 18 inches of topsoil will have to be removed.]]  These are both real jobs that would need to be done before it would be safe to be outside.  None of these actions are taken.  Then, [[spoiler: Mimi]] places her hand in wet ash, and has a mini-freak out that she is going to get radiation poisoning.  Unfortunately, she is right.  Having that amount of fallout ash touching the skin would result in beta radiation burns at the least.  To take this even further, look at the fallout prediction maps the show itself uses.  [[spoiler: Robert intentionally chose Jericho as it was outside of this fallout pattern.]]  So, if the point was to avoid the fallout, and Jericho was supposed to be outside the zone, but it wasn’t, haven’t you missed the goal here?
** Also the young kid on the roof watching the mushroom cloud and the whole town should have been destroyed.  The general rule of thumb is that if you have line of sight to a nuclear explosion, you will die.  If not from the initial blast and shockwave, then from the huge burst of gamma radiation you just absorbed, which moves 5% slower than the ‘’speed of light’’.

19th Apr '13 10:18:05 PM Necromaster

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* TakingOverTheTown - This is what the Ravenwood mercenaries do to a town they invade. They take all the supplies and shoot anyone who opposes them. Since the towns are isolated from the outside world, they do not have to worry anyone coming to help the townpeople. The people of Jericho try to preempt this by blowing the bridge into town themselves before Ravenwood crosses it.
* ThoseTwoGuys -- Jimmy and Bill.
* TookALevelInBadass - '''Everyone'''. Johnston Green, a former US Army Ranger, trains most of the citizenry and organises them into an armed force to defend the town. The "Jericho Rangers" spend the next fifteen episodes kicking all kinds of ass.
* TookALevelInJerkass - Eric was having an affair with Mary and fully intended to leave his wife April for Mary. But when he finds out April had filed for divorce (which she later regretted) he acted self-righteously hurt and refused to talk to April about it.
* TortureAlwaysWorks - Subverted and lampshaded by Hawkins, who says that the fear of torture is more effective, and that real torture only works in the movies.

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* TakingOverTheTown: This is what the Ravenwood mercenaries do to a town they invade. They take all the supplies and shoot anyone who opposes them. Since the towns are isolated from the outside world, they do not have to worry anyone coming to help the townspeople. The people of Jericho try to preempt this by blowing the bridge into town themselves before Ravenwood crosses it.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Jimmy and Bill.
* TookALevelInBadass: '''Everyone'''. Johnston Green, a former US Army Ranger, trains most of the citizenry and organises them into an armed force to defend the town. The "Jericho Rangers" spend the next fifteen episodes kicking all kinds of ass.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Eric was having an affair with Mary and fully intended to leave his wife April for Mary. But when he finds out April had filed for divorce (which she later regretted) he acted self-righteously hurt and refused to talk to April about it.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Subverted and lampshaded by Hawkins, who says that the fear of torture is more effective, and that real torture only works in the movies.

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4th Apr '13 7:39:27 PM Austin

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