Jericho Webisodes

[unicorngoddess]

Alright. I'm just gonna go ahead and start this thread since the debate of where episodes belong is kinda up in the air.

Could they have at least TRIED to hire real actors for these webisodes??? The acting was just HORRIBLE. Like so much so that I didn't even think that was seriously the real webisode and it had to have been a joke. And the kidnapper talking on a pink razor phone. I realize he was probably using the girl's phone, but I'd rather have seen him on a pay phone or something not as girly as a pink razor. I mean, how threatening can you be while holding a little pink phone???

I'm wondering where the webisodes are going to go though. Will we come back to these people later or are these just going to be two minute clips of people we'll never see again. Will these people later show up in Jericho?

Or is it entirely possible that we'll never find out because the acting is so bad no one will watch??? :)

[Bill Reeves]

I think the pink razor was a product placement -- hence the closeup of the phone after the bad guy threw it away when it wasn't working.

OK, here are the problems I had with the first webisode. Executive summary: SUCKED.

1. Bad acting. Already covered.

2. Bad effects. You could see the outline around the actors when they were in front of the "rubble", it was so obvious that they were "acting" on a green screen and overlaid on some rubble footage.

3. Contrived situation and characters. The TV show features characters and situations that we, the viewers, can relate to. The prodigal son returning home after five years. The kid working in the store who gets picked on by the pretty girls. The sheriff's deputy who was overwhelmed by a situation beyond his control. These are all somewhat realistic. The webisode features a mobster-guy who kidnaps a rich guy's daughter and holds her for ransom. I was just dealing with that last week when my friend's daughter got kidnapped... oh wait, no I wasn't, because that almost never happens in real life. I just can't relate to them.

4. Huge leaps of logic required to accept the situation. The bad guys happen to keep the girl in an underground bunker (what cities have those that are easily accessible?) so they're underground when the event happens. They climb back up a minute or two later and they're surrounded by rubble. No fire? We have been led to believe that a nuclear explosion happened, in which case, anything that can burn will be burning. Even if it wasn't a nuclear explosion, anything that can turn the city into rubble would also cause huge fires. I mean, the big earthquake in San Francisco in 1906 didn't do that much damage, it was the fires that got out of control which destroyed most of the city.

Then, just as they get out, the underground area collapses -- and the ground they were standing on didn't collapse as well?

After watching this, my brain hurt. I liked the TV episode, but after watching the webisode, I liked the TV episode less -- if the producers approve such crap in the webisode, then such crap may be coming to the TV show later. I am not going to continue watching the webisodes because they will detract from my enjoyment of the TV show.

[brott]

Agreed about the webisode. It sucked. Hopefully they will be more content sensitive as the series goes on because the idea is good. It's the execution that was bad.

[jschuur]

My bet is all the webisodes were filmed ahead of time and the quality we saw is indicative of what's to come.

[Barmat]

I've seen homemade youtube videos that were better.