Talk:Locations in Jericho (TV series)

Series cancellation - Move to more apt title

I propose we move this from Jericho (season 1) to List of cities from Jericho or Cities in Jericho, as it becomes increasinly obvious that there will be no season two. The latter would be more apt titles for the page anyway, as it isn't really a pure plot summary anyway. Moved the bulk of the national-level stuff to United States government in Jericho in preperation for such a move. MrZaius^talk 20:24, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

I agree. Yonatan ^talk 22:56, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

The current article title doesn't match the content. It either needs to be a proper summary of the series, or else retitled. --Ckatz^chat_spy 00:50, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Locations in Jericho, or Locations in Jericho (TV series) (since Locations in Jericho could refer to Jericho's primary meaning, as locations within the town on the West Bank.)? -- Chuq (talk) 07:05, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose a move that does not include a disambiguator. Even List of cities from Jericho could be construed as a list of cities in Jericho Governorate (by a non-native speaker, anyway). —  AjaxSmack  17:40, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Apparently my earlier comment was lost or didn't post. Meant to agree with Chuq's statement about using Cities in Jericho (TV series) (cities rather than locations as FEMA camps covered in Federal article split off) and remove move template after initial move. That said, I haven't hit the style guide section on article naming, and I wonder if it might not be cleaner to leave the article here and drop in a template:dab link to correct the issues raised by AjaxSmack. MrZaius^talk 18:33, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Forgive the bold move, but I've renamed this article to Locations in Jericho (TV series) as it better reflects the subject. More importantly it also avoids confusion with real-world locations and clearly delineates the fictional nature of the content. Thoughts? --Ckatz^chat_spy 18:41, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

New York City?

I seem to recall it being said that that girl's parents (the annoying rich one who's going out with Dale) and I don't remember anyone saying the attack on NYC failed so... I'm wondering where that's coming from. Yonatan ^talk 22:56, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

The source for the failed attack on NYC is mentioned in the "Cities that reportedly survived" section of the article. -- Chuq (talk) 07:05, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

I'm watching the show right now. Trust me, New York survived. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.225.164.229 (talk) 20:20, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

23 or 24?

According to Episode AKA we know there were 23 cities attacked as mentioned in the beginning. The rest of the article says 24. One of the cities don't belong. --Kvasir 17:57, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Exactly, I came here to say the same exact thing. In several episodes it is said that the stolen Soviet warheads were converted into twenty-five improvised weapons, at 20 kilotons each. Twenty-FIVE. This is said multiple times. Robert Hawkins successfully stopped the New York City attack by calling in to the NYPD; then he prevented the Columbus attack by failing to deliver the weapon. 25 - 2 = 23. The show backs up the number 23, as well as official statements and publications.

But somehow, at the same time, all 24 of the cities listed have multiple citations to the episode numbers in which it is stated. I'm not sure if this is a legitimate error (in which case shame on the writers!) or if a viewer misunderstood something, or perhaps one of the cities was rumoured to be hit but not confirmed (and whoever put it on the list failed to recognise that). I will do some research myself to get to the bottom of this, it's really bugging me too. Jade Phoenix Pence (talk) 16:41, 20 November 2013 (UTC)Jade Phoenix Pence

possible vandalism

a user with the IP address 70.138.218.110 made an edit to this page stating that attacks in the show were carried out by "Christian fanatics." the dialogue in the show specifically said "religious fanatics" and never specified a particular religious affiliation of the attackers. I remember this page saying "Religious fanatics" several months ago, it later was changed to just "fanatics". I have changed the notation to quote the exact dialogue from the show and I think the edits made by this anonymous user could be considered vandalism as it blames a particular religious affiliation when there is nothing to indicate such an affiliation is to blame. I think it may be a case of anti-Christian bias --Ted-m 22:06, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

writer from Columbus

This is slightly off topic... but is one of the writers from the Columbus area (specifically, Circleville, Ohio?) Besides Columbus being spared and becoming a capital, Ted Lewis (a Jericho character) might be a reference to a 1920's singer from Circleville. The importance of Columbus and use of the name Ted Lewis seems more than coincidence to me... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.235.34.123 (talk) 04:25, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Plot Hole in New York City?

New York City apparently survived the attacks due to last minute efforts. What happened to the bomb that was in New York City wouldn't that give the government proof about who was responsible for the attacks? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Specie8470 (talk • contribs) 22:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

Probably they (the producers and writers) started out nuking New York, but halfway through they thought that 9/11 was still too fresh in the mind of America, and so they found some clever escape route, that didn't quite cover everything i.e, Chinese News Broadcast, List of Intended Targets, etc.99.247.2.174 (talk) 00:47, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Indianapolis

The map says listing the Attacked and Unsuccessful says Indianapolis was attacked, but it wasn't. It even says further down that it was not attacked. 98.220.223.197 (talk) 18:28, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Wasn't Indianapolis shown on Robert Hawkins' map? I know it's listed on the J&R map.

How many total did John Smith kill?

Did John Smith commit the most heinous act of murder to ruin a company's relationship with a country? It worked for Britain and the British East Indies Company. How many exactly did he murder?

I got 23,634,469. Hitler killed 16,315,000. That's if the bombs stop working right at the border of the city. Except for Lawrence, Kansas, and Saint George, Utah. I used their metro populations.

Also, that's not Rome NY. That's Ilion, NY. Ilion is where the Remington Arms factory is, and it provides the town with it's own electricity, water, and guns. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.44.13.238 (talk) 07:27, 9 January 2010 (UTC)

They clearly stated in one of the second season episodes that 15 million people were killed. I did the math too, and I got a similar number (I rounded). The bombs could not have been large enough to destroy entire cities. This makes sense considering they were Soviet bombs, they were not as strong as the ones that would be used today. Think of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - those cities survived the bomb; only a small section of the city was destroyed. Also, the video of the bomb in LA shows that the downtown skyline survived, so the bomb was apparently not large enough to destroy all buildings in the blast radius.

Lawrence

It should be noted that in the movie The Day After, Kansas City is bombed by multiple nuclears bombs, while survivors gather in Lawrence. I don't know if producers of Jericho wanted to make a reference to this movie. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.83.220.148 (talk) 03:36, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Some of this doesn't make any sense. Why would the terrorists bomb St. George, Utah? Or Lawrence? Lawrence is very close to Kansas City. It is mentioned in the series that Lawrence was destroyed, but it's more likely that it was destroyed in an attack on Kansas City due to the proximity. Unless there's some strategic importance to Lawrence that I don't know about ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.225.164.229 (talk) 20:15, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

It's possible that the bomb was meant for Kansas City and that the bombers were on their way there but that they didn't make it to the intended site in time and decided to detonate the bomb where they were.

Cities mentioned in the J&R plan (1993)

I didn't see it mentioned anywhere, even though it would make sense that by the series finale (02x07), the producers would have decided on the targets. These are the cities in the document, written underneath the map (otherwise the East Coast would be hard to tell).

Pacific: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego

Rockies: Salt Lake City (makes more sense than St. George!), Denver, Phoenix

Midwest: Minneapolis, St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Columbus

South: Dallas, Houston, Miami, Atlanta, Charlotte

East: Pittsburgh, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Hartford

I'll have to recheck 01x18, but I think Norfolk was an error. And Cedar City? Why would a town with 30k people be so important when there's cities with 1M?

I remember reading at one point that the bomb intended for St. Louis was detonated in Lawrence after a police pursuit. Maybe something similar happened with the bomb intended for Salt Lake City. » byeee 16:38, 20 November 2012 (UTC)

What emergency broadcast

There is a reference to the "U.S. President's emergency address to Congress on Tuesday, September 19". What emergency broadcast?Royalcourtier (talk) 09:57, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Revenge attacks

Was there any discussion in the series of the morality and legality of destroying North Korea and Iran without cause?Royalcourtier (talk) 09:58, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Edit to the map

Atlanta is nowhere near the location it is given on the map of Georgia. 174.108.61.203 (talk) 23:06, 14 November 2016 (UTC)