TWoP» Jericho » Fallout: Emily runs out of gas, boo. But she's picked up by a couple of cops, yay. Who are, of course, actually escaped prisoners, boo. But the cops they're impersonating are still alive, yay. But they're in the trunk of the police car, boo. ...At the end, Hawkins visits his wife and kids, and they hunker down while Hawkins reveals to the audience that the message he picked up is a list of other cities that went boom. There's a lot of them.

1-2: "Fallout" 2006.09.27

-The final scene where Hawkins is using the pushpins? I don't think you can draw conclusions from that. He was still going and had a lot of pushpins left. I certainly wouldn't conlcude from that scene that any big cities are left (although they might be). Good scene though.

-As the episode closed he kept putting pushpins in, we didn't get to see where they went...that was horrific.

-the pushpins tray and the hand reaching into it was an amazingly powerful scene. and shows there is some talent behind the camera.

--The randomness of the targets reminded me of the scene in War Games where the suits are confused as to the odd targets chosen in their 'nuclear emergency'. --
-I thought the seeming random nature was a bit disturbing and curious as well. We see the map center on Washington DC, but he pins Philadelphia. The camera sort of hovers over LA, and then he pins San Diego... But then when we get that final shot of him pulling out tack after tack and not seeing where he put them, man, that was seriously effective.

-I'm from Chicago, and I admit that I did get a chill when they panned the camera up the pushpin map of doom towards Lake Michigan.

-In watching the Push Pins of Destruction hit the map my first thought was "denver....chicago....philly....san diego.....hey, they're nuking the NFL."


-"What do you know of radiation?" Seriously?! Weak answer: "blah, blah St. Louis 9/11-cakes" Better answer: "Because, unlike you, I WASN'T IN A F-ING COMA DURING THE COLD WAR, YOU MORON!" huh

-In my part of Tornado Alley (the DFW metroplex) where our soil makes basements almost impossible to dig except for large scale construction jobs, not individual homes. We just go to "inner rooms" for the tornado warnings. (And no... it *doesn't* feel that safe, thanks for asking).

---Now what about a loose Russian warhead? (As opposed to a suitcase nuke or a very low yield atomic artillary weapon) Those things are rather large and difficult to transport. You'd be using multiple large trucks to transport it to ports in say Mexico where you'd then use multiple large trucks to try to smuggle it undetected into the US. This isn't something you just "sneak" over the border.---

"It's a portable garbage disposal."