My new crack - bewarned a million links & some spoilers await you

So to date, I've spent approximately 3 days and 25 minutes watching the Jericho, because I watch, work and live through and for TV and because heck, if a show has generated enough passion for random people to unite and send nuts to CBS, there must be something to it right?

Kindasorta not.

so the whole-day-after-the-end-of-the-world scenario is interesting (yes, it's been done before but not with sultry, husky vaguely Johnny Depish Skeet Ulrich, it hasn't) and setting it in Kansas in the middle of nowhere opens all this possibility for mad, compoundish, isolated, possibly religious? mayhem.

yeah, kinda maybe/

What really got me going beyond first episode was a) the fact that the boy had left after weekend and there's always a weird withdrawal phase I go through where I latch on to some sort of mild obsession and Skeet/Jake's body is it for the moment and b) because of interesting chemistry going on between Skeet/Jake and a nerdy, geeky, so NOT the ex-high school cheerleader school teacher Heather, played so brilliantly by Sprague Grayden (hey anybody who decided to stick with that name when becoming an actress is kinda unusual right?)

So episode after episode I sit through watching prodigal son Skeet/Jake redeem himself in home town after 5 yr absence, reconnect with Major Dad (though he always will be the Simon of Simon&Simon for me) Gerald McRaney, make doey eyes at old flame with history that you know producers are going to reveal slowly and painfully coated with tons of sugar. And beside Old flame is the archetype blond stickinsect - rather dull & bland and so v.the high school cheerleader, all the while defending small town america from disintegrating to hell in post apocalyptic world.

And also having interesting and smirky flirty time with school teacher geek Heather. Observe chemistry in:

This (where the Skeet/Jake takes a shower, which made me call the boy and ask him what he was wearing) and This:

Oh the 'did he kiss her back or not' questions, oh the tantalizing skeet/jake biting his lower lip, the awkward 'OOookay' of Heather, the Skeet/Jake hands on truck look back at geek teacher - all a build up to a romance right?

BIG freaking NO!

He comes back in one piece, she pats him on back and promptly disappears for a trillion episodes. With no explanation. I mean, hello? where can one person hide in Jericho, KS in post apocalyptic world?

And then we are treated to countless walks down memory lanes with old flame and then in very last episode a v. real new kiss with old flame:

Blech!

What kind of post apocalyptic world is it where the bland blond cheerleader still gets the dark, kinda hot reformed bad boy guy?

So thanks CBS, but no thanks, I will not be waiting around till bloody Feb and then sitting through another trillion episodes (and where the Major Dad will not even be appearing) and see the Skeet/Jake make out with the blonde to learn the real reason why today was the last original day

What really got me riled up enough to post on blog was Executive Producer Carol Barbee (she of the gratingly insipid Judging Amy) quote at press junket about Heather/Jake connection:

"Heather comes back to town to find Jake and Emily together. And she gets a possible new love interest. But there's still a pull between her and Jake that ends up working into the story."

What? New interest? what what? Annoying twit!

AND also, the million drools Execs of show poured over stick insect dull blond on insider's commentary.

Oh.

Hmm.

I think I just might have hit saturation point with this obsession after re-reading last statement. I mean really, who watches insider's commentary of a show that got canceled and then revived by a bunch of nuts?

I just might have to get out and get a real life now or have the boy visit more often.