Yeah - this is the hardest part of the story for me.

This was a very boring episode.

This is the Police:

We are here to stop this raging party

"why"

For starters, you are using too much power... and second, you are hanging out with a total loser guy.

"Oh my God"

Can't you see that ever since that nerd got here, it totaly killed the party. Your friend would rather go home and sit in the dark than hang out here drink soda and eat chips.

$20 bags of chips!

I could understand things getting very desperate as supplies get low, supply and demand and all of that. But seriously... $20 for a bag of chips for your party?

The writers for this show sure hate teenagers.

They also apparently hate the show's viewers.

One manual respirator in an entire hospital?

Weak episode...if this continues, I'm going to bail.

Glad to see I wasn't the only one hating the episode. Ugh.

And to the creepy kid with no social skills. They call you creepy cause you just stand there and stare at people like you're plotting their death. Either get on with it, or get teh f out.

I thought it was funny that the ugliest girl at the party was the friend that kept making jokes about him.

The basic premise still holds promise, but I have to agree with those who are getting impatient with the lack of any sense of direction, and the improbable behavior of so many people.

could a good use of the townspeople's time be to go to the parked railroad train and bring back ALL THE FRAKING food!!!

WTF.... they will be starving in a month and the boy and the store owner are worried about themselves!....all of that produce and meat is going to ruined.....however, I suppose train could be contaminated... but them the dinty moore products would be too!!!

Come on...

Also the drama with the fuel truck, could they have taken a 2-3 gallon can to the generator then gotten a safer (plastic) tank to transport the bulk of the fuel.... even if they had to make three trips it would have been smarter and safer and the generator NEVER would have stopped. stupid fraks, did any of them graduate from high school?

I also loved the musical shift when they showed the gas truck, it reminded me of the 'dukes of hazard' a little.

I'm still getting over how the bar keeps insisting on using its generator power to run those silly TV sets. What a waste.

"This isn't just a fight for our survival...it's a fight for our HUMANITY!"

Anyone else think that line was particularly silly? Then again, I shouldn't make fun...Gerald McRaney is about the ONLY thing this show has going for it. Still, I'll tune in...nothing else on, and it's one of those good "bad" shows.

But that would be stealing! From a bunch of dead people. If half the nation got vaporized the last thing I would be bitching about is stealing food.

I still enjoy the show, but there are some insultingly stupid things. If the tanks came from some invader, they wouldn't already be in the middle of the country this soon after a surprise attack. That's just stupid.

I'm sticking around, but I want some apocalyptic stuff going on, not just this boring crap.

By the way, the long awaited "Denver Zombies" were very disappointing. They could have eaten a villager or two before dying, don't you think?

How could a show about the aftermath of a nuclear attack be so f'n boring??

This show could have been great - a small town surviving and rebuilding a society after a nuclear attack. The writers and creators, unfortunately, seem to be obsessed with creating some "Lost"-like mythology surrounding the show instead of just telling a straight post apocalypse story. The whole Hawkins "Who is he? What does he know?" conspiracy BS is fanboy garbage and is not what got me interested it watching this show in the first place.

Other thoughts:

How many scenes is this show going to crib from "Lost"?

Is Jake supposed to be a superhero or something? Does he have to be involved in every rescue?

Wasn't Dale riding a bike? How did he get all that food from the train back to the store? Oh, he probably got Jake to pull the traincar into town.

Why didn't Jake grab a scalpel, perform emergency surgery, and try to save Victor's life instead of letting him die?

I tried to like it, I wanted to like it, but this show is just not working for me. The only character I'm interested in is the "cop" but even his storyline doesn't outweigh the ridiculous behavior and plots the writers are putting out there. I think this was my last episode.

The Hawkins angle is the best thing about the show. Without that it would just be another lightweight family drama, like 7th Heaven.

I wonder how the Camdens would live after a nuclear holocaust. That would be a show I could get into.

This show just keeps sliding deeper and deeper into stupidity hell.

After all, it's only natural that in a post-apocalyptic world you would allow a bunch of teens to use up fuel for a party. And you would allow another bunch of drunks to use up tons more fuel keeping the local watering hole alive. And of course you allow all this while your hospital is running out of fuel. I mean, this is EXACTLY how I would expect people to act in a situation like this.

And WTF happened to all that radiation? Just went poof. Writers were too lazy to even bother explaining that one away.

This is what happens when you have Hollywood chimps running and writing your show. That's it, I'm out...

Not true - They made sure that in the beginning of the show they had text on the screen that said something to the effect of:

"1 Day After the Blast - No Fallout"

so there- the monkeys wrote off a great story line... now back to Payton Manning and his Affair with the bar maid.

Well do you want a TV drama or a realistic drama where everyone downwind dies a week after the bombs hit? That wouldn't make a very good show having everyone dead by the 3rd episode.

Speaking of Payton's wife..

What small town has that many sick people? I don't know how many people are in Jericho but they have a huge hospital with many many patients but only ONE doctor? No wonder she's a bitch all the time.

Actually the quote was more like:
"4 days after the bombs - 1 day after the fallout rain"

which implies there WAS fallout. I think the Geiger-counter thing in the previous episode was meant to dismiss the fallout problem. It magically went away.

Did anyone else notice the Doctor put the respirator mask on the irradiated guy upside down? The nose part was hanging off the guy's chin and the long side was across his nose. No wonder he died.

Still, I can't help liking this show. I'm in for at least one more.