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Finished watching Jericho. This was a nice post-graduate school treat as I enjoyed the first episodes I watched when it first came out and then couldn't continue watching because of my busy schedule - internship at the hospital, school most nights, and you have to do at least some homework sometimes. At first thought that the alternate unaired ending might be a bit more complete if they didn't know the show would be canceled again so I watched that version first. Then to compare I watched the aired version which it turns out was actually more closed off. Of course both leave room for many adventures in the future. Pleasantly both were really good but I actually liked the aired version better. I love Jake's response to Hawkins statement that the mission is the only thing that matters. No it isn't, Jake says and it defines the message that the whole show is about, espechially the second season. What really matters is being there and protecting your friends, regardless of whether you look at friendship in the broad sense of your neighbors and community, or the more intimate friendships with whom you share your life. 

Probably wouldn't have gotten to watch it if I hadn't found season 2 @ Walmart for $20. After a two year hiatus I've finally been reinitiated in the phenomenon that is Walmart since we didn't have any good ones in Chicago but there is definately one here in Henderson. So I bought season 2 there and then ordered season 1 from Amazon since that was where you could currently get it cheepest. Then once season one arrived I started watching and like I said today I finished. My favorite couple from the show is actually Mimi and Stanley although obviously Skeet Ulrich as Jake is totally adorable. Who wouldn't want him. But really the show never really focuses on his relationship with Emily, in fact Emily almost abondons their relationship for her relationship with Roger. In that way Jake's character is kinda one-sided as the warrior hero. There's some about his relationship with his family, brother, father, mother, but even there we never really get the confrontation that's really needed and it's the same with his relationship with Emily. For all that he never gives up, not even on his frindship with Stanley when he is tortured for days without end, we don't see him fight for these relationships. Stanley and Mimi on the other hand really change and grow and develope and become the loving pair that they are at the end. Jake doesn't really change. He was the brooding bad-boy turned hero/leader at the begining and that's what he is at the end. Not that you really need to change when your practically perfect in every way, but it's unusual to have a series where the main character is so - set. Would totally go out with him though. Sigh, am smitten yet again.