It Wasn't My Fault!

[ithildin]

Yes, only this morning I said I'd be at my IJ the next time LJ went down. But I didn't do it! [crosses fingers behind back]

In totally other news, I can't figure out why I'm watching Jericho. It's my big fear. since I was six, I've been certain that a post nuclear future was what awaited, and reading 'Alas, Babylon' in seventh grade just helped reinforce that. It was the reason I didn't watch it when it started in the Fall. But here I am, watching the repeats, freaking myself out [sigh] I'm nuts!

Yay! LJ is back!! But IJ was much fun while it was down :)

Comments

[bleukittie.livejournal.com]

I like Jericho. I keep thinking of what I would do in that situation, then realize I live in a first strike area. I figure I'd grab the kitties and we'd all sit in the basement and wait for the end. Catching Mirabella would be difficult tho.

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

My plans change every few years :) But I do worry about my kitties something terrible. I've had a recurring nightmare about a pandemic or a nuclear war where I'm dying and have to kill my cats first so they won't suffer. Yes, I'm a cheery sort of person! I always wake up crying.

[amonitrate.livejournal.com]

I live on the outskirts of DC. I figure I'm doomed :)

[medelle.livejournal.com]

It was SOOOO your fault!!! *nods*

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

[snorfle] I be cool!

[medelle.livejournal.com]

hehehe

You pushed the button! :D

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

Just like in Duck Dodgers with the big red button that says 'don't push'!

[medelle.livejournal.com]

except that we're not yet in the 24th and a half century. ;)

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I read 'Alas, Babylon' around 7th grade - all the more disturbing since it was set in Florida, where I lived! I really had it drummed into me in school that Any Minute Now, the Bomb would drop, and we'd all be fucked. I actually left my radio on all night for five years so I'd know if it was coming!

[ithildyn.livejournal.com]

When I was in first grade, I lived in Alameda, which basically existed for the Naval Air Station there. This would have been around 1968-69. We used to have 'duck and cover' drills. My best friend was a year older and her family had escaped from Hungary after the Soviet occupation. So she misheard/misunderstood teachers talking about an upcoming drill. She thought the Soviets were going to attack that day. And she told me. It's one of my most vivid childhood memories. I remember wondering why, if we were all going to die, they didn't let us go home to out parents. I really wanted to be with my mum. Then the drill happened, and my baby brain realized what had happened. But I remember it still!

[beccadg.livejournal.com]

So totally your fault, but upside was that I did get a bit of sprucing up done on my IJ, and set myself up with a proper GJ. I've got redundancies all over now. :D

[lilliew.livejournal.com]

Hah! Got you watching it! Yay!!!

Honestly, the show really isn't like The Day After or other similar post-apocalyptic movies. They mostly show the reaction of the people and town to what happened (and there's a key reason why Jericho doesn't get any radiation etc.).

Let me know what you think of the show. I haven't been this obsessed about a show since B5 and FK.

[horsedoovers.livejournal.com]

There's a book about that? How sucky.

Both my husband and myself grew up hearing about The Big One and, amazingly enough, we were both convinced we'd never grow up to be adults, get married, or have children.

I bet there's more of us out there who grew up with that mentality than we know.

[strangevisitor7.livejournal.com]

I have wanted to watch Jericho fron the begining but now I also want to support the fan Campaign. I love that they succeeded. It gives the rest of us crazy fans hope.

I felt like an addict on withdrawl while LJ was down but I watched more highlander. So it was all good. Oh and I've got the kids watching now, too. 2 more episodes until Methos!

[kimuro.livejournal.com]

I grew up in and around military bases, Okinawa (where we had bombing drills in school in addition to fire drills) and in the Hampton/ Norfolk/ Newport News (VA) metropolis. I never worried about the aftermath of a nuclear bombing because ... well, I figured I wouldn't have to!

gloomy, perhaps, but realistic. Why worry?

[mischief5.livejournal.com]

I spent last night jumping around IJ, posting here and there, and uploading grunches of userpics. I wish I had 300 to play with over here. *pouts*

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

I can't watch Jericho for exactly that reason...sort of. The weird thing is that, for almost the entirety of the 80s, I lived in eastern Colorado, 30 miles from Denver and about 90 from Colorado Springs. In other words, I lived with the absolute certainty that if it happened, I'd probably never know.

But I couldn't make it through The Day After at the time, and have barely done so once in the late 90s. I watched the Jericho pilot when it aired, said "I cannot do this on a long-term basis," and never looked at it again. I don't care how good it is. I just can't. And I don't know why, since I certainly never had any fear of having to live through that myself.