'Jericho Season 3, Civil War' off to an explosive start

I liked Jericho, but it has always been my belief that the writers were actually relieved when the show got canceled, because that meant they weren't going to have to find some way to resolve the ridiculous plotline they have going.

I kept thinking about it, and the only person who could possibly be involved in the deliberate nuking of his own country is an absurd two-dimensional villain with no humanity.

It just doesn't make any sense. Why attempt to take over a country by nuking it into oblivion? It's like conquering a world by nuking it from orbit. After dropping bombs on it, do you suppose it will still be as valuable? And if you have the power to nuke the whole country, how much more power can you really gain over the country by carrying out that act?

The more you think about it, the stupider the premise is that elements within our own country wanted to nuke... our country. Hundreds, thousands of people were involved, and apparently almost none of them wondered if giving themselves radiation burns was a good idea. "Hey, lets nuke the country back into the stone age. Then we'll control the burned out remnants! What a great idea!" Jesus...

The big trend these days is to write in-depth serial plots, but not to bother figure out where they were going before they got going. As a result, the endings of these things frequently, well, sucks. I felt that way about X-Files. I was a determined fan for several years, but I got sick of the show because I got tired of the go nowhere plotting. Lost is the same way. Nice character development, but at some point it became evident that the writers were making it up as they went along.

These days, I'm a fan of Fringe, but I'm terribly worried that the same trend is going to reveal itself. The series will go nowhere, because the writer never bothered to come up with a plot that made sense. They just write it week by week, and try to come up with something that isn't too awful at the end.