By MICHAEL HINMAN Source: TV Guide Mar-26-2008 This story contains MODERATE SPOILERS of the series finale of "Jericho."
While Tuesday's series finale was meant to provide some closure to "Jericho" fans, there was an effort to at least keep some storylines at bay in case another network or cable channel decides to pick up the series. "I've always said that the alternate ending doesn't wrap up the series," executive producer Carol Barbee told Matt Webb Mitovich of TV Guide. "It just lets you know that everyone is OK and it closes out this seven-episode arc. But we could definitely keep it going." And keeping it going is exactly what Barbee is trying to do by shopping the series around, which reportedly has earned some interest from SciFi Channel which is airing reruns of the show. In the finale, Hawkins (Lennie James) goes face-to-face with John Smith (Xander Berkeley), who has been feeding him information on the new government all season long, and who was identified the previous week as the mastermind behind the "September attacks," as they are called. Both Hawkins and Jake (Skeet Ulrich) grab a private plane and are able to get into the Republic of Texas, but that's not how it was originally supposed to play out. "I can tell you that in the original ending, Hawkins has to sacrifice himself to let Jake get away with the bomb and get it to Texas so it can be tested and prove that they were telling the truth," Barbee said. "Texas would then swing their support to Columbus and defeat Cheyenne." A civil war between the two countries with Texas taking the side of Columbus was alluded to in the series finale when "what happens next" was briefly explained to Jake. Of course, when Barbee says that Hawkins "sacrifices" himself, she doesn't necessarily mean sacrificing his life. "He gets captured and he's also shot ... he's pretty messed up, and Jake feels like he's leaving him for dead," she said. "So we show you where he's taken and you see that the mission for the next season is, 'We have to go rescue Hawkins and we have to stop these [bad] guys.' When they see the alternate ending, it certainly completes the story from this season and tells you everything you need to know to have understood Season 2. It just doesn't point to that next mission." http://syfyportal.com/news424868.html ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/scifinoir2/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
