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I hardly ever watch any TV except reruns of COPS and maybe a football game here and there. Since getting my video iPod, I've downloaded two TV shows that I think are okay. One of them is "Lost" - a show about an airplane that crashed on a remote island and all sorts of weird things start happening with them. The other show is "The Office" which is a sitcom that I can tolerate because it does not have an intelligence insulting laughtrack and it is about a typical American office that quite funny. I especially liked the episodes that dealt with political correctness like that "Sexual Harrassment" episode in which some corporate flunky came to the branch office to talk about sexual harrassment in the workplace.
So what of this "24" show? Liberal crap? Or is it worth checking out?
I do not think this show is available yet on iTunes.
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I can't tell if the articles authour is a fan or not. While reading the article, I was wondering why she bothered to watch the show. If someone watches TV expecting reality, they'll be disapponited.
Not long ago, the NY Times had an article accusing the American military of yelling at detainees to get information.
In the windowless, jet-black garage-size room, some soldiers beat prisoners with rifle butts, yelled and spit in their faces.... Their intention was to extract information to help hunt down Iraq's most-wanted terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi...In Secret Unit's 'Black Room,' a Grim Portrait of U.S. Abuse
I guess our military is learning from Jack Bauer, and the Times doesn't like it.
I watched "Alias" only one time. It was about corruption within the CIA. For that reason, I watched it never again.
The same thing happened with "24." It is about double-cross, spying, etc, within the gov't.
Both programs cast a bad light on the gov't by commie Hollyweird and should be taken off of the air, directors, producers and writers, etc should be put into re-education camps and/or prison.
End of story.
Eighteen important things learned about life from action adventure films:
1. No matter what my problem is, it's the fault of someone other than myself, and the appropriate response is to find that person and kill him with my bare hands.
2. To be truly attractive, a woman must wear high heels and an outfit so tight you can tell whether she's cold or not from across the room.
3. There are two kinds of women in the world: one type want to go to bed with you, the other type want to kill you. Both types are physically attractive and under 25 years old.
4. If I argue with my boss (or shoot him) in front of my coworkers, not only won't he fire me, but he will gain a profound respect for me.
5. If I can find an important enough mission, it will supersede my obligations to perform household chores, bathe, and call the next day.
6. If I go without bathing, swear a lot, and treat women badly, they will adore me.
7. If a woman tries to clean a bullet wound and I curse in pain, she will fall in love with me.
8. Anyone who isn't a cop, mercenary soldier, and/or private investigator is clueless or a sissy.
9. If I have a prolonged fist-fight with another guy and neither of us dies, we will become best friends.
9b. Corollary to 9 (above). If I have a prolonged fist-fight with another guy, neither of us will lose any teeth, suffer any broken bones or experience rupture of any organs and/or significant hemorrhaging.
10. My archenemy will bear an uncanny resemblance in age and bearing to my father, and he will make it clear that he has gained a deep respect for me before I kill him with my bare hands.
11. When I shoot people, they will die quickly and cleanly, will not thrash around or make embarrassing sounds of any sort, and I will never be arrested or engaged in prolonged litigation by their widowed wife and children. When people shoot me, however, I will at most receive a 'flesh wound,' which will be tended to by a beautiful woman (see #7, above).
12. If white, I will befriend at least one black guy, or, if black, one white guy. If I am Latino the monster/villain will kill me halfway through the film, urging the hero to even greater levels of violence.
13. If an aged scientist is involved in any way, his hair will be frizzy and unkempt, and he will have a beautiful daughter who will gaze at me adoringly.
14. If royalty is involved, it will include a beautiful princess who will gaze at me adoringly.
15. If I have a kid partner, he will be tightly-muscled, clean-cut, and gaze at me adoringly.
16. If I am asked to compete against a world champion at any sport or game of any type, I will win. This will infuriate my opponent, who will then try to kill me.
17. If my opponent has a sidekick or henchman, he will never have a sensible name like 'Rick,' or 'Steve.'
18. Beautiful women will frequently furrow their brows with concern and ask, "When's the last time you got any sleep?" They will never ask when I last bathed or used the toilet, although I apparently never do those things either.
I went out and bought season 1 in February, we just bought Season 3 yesterday, and am now ready to start watching season 3 now that we're done watching season 2.
Love the show, it's the kind of show where no talking is allowed while the show is on. Gotta watch it on dvd, though, 1 hour and having to wait a whole week to find out what happens next is torture.
AS for Bauer's daughter, yeah, I'll have to say that kid annoys the heck out of me, calls her father at the worse possible time, doesn't listen to dad and ends up getting into trouble. Okay, that's the writers doing that, lol.
And Sherry Palmer, my favourite person to hate. She reminds me of Hillary.
President Logan has been an Asshat from the beginning.
I learned that the more important a job you have the more you speak in clipped sentences. In the future, everyone pretending to have an important job will speak as if they're ordering burgers at a drive thru window.
24?
Effrem is still planning on eating Kim.
It was a cougar.
I recall rooting for the mountain lion when it faced Kim.
I had hoped it would make a return appearance when Kim worked in CTU, like dropping from the ceiling onto her monitor.
