Posted on 01/16/2007 6:06:00 AM PST by rintense
"How much longer? I hear someone," says the nervous terrorist with a heavy Middle Eastern accent, just before U.S. agents storm a warehouse where a nuclear device is being assembled. Confusion reigns, drama builds, the device is detonated and a mushroom cloud looms over Los Angeles. Such is primetime television in the age of terrorism, or as some critics charge, has "24" gone too far?
"It's the closest television comes to roller coasters," said David Bianculli, television critic for the New York Daily News. "It works well dramatically, and as far as feeding fears, that's what '24' is all about."
Sut Jhally, co-producer and co-director of the film "Hijacking Catastrophe," says the dramatic action in the show creates a dangerous climate in which the public loses some of its perspective on what's real and what's not. Of course that may be a minority opinion given the show's enormous popularity.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
"Ratings" are a thing of the past as the advent of devices like VCRs and Tivo have rendered them moot. I "watched" two shows last night: I recorded 24 and watched Dirty Jobs. I could have been recording a third if I wanted to.........
Sounds like what the Libs do on TV news every day regarding the war in Iraq.
There's that projection again.
Walter Williams, Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Alan Keyes, and Shelby Steele, to name a few. Unless we're talking voters here, many great black thinkers and leaders are not democrats.
Yep, but there hasn't been one Muslim to appear on Jericho. But we shall see since the second half of the season (Feb.) will get closer to who set the nukes off.
Wjat were the libs saying about Dan Quayle over his comments regarding Murphy Brown?
Get over it Dan, it's not real.
The missile had nerve gas in it, I believe.
Which was aired on ABC, btw. But that's when the Ruskies were our enemies.
Hey, what was the name of that "reality" mini-series where it was videotaped as though it was live news broadcasts and a terrorist nuke went off in some american port city? It was about twelve years ago.
I hadn't thought of that, but boy, is that right on the mark!
IMHO, I got the impression that the nuke that went off, was a more "modern" version. This would imply that the others may be older technology. Their detonation mechanisms may be completely different. However, the next question is why the terrorists wanted this one to go off first?
I am pretty sure in one of those seasons a nuke went off in the CA desert....
If anyone missed the first four episodes of 26 this season, you can pick it up at Best Buy this morning for $9.99.
(This is a great marketing ploy)
Don't even need to buy them! They can be rented from Netflix, or any other DVD rental place. There are four episodes on each DVD. You can start with Season 1, and go right on through!
I remember that. Wasn't it San Diego? Let me check the Jericho forum. They'll know.
my typing is horrible today! i am so shaken up from last nights episode
15 March 4, 2003 2AFF15 10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. Robert Cochran Ian Toynton
15 March 4, 2003 2AFF15 10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
Palmer, Mike and Lynne discuss various ways to dispose of the ticking bomb. They conclude that the desert is the best place to set it off. Jack determines that one man must pilot the plane carrying the bomb. He chooses to fly the plane himself and bids a tearful goodbye to his daughter. Mason eventually takes over for him. Tony and Michelle become suspicious of a Middle Eastern intelligence agent who is asking questions about the evidence against Syed Ali. Palmer departs for Los Angeles.
Yeah, probably. I've only seen a little bit of one episode of "Jericho", and I wasn't that interested. We get our fill of network TV with "24" on Monday, "House" on Tuesday, "Bones" on Wednesday, and "CSI and "Shark" on Thursday. Oh, and when "Eureka" starts again, we'll watch it on SciFi. ;o)
The article mentions the movie Sum of All Fears, but what it doesn't mention was that for some inexplicable reason, the powers that be convinced Tom Clancy to re-write the screenplay to make the ones who set off the nuclear device Neo-Nazis instead of the Islamic terrorists, as they are in the book. I believe the mastermind in that book was an Iranian mullah, on the order of Khomeini, but it could very well be Mr. Iwannajihad, who is in charge of Iran today. And by the way, Iranians may be Muslim, but they are NOT Arab, so any fear or distaste we have of Muslims is due to their twisted death cult, NOT their ethnic origins.
Yeah, I wondered about that, myself!
It needed a tweak.
It's certainly what they do all the time with AIDS, global warming, nuclear power, obesity, tobacco...
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