"Terrorists are threatening to kill a couple people! We have no choice but to declare martial law on the entire city of Los Angeles!"
"Oh my god! You're right!"
You'd think that as emotionally unstable as I already am, I don't really need to put myself through the weekly trauma that is watching 24. Oh god.
"Oh my god! You're right!"
You'd think that as emotionally unstable as I already am, I don't really need to put myself through the weekly trauma that is watching 24. Oh god.
posted by katiemoo at 3:38 PM
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I still say that this show is mean-spirited. Too mean-spirited. It goes farther than it needs to go. Case in point: the phone call from the Red Shirt's little girl right before he dies. Why? Why was that needed? Why, for that matter, did the Red Shirt need to be there at all? Killing the Hobbit would have been angst enough, but no: let's add an innocent person who *isn't* a prick and lost his key card. But let's not stop there: let's have this same guy call his little daughter right before he dies. Yeah. That's the ticket.
Mean show, and not in a good way.
Ooh, see, I didn't even catch the red shirt, although I should have after Michelle. Also, Samwise and Redshirt were both pricks, and thus they had to die. (Just lost his keycard? Please, he should have known to report it. Also, he tried to have Curtis arrested, which is so not cool.) See, I don't think it's mean spirited so much as just manipulative, and I think Lieb has a problem with that this season, but I watched the better part of S1 again on WGN this weekend, and please, it hasn't gotten any more manipulative since then.
But I still love Jack Bauer with an undying, unconditional love that will never die, and is not conditioned upon anything, and thus I will watch 24 until the day Fox lets it wither and die in obscurity.
Wait, I thought about it and decided that my love for Jack Bauer is conditioned upon him continuing to kick ass. But I think that goes without saying.
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