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So YAY for 24. The two hour premier was on tonight, followed by another two hours tomorrow night. Then I get to wait a week between new eps.
I loved it. I'm gald that they are keeping Jack, Jack. I like the new characters and I'm willing to give them the time to explain what's happening to the old characters. It had some nice action and the necessary exposition heavy scenes were don't in short, digestible bits. While I didn't hate last season, I am looking forward to the show being more cohesive this season.
I'm greatly amused that Jack is being used to threaten people. I'm even more amused that they treat him like sweating dynamite -- jostle him and he'll go off. I like the much more relaxed Jack we have. I love the Jack that looking for personal answers and look forward to seeing where they go with him.
Philosophical question: Dabaku, one ne of the people behind the attacks, says that “Your government killed my brother and tried to kill me” and that now it would pay the price for that. In actual fact, Jack killed his brother – so is Jack responsible for what is happening? I know there is this whole “should the US step in to stop a genocide within a sovereign nations borders” question going on and the President is authorizing military action, but if Jack wouldn’t have killed Dubaku’s brother – if he would have just let the kids been taken as child soldiers – would none of this happened? Or is it that poor Jack just can't do anything that doesn't become a national security issue?
I do find that watching 24 can lead to a warped view of other shows. Whenever someone mentions a time limit on a show I automatically look at the clock. I love the fact that a fifteen minute deadline in 24 is actually fifteen minutes of screen time. I have to remember that in, say, Man From UNCLE, it can be any where from five minutes to 20 minutes of screen time.
Then there's the fact that there are very few people you can trust in 24. Not everyone is bad, but everyone has there own agenda. I tend to second guess everyone's actions and trust none of them. Myria yells at me when I start doing that in other shows. Although I'm always happy to find out the character I really liked is actually a good guy after all.
Then there's the pleasant surprise to find that not all shows kill their characters off. I do have to admit that 24 really only killed off one character unexpectedly, but I'm sure that the death toll of characters I like will start to climb pretty quickly. I do prefer, in most of my other shows, that the question is how will they get out of the situation rather than will they get out.
It's a small price to pay, though, because I love the show.
WOOT! Jack is back.
Long live Jack.
I loved it. I'm gald that they are keeping Jack, Jack. I like the new characters and I'm willing to give them the time to explain what's happening to the old characters. It had some nice action and the necessary exposition heavy scenes were don't in short, digestible bits. While I didn't hate last season, I am looking forward to the show being more cohesive this season.
I'm greatly amused that Jack is being used to threaten people. I'm even more amused that they treat him like sweating dynamite -- jostle him and he'll go off. I like the much more relaxed Jack we have. I love the Jack that looking for personal answers and look forward to seeing where they go with him.
Philosophical question: Dabaku, one ne of the people behind the attacks, says that “Your government killed my brother and tried to kill me” and that now it would pay the price for that. In actual fact, Jack killed his brother – so is Jack responsible for what is happening? I know there is this whole “should the US step in to stop a genocide within a sovereign nations borders” question going on and the President is authorizing military action, but if Jack wouldn’t have killed Dubaku’s brother – if he would have just let the kids been taken as child soldiers – would none of this happened? Or is it that poor Jack just can't do anything that doesn't become a national security issue?
I do find that watching 24 can lead to a warped view of other shows. Whenever someone mentions a time limit on a show I automatically look at the clock. I love the fact that a fifteen minute deadline in 24 is actually fifteen minutes of screen time. I have to remember that in, say, Man From UNCLE, it can be any where from five minutes to 20 minutes of screen time.
Then there's the fact that there are very few people you can trust in 24. Not everyone is bad, but everyone has there own agenda. I tend to second guess everyone's actions and trust none of them. Myria yells at me when I start doing that in other shows. Although I'm always happy to find out the character I really liked is actually a good guy after all.
Then there's the pleasant surprise to find that not all shows kill their characters off. I do have to admit that 24 really only killed off one character unexpectedly, but I'm sure that the death toll of characters I like will start to climb pretty quickly. I do prefer, in most of my other shows, that the question is how will they get out of the situation rather than will they get out.
It's a small price to pay, though, because I love the show.
WOOT! Jack is back.
Long live Jack.
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24 Warps the Brain
Date: 2009-01-14 10:56 pm (UTC)From:I feel it lends credence to a long standing theory of mine that if Jack Bauer and James Bond were to ever combine forces it would be a power unlike anything the world has ever known. ;-)