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Meme Lemming: 30 Days of TV - 04
Day 04 - Your favorite show ever
Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha.
Oh so funny. One? I can't choose one of anything. I don't even have a favorite color and that's a lot simpler than shows.
That said: 24
Oh. That was a lot easier than I thought it would be.
There are a lot of shows that I may love and 24 may not be the first show that I toss in when I looking for a quick diversion, but I think it's my favorite show.
I posted this just before the series finale but it bears saying again:
My favorite show, if forced to chose under threat of "aggressive interrogation", would have to be 24. It feeds my dark side without having to root for bad buys -- which I just can't do. There's so much about this show that I love. The character of Jack Bauer and Kiefer Sutherland's passion for the character and show top the list. I love the over-the-top action and melodramatic philosophical, moral and ethical dilemmas. I love the fact that it just keeps pushing forward. As much as I hate losing characters I love, I love the fact that anyone can die. The show is far from perfect. I know it's limited by it's real-time format and it's write-it-as-we-go constraints: Subplots are dropped without any explanation. Great characters disappear before they have a chance to really grow. Really terrific possible subplots never happen. Character development is often overrun by the immediateness of the plot.
But that's all details. Every show has a premise and format that sets up limitations on what kind of stories can be told. You have to focus on the story that it can tell. And 24 tells great stories. The show has never failed to provide the thrills and suspense that it promises. More than that it gives us Jack Bauer. This character is a walking philosophical debate, and I adore that; I even bought "24 and Philosophy: The World According to Jack". More than that this show never did anything to dull my love of it. That can't be said of any other show out there.
I'm a cowboy at heart. I think it's a far greater sin to sit back and do nothing than to make a wrong choice. Inaction is an an action and it is inevitably the worst one. 24 is all action and choice. How could I not love it?
Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha.
Oh so funny. One? I can't choose one of anything. I don't even have a favorite color and that's a lot simpler than shows.
That said: 24
Oh. That was a lot easier than I thought it would be.
There are a lot of shows that I may love and 24 may not be the first show that I toss in when I looking for a quick diversion, but I think it's my favorite show.
I posted this just before the series finale but it bears saying again:
My favorite show, if forced to chose under threat of "aggressive interrogation", would have to be 24. It feeds my dark side without having to root for bad buys -- which I just can't do. There's so much about this show that I love. The character of Jack Bauer and Kiefer Sutherland's passion for the character and show top the list. I love the over-the-top action and melodramatic philosophical, moral and ethical dilemmas. I love the fact that it just keeps pushing forward. As much as I hate losing characters I love, I love the fact that anyone can die. The show is far from perfect. I know it's limited by it's real-time format and it's write-it-as-we-go constraints: Subplots are dropped without any explanation. Great characters disappear before they have a chance to really grow. Really terrific possible subplots never happen. Character development is often overrun by the immediateness of the plot.
But that's all details. Every show has a premise and format that sets up limitations on what kind of stories can be told. You have to focus on the story that it can tell. And 24 tells great stories. The show has never failed to provide the thrills and suspense that it promises. More than that it gives us Jack Bauer. This character is a walking philosophical debate, and I adore that; I even bought "24 and Philosophy: The World According to Jack". More than that this show never did anything to dull my love of it. That can't be said of any other show out there.
I'm a cowboy at heart. I think it's a far greater sin to sit back and do nothing than to make a wrong choice. Inaction is an an action and it is inevitably the worst one. 24 is all action and choice. How could I not love it?