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To: MplsSteve

So what's the deal with 24? I've not seen it, but I rarely watch any top 40 tv. What's the allure?


15 posted on 01/17/2006 2:52:37 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (The search for someone to blame is always successful. - Robert Half)
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To: InvisibleChurch
What's the allure?

Edge of your seat suspense.

21 posted on 01/17/2006 3:01:55 PM PST by who knows what evil? (New England...the Sodom and Gomorrah of the 21st Century, and they're proud of it!)
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To: InvisibleChurch
So what's the deal with 24? I've not seen it, but I rarely watch any top 40 tv. What's the allure?

24 is extremely fast-paced and they do some original camera work that creates a reality feel. It's by far the fastest hour on TV. If you missed the first two episodes, then you're 4 hours behind.

22 posted on 01/17/2006 3:01:55 PM PST by highimpact
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To: InvisibleChurch
"So what's the deal with 24? "

I had never seen it before Sunday night. It was the fastest 2 hours I've had. Monday was the same. I'm hooked now!

24 posted on 01/17/2006 3:03:30 PM PST by cibco (Xin Loi... Saddam)
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To: InvisibleChurch
So what's the deal with 24? I've not seen it, but I rarely watch any top 40 tv. What's the allure?

Oh man where to begin. Story of a Counter Terrorist Unit agent named Jack Bauer whowill torchure and kill anyone and anything that gets in his way of saving the President or his country. If you love seeing terrorists killed for any and all reasons without Democraps demanding debates, then 24 is your show! Season 2 and 4 so far are the best of the lot! Go rent them!

27 posted on 01/17/2006 3:04:24 PM PST by Bommer (Ted Kennedy - Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life!)
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To: InvisibleChurch
So what's the deal with 24? I've not seen it, but I rarely watch any top 40 tv. What's the allure?

It's an old fashioned cliffhanger. The premise is that the whole 24 episode season comprises a single day in the life af a super anti-terrorist agent, with each 1 hour episode being 1 hour of that day.

30 posted on 01/17/2006 3:06:42 PM PST by LexBaird ("I'm not questioning your patriotism, I'm answering your treason."--JennysCool)
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To: InvisibleChurch

Go out and rent the first season. Watch the episodes in a marathon like format over a 3 day weekend.

You will be hooked.


31 posted on 01/17/2006 3:06:44 PM PST by misterrob (Democrats, The Party of Treason)
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To: InvisibleChurch

I am not sure, I just know I am hooked.
We don't watch it during the season but wait until it comes out on DVD then watch it all at once.
I am so hooked on it, I couldn't watch it for an hour and wait a week.


33 posted on 01/17/2006 3:09:32 PM PST by surelyclintonsbaddream
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To: InvisibleChurch
So what's the deal with 24?

I don't watch much TV either but 24 is like watching a good Tom Clancy novel. It's addicting.

34 posted on 01/17/2006 3:10:03 PM PST by Ben Hecks
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To: InvisibleChurch
It's a cliff-hanger TV show which is entirely about action. The central character is a counter-terrorist agent who will do what he has to to protect America and those he cares about.

It's easily the most addicting TV show I have ever seen.

43 posted on 01/17/2006 3:20:24 PM PST by jude24 ("Thy law is written on the hearts of men, which iniquity itself effaces not." - St. Augustine)
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To: InvisibleChurch

I have only watched Fox and HGTV for years.........this show caught my attention. They were running back to back shows from the first season on one of the networks and now I am hooked. You have to catch it. Worth your while.


44 posted on 01/17/2006 3:21:35 PM PST by tioga (Speaking out from the god-forsaken frozen tundra of the Hildebeast.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

24 is great. Try watching it a few weeks.

It was the first to go back to the old time serial movies. Many will remember the Saturday movie serial with the cliff-hanger leaving you wondering what will happen until the next Saturday. Wonderful fun.

It is also well done, moves fast, has great technology, and mainly the good guys go after the threat and Jack will fight the great battle for us. It is clean, no bad language - just a quality show that leaves you glued to the set for that hour.

In fact, the best rental movies I ever got were a prior season 24 series of tapes. So great to watch straight through four episodes and then making the trip to get the next four for the next night. This is the best way to watch it - but who can wait a whole year for the season?

24 is the fastest hour of TV watching.


48 posted on 01/17/2006 3:29:55 PM PST by ClancyJ (The New York Times is Aiding and Abetting the Enemy - They are Traitors and Put Our Families at Risk)
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To: InvisibleChurch

So what's the deal with 24? I've not seen it, but I rarely watch any top 40 tv. What's the allure?



I missed the original episodes and I really hate getting in on these things after they have begun. Finally, after being encouraged by my brother as to what I was missing, I decided to rent Season 1. I finished Season 1 in 4 days. (I was on vacation but this was still crazy). I raced back to the video store and rented Season 2. I'm currently watching Season 3 and I have the new season set up to record on DVR. Meanwhile I have to get and finish Season 4. Then I'll watch the recorded new season and be caught up. All of this just since Christmas. Get the picture? It's a disease, I tell ya.

If you don't want to be hooked, don't watch an episode.

Long live Jack Bauer.


51 posted on 01/17/2006 3:34:43 PM PST by GOP_Proud ("Just like butt-ahh"... Toolbelt Diva)
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To: InvisibleChurch
Strong characters; lots of interpersonal complications between the characters; gripping premise, even while we hope nothing of the sort will ever happen; a plot line so convoluted that the writers don't even know where the next segment will take them - they literally write it mere days in advance. Tension. Enough mayhem and murder to appeal to the baser instincts. Good versus evil. What more can you ask?
74 posted on 01/17/2006 3:56:08 PM PST by ArmyTeach (Pray daily for our troops.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

What's the allure, you ask? Put it like this. If the clinton years could have been 24'd, they would have lasted about 1 year. There would not have been anyone left in the clinton administration to run anything. Bad guys get theirs in Jack Bauer's world. Sooner or later.


119 posted on 01/17/2006 5:02:04 PM PST by small voice in the wilderness (The Culture of Corruption hurts. But it's the dems. Corruption of Culture that destroys.)
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To: InvisibleChurch
If you have the opportunity, Edithe buy or rent the DVD's for season 1, 2, 3, and 4. I think you'll be hooked. I just could not stop the DVD player!

The only disappointment is now having to watch every Monday night for 24 weeks and tolerate the commercials!

Also, I'm gonna miss President Palmer and Michelle.

I never thought I'd be this hooked on a TV program. I only watch Fox Beltway Boys and NFL Football! It so timely and doesn't give a crap about PC!
137 posted on 01/17/2006 5:30:55 PM PST by not2worry (What goes around comes around.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

I don't watch too much TV, but 24 is pretty cool.

I saw it last year after returning from a trip, and same thing this year.

I actually have TIVO but the football game screwed it up and so I missed the last 10 minutes on Sunday.


145 posted on 01/17/2006 5:41:33 PM PST by Radix (Welcome home 3 ID!)
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To: InvisibleChurch
So what's the deal with 24? I've not seen it, but I rarely watch any top 40 tv. What's the allure

Non stop action, definitive good guys and bad guys and a sneeky sleeze who I am assuming is a lib. But it doesn't matter.......

Not being a major network watcher except for Surface, which is on Fox also, 24 is the best TV I have watched in years.........

165 posted on 01/17/2006 6:02:23 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I break for pikas, swerve for skunks and accelerate for possum......squirrels are on their own)
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To: InvisibleChurch
So what's the deal with 24?

It's not a liberal show...

208 posted on 01/17/2006 9:30:55 PM PST by GOPJ (A) Cub reporters acting as stenographers for a manipulative top FBI agent? Q) What is Watergate?)
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To: InvisibleChurch
Same with me....

..but my husband and I have recently caught a few "24" episodes and we might be hooked.

The lure is quality TV...and a refreshing lack of pc.

The bad guys are bad....and the good guys are good....

..and if it's a mideast terrorist....it plays as it is!

214 posted on 01/18/2006 4:54:07 AM PST by Guenevere
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