Nuclear Blast on TV's '24' Causes Fallout for Fox (PC crybaby alert)

ABC News ^ | 1/15/07

[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.

[HairOfTheDog]

Dad had free access to a gun and wimped out.

He would have done that, but he got signed on to a wimpy "non-hero" role.

[tioga]

FOX couldn't buy all this free publicity for their show.

[toddlintown]

Remember now...that's A-c-c-h med.

[HairOfTheDog]

Got something in your throat there?

[HitmanLV]

I sure hope someone doesn't need MENSA credentials to come up with that scenario. I thought it was obvious - I wouldn't have hesitated.

And no, the season wouldn't have ended. The authorities get there in time to find the main bad guy gone and the goons still working on the bomb. They fight and the good guys win. They have the bomb and everyone is happy, until the call comes in that there are still four more nukes out there.

[toddlintown]

A piece of falafel, yogurt and just a hint of goat.

[HitmanLV]

That's true. Only a true wimpy delta-male would have acted the way he did. Since that what he was, he was true to character! ;-)

[toddlintown]

Look, I love the program, I really do. I Tivo-ed both shows, but "24" really stands for the holes in the weekly script.

[SaintDismas]

I swear it's the same actor that played the son who mom had to save him from his terrorist father after Debbie was killed, was it Marwan, or Marwan's associate. I think he's gotten older and a little heavier, but I really think it's the same actor

[VeniVidiVici]

Man, maybe I should watch it :)

[HitmanLV]

Hahaha! Yep!

I missed the first three seasons but tried to watch them on DVD. Each time I enjoyed the first half, but roughly 1/2-way through there is usually a big turn in the plot that requires a bit on emotional reinvestment in the show. I always bail at that point. Just can't get into it.

I've seen the first half of every season to the point of the big plot turn, and they usually leave me cold. The show should be called '12' or '14.' Would have fewer holes that way, too! ;-)

[toddlintown]

The last 2.5 years are much better than the earlier ones. I bailed in the middle of the 1st year and came back years later. Now I roll with the punches. It's the poor man's Clancy novels (with commercials).

[StayoutdaBushesWay]

I stand corrected, thanks for pointing that out :)
Either way I'd still be toast.

[gcruse]

" yet another commie spitting at the majority of the people making him rich."

Why the hatred? Kiefer doesn't write the words his character says, and certainly didn't write the screenplay. As long as he keeps his beliefs to himself, who cares?

[kcvl]

http://www.sutjhally.com

Sut Jhally is a professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and founder and executive director of the Media Education Foundation (MEF). He is one of the most popular teachers at the University of Massachusetts and is nationally known among college students for his videotape Dreamworlds: Desire/Sex/Power in Music Video,which he created to present his critique of representations of women in popular culture and commercial images. Over the past fifteen years, Sut Jhally has been the executive producer of more than twenty videos produced and distributed by the Media Education Foundation.

As an author, his written work includes, The Codes of Advertising, co-author of Social Communication in Advertising, and Enlightened Racism. He is also co-editor of Cultural Politics in Contemporary America and Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire. He has written broadly on issues of popular representation and is regarded as one of the world’s leading cultural studies scholar in the area of advertising, media, and consumption.

[sitetest]

Dear wequalswinner,

Fox has an official website for 24. On it, Curtis is now marked "deceased." The episode guide says that he was killed when Jack shot him in the neck.


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[silent_jonny]

Nuclear Blast on TV's '24' Causes Fallout for Fox

Pfft. One mushroom cloud and ABC has a conniption.

ButI didn't hear a peep about the three dozen nuclear blasts on "Jericho" last fall.

[Conservative4Ever]

Ahhhh...but then that might not work with next weeks script.

[SaintDismas]

Well crap. I really don't like that much. Jack's stock kinda went down with me. Don't get me wrong--obviously the "greater good" was/is at stake here...

One of the best reasons I can think of as to why war is a man's realm, same as why women don't coach in pro football. I felt so sorry for Drew Bledsoe when Tony Romo took over when he was benched...I mean, c'mon, so what you get sacked 10 times a game and throw 100 interceptions, your butt is way cuter than Tony's....

[sitetest]

Dear wequalswinner,

"Well crap. I really don't like that much. Jack's stock kinda went down with me. Don't get me wrong--obviously the 'greater good' was/is at stake here..."

What did you think of Jack when he had to kill Ryan Chappelle a few seasons back?


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