Posted on 02/09/2017 4:53:18 AM PST by Kaslin
Here’s a crazy idea – I know it seems kind of nuts, but if you are trying to make me watch your show or see your movie, perhaps it might be better not to disrespect patriotic Americans like me.
Wacky, huh?
Sure, it’s hard to believe that the industry that brought us virile superhunk Michael Cera and sexy ultrahottie Lena Dunham could make bad decisions. The geniuses in Hollywood clearly have their fingers on Americans’ collective pulse, if you define “Americans” as everyone in a coastal megalopolis who lives within 50 yards of a cruelty-free organic coffee shop.
Take 24: Legacy, the new Jack Bauer-free sequel to the famed post-9/11 terrorist killing show. Now, the original itself eventually went off the rails as it devolved from being a show about Americans killing evil foreigners to being about evil Americans being evil. And that evil usually took the form of some enormous and inexplicable conspiracy that somehow led to Kiefer Sutherland’s TV daughter being menaced by a mountain lion for some reason.
Like Law & Order, 24 succumbed to the Liberal Preferred Villain Error. In any L&E episode where you have a punk dressed like a gangbanger, you know the killer is actually going to be the suave businessman with the nice Mercedes. Always – just like in real life. And in 24, the evil radical Muslim psycho was always the unwitting catspaw for some shadowy cabal of American capitalists. It got to the point that you watched and muttered “Hey, that guy looks pro-American. He’s in on it.” And he always was – because in Hollywood, the real threat to America isn’t Islamic freaks trying to kill us but guys who seem patriotic.
You know, people like us. Hell, some of us even support President Trump, and you know that means we’re just a trumpet blast away from donning our brown shirts and hoods. The HuffPo said so, so you know it’s true.
Look, if I want to see normal Americans insulted, I can watch CNN. And I don’t watch CNN. But 24: Legacy looked kind of fun and, hoping against hope that Hollywood had learned we patriotic Americans are tired of being dissed, I watched the first episode, which ran right after Hillary lost the Super Bowl.
The show started promisingly enough, with an unflinching depiction of radical Muslim terrorists murdering innocent Americans – it was refreshing to see them willing to depict that gritty bit of realism. But then the show started circling the fake diversity drain with a bigoted leftist agenda that could have been cribbed from a social justice warrior’s rantings at an Oberlin Oppression Studies 101 seminar.
And it’s so lazy and predictable even as it’s racist and stupid. Every straight white male adult not-of-color character has to be a doofus, set up to be showed up by some diversity box-checking Mary Sue Token. How about that generic, vaguely Middle Eastern gal who just showed up at CTU? She’s instantly got the answers Boy Tech who’s been doing this for years doesn’t! And the honky hipster high school teacher? Well, a teen Chechen temptress has him wrapped around her Dracula-accented little finger. Then there’s that Aussie chick who hung out with hobbits in that elf opera? She’ll show head honcho Myron von Mayonnaise, who we know is bad since he fired an unseen Muslim guy because of reasons, some girl power with the stun gun the guards let her carry into the heart of the secure command post! I was shocked that the hero wasn’t a Buddhist lesbian Inuit with a lazy eye.
Actually, the hero was a young black actor who can’t really act but was pretty cool when he was shooting jihadis and yelling things into his cell phone like “We’re running out of time!” and “Get me the schematics of that Burger King!” I sort of wanted to see what happened to him – particularly as far as it involved shooting more jihadis. But then the producer had to go and open his mouth.
"‘I like to say the series begins as if it was written by Trump, but it ends as if it were written by Hillary,’ executive producer and co-showrunner Manny Coto” told The Hollywood Reporter. Wait, did he think that is a good thing?
What was the thought process that led to this guy sharing this insight out loud and on purpose? Is he unaware that at least half his potential audience is against Team Genital Hat? Was he thinking something along the lines of “Well, we really want to appeal to the Hillary voters who like blood-soaked shoot ‘em ups.” Good plan, dude.
But, just in case that comment failed to alienate every single person who didn’t vote for Felonia von Pantsuit, he continued his insanity in the same article:
“But here's the thing: the story of this season deliberately starts on an image that you might call jingoistic, expected and possibly inflammatory . . . The show does not come out on the same end it went in. We overturn deeper truths. There are things going on that we don't understand at first. What at first seems like a kind of straightforward jingoistic event unfolds like an onion into something much different and surprising and kind of sweeps aside the initial impressions that the season begins with. We would be worried if we didn't know where the season goes.”
Phew. I was worried there for a minute that 24: Legacy might actually show Americans as the good guys in this clash of civilizations. Wouldn’t want to be “jingoistic” about ISIS! Thank goodness the show will depict the kind of nuance that allows us to understand how we really aren’t any better than the Seventh Century savages who burn people alive in cages just because we aren’t Seventh Century savages who burn people alive in cages.
The “deeper truth” is that this is no longer a world of three networks anymore. We don’t have to accept whatever video slop you decide to serve us. And we aren’t going to. If you decide to insult us, you’re going to pay because we are going to refuse to pay for your dreck in either cash or time. We won’t watch your shows and we won’t see your movies. You can’t dictate to us anymore; we’re in charge now.
Hollywood, what the hell are you thinking?
Frankly I'm surprised the main character wasn't also a homosexual, cross dresser or fill in the blank deviant. That would have made him "perfect".
Didn't bother watching, have no interest in watching, the "New Coke" 24, isn't 24:
No Jack, not coming back!
He’s being facetious.
Same with “team Genital Hat”!
Hollywood, Democrats and the Press have teamed together against our Country and our President.
It’s disturbing... elites and liars deciding they’re more important than the voice of the people.
I can't argue with much of this. But we (including the guy that wrote the article) are judging it on just the first two episodes. Episode 1 was solid. Episode 2 got a little wobbly with some social commentary, but ended strong.
The producers aren't stupid. They've already made changes to the show since the election. Gerald McRaney was hired just last month to replace (I think) Veronica Cartwright, playing Jimmy Smits' mother, who bore an uncanny resemblance Hillary.
I'm not bailing on it yet. 24 with Kiefer wasn't always perfect. Season 6 was a nearly unwatchable PC mess.
Also, the Townhall writer needs to switch to decaf. It's just a TV show.
Yes it’s true 24 always involved a twist with evil Americans but I could go along for the ride. The scene that turned us off was the hero’s statement he could easily be arrested because he’s black, followed by arrest for nothing, followed by white police brutality.
There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG with casting a strong woman and a black man as the lead in a series like this, the problem is that the woman isn’t Kellyanne Conway and the strong black man isn’t Dr. Ben Carson.
If Hollywood REALLY wanted to shock audiences, cast a Conservative black man or Conservative woman as the lead in one of your movies.
I started with episode two and created a series recording. Glad I read this review, I can save the disk space on my DVR.......
Or the "Runaway Jury" where the tobacco companies were replaced by the NRA.
Have not watched it. Never will.
Have not watched Law and Order. Never will.
Used to really like NCIS. Then, two things happened: They turned violently anti-second amendment and started spawning spin-offs like a rabbit in heat. With a sigh, I turned off my TV.
Now, all I watch on network tv is football, wheel of fortune, and Big Bang Theory.....and I’m getting leary of all 3.
What a shame. I can’t watch anything now without picking up liberal bias. I have Netflix and watched “Stranger Things.” I really, really liked it. Then the asshat who plays the sherrif went to the grammys and suggested liberals start hurting conservatives. Spoiled the whole damn thing for me.
Whats a conservative to do? Do we just withdraw from society and not partake of entertainment? I’ve watched some of the so called “Christian” movies. They were so poorly done they were painful to watch.
And I like edgy, thought proviking plot-lines.
Sigh. So depressing.
Yes.
Thank you for posting this graphic. TRUTH is refreshing.
“Dear DEMOCRATS: After blocking President Trump’s efforts
to keep America safe from Islamic terrorism, any more MUSLIM
TERROR ATTACKS in America: YOU WILL OWN THEM.”
Posted by Travis McGee
Trump is playing 3D chess a year in advance, the Rats are playing checkers with one piece.
I couldn't wait to see more brutha's an' bi'ches kick cracka' ass.
< /SARC>
“Incoherent crap?” I thought the review was on target, clever and witty. But then I am very plebian in my tastes.
Hollywood has to be counting on Middle Class Americans to watch this, and from what I've seen, it amounts to little more than a brainwashing attempt to try and turn me into a lefty.
Sorry, Hollywood, but your asinine third grade dropout lefty mentality only pisses me off more.
So far it has every racist, sexist, Islamophobe cliché in the book.
I'm gonna use that!
That was his point.
As if thinking had something to do with it.
I turned this shit off when they presented the main character as "the youngest squad leader in Ranger history".
I really don't recall birth dates and the comparison thereof to be a part of any participation in US Army Ranger operations, nor can I understand why it would be germane to anything.
So why even present this kind of shit?
The fools actually think that no one is going to question their stupid stuff?
I must admit...I have not watched the show, only snippets...I will not watch the show...as it has every cliche ever presented about guns and the US military...in the first 5 minutes.
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