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?
I agree the second episode was worse than the first. I will watch one more before deciding to ditch this altogether.
It took less than 3 episodes of Kiefer’s new show to dump it as more liberal crap.
I’ve watched the first two episodes. They bear no resemblance to the above review.
I thought episode 2 was better than 1. The first seemed to drag, the 2nd actually had more of the action/pull of the original series for me.
Overall it still has potential to be an engaging action/spy thriller. Or it could nose dive into retread ideas and plot lines wrapped up in idiotic liberal agenda. Right now I'd say it's in that brief zero-G moment, it may push over into the dive or pull out...
Try “Expanse” on Amazon Prime. Don’t know precisely where it is going but there is a cast of characters anyone could love, sci fi tekkie stuff to die for, a plot that thickens by the minute, and a “bigger than TV series” presence. After the first season this looks like, finally, a great sequel to “Firefly.”
Me too. At least the first six-seven seasons before Stephen Hill left. And I preferred Michael Moriarity to Sam Waterston. And Jill Hennessy to anyone!
No Jack?! No Chloe?! No watch!
Um... that was sarcasm.
Others?
Newsroom
Yeah me too.
I don't watch anything Aaron Sorkin is associated with.
exactly
Why I haven’t watched tv in years. Besides being offensive, perverted, and bigoted, everything on television is just so ploddingly predictable. The timing, plot, characters, values — it is all the same thing over and over again.
It is a broken record, endlessly repeating.
I tried to record the first episode following the Super Bowl, but I haven’t yet watched it, nor do I think I will. I certainly won’t waste more electrons recording follow-on episodes. This is not why I watch TV.
I tried to record the first episode following the Super Bowl, but I haven’t yet watched it, nor do I think I will. I certainly won’t waste more electrons recording follow-on episodes. This is not why I watch TV.
“Notice the advertisements on TV, the white guy is usually depicted as a schmuck. More times than not the white guy is the bad guy.”
Look at any home security commercial. The bad guy(s) WILL be white. The saintly alarm installer and saviour of the ethnically ambiguous woman WILL be black. 24 was always a bit PC, but when they did this revamp I knew they were jumping the shark.
There are a lot of British-made shows on Netflix that have grownup actors and stories.
After season 1, ‘24’ went off the tracks, as did ‘Justified’, for the remainders of their series runs. Unwatchable, IMO.
I watched the first episode. It was kind of predictable. If it is going to deteriorate into “deeper truths” I think I can find better things to watch. We were gripped by 24 but by the end I kept thinking of all the human carnage EVERY episode and Jack was never touched. Then we watched MI5 from which I think 24 was patterned. As usual, British writing and acting was so much better. Realistic and just as gripping and MUCH more interesting. Dead bodies and violence but it was of a level that was believable. I was sad it ended.
I watched the first 2 episodes & will stick with it for now. Not the best of the new shows (Lethal Weapon wins hands down), but not bad either.
I loved 24.I didn’t watch this one because I knew it would end up as what this article described.
I won’t bother watching.
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