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. It was a fun read.
I agree. Hopefully this is all just character development mumbo, and we’ll get to the story soon enough.
The problem with Designated Survivor was that it never got to the story.
The burning question: In which episode will Kim Bauer get kidnapped?
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The old 24 was exhausting to watch. Of course, that was because of Jack.
In this new series, so far, I have not found great interest in any of the characters. Black Jack has not captured my interest. And the plots have been so so — Black Jack, former CTU director, her tech crony, all turn rogue in the first episode?
I will continue to watch, at least for a while. I tend to ignore the social justice stuff in entertainment, until it becomes too thick to stomach.
Half the fun of the freeper 24 thread is calling the producers out on the loaded-on PC crap.
Unless one is versed in the history of 24, it is easy to miss the brief moment when she introduced herself as the cousin of CTU analyst Edgar Stiles from seasons 4 and 5.
-PJ
I haven’t watched any of the new one yet, but might try to find the first two episodes online to see if they’re worth it.
If it continues to veer away from the PC crud, I might enjoy it after all. Most TV shows just end up making me mad! LOL!
*snork* 😂
I decided not to watch ANY of the blackwashed affirmative action, diversified Jack Bauer ripoff.
“There are a lot of British-made shows on Netflix that have grownup actors and stories.”
I’m not worried. There’s an endless amount of Korean dramas to watch :-)
“Unless one is versed in the history of 24, it is easy to miss the brief moment when she introduced herself as the cousin of CTU analyst Edgar Stiles from seasons 4 and 5.”
If there’s a “jump the shark” moment for 24, it’s the moment they killed Edgar. Stupid, stupid, stupid, move.
The new "Chloe" is probably the girl they introduced as Edgar Stiles' cousin, who taught her everything he knows.
-PJ
I skipped it. I have been binge watching Prison Break because it’s coming back on. It’s been so long seen I watched it I needed to watch it again. lol
“There’s an endless amount of Korean dramas to watch”
Are they on Netflix or one of the streaming services? Are they in English?
Just finished watching "Legend of the Blue Sea". I'm now watching "Goblin: The Lonely and Great God"
But my favorite all-time KDrama is "Masters Sun".
There are two primary websites for KDramas: dramafever.com and viki.com. You can watch episodes for free with commercials, or pay a few bucks a month to watch them commercial free. And as you said, there are so many to choose from.
Makes me want to drive up to Valencia and look at the Hole left by the Jihadist Atomic Bomb.
That was the ultimate Shark jumping moment ever.
Completely untrue. Season 4 was pure jihad from start to finish, which is why CAIR was so up in arms over it
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Exactly right!
Bad enough the actors are horrible. But then to portray a White Army Ranger hero willing to sellout his country to terrorists for cash, and the Black hero saying he'll get arrested just for "walking while Black"...and then he does! With a racist old White cop to boot! Disgusting. Manny Coto is a piece of crap. I'll never watch another minute.
Apparently, the books are really good. The first season was apparently only part of the first book. I haven’t read them, but got them as a Christmas present to my second wife.
The second season just started on SyFy.
It utterly sucked you in and wouldn't let go. A truly unique TV experience that will never be duplicated. They couldn't keep it going forever. But they got 5 solid seasons with the formula. I also think Season 8 with Jack and Renee Walker was riveting.
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