Posted on 02/09/2017 4:53:18 AM PST by Kaslin
Heres 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, its 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 Sutherlands 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. Hes in on it. And he always was because in Hollywood, the real threat to America isnt 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 were just a trumpet blast away from donning our brown shirts and hoods. The HuffPo said so, so you know its true.
Look, if I want to see normal Americans insulted, I can watch CNN. And I dont 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 warriors rantings at an Oberlin Oppression Studies 101 seminar.
And its so lazy and predictable even as its 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? Shes instantly got the answers Boy Tech whos been doing this for years doesnt! And the honky hipster high school teacher? Well, a teen Chechen temptress has him wrapped around her Dracula-accented little finger. Then theres that Aussie chick who hung out with hobbits in that elf opera? Shell 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 wasnt a Buddhist lesbian Inuit with a lazy eye.
Actually, the hero was a young black actor who cant really act but was pretty cool when he was shooting jihadis and yelling things into his cell phone like Were 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 didnt 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. Wouldnt want to be jingoistic about ISIS! Thank goodness the show will depict the kind of nuance that allows us to understand how we really arent any better than the Seventh Century savages who burn people alive in cages just because we arent 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 dont have to accept whatever video slop you decide to serve us. And we arent going to. If you decide to insult us, youre going to pay because we are going to refuse to pay for your dreck in either cash or time. We wont watch your shows and we wont see your movies. You cant dictate to us anymore; were in charge now.
Hollywood, what the hell are you thinking?
Watched first season and first 2 eps of 2nd season. Took a bit of time getting through the initial complexity but I am hooked.
I watched both episodes. This writer has it correct. And he’s correct in his reaction. Jack Bauer is an American icon like George Bailey. Messing with that can be demoralizing. What Hollywood is in for is a reality check. No one will watch this hijacked crap.
I don’t know if you ever saw it, but when she was quite young she was in a kids’ show called “Popular Science for Kids”.
She was absolutely adorable: clever, interested, and willing to try anything, even if she was a bit leery of something at first.
I used to catch the stepsons looking at her with ‘that look’, too. It made me smile.
Dick Wolf always seemed to produce very polished shows. I still watch many of the reruns.
However, the NCIS series is far superior & is far more Patriotic. Besides-—Mark Harmon & Scott Bakula.....Both are very attractive men. I am old enough to remember both in earlier movies & shows, and they both have aged nicely. Lucas Black would have gotten my 35-45 years of attention.
Played by a Canadian.
Popular MECHANICS for kids. OOPS
“But then to portray a White Army Ranger hero willing to sellout his country to terrorists for cash ..”
Yes. Disgusting. But also completely void of reality. Stupidity. The show is a complete waste of time. To say the least
I absolutely remember her in Popular Mechanics for Kids, but I don’t talk about that, because I come off as kinda pervy.
My favorite episode had her at a lava vent in Hawaii.
To call her cute as a bug back then is an understatement.
Pretty sure she had rhinoplasty after that. Her nose changed.
Also, upon entering Hollywood proper she was used, abused, and cast aside by a series of powerful men. She turned from a sweet, innocent girl to jaded woman really quick, which is sad.
In and of its own, it’s just a TV show. But if you haven’t noticed, we’re in the middle of a hot cultural war.
“They” understand it, and most of us do too.
If you have not seen the series “Sleeper Cell”, you might like it. Also, Salamander is good but subtitled. “Occupied” was also exciting. “Day Break” was another one to check out.
Thank you! I’ll give it my best shot!
Watching it (The Expanse) right now on DVR from SyFy.
IF or WHEN a Muslim Jihadist or Jihadists launch another
attack, (I do not “hope” they do; but I’m a realist.) -
we will need to scream & holler & pitch a hissy fit of our
own. IF President Trump chooses to indulge in an act of
“civil disobedience” in answer to this activist “judge”
bully, I will support Trump.
I’m rewatching my favorite episodes from the original 24 on Mondays instead of watching the new show. No Jack = No 24.
Yeah, all I WANT to remember is how adorable she was as a child. Her descent into the Hollywierd vortex of evil is a sad thing to witness.
Sure, its hard to believe that the industry that brought us virile superhunk Michael Cera and sexy ultrahottie Lena Dunham could make bad decisions
ha ha ha...
Notice the advertisements on TV, the white guy is usually depicted as a schmuck.
you’re just noticing this now...?
Gerald McRaney was hired just last month to replace (I think) Veronica Cartwright, playing Jimmy Smits’ mother
Gerald as anybody’s mother is kind of a hard sell...
So was Captain James T Kirk. The trouble with Canadians is they blend right in.
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