Posted on 01/16/2007 6:06:00 AM PST by 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.
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Didn't take it that way at all. No worries!
Nooooo
VP Logan took over in season 4 when the President's plane was shot down.
Funny that we don't see any ohter networks running this story... I think you have a point. LOOSERS!
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THe actual answer is, "If someone comes to your home, and threatens you family with harm unless you deliver a package, agree to leave but instead of delivering a "package", stop by your local Walmart, buy a .3006 hunting rifle with a scope and shoot him through the living room window.
Them there I-mams like to hold hands.
'Specially when they's just been detached from somebody.
They are in cahoots with the terrorists aren't they.
Wait, don't tell me. I don't want to know....
Yes, the guy with the glasses and the bluetooth in season 6, what is his name? Were we ever given his name?
Not yet! It's early yet, and there is enough carnage going on to turn even Karen Hays into a realist,
Not yet! It's early yet, and there is enough carnage going on to turn even Karen Hays into a realist.
Last year they were involved with Logan to get nerve gas to terrorists and then have the stuff blow up overseas...
all so that the US could get oil.
WHY COULDN'T THEY AIR THIS BEFORE THE PAST ELECTION!!!!
I'm hoping he's not dead. They didn't really say he was at the end, just showed him being worked on (well, they showed a blue-gloved man seemingly taking his vitals), so I'm hoping he just had a glancing blow to the neck that looks ugly but allows him to get right back on the job by lunch.
I really like Curtis and last night I sat there with my hand over my mouth for a good five minutes. And if anyone can strategically place a shot, it's Jack Bauer. Our local radio station sponsored a 24 restaurant party for the premiere and the quote they kept using was "the only reason you're still conscious is because I don't want to carry you"- ha, priceless.
Remember this from Rush?
"Who is Jack Bauer?"
-By Rush Limbaugh
1. If you wake up in the morning, it’s only because Jack Bauer spared your life.
2. Jack Bauer’s favorite color is Severe Terror Alert Red, his second favorite color is violet, but only because it sounds like the word “violent.”
3. Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his car keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys to himself.
4. Jack Bauer got Helen Keller to talk.
5. Jack Bauer was never addicted to heroin, heroin was addicted to Jack Bauer.
6. Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas.
7. Jack Bauer doesn’t miss; if he didn’t hit you it was because he was shooting at another terrorist 8 miles away.
9. Understand this: the only reason you are conscious right now is because Jack Bauer doesn’t feel like carrying you.
10. Killing Jack Bauer doesn’t make him dead, it just makes him mad.
11. When life gave Jack Bauer lemons he used them to kill terrorists because he doesn’t like lemonade.
12. In grade school a little boy punched Kim Bauer, his daughter. Kim ran home to tell her dad. That little boy’s name: Stephen Hawking.
13. Jack Bauer doesn’t sleep. The only rest he needs is what he gets when he’s knocked out or temporarily killed.
14. In Kindergarten, Jack Bauer killed a terrorist for show and tell.
15. Jack Bauer has literally died for his country and lived to tell about it.
16. As a child, Jack Bauer’s first words were: “There’s no time.”
17. Jack Bauer’s family threw him a surprise birthday party when he was a child...once.
18. Guns don’t kill people, Jack Bauer does.
19. Every time Jack Bauer yells, “Now!” at the end of a sentence a terrorist dies.
20. Jack Bauer could get off the “Lost” island in 2 hours...the inhabitants of that island have been there for two years.
The terrorists knew exactly how to hurt us--blowing up Magic Mountain...
Uh, that would be the party which prevents us from dealing with them, the Democrat Party.
The "it's going nuclear" his hilarious.
In the 5 previous seasons, we already have a nuclear weapon stolen and blown up in the middle of the desert, and a nuclear plant meltdown that killed thousands with the fallout, a nuclear missle attack that we barely thwarted, and wasnt their nuclear missles on the submarine last year?
I dunno, perhaps give it more time to see where they are really heading with all that. I would think that after last night it is making the ACLU libs as portrayed by Sandra Palmer look like the fools they are. Probably a lot of viewers may have noted that while the innocent contingent in the detention camps may be having some of the 'rights violated', they are still alive, unlike tens of thousands of innocents in Valencia, CA.
This show could do the country a great service if it causes a lot of thought and discussion about the fact that some situations have only painful/high cost options, sometimes the best choice is the lesser of evils.
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