The original Jack Bauer.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Actualy that's Peta Wilson. She and I had a smoke together in front of the Miami airport (my one brush with celebrity). She was on her way to the Bahamas and I was going to Atlanta. I have never wanted to change my plans as much as right that minute! What a doll! (Except for the whole smoking thing. I've been quit for over three years now.)
Every time Jack Bauer pukes, another nuke detonates.
No. Palmer decided to serve only one term in Season 3, under pressure from Keeler, a Republican. Logan was Keeler's VP. Keeler was knocked out of the picture in Season 4 after Marwan blew up Air Force One. Logan then obviously had Hal Gardner appointed as VP. Logan's criminality then had the likely consequence of a brief period of "President Gardner"; now it's President Wayne Palmer.
So to recap, the line goes like this:
Palmer (D)
Keeler (R)
Logan (R)
Gardner (R) (unseen)
W. Palmer (D)
Regards, Ivan
It's tv fiction, how can this really matter?
We'll see next Monday what happens in LA after the blast. This is the first watching for this household but not the last. I too, think the Pres. is a Democrat.
The original Jack Bauer.
I don't believe that.
Seems to me, it was ABC itself that did "The Day After", about the effect of a nuclear bomb on small-town America (Lawrence, Kansas, if memory serves).
And there was another newsy-like show that talked about blowing a nuke at the Charleston, SC, Navy yard.
One more for ABC-BS: This ain't the first time that a nuke went off in Southern Cal on "24". Think it was S3 when the CTU director, who'd been exposed to severe radiation, guided an airplane away from LA into the desert.
Don't recall reading any whining about any of these bombing incidents...
I go nuts with the Down Under accent...
She's getting up in years though. I saw a recent picture and let's just say she's not the same gal as 8 years ago.
Kiefer Sutherland seems to keep his politics to himself.
And he's a better actor than his father was (Stand By Me is one of my favorite movies).
I knew the liberals would go ballistic over last night's 24 nuclear blast.
Yep, we've sorted all that out. Keep reading.
I did hear that Gregory Itzin (President Logan) is coming back this year. Maybe he's behind all this???
Keepin' my powder dry....bump
"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"
So watching 24 causes one to become PSYCHOTIC?
Bravo, TADSLOS.
the media's relationship to gender, violence, sexual assault, date rape, racism and commercialism - Sut Jhally ...
This is the first time I have seen "commercialism" added to all the other "abuse of power relationships". Are his communist sympathies so integral that he feels comfortable "outing" himself?
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