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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To that writer I would quote the profetic words of Sgt, Hulka, from the movie STRIPES, who opined...
"Lighten up Francis."
Geez, it is a TV show. No TV show is realistic. Not even the news. It is entertainment. You don't like it , so do not watch it. However, it probably was more realistic than the Golden Globes.
One thing is for sure
David Palmer wouldnt have done it.
The were created by shooting ink into water.
Yep..some people do that..
I have a friend who pierced his own...with a big safety pin...
And no...it didn't rot off.
I'd rather know her moslem boyfriend than her..
At least he tried to warn people about what he heard in the camp.
YOu are right...the guy with the cancer crashed the plane with the nuke on it into the desert
bttt
They act like this is the first time ... a terrorist nuke went off in season 2 as well, albeit out in the desert.
This is all because of CAIR's crying last year.
Long thread and I've not read all of it, so apologies, but I remember in the 80's one of the networks ran "The Day After" in which a major nuclear exchange between us and the commies occured. It scared the bejeebers out of everyone. The liberal media liked the show because they thought it reflected poorly on that cowboy Ronald Reagan. But the show had no political biasis, of course ;>)
Yes you do!
Holy cow! 500 posts on a thread about a TV show?
Too far is watching PravdABDNC's drivel. The best part of the show was that President OPalma was the one who caused the blast with his attempt to Kerry favor w/terrorists.
Pray for W and Our Troops
:)
I think it was Old Mill Road, out by the haunted mansion.
Woo Hoo... You dang betcha!!!
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