Has anyone else besides me been so foolish as to suffer through the last 22 hours of “24”? This season has been just godawful from start to finish. And now, with mercifully only two hours left, we learn that the unbearable Kim Bauer will be the focus of the final showdown. NNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
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I’ve never watched it. I know that makes me a geek, but I always have trouble keeping to a regular TV schedule. Thanks to on-demand, I kept up with Flight of the Conchords. And it doesn’t really help that it’s the GOP’s favorite show. I’ll probably rent it in 10 years and rave about how I missed it at the time.
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p>I’ve seen enough of Lost to know I don’t really like it. I like the idea of it, but I feel like the show is half-baked. They throw a bunch of disconnected references at the wall.
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p>I miss The X-Files. Well, I miss the time when it was good. I stopped watching that at the end.
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Of course I mean 24 is the GOP’s favorite show, not Flight of the Conchords. Though who knows, maybe Michelle Bachman has a crush on Jemaine.
yeah right. 24 is so stupid.
It’s my one guilty pleasure on TV.
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p>One thing that the show does well is take a bunch of apparently disconnected references and plotlines, and tie them together several episodes later in fairly unexpected ways.
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p>There was one season where I started to get weary of it (Season 3, I think?), but overall, I think what they’ve done so far is pretty extraordinary in terms of weaving together a number of very complex plotlines without ever jolting me (at least) out of my (willing) suspension of disbelief. It never gets too dumb to accept.
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p>That said, with 1 finale and 1 last season left, I’m not sure they’ll be able to pull it off without a major letdown. But I’m hopeful.
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p>But unfortunately it’s the kind of show where you really have to watch every episode to have any idea what the hell is going on.
I’ll be clearing my schedule for the next few days. I certainly won’t be on vacation, but I might be hard to reach.
of 24, and thought the show was clever. Simultaneous video of different events, and using time to make the story 3D, so to speak.
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p>Thing is, the plot was the same boring plot for season two. Same lame overextensions of technology. Same torture. Same amazing ability to get from A to B at speeds unapproachable during daylight hours. Meh.
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p>I’m looking forward to this digital switchover, so I’ll have no “live” television programming at all. If I really want to watch a television program, I just pick it up on Netflix.
Did anyone else see the new NY State Senate website that they unveiled this week? It is extraordinary! Why must our legislature’s pages on mass.gov be stuck in 1996?
for Obama to fund 98* other websites with the same extraordinaryness. How about a little stimulation in the IT field, eh Mr. President? Please don’t connect it to the Federal websites though. It would certainly take some work to lay out the technical requirements, and of course web sites like those require a more than teeny operating budget to keep their information current, but…
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p>mo’ open government at the state level. States can take it or leave it (Gov Sanford, for example).
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p> * NY House, Nebraska’s unicameral Legislature, and the other 48 states’ House and Senate
Don’t the people of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the US Virgin Islands deserve to know what their legislatures are up to?
Next question.
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I’ve enjoyed this season of 24, though I start off biased as a fan of Keifer Sutherland in general. It’s not “quality” programming, but it is entertaining brain candy, and compared to last season, it’s an incredible improvement in story quality. They may very well ruin my good will with the focus on Kim in the season finale, but all in all, I don’t think it’s been that bad.
This season has been significantly better than the last few. I thought they’ve done a good job maintaining the season-long storyline while providing enough 1 and 2-episode resolutions to keep the audience from getting too frustrated.
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p>Tt has gone downhill a bit towards the end, though. I think most of the seasons would have been better if the show had been “18” instead of “24.”
The earlier seasons were a significantly better, with fewer “attacks per season.” The past few seasons seem to have been larded with crisis-after-crisis, car chases, and armed confrontations rather than better character development.
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p>The classic example of how to do it right was the BBC’s 7-episode 1979 “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” and the 6-episode follow up “Smiley’s Freinds,” in 1982, both extraordinarily faithful adaptations of Le Carre’s spy novels.
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p>It helped to have a world-class author at hand, and Alec Guinness as George Smiley.
…how about a spoiler alert next time…OK, as a long time viewer of the show (note, I did not say “fan”…the damn show is like a bad drug) the “twists and turns” are laughable, so no damage…but how tough was it to figure out she was going to play a major role when a few shows ago (a few hours ago) she had like a 4 hour wait for her flight. I assumed she’d be back to donate something to save Jack. But, without seeing the episode–honestly, maybe it has something to so with her at the airport, or getting on the plane with the bioweapon and Jack has to tell her how to kill the bad guys and disarm the weapon.
The Celtics were beast tonight…heart of a champion.
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It’s just not my week.