| Haystacks Calhoun II 15.01.2007 19:16 |
To quote Dr. Boomhauer..... "Dang on old Megalo-mart man - go boom" Should be a great ride! |
| Lester Burnham 15.01.2007 19:49 |
Where's Pieter? |
| Ale Solan 15.01.2007 19:51 |
I kidnaped him and I'm forcing him to watch That's 70's Show. Erin might join. |
| PieterMC 16.01.2007 08:23 |
I'm here. I watched the first 4 episodes last week. I was bad and downloaded them. The end of episode 4 was fantastic. |
| magicalfreddiemercury 16.01.2007 09:51 |
We planned our Sunday and Monday nights around the premiere of 24. I was so caught up in it that by the end of part 4, I half expected the events to be reported on the 10:00 news. Damn, did it feel real. And now we have to wait a whole week for the 10pm - 11pm hour. A week is a very long time. |
| PieterMC 16.01.2007 10:02 |
At least 24 is a non stop season with no repeats or weeks off the air. I can't wait to see where this season is going to go. |
| Lisser 16.01.2007 10:07 |
Damn, maybe I should fit 24 into my weekly tv schedule. I have no clue how I will though. We have two DVRs and they are both full of shit now as it is. I just started watching Rome on HBO and it is fabulous!! I love that old history stuff though. Anyone else watch Rome? |
| Saif 16.01.2007 10:14 |
24 RULES. Here in India we have a channel called Star World which used to show 24 but they only showed 2 seasons...well anyway I've downloaded 6 of the seasons and I'm still watching. Jack Bauer = coolest guy on TV since Michael Knight(Knight Rider) and Fonzie(Happy Days). I'm saving up to buy the first 5 seasons on DVD. P.S. Kiefer Sutherland(Jack Bauer) digs Queen. |
| deleted user 16.01.2007 10:39 |
^Yeah. I'm totally in love with Keifer Sutherland. He's really into music. My brother, who's a 24 fanatic, had to work and missed last night. T_T But it was pretty real. I couldn't believe it when Jack bit that dude! Or when Curtis died. Y_Y 24 junkies, unite! |
| magicalfreddiemercury 16.01.2007 10:45 |
<font color=Maroon>Dobbies Deacon, Sr. wrote: I couldn't believe it when Jack bit that dude! Or when Curtis died. Y_YCurtis! I kept thinking he wasn't going to die, that they'd save him... I mean, hell, it was Curtis! Why couldn't Jack shoot him in the knee or the shoulder. Why the neck??? Nuts. Tony, Edgar and now Curtis. :( |
| PieterMC 16.01.2007 10:51 |
magicalfreddiemercury wrote:I guess being held in a Chinese prison for 18 months clouded Jacks judgment. I was more in shock about the nuke going off.<font color=Maroon>Dobbies Deacon, Sr. wrote: I couldn't believe it when Jack bit that dude! Or when Curtis died. Y_YCurtis! I kept thinking he wasn't going to die, that they'd save him... I mean, hell, it was Curtis! Why couldn't Jack shoot him in the knee or the shoulder. Why the neck??? Nuts. Tony, Edgar and now Curtis. :( |
| Erin 16.01.2007 11:56 |
Lisser wrote: Damn, maybe I should fit 24 into my weekly tv schedule. I have no clue how I will though. We have two DVRs and they are both full of shit now as it is.Delete all that crap, and watch some 24, woman! Jack Bauer is the MAN..;-) |
| PieterMC 16.01.2007 13:06 |
Jack Bauer's kill count: link |
| magicalfreddiemercury 16.01.2007 13:20 |
PieterMC wrote: I was more in shock about the nuke going off.Oh, that. Pfffft. ;-) |
| deleted user 16.01.2007 15:17 |
magicalfreddiemercury wrote:I know! I was like, "He'll live." At first, when I saw the blood spatter, I thought he'd shot the other guy, the terrorist, and it had spattered back onto him... I cried when Edgar died! No poem intended... And Michelle and Tony...<font color=Maroon>Dobbies Deacon, Sr. wrote: I couldn't believe it when Jack bit that dude! Or when Curtis died. Y_YCurtis! I kept thinking he wasn't going to die, that they'd save him... I mean, hell, it was Curtis! Why couldn't Jack shoot him in the knee or the shoulder. Why the neck??? Nuts. Tony, Edgar and now Curtis. :( PieterMC wrote: I guess being held in a Chinese prison for 18 months clouded Jacks judgment. I was more in shock about the nuke going off.Yeah. That freaked me out too. And there's still four more! |
| PieterMC 17.01.2007 10:51 |
Did anybody see Keith Olbermann last night? Basically he had a segment where he talked about 24 basically being propaganda for the Bush administration. I frankly find his comments absurd and I am no fan of Bush. Here are parts of what he said: link "It's a familiar tactic for grabbing and holding the public's attention, beloved by both the Bush administration and, just as another example, Fox News Channel. Step 1: Fear, and if step 1 does not work, Step 2: More fear. In our fourth story on the Countdown, it is also evidently how the producers of the Fox series "24" plan to keep viewers during the show's sixth year, as evidenced by the first 30 seconds of the season premiere: [Video of Islamic militants blowing up various trains and buses on the show "24"] If that wasn't enough to scare or outrage you, the rest of the four-hour, two-night show featured a mall attack, a would-be suicide bomber on the subway and a successful suicide bombing on a passenger bus — not in places where these things have already happened, but in a country called the United States of America. In case you missed the point, the show finished up with a nuclear weapon detonating in a major American city, literally conjuring up the administration's imagery for the war in Iraq: the good old mushroom cloud." "Is 24 propaganda? Is it fear mongering? Or is it a program-length commercial for one political party?" |
| PieterMC 17.01.2007 10:52 |
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| Haystacks Calhoun II 17.01.2007 11:03 |
Keith Olbermann is a kook, plain and simple. His takes on things are laughable, such as this. |
| PieterMC 17.01.2007 11:08 |
I just wonder why they are bashing it now. It's not the first time there have been Islamic terrorists on the show. It's not the first nuke on the show, although the other one did get set off in the desert. It's not the first time that torture has been on the show. Here is the video of him bashing the show: link |
| Haystacks Calhoun II 17.01.2007 11:12 |
Any chance folks like Olbermann can get to "make a name" for himself, he is gonna take it. Generally, he gets his name by his outrageous comments about the Bush administration. I would like to think that even a leftist like TQ, an ardent a Bush hater as one would ever find, would find KO's take to be absurd at best. A publicity stunt, to get ratings, as Keith has about 5 people per night watching his show as it is. |
| PieterMC 17.01.2007 11:14 |
After reading comments on the 24 message board there are plently of liberals on there that think KO comments were stupid. Calling for it to be taken off the air is just plain stupid. |
| Maz 17.01.2007 12:01 |
It should be noted, when Pieter asked why this criticism is cropping up now, that Joel Surnow, producer of 24, is also producing for Fox a "conservative-themed" or "right-leaning" alternative to The Daily Show. It appears that Surnow made his biases better known. Also, for the sake of being honest, I was a bit put off during the first 24 episode when the family protects their Muslim neighbor from a pair of jerks and, as the episode reveals, the neighbor is really a terrorist conspirator. I mean, think about it for a second, but what is the underlying message to that - Don't even bother helping others, they're just bad people anyhoo? Just my opinion. I gave up watching 24 after I learned what happened to Jack and that he likes the taste of Man Neck. Can't devote that much time to watching TV this spring. |
| Haystacks Calhoun II 17.01.2007 12:09 |
Maybe I'm just stupid.... But, do people really have to find an underlying message in everything? 24 is an entertaining TV show, nothing more, nothing less. It's not a political vehicle, it's not a race relation vehicle, it is simply a TV show. |
| PieterMC 17.01.2007 12:24 |
That's certainly how I see it anyway. Just a show. However I can also see that some people will treat it as more than that. I don't think it matters what political views the maker of 24 has. There are plenty of liberal film / tv producers. Everybody has some sort of political standpoint. I just find KO calls for it to be taken off the air to be crazy. If he does not like it then he does not have to watch it. |
| Maz 17.01.2007 12:25 |
C'mon, Haystacks, surely you realize that popular culture shows like 24 can have a positive or negative effect on people's perceptions of real world problems. For instance, it's been in the news many times lately of how difficult prosecuting attorneys have it when potential jurors demand CSI-like evidence in criminal trials. Honestly, I am neither a fan nor a hater of 24. I haven't watched it regularly in a couple years mainly out of time committments (that and the whole Jack has a heroin habit from a couple years back - talk about overdoing it). To say I'm looking for an underlying message or that I have my political radar out when I watch the show is a stretch. |
| Maz 17.01.2007 12:28 |
And to be clear - I just posted my reaction to a scene from the show. It's not a political statement or political critique of 24, just my opinion. And I have never seen Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, either (or whatever the title was). |
| PieterMC 17.01.2007 12:29 |
Perhaps if they had just got that guy some White Castle cheeseburgers he would have not held the family hostage. |
| PieterMC 17.01.2007 12:35 |
Kiefer Sutherlands comments on Season 6: “The one thing - the show is political. It’s not that the show has not been political but I think last season it became political, because people observing it drew a political angle from it. I remember Joel Surnow, the writer, saying it’s really quite amazing to have the right kind of adopt the show the way they have and then have the left, Barbra Streisand and so many people on the left adopt the show for themselves as well. And that it’s managed to run this kind of mutual political ground while having very strong political aspirations within the context of the show. This year, there’s a couple statements that are very political. They are on purpose from the writers and I think they chose to address a really interesting situation in our society.” |
| Haystacks Calhoun II 17.01.2007 12:55 |
Sure, I can see where some folks would take the premise that the show presents and run with it, one way or the other... Personally, I find it a bit silly. It's a prime time TV show. Everything that is done in the show is done to maximize ratings, period. Why anyone would take it to the absurd point that Olbermann does is beyond me. Of course, nothing that buffoon does should surprise anyone. He, too, is in it solely for the ratings, and if by making the asinine comments that he did gains him a few new far left audience members, then his rant did what he meant it to do. |
| deleted user 17.01.2007 14:38 |
PieterMC wrote: Perhaps if they had just got that guy some White Castle cheeseburgers he would have not held the family hostage.Haha! xD Can I PRETTY PLEASE quote that?? My brother was having a hard time watching because he couldn't get White Castle out of his head. |
| deleted user 19.01.2007 06:00 |
To me, 24 is the best show on TV. SVU, a few others are good, but nothing gets me going like 24. And Kiefer being a Queen obsessive doesn't hurt either! |
| PieterMC 19.01.2007 11:44 |
Muslims protest '24' link |
| Erin 19.01.2007 12:03 |
Daggumit..I guess I have to stop liking 24, or people will think I'm a Republican..:-P |
| user name 19.01.2007 12:38 |
PieterMC wrote: Muslims protest '24' linkMuslims might as well protest every movie/TV show/video game/other form of media that has ever been made that features modern terrorism. We all know that even though in recent history most notable terrorist attacks are performed by Muslims, this does not mean that most Muslims perform terrorist attacks. We don't need a show that features the citizens of Luxembourg suicide bombing locations in the United States. Why? Because it's not very feasible. Muslim terrorism is. |
| PieterMC 19.01.2007 12:40 |
As the article points out: "Over the past several seasons, the villains have included shadowy Anglo businessmen, Baltic Europeans, Germans, Russians, Islamic fundamentalists, and even the (Anglo-American) president of the United States." |
| Maz 19.01.2007 12:45 |
The show really went downhill after they killed off Lou Diamond Phillips. |
| PieterMC 19.01.2007 12:47 |
I think that it's got better as it went along, with last season being the best so far. Sure not all of it is plausible but it sure is an exciting show to watch. |
| Maz 19.01.2007 13:29 |
I thought the first 2 seasons were pretty good, except for the Kim versus the Mountain Lion subplot. But I think it was the airborne virus season that I gave up watching it actively. The first two seasons seemed to have a good overarching plot for the entire season, while ever since there have been too many odd and implausible subplots introduced. The whole attack the Chinese embassy from last year is kind of what I mean. Anymore I catch the occasional episode when I happen to be near the TV. |
| PieterMC 19.01.2007 13:47 |
Zeni wrote: Kim versus the Mountain Lion subplot.That was probably the worst subplot I have ever seen on the show. |
| deleted user 20.01.2007 03:05 |
And by worst, surely you meant MOST AWESOME. I jest. Did anyone else notice that Kal Penn (Kumar) was also on this week's SVU? It was odd. I was sad to see Ventura county blown up ... I have a location shoot out there tomorrow :P |
| PieterMC 23.01.2007 11:04 |
Ok. Who saw the twist coming about Jack's brother? |
| Haystacks Calhoun II 23.01.2007 11:24 |
That was pretty strong......the bad guy from last year is Jack's brother. His dad might have ties to the one who smuggled the bombs out of Russia. His brothers wife still has the hots for Jack, making goo goo eyes at him, is the boy Jacks son, perhaps??? |
| magicalfreddiemercury 23.01.2007 11:30 |
Haystacks Calhounski wrote: ...is the boy Jacks son, perhaps???My thoughts exactly. |
| Haystacks Calhoun II 23.01.2007 11:38 |
That might be too obvious, though. |
| PieterMC 23.01.2007 11:54 |
He certainly looked like it could be his son. |
