I can't be the only one here watching "24," can I?
Well, I'm actually trying to catch up to everyone who *does* watch it. God bless Netflix for catching up on TV series. I'm nearing the end of Season 3 so far, and watching the shows back to back to back like this, I'm noticing patterns:
-- Always have a mole inside CTU. It makes for extra excitement just when things are going right.
-- Have Jack Bauer shoot someone under iffy circumstances at least twice per season.
-- Have Jack go renegade every other episode, so that people back at CTU can pair off in groups of "helping Jack" versus "totally out of the loop with Jack."
-- Everyone in the series gets at least 15 minutes of total self-righteous overacting every season. It's in their contracts.
-- Viruses and bombs get released/detonated but then are found out to be false alarms, so that they can be released/detonated again ... at least three times in a single 24-hour day.
-- Apparently science has invented a cell phone that never needs its battery recharged, and CTU bought them all up.
-- No one ever eats or goes to the bathroom during an entire 24-hour period. I want to see an episode with Jack Bauer running that SUV through a Jack-in-the-Box drive-thru just once. And apparently they all wear Depends or something.
-- People at CTU who get wounded in the course of a day (shot, stabbed, whatever) can get by with very small amounts of medical attention before going straight back to work for another 18+ hours. They're then given another 15 minutes of self-righteous overacting to compensate.
-- "Brrrrrrr--dee-doop!" Those phones in CTU are really going to drive me crazy by the time I work my way up to Season 5.
-- This is supposed to be the most high-tech place on the planet, but yet, whenever it's convenient, even low-level employees can find a way to do something untraceable or go offline and off-grid and not get caught. Oh, and they're always the ones who work right in the middle of the main floor where everyone can see them.
-- Why doesn't that place have proper lighting, even in the middle of the day? It's like watching a crime scene scene from CSI with all that cool high-tech mood lighting everywhere.
Well, I'm actually trying to catch up to everyone who *does* watch it. God bless Netflix for catching up on TV series. I'm nearing the end of Season 3 so far, and watching the shows back to back to back like this, I'm noticing patterns:
-- Always have a mole inside CTU. It makes for extra excitement just when things are going right.
-- Have Jack Bauer shoot someone under iffy circumstances at least twice per season.
-- Have Jack go renegade every other episode, so that people back at CTU can pair off in groups of "helping Jack" versus "totally out of the loop with Jack."
-- Everyone in the series gets at least 15 minutes of total self-righteous overacting every season. It's in their contracts.
-- Viruses and bombs get released/detonated but then are found out to be false alarms, so that they can be released/detonated again ... at least three times in a single 24-hour day.
-- Apparently science has invented a cell phone that never needs its battery recharged, and CTU bought them all up.
-- No one ever eats or goes to the bathroom during an entire 24-hour period. I want to see an episode with Jack Bauer running that SUV through a Jack-in-the-Box drive-thru just once. And apparently they all wear Depends or something.
-- People at CTU who get wounded in the course of a day (shot, stabbed, whatever) can get by with very small amounts of medical attention before going straight back to work for another 18+ hours. They're then given another 15 minutes of self-righteous overacting to compensate.
-- "Brrrrrrr--dee-doop!" Those phones in CTU are really going to drive me crazy by the time I work my way up to Season 5.
-- This is supposed to be the most high-tech place on the planet, but yet, whenever it's convenient, even low-level employees can find a way to do something untraceable or go offline and off-grid and not get caught. Oh, and they're always the ones who work right in the middle of the main floor where everyone can see them.
-- Why doesn't that place have proper lighting, even in the middle of the day? It's like watching a crime scene scene from CSI with all that cool high-tech mood lighting everywhere.