All work and no play makes 24... completely awesome
When stuff blows up on screen, you can pretty much count me in. Whether it’s Jerry Bruckheimer and his formulaic festivals of pyrotechnic wizardry or any of the other gloriously shallow cinematic marvels that explode into summer multiplexes, I like stuff that goes bang. And that’s true even on the small screen, hence my new article on 24, the show that takes ridiculous spy-thriller action to inspiring new levels of absurdity. National Review Online has the goods on the series I call “a bloodthirsty soap opera disguised as a technothriller.”
posted by Peter @ 1/23/2006 09:29:00 AM
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Sorry, but Jack answers the door sans Glock. He carries a trusty Heckler & Koch Universal Service Pistol .45 caliber pistol. The USP .45, carried by people who care enough to send the very best, is at least an order of magnitude cooler than a Glock.
J.L. Shaw
Louisville
From your article: "Bauer hijacked a helicopter, stole a car, kidnapped the son of his pretty landlady, knocked unconscious and impersonated an FBI agent, won a gun battle with a squad of terrorist henchmen, was framed for murder, killed a presidential assassin, and somehow managed to evade 167 federal agents while escaping from the top floor of a Los Angeles apartment building."
That's our Jack, and we love him. I read your article out loud to my daughter and we were cracking up. You got it so right. And yes, because it has a moral center we keep coming back for more--it's what makes us care so much about Jack. Though, should I be worried when my young daughter blurts out periodically, "Just torture him!"?
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