Dear Matt,
I respect you, so I am sincerely asking you take a deep breath.
‘24‘ is a fictional television series. That means it is made up, and is intended to be broadcast for entertainment purposes. This made me giggle:
If you can really get the bad guys to fess up in 90 seconds by putting a bullet in someone’s knee, then Bauer should be torturing people all the time and not pussyfooting around with all this satellite surveillance, deception, etc. But now all of a sudden what was a great idea Sunday night doesn’t even seem to be on the table. If only CTU would abandon these liberal pieties and start organizing some death squads, then we could lick this problem.
You know why Jack Bauer shot one guy and not another? Because it was in the fricking script.
I hate to have to say this, but based on the tone and tenor of your previous posts, it may be necessary. At any rate, I think you need to know- Kiefer Sutherland really didn’t shoot anyone. It was all fake- so when you get done analyzing 24, please don’t call the California State Police with information about some gruesome shootings you saw on television.
Up Next- Matt discusses the Grinch that Stole Christmas and the effectiveness of Neighborhood Watch Groups during the Holiday seasons.
BTW- Happy Blogiversary!
jeff
Isn’t it kind of ironic that Matt is one of those bloggers who brags about being in the “reality based community”, but then spends two posts rambling on about a TV show.
Jim Henley
So uh, John. Are you saying that there’s no such thing as too dumb for: television? a story? What?
I’ve seen various writing instruction books dwell on various kinds of plausibility and how to achieve it. Were the writers of those books wasting their time? Likewise various writer’s guides spend considerable time on the value of internal consistency in fiction. Misguided?
Have you yourself ever seen any fictional TV that you found yourself dismissing as, for what it was claiming to be, too stupid? What about books? Movies?