Oops
I watched 24 tonight. I saw a few previews for it during football season (6,374 actually) and I promised myself I wouldn't watch it, but I did. Now I'm hooked. I don't know what I'll do next term when I have class on Monday nights. Fail out of school I guess.
My favorite thing about the show is that Fox has finally broken the taboo about identifying Islamic extremists as "the enemy." I stopped watching James Bond movies because of their insistence that the Soviets still exist. Of course the MSM, and even most bloggers (except perhaps Charles Johnson, for whom I have an odd combination of admiration and absolute disgust) refer to the "war on (Islamic) terrorism," with the Islamic always parenthetical and delivered with a nudge nudge, wink wink. Hopefully that will change–at least it will make fictional action TV shows more interesting. And what more can a red-blooded American ask for? But just in case, I will keep my eyes open for that roving band of Presbyterian extremists I heard about.
jones said,
February 25, 2005 at 4:09 pm
place looks nice – glad to have it back. i played the ps2 game mercenaries last weekend (great game) and they had the north koreans as bad guys, albeit in like 2008. i think one of the draws of the soviets is that it removes the possibility of racism critiques.
larry said,
March 10, 2005 at 11:38 pm
Get the DVDs. 24 is too hard to follow one episode per week.
larry said,
March 11, 2005 at 4:16 am
I love how stupid I just made myself sound.