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Wednesday, 24 Jan 2007
The new season of 24 is supposed to be insane, and according to some people superly racist against muslims and arabs, so as the Sandmonkey I have to investiagte this. Thanks to the tip from Memz, I am downloading episodes 1 through 5 from this website, and I will have seriously dumb & awesome entertainment for 5 straight continous houres. The terrorists supposidly have the atomic bomb, and they are trying to blow up LA, so I am rooting for them. Go terrorists!
Oh, who am I kidding? I love Jack Bauer. GO BAUER!
While we are at it, the top 24 Jack Bauer facts! the top 100 Jack Bauer facts!
January 24th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Hope you didn’t forget the other night’s episode of Heroes SM. It’s a fucker that we have to wait another week again now.
January 24th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
I have to say, the writing this season is horrible!
1. The terrorist kid befriends the white Christian neighbor?
2. The father kills a sales-guy instead of calling for a cop sharp-shooter?
3. The government knows a nuclear device is in the building and attacks on the ground instead of bombing them so they can’t detonate?
4. The hero’s brother is the bad guy?
LAAAAAZY!!!
January 24th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
I haven’t been watching this season so I don’t know anything about it, but if it is anti-muslim it wouldn’t be racist, just religously bigoted.
January 24th, 2007 at 7:56 pm
Know your hero. Name ‘Bauer’ is of german origin and means ‘farmer’.
January 24th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Jordan— “I have to say, the writing this season is horrible!”
The writing on “24″ is always horrible. The attraction for the plots aren’t the leaden dialogue and demonstrations of odd and incongruously unalarmed priorities in interoffice politics, it’s how they try to more or less successfully cram as many cliffhangers as possible into a single episode. It’s Proudly Unpretentious Pulp, and I can deal with that on a take-it-or-leave-it basis.
What I CAN’T deal with is the producers not conforming with the explicit timeframe of the premise. I live in Los Angeles and I once spent TWO F*ING HOURS in the parking structure at the Beverly Center waiting in line trying to get out AT TWO IN THE MORNING on a THURSDAY NIGHT of all times, and the writers are trying to tell me Jack can drive from downtown L.A. to Valencia in about forty minutes during a time period concurrent with the morning rush hour? For that alone, screw you, 24, screw you right in the cornhole.
January 24th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
40 minutes? Jack had about 20 minutes that episode. It’s ridiculous.
January 24th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
TroyZ,
Jack can drive from downtown L.A. to Valencia in about forty minutes during a time period concurrent with the morning rush hour?
That’s about right, if he drives fast. I used to work in Valencia when I lived in Glendale… 134 to Interstate 5, head north to Valencia. Or take the 2 to the 210 to the 5. A 50 minute drive, either way. There is virtually no traffic northbound on the 5, in the morning. It’s all southbound.
By the way i lived in Valencia until recently. What the fuck is Jack Bauer doing in Valencia!? Are there terrorists in Valencia now or what? When did that happen!?
Well, as you can see, I don’t watch the show, but I gotta say if he’s heading out to Valencia to save the world from terrorist threats, maybe that’s a good think
January 24th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
[...] Egypt’s leading blogger Sandmonkey has decided to investigate hit series 24 as he heard it was “insane, and according to some people superly racist against Muslims and Arabs”! He has since promised to engage himself in “seriously dumb & awesome entertainment for 5 straight continous hours.” Amira Al Hussaini [...]
January 24th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
BEST SHOW ON TV
January 24th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
It was a choice between “24″ and “Heroes” for me…in all honesty, I never got into “24″.
January 25th, 2007 at 2:19 am
Thanks for the link!
Just watched the first episode, and it is indeed insane!!
January 25th, 2007 at 2:41 am
Ironically, largely due to terrorism I’ve found some cool Muslims on the Internet.
You’ve got much bigger problems than 24 in the image department.
http://inshallahshaheed.wordpress.com/
If I hear “devout Muslim” I’d be farking insane to assume good things. Secular, nonobservant, apostate… Muslim - fine. And I’m really sick of hearing that Americans supposedly don’t know anything about Islam. I know too much already.
January 25th, 2007 at 3:14 am
No Chip, you don’t know enough….yet.
But I think you will by the end of this year.
Papa Ray
West Texas
USA
January 25th, 2007 at 5:11 am
Sounds like I’ve been missing something by not watching this show… guess I’ll order the first few seasons on DVD and check it out.
January 25th, 2007 at 5:34 am
Heh Chip. Glanced at that link. Zawahiri does his best Dirty Harry, eh? Heh Papa Ray, your ominous tone has my attention. What will we know by the end of this year, if you’re game to go public with it? I’m not being flippant over the seriousness of it all (people are freaking dying for God’s sake!) but as one of the other 299+ million Americans not involved in politics, global trade, movie stardom or topless dancing, I feel pretty much powerless over the events transpiring here or there.
Oh, I don’t watch 24. Terrorism ain’t my cup o’ tea for entertainment and I think I saw too many Keifer Sutherland flicks when he was working out his acting, so don’t dig him much. I really like his dad (Donald Sutherland) as an actor more. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (circa 1970s) - classic Donald Sutherland sci-fi at it’s bell-bottomed finest!
January 25th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Can’t wait for the next Season to be shown. I am really into it.
January 25th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Bauer for president in 2008! MacGyver for vice-president!
I know. I know. Get real. Macgyver is already running for the top spot.
January 25th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Hey Craig - you NEED to be watching 24. Of all the bloggers I’ve encountered I think you would make a HUGE 24 fan!! Give the first season a chance and I guarantee you’ll be hooked after the first couple of episodes…
24 and Heroes posed a big problem for me monday night…but that’s why I got a dual-tuner DVR - I can, thankfully, record both shows.
January 25th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
http://blogs.herald.com/dave_barrys_blog/
Check out the 24 entries, where everyone is logging in, do a live commentary and Steve does the summary.
And Steven had already the going-ons of the next season figured out.
http://magiclamp.org/index.php/24-the-next-day/
January 25th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
“saw too many Keifer Sutherland flicks when he was working out his acting,”
I thought Lost Boys was awesome tyvm
Anyone else notice just how many Canadian actors/actresses are in 24? Here’s hoping more nukes go off in this season. Somehow watching it ‘artistically’ happening is satisfying.
January 25th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Lost Boys is the best 80’s movie ever!
And yeah…
Hollywood is the place Canadians go to work.
Miami is the place Canadians go to die.
What the hell am I still doing in Toronto?
January 25th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Casting Arabs in the role of terrorist is racist? It’s not racist, it’s more like observant!
Just for the record, back in the 1980’s all of Hollywood’s evil-doers were Russian. As a Russian immigrant to the US I didn’t find it racist - I found it observant.
January 25th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
SM dont know if you ever seen this http://blogs4bauer.blogspot.com/ lots of really good 24 stuff
January 25th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
*sigh*
I love Jack Bauer. I think Season 6 rocks!
January 25th, 2007 at 11:28 pm
I dunno, maybe it is just anti-nuclear terrorist
January 26th, 2007 at 12:05 am
“What the hell am I still doing in Toronto?”
You mustn’t be a newfie then :p
January 26th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Can’t stand the show. Too much of a soap opera, too many non-terror side-plots involving Kim (who should just stand around scantily dressed so we can ogle her). About 18 episodes into a season, I start feeling cheated.
I’m a Lost man myself. And their muslim - an morally conflicted, soul searching, ex-Republican Guard, no less! - is a good guy.
January 27th, 2007 at 10:26 am
I don’t know which season we’ve just had here but it did have Muslims as terrorists and a father and son thingy happening- I didn’t watch it because I think each series of 24 has been the same. Craig- you only need to watch the first season- after that it’s like deja vu!
Anyhoo- about a quarter way through last season’s sreenings, Kiefer Sutherland appeared before the show started with a message about terrorism and Muslims- something along the lines of “not all Muslims are terrorists and it is not the intention of this show to blah blah blah and the vast majority of Muslims are peace loving blah blah blah”- Fine, good, fair enough but I seriously don’t think anyone was watching the show- the ratings went downhill from season 2 and it was pushed to a really late time slot.
Let’s face it- 24 jumped the shark when Jack became a drug addict (seaon 2 or 3 I think- I dunno- they’re all the same).
January 27th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Poor shark
January 28th, 2007 at 3:57 am
Go Jack!
absurd thought -
God of the Universe hates
watching 24 on Fox
he would never create this
one day where so much goes wrong
.
January 30th, 2007 at 9:21 am
At first I thought you were yelling Buuuller!
January 31st, 2007 at 1:28 am
THIS SEASON IS RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 31st, 2007 at 1:31 am
I mean, come on! Muslim terrorists? How unlikely is that? I mean, everybody know that there are no Muslim terrorists and that every “Muslim” terrorist attack is actually conspired by the Jews.
Muslims are right to complain about this racist portrayal of them.