'24' is back: more torture than ever before!

[emazur]

Turn off your TVs and read, people!

If you insist...

Actually I have been meaning to read the rest of those 24 novels - I've only read the first one.

Also, for 24 fans I'd suggest the cliffhanger last episode of Season 2 of Star Trek Enterprise followed by all of Season 3, just about any Dan Brown novel, Showtime's Sleeper Cell and the previously mentioned Homeland (these 2 aren't nearly as action packed as 24 but still good).

Edit: if you were waiting for 24 The Movie, just watch Taken. Pretty much exactly what you'd expect a 24 movie to be (and it's damn good). I still haven't seen Taken 2 but I'm looking forward to doing so

 

[surf]

prediction: drones will play a large role in saving America (i'm gonna guess the shithole known as DC is the target this time)and a lesser prediction that (whatever dep't Jack works for) his peeps will have an unparalleled IT group than is far smarter than any civilian (terrorist) organization could employ.....

i'm kinda with Warlord here but more determined not to preach to the choir. those of us here know it glamorizes torture and uses illogical circumstances to justify trashing common sense and the constitution and most of us hate this. but i'll watch it anyway. i'm laying the over/under @125 deaths (not including any mass explosions) during the 24 episode season.

 

[Christian Liberty]

So it's not a show to condition people that torture is ok?

Hey, I've never watched this show but I know it was popular and my parents really liked it. Considering what you know of me, do you think it will poison my mind too much?

 

[Cutlerzzz]

I just got done watching Season 3. I think that may actually be the best season. I actually liked Season 1 a lot for some reason as well. The ending was really gripping.

Chase getting his arm cut off at the end of season 3 was epic. So was Jack's charge into the bad guys compound at the end of season 1.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Hey, I've never watched this show but I know it was popular and my parents really liked it. Considering what you know of me, do you think it will poison my mind too much?

Excessive exposure to propaganda will fuck with your head if you don't have a solid intellectual/philosophical foundation. If you know about rhetoric and fallacies, you can have a bit of fun pointing out the poor logic on television shows (not to mention bad dialogue/screenwriting/story telling).

 

[AGRP]

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/rush-limbaughs-dominican-stag-party

 

[thoughtomator]

I can count the number of posters who still don't get it by the number of people who can comment on TV shows as if they've actually watched them.

If you still have a TV, you're doing it wrong. TV is nothing but lies and propaganda and severely damages the ability of human beings to think clearly.

 

[redmod79]

It shows a lot of bad guys in government so it's a wash in that respect. I love how Jack went apeshit against them during the last season.

 

[Danan]

Terrible show.

 

[redmod79]

You're probably right. Oh well.

 

[Warlord]

prediction: drones will play a large role in saving America (i'm gonna guess the shithole known as DC is the target this time)and a lesser prediction that (whatever dep't Jack works for) his peeps will have an unparalleled IT group than is far smarter than any civilian (terrorist) organization could employ.....

i'm kinda with Warlord here but more determined not to preach to the choir. those of us here know it glamorizes torture and uses illogical circumstances to justify trashing common sense and the constitution and most of us hate this. but i'll watch it anyway. i'm laying the over/under @125 deaths (not including any mass explosions) during the 24 episode season.

I watched the last one only half way and lost interest. Every season though my brothers were suspects and I feel sorry for Muslims in America.

They're all suspects trying to blow America up!

 

[Christian Liberty]

Excessive exposure to propaganda will fuck with your head if you don't have a solid intellectual/philosophical foundation. If you know about rhetoric and fallacies, you can have a bit of fun pointing out the poor logic on television shows (not to mention bad dialogue/screenwriting/story telling).

I'm strengthening my libertarian conviction every day. I've got time, I guess. I was a neocon only three short years ago...

 

[surf]

I can count the number of posters who still don't get it by the number of people who can comment on TV shows as if they've actually watched them.

If you still have a TV, you're doing it wrong. TV is nothing but lies and propaganda and severely damages the ability of human beings to think clearly.

dude - I have a tv so I can watch sports (when my Sounders are out of town). how's this wrong?

 

[EBounding]

24 is even better while reading Dave Barry's live blog.

 

[emazur]

dude - I have a tv so I can watch sports (when my Sounders are out of town). how's this wrong?

There's nothing wrong with owning a TV - anyone lacking the maturity to have discriminating tastes with television to filter out the good from the bad is going to have the same issues when it comes to reading material.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

dude - I have a tv so I can watch sports (when my Sounders are out of town). how's this wrong?

+1 I only watch TV once in a blue moon or so, and that's for Olympics, judo, various other martial arts, and maybe a movie. (it's been so long since I watched a movie IDR which one it was that I saw last) Sadly, the IJF championships are only broadcast on youtube AFAIK.

 

[Brett85]

I watched the last one only half way and lost interest. Every season though my brothers were suspects and I feel sorry for Muslims in America.

They're all suspects trying to blow America up!

In the majority of the seasons the terrorists were white, not Muslims.

 

[Warlord]

heavenly is an elitist snob who doesn't have a TV and reads econ text books instead while looking down on the rest of us in a smug and self-assured manner

 

[kcchiefs6465]

prediction: drones will play a large role in saving America (i'm gonna guess the shithole known as DC is the target this time)and a lesser prediction that (whatever dep't Jack works for) his peeps will have an unparalleled IT group than is far smarter than any civilian (terrorist) organization could employ.....

i'm kinda with Warlord here but more determined not to preach to the choir. those of us here know it glamorizes torture and uses illogical circumstances to justify trashing common sense and the constitution and most of us hate this. but i'll watch it anyway. i'm laying the over/under @125 deaths (not including any mass explosions) during the 24 episode season.

Pretty much.

I'll raise your drone prediction one to that they will depict a drone strike in the United States. Probably along the lines of saving hundreds if not thousands of lives.

The show is propaganda. If the first episode doesn't annoy me so, I will probably still watch it.

 

[anaconda]

Yeah but.... Jack Bauer is the shit, come on. lol

I was never sympathetic to Jack Bauer's character. I thought he was a dick. And not in a good way. It also bugged me how he practically had sex with his daughter every time they shared a tender "father & daughter" moment. Practically slipping her the tongue and fondling her breasts while telling her how much he loved her and was going to keep her safe.