More fun with Jack Bauer

[taste_is_sweet]

Peripherally watching 24 again, and bioweapon-infected Jack just finished telling Renee the future love interest how it's okay to mourn for her dead partner. Which is kind of incongruous considering he's Mr. badass take-no-prisoners-suck-it-up himself. And after listening I turn to Dom and ask, 'Isn't he still dying?'

And I think, Wow, prime-time television is weird.

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[springwoof.livejournal.com]

sigh. when 24 first aired, I was on a business trip and didn't get a chance to watch. & then I understood that it was a sequential thing, so I continued not watching.

So, I've heard it's pretty good, eh? (despite the weird)

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Well, it's kind of Republican, in that there's lots of justification for some truly brutal torture. It's also silly, in that people can get across the entire width and breadth of cities like LA in less than five minutes. Not to mention Jack being so awesome that he can come back to the US after being tortured in a Chinese prison for two years and be good to go after a hot meal and a bath.

I find it mostly violent and annoying, though the fact that Jack has heroically contracted a deadly virus has been doing it for my fanfic vibe. Fictional plagues FTW!