24
Tuesday 30th January, 2007 14:43 Comments: 0
Tick... tock... tick... tock... it's in its sixth season, but sometimes I ask myself why I watch it.
The honest answer is because I watched it from the beginning and because everyone else is talking about it (plus I have no life and TV helps fill the void). I've put up with the stupid amnesia storyline in the first season, I put up with the "let's write the show on the fly" and the "s**t he told everyone he's going to live so we'd better kill him off" and the "s**t he told everyone he's going to die, we'd better make him live" and the occasional "let's kill off some of the favourite characters at the start of the season". But how much more can I put up with? The format hasn't really changed since the first season and it feels stale, every time Jack's in trouble you know he'll get out of it (and will continue to do so for a few more seasons and a movie), and worst of all the timing doesn't always feel right. I remember near the end of the fifth season there's a bit that displays the time with about 90 seconds to go before the end of the hour, and then after two minutes we see the end of that hour ticking away. There weren't any commercial breaks, it was simply badly edited.
I hope that 24 picks up, maybe even tries something a bit different. I'm losing patience.
The honest answer is because I watched it from the beginning and because everyone else is talking about it (plus I have no life and TV helps fill the void). I've put up with the stupid amnesia storyline in the first season, I put up with the "let's write the show on the fly" and the "s**t he told everyone he's going to live so we'd better kill him off" and the "s**t he told everyone he's going to die, we'd better make him live" and the occasional "let's kill off some of the favourite characters at the start of the season". But how much more can I put up with? The format hasn't really changed since the first season and it feels stale, every time Jack's in trouble you know he'll get out of it (and will continue to do so for a few more seasons and a movie), and worst of all the timing doesn't always feel right. I remember near the end of the fifth season there's a bit that displays the time with about 90 seconds to go before the end of the hour, and then after two minutes we see the end of that hour ticking away. There weren't any commercial breaks, it was simply badly edited.
I hope that 24 picks up, maybe even tries something a bit different. I'm losing patience.