Talk Like Jack Bauer Even Though Season 7 Is Postponed Day
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Yeah, yeah, the writer’s strike stopped Jack Bauer when even legions of bad guys couldn’t. What’s that phrase? The pen is mightier than the sword Glock 9mm?
Anyway, that doesn’t stop our friends over at Blogs4Bauer (and by “our friends” I mean myself and the crazy boys who invited me to be a part of their crazy world) from hosting the now-annual Talk Like Jack Bauer Day.
So, come Jan. 14, make sure you sprinkle Dammit!s liberally in your conversation (extra points if you take a shot every time you hear someone say Dammit!), insist constantly that there’s just NOT ENOUGH TIME. Insist that people tell you what they know RIGHT NOW. And threaten the kneecaps of anyone who won’t do what you ask. Here’s the full FAQ.
Then, the spirit of Jack will still be with us, even though Jack Bauer will not be. Then settle down to watch The Sarah Connor Chronicles (now named Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles because the showrunners obviously didn’t think the name was long enough already and because viewers might have gotten Sarah Connor confused with the other Sarah Connor. Um, wait, what other Sarah Connor? Oh, never mind.)
And while I’m on the subject of our favorite sociopath patriot, it’s come to my attention that I had a brain freeze and completely left 24 out of the Top TV Moments of the Year Awards List. In hindsight, I’m not sure how that happened. I must have been in complete denial because I should have been ramping up to watch the return of Tony Almeida, but instead have the joy of American Gladiators this Sunday.
So, belatedly, I give you the:
We laughed so hard we fell off the sofa
• 24: C’mon, the Great Logan Kiwi Toss, followed by the Great Logan Stab in the Neck was pretty funny, in a shocking, 24 kind of way. Pair that with the fact that the kiwi came from the farmer’s market that obviously didn’t close for nuclear holocaust and that whole storyline gave viewers more than a few laughs.
We sobbed uncontrollably
• 24: 24 fans don’t sob uncontrollably. We did, however, cheer when Milo was killed. (We did, we admit, feel a bit melancholy when Edgar died, but that was a couple of seasons ago already.)
We said, “OMG! WTF?�
• 24: A nuclear bomb goes off, destroying Valencia. I don’t care who you are and whether you like 24 or not, it takes a titanium-coated pair to set off a nuke in the first four hours of a 24-hour season. And never mind that five minutes earlier, Jack had killed Curtis to save Bashir. I mean, you didn’t freakin’ see that one coming.
We found these to be craptacular
• 24: The most die-hard 24 fans found Season 6 to be a craptacular disappointment. A crapapalooza, one might say (and we have). His dad was the big bad? Really? The Rickster a badass? I’m sorry, still having trouble with that. President Zombie Palmer? Between the
poor writing, recycled plots and simply not enough Jack Bauer (plus, that kiss between Daniels and his aide was just, well, icky), Season 6 fell so far short of Season 5, it’s not even funny.
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