Wednesday, March 24, 2010

An Open Letter to Jack Bauer

An Open Letter to Jack Bauer



Dear Agent Bauer:


What's up with that ridiculous loud whispering-repeating-everything thing? When you're sitting at the dinner table and you need the mashed potatoes from the other side of the table, do you do this?

[loud whisper] "Please pass the mashed potatoes. I repeat... please pass the mashed potatoes!

[then crazy gravelly yell] "Son-of-a-bitch! I spilled the gravy. Chloe, I need you on com! Send a chopper to my location with more gravy. I'm sending my GPS coordinates to your screen."


Also when are you going to figure out... there's always a mole working for the bad guy! I mean come on! How many seasons of the same plot devices and you haven't nailed this down yet?


Seriously, though, with nothing but love for ya,

Me




Related...


Dear Fox Network:


There are only so many terrorist and kidnapping plots that one man can foil whilst going "dark" but then eventually being commended by the President before it gets kiiiiiinda boring. I officially cancelled "24" from my DVR. No hard feelings, k? It's been a good run, really it has.


Sincerely,

Me


P.S. I understand censorship and the need to keep things clean for primetime television and everything, but seriously... Jack Bauer is routinely tortured, almost dies, and basically loses or alienates everyone in his life while in the course of saving the country/world from impending doom. Do you honestly expect me to believe that the strongest language he uses is "Dammit!" or "Son-of-a-bitch!"? If I was an undercover drug runner hooked on heroin torturing the love of my life shortly after finding out the other love of my life was a Moley McMolerson and I had a nuclear warhead following me around like that little thundercloud follows Daffy Duck, I'd probably at least utter some of these: #@*****$@#!!! or oidthadfgxxxxxxxxxx!!!!!1 or even asdfsemicolon!!!!! I'm just sayin'...

2 comments:

Milk River Madman said...

I just started watching 24 for the first time this year and really like it so far. The Prodigy has every season on DVD and I finished season one this weekend and started season two last night. Season one was great for the first 14-16 episodes and season two is good except for Kim. She does not have her dad's decision making skills at all. Starting to wonder if her brains are in her chest. Jusy sayin.

Eric said...

A great letter to be sure, but I'm still confused about why all the episodes of the different seasons take up slightly more than 24 hours. Also, why does Jack never seem to sleep? Wouldn't that cut into the 24 hour time period?

I guess I need to buy the first season on DVD then to sort all this out?