Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:50:00
Is 24 sharkproof? (THIS MAY BE A SPOILER!)
24 cannot jump the shark. (WARNING, THIS MAY BE A SPOILER!!!)
I had a long conversation with a big fan of 24 who thought that last night’s plot twist—having Jack Bauer’s brother Graham turn out to be a villain who wanted his brother killed and having his father Phillip be sketchy—is a bad sign for the show.
Saying that the new family connections “make it all seem like it’s just about three people” and not about global terrorism, seemed to him to be jumping-the-sharkish.
24 jumped the shark on Day One, Hour 2. That’s what makes it shark-proof. It’s always ridiculous, and this is just more ridiculousness. Doesn’t matter - I’m hooked, and if Jack Bauer rescues the President by actually jumping a pit of sharks with frickin’ laser beams on their heads, I’ll be watching. If Jack Bauer has to catch a shark with his bare hands and speed-dry the fin so he can make a soup to restore the President’s sexual potency, I’ll be watching. If Jack Bauer is caught in the path of a fiercely-lit green energy beam made of fuckton particles in a suspended gobbledygook matrix and inadvertently is wearing a shark’s tooth necklace and become half-human, half tiger shark - I’ll be watching.
He’s Jack Fucking Bauer. That should be enough for any of you. You can’t explain him by conventional wisdom, philosophy or even science. He just is.
Posted by JimK at 09:50 PM on January 23, 2007
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#2 Posted by JimK 
on 01/24 at 01:11 AM -
I shall make with a warning! I just assumed that everyone had seen this already since it was fucking *everywhere* I looked today. Sorry!
#3 Posted by jo-jo on 01/24 at 01:15 AM -
yeah yeah. make excuses. if i were you i’d watch your back…
...and keep an eye out for a pouting pacifist who really can’t do anything to hurt you, other than whine a lot. well, that actually CAN hurt ;)
#5 Posted by jo-jo on 01/24 at 06:29 PM -
you need to but the whole damn quote behind a cut, too. the whole brother graham thing is ALL NEWS TO ME ;)
(i’ll take some munster, plz)
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did you just fucking post a fucking spoiler without a fucking warning? i WILL kill you. deadlike.