Would you still watch 24 after seeing this?

skibunny4dean

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Wed May-04-05 04:41 AM
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Would you still watch 24 after seeing this?

Edited on Wed May-04-05 04:44 AM by skibunny4dean

Just thought I'd ask.

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fleabert

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Wed May-04-05 04:44 AM
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1. watched that trash once, and never considered it again! good to see my

Edited on Wed May-04-05 04:44 AM by fleabert

instincts were right.

Keifer, played a bloodsucker once, now gets picture taken with one.

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xultar

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Wed May-04-05 04:44 AM
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2. Keifer isn't a 'thug is he? I don't watch 24 but I'd stop watching his

films.

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imenja

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Wed May-04-05 05:03 AM
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7. he's Canadian

and son of Donald Sutherland. I seriously doubt he'd vote Republican even if he were/is a US citizen.

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elare

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Wed May-04-05 06:21 AM
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14. And he's the grandson of Tommy Douglas

I highly doubt he'd support the Republican party

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blondeatlast

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Wed May-04-05 08:39 AM
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21. Aaaah, true that--but he had the money handed over to him.

That makes an enormous difference. I was raised Dem, but there is little in my family to inherit. And I'm still Dem and will always be so.

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saracat

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Wed May-04-05 04:46 AM
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3. I no longer watch it anyway. Hubby does. I thought Keifer was a Dem?

But in the Biz, you have to be nice to everyone , even Rush. It probably is a publicity shot. 24 IS on FOX you know!:)

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BlueIris

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Wed May-04-05 04:57 AM
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5. Just for the official record, well, Sutherland's thoughts on the war,

and other bad things the Bush Administration has done are availible if you Google. I think you're right that the shot of him and Rush there is probably a "professional courtesy" thing.

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Darth_Kitten

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Wed May-04-05 07:27 AM
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17. He's a socialist......

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w13rd0

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Wed May-04-05 04:53 AM
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4. I watch it to make fun of it...

...and I download the episdoes commercial-free, so I can say FU to FOX in the process. Between 24 and Alias, we're given the impression that our intelligence agencies are incompetent, prone to human rights abuses, populated by traitors and stupid people, and they serve the selfish short term interests of self-serving, petty thugs pretending to be leaders...

Hurm...reality tv?

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sundancekid

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Wed May-04-05 06:14 AM
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11. points well made and points well taken! thanks for download info too

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imenja

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Wed May-04-05 05:01 AM
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6. That show has become so reactionary in its defense of torture

Rush is the least of it. But I still watch. I guess I've just been hooked from season one and can't break the habit. Still, I'm furious with the writers/ producers.

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Anarcho-Socialist

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Wed May-04-05 05:15 AM
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8. I think the staff should employ a "no junkies on the set" rule n/t

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blondeatlast

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Wed May-04-05 08:41 AM
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22. ...

:rofl:MAO!

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muchacho

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Wed May-04-05 05:18 AM
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9. I'll stick with the Gilmore Girls..

and ALIAS...

Donald must be so proud of his boy.

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Jamastiene

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Wed May-04-05 06:05 AM
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10. Won't start now.

Edited on Wed May-04-05 06:06 AM by Jamastiene

I have always wished I could see that show because I used to like Keifer when I was growing up. Now, he's stooped to a low I cannot fathom. Ugh! Having your picture taken beside Hypocrit Limbo is one thing. Smiling for the picture is another. I couldn't fake it that much. Or is he faking the smile?

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thebigidea

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Wed May-04-05 06:17 AM
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12. what's with the greasy pimpgear?

is that how conservatives dress to impress Hollywood?

where's the power tie, blue suit, and lapel pin?

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Vinca

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Wed May-04-05 06:19 AM
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13. I only watched it once and it broke my basic show rule.

That is, if all the female cast members are "babes," I refuse to watch. It's unrealistic, especially when half the male actors are toads. (Worse case scenario, everyone's beautiful.) Karl Rove takes it to a new level of unwatchability.

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Clark2008

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Wed May-04-05 06:27 AM
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15. What is 24?

And, how good of a show could it be if David Horowitz condones it?

:puke:

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ReverendDeuce

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Wed May-04-05 07:20 AM
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16. Doesn't matter... I still think the show is great....

Despite some of the weirdness (for example, the President and "good guys" always watch Fox News... the terrorists watch a news station with a logo strikingly similar to CNN), bias, absurd misuse of technological terms, and display of grossly impossible technology, it's still damned good television. Monday nights' episode was particularly harrowing, IMO. Enjoyed it immensely.

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fujiyama

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Wed May-04-05 07:53 AM
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18. The FOX News watching

would come to no surprise. After all, the show is broadcasted on FOX, so I don't expect the characters to be watching MSNBC or CNN.

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ReverendDeuce

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Wed May-04-05 12:30 PM
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33. Yeah, that's why I mention it... n/t

n/t

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EOTE

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Wed May-04-05 08:06 AM
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19. Agreed.

I've watched it from the beginning and I'll continue to watch every episode as long as the show lasts. If anyone watched the 2nd season, it seemed to promote very strongly the idea of LIHOP or MIHOP. The show does quite often promote the idea of torture as a last option and I'm sure that many of the people watching the show dont't understand the danger of the slippery slope, but it is just a show. I think Sutherland is a great actor and the show provides big buck entertainment every week. Yeah, there are several things on the show I disagree with, but overall, I think it's great.

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bananas

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Wed May-04-05 11:17 AM
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24. Me too

The show has a lot of subversive elements - defense contractors
helping terrorists just to build business, nuclear power plants
blowing up - if anything it would make people more wary of nuclear
power and defense spending.

I'm amazed at how they keep the suspense going every episode.
The current season has script-writers from La Femme Nikita,
another favorite show of mine. After the last two episodes,
I think they should do a spin-off, "La Femme Chloe".

A lot of people thought the movie "Starship Troopers" glorified
fascism, but in the DVD audio commentary, the director makes it
clear that he is anti-fascist.

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ThorsHammer

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Wed May-04-05 11:23 AM
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26. My thoughts exactly (nt)

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jayfish

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Wed May-04-05 11:31 AM
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29. "24" Is Very Subtle In How It Presents It Politics.

Things like torture, violence and civil-rights are used to beat you over the head and provide instant gratification but they ALWAYS have substantial and negative side-effects. I skipped the second season but I'm glad to be watching this year.

Jay

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imenja

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Wed May-04-05 07:39 PM
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35. I've been too shocked by the rampant use of torture

to worry about whether they watch Fox News. Cable news selection strikes me as the least of the show's problems this season.

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The Gunslinger

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Wed May-04-05 08:52 PM
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36. Dont watch fox

Fox owns Fox news, so I don't watch fox at all. I love Football, but if the Steelers are on Fox, I go to a bar and watch a sattelite feed. I'll only watch syndicated Simpsons. Then again i rarely watch TV anyhow.

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mmonk

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Wed May-04-05 08:11 AM
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20. I've never watched

Haven't gotten caught up in the "terrorism" frenzy.

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LizW

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Wed May-04-05 08:49 AM
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23. Who on god's earth wears embroidered satin smoking jackets?

Rush is such a charicature.

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question everything

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Wed May-04-05 11:21 AM
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25. Yes. I try to separate the personal from the professional lives

otherwise, we are no better than the freepers who boycott Barbara Streisand and Alec Baldwin.

As long as Sutherland's time is taken mostly by his acting and not by playing policies, I will watch 24 - have been doing it since the very first episode. Have not watched any of his movies, though.. Just did not find any appealing, with limited amount of time that we have to watch movies.

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eissa

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Wed May-04-05 11:25 AM
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27. Never watched it

Kept hearing how great it was, and considered viewing. Then saw portions with the typical Muslim terrorists stereotype and never tuned in again.

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ComerPerro

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Wed May-04-05 11:27 AM
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28. I watched and enjoyed the first season. But that was because it was done

before 9/11. It was just a story about rogue terrorists who were personally after Jack Bauer, and it had a good story line. Since then, I have tuned in to random episodes just to see what its like, and it just seems to be pathetic propagnada of the worst kind.

Completely jumped the shark after just a season.

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Cleita

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Wed May-04-05 11:32 AM
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30. My husband liked the show.

I thought the first season was great. I don't watch it since he died because it's too incredible a stretch, without being fantasy, for me. Even Keiffer said he didn't know how many times his character could save the world without adrenaline poisoning.(Paraphrasing here; not a direct quote.)

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wicket

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Wed May-04-05 11:33 AM
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31. I don't care, I still love the show

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Roland99

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Wed May-04-05 11:33 AM
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32. Yes...because it's "ENTERTAINMENT"

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truebrit71

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Wed May-04-05 12:32 PM
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34. I haven't seen a single episode...

..looked a little too right-wing from the git-go....

Turns out my inner instincts were right....

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