Jan 21 2008
Season two of ‘24’
Last week I got a copy of season three of Battlestar Galactica from a friend. We settled down on Friday night for some serious couch-potatoism. The first three episodes didn’t work. It turns out they had been written to the disk as approximately 1 Gb of zeroes. At least they would have compressed well!
So I ran over to MovieBank and rented the first disc of season two of 24. We’d been warned that it was a bit crap, but really I had no how silly it was going to get. We’ve also been told that it picks up from season three onwards. Can we get confirmation of this?
spoilers coming!
I mean, Kim gets threatened by a mountain lion! And kidnapped/held hostage on several occasions! How does she manage it? Can one person really be so incapable? I must admit to feeling very emotional when Jack had to tell his daughter he was about to die. And George Mason saying goodbye to his son too. It was a series for emotional goodbyes.
It was pretty disappointing that we were able to accurately predict nearly every twist (who didn’t see George Mason hiding out in the plane?). It did allow for some good banter between the two of us, betting at which point they would stop telegraphing the twist and actually execute it. It was also really silly the way that antagonists would be wheeled out one after another — as soon as George disappears, Tony becomes a grumpy boss, then Carrie appears to Tony can be a good guy again. Then division boss Chappelle appears so Carrie fades into the background. Sigh.
So, 24 drinking game would involve imbibing something whenever:
- You hear the CTU ringtone. (Or every time you hear me say “we’ve got those phones at work!”.)
- One character says to another “you have to trust me”.
- One character says to another “give me everything you’ve got on” some person.
- Someone says “what are you talking about?” when given news of a strange situation (“you’re daughter’s been arrested”, “I’m dying of radiation poisoning”).
- The CTU intelligence crew look at each other with suspicion… no, that would be too cruel, that’s all they ever do.
Or whenever anyone says “Chloe, patch me through” (you might not have got that far yet).
I loved the bit where Kim was running continuously from some threat just to fall in to another threat. Mmmm… all the running.
Patch me through, mm, good call!
(Not that we have Chloe yet, if she’s significant)