I love how the closet soapers emerge from the woodwork.
I am always amused by this.
My first thought on seeing the impending Death of Alan Q was that this is how they are going to do the dead Rick Webber retcon.
I feel compelled to mention that Colleen the evil nanny is a good friend of my bro's and went to my high school.
I hate her. So, you know, she's doing a good job.
Wow, shouldn't the soaps talk be in Minear? Alternately, can Tim write a few weeks of GH? Because I have this list of characters I would prefer to mourn rather than hate... Though it might take me longer to watch the show if I weren't blipping past the parts that annoy me.
Though it might take me longer to watch the show if I weren't blipping past the parts that annoy me.
hee! so true. i actually haven't even gotten around to watching this week's ep. i tend to save them all for the weekend.
We just watched the first hour of the new season of 24...DUDE. It is hardcore.
Principal McHottie is now President McHottie, but things haven't been going so well for him -- terrorists have been blowing up malls and buses for about 2 weeks when the season starts. And now, the second-in-command of the guy behind the attacks has agreed to turn over his boss in exchange for Jack Bauer, who he wants to kill because Jack killed his brother who was a terrorist in Lebanon a few years back.
Jack gets off the plane from China and has a horrible fake beard and wig, which he promptly gets to shave off. Bill explains the plan to him (they're going to give Jack up to the terrorists and Jack will probably die because he will have no help at all) and Jack agrees to it because he's been in a Chinese prison too long to realize that this is a VERY STUPID PLAN. But whatever.
So Jack is turned over to the terrorists who very sensibly shoot him in the head right away take him back to their lair for some torturing before they kill him. They also make sure to tell him that Guy Who The Feds Want has actually come to LA to broker peace between the group and the US government, and that Guy Who Has Jack Prisoner is actually behind the attacks. So not only will Jack die, he will die for nothing. Poor Jack.
Right in the middle of the torture, right before Jack loses a finger, Head Terrorist Guy gets a phone call and everyone except for one guard leaves the room. Jack fakes death by ripping off his blood pressure thingy, and when the guard comes over to check, Jack BITES HIM IN THE NECK AND KILLS HIM. And then steals the handcuff keys and escapes. But dude, he KILLS A GUY BY BITING HIS NECK. With his TEETH. It is awesome, if you like that sort of thing. (If you don't...it's probably a little too graphic.)
Once a Lost Boy, always a Lost Boy...
I'm beginning to think that Jack Bauer's life is actually crappier than Frodo's.
He's still got all his fingers, though, right?
You know, I am trying to imagine Jack biting a guy to death on the neck, and all I am coming up with mental-image-wise is the sharks in
James and the Giant Peach,
all trying to get a bite of the peach when it's in the water and discovering their overbites are too large for them to get any kind of grip.
Not that Jack Bauer has an overbite, but I bet he also doesn't have a muzzle the size of a mastiff's.
Whoa. Midnight Express much? Yeeew.
Principal McHottie is now President McHottie
Do they explain how the heck this came to be? And is it a non-lame explanation?
Once a Lost Boy, always a Lost Boy...
Ah hahahahahahahahaha!!!!
I'm beginning to think that Jack Bauer's life is actually crappier than Frodo's.
He certainly has a much worse track record of saving his nearest and dearest.
Do they explain how the heck this came to be? And is it a non-lame explanation?
No explanation -- it's 2 years after the end of last season, so presumably there was an election. (I guess the American people decided that after President McReallyEvil, they'd be better off sticking with the Palmer family.)
There's also a Palmer sister who for some reason was never mentioned before, but is now a lawyer for some Islamic-American rights organization.
And a very touching scene in the second ep where Jack tries to torture a suspect for information, gives up when he decides that he won't get anything, and then when the suspect cracks under just a little more torture from the ex-terrorist who Jack is now helping to escape, Jack makes a sad face and says "I don't know how to do this anymore." Poor Jack!
