I am Stephanie. I don't watch 24, but I agree that good guys don't torture folks. If they do there should be a big price paid. Ends don't justify the means. Two wrongs don't equal right. It seems others also feel this way. The good guy character that is written to do very bad stuff without torment is not really written as a good guy.
There are no absolutes. No right and wrong. Haven't you learned anything working for the Powers? There are only choices.
Jasmine ,'Power Play'
Spoilers 3: First Mutant Enemy, Now the World
[NAFDA] Spoilers for any and all currently running TV shows. All hardcore spoilage, all the time. No white font.
Laura - May 15, 2005 1:56:31 pm PDT #950 of 3486
Our wings are not tired.
§ ita § - May 15, 2005 3:52:09 pm PDT #951 of 3486
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jack does nothing without torment, up to and including taking a pee, I'm pretty sure.
His character is standingly gutted, because he's the one who does things so the "good" guys don't have to. He's Mr. Plausible Deniability, and it's left him alone, alone, alone, and also harrowed.
Will he be extra alone because of this season's torture? More alone than stopping the surgery on the good guy who'd taken the bullet saving his life (and who died soon after) so the bad guy could get sewn up, because he had info?
Remains to be seen, but it'll be hard to tell the sources apart, when all is said and done.
Nutty - May 16, 2005 8:41:53 am PDT #952 of 3486
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I think God has a Jack Bauer complex.
Jessica - May 16, 2005 8:42:36 am PDT #953 of 3486
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
That would explain all the smiting.
Topic!Cindy - May 16, 2005 10:12:15 am PDT #954 of 3486
What is even happening?
To be fair, it doesn't take much to understanding smiting, at least where humans are the smitten, when and where smiting capability is a given.
I'd totally be a smiter.
Smite. Smote. Smitten. The words are meaningless.
JoeCrow - May 16, 2005 5:36:03 pm PDT #955 of 3486
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
Ahh, see, you've over-smit yourself. Step back from the thunderbolt for a bit and your joy in smiting will return.
Jessica - May 16, 2005 5:56:55 pm PDT #956 of 3486
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
So, I heard Tony dies in the finale. I'm assuming it's true, since he and Michelle got their teary goodbye in.
le nubian - May 16, 2005 5:58:50 pm PDT #957 of 3486
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
oh what bullshit. It kinda looks like he might be a goner.
---
in other news, "Charmed" was renewed for God's sake. So this finale should be interesting.
Topic!Cindy - May 17, 2005 3:10:12 am PDT #958 of 3486
What is even happening?
Yeah. I said goodbye to him last night, as soon as he started telling her he wanted them to walk away from it and start anew.
Darn it. I love Tony.
In other 24-cast news, in one of the articles I read about this week's upfronts, apparently Dennis Haysbert has a pilot for a show, in the new season, but last I knew whatever network it was for, hadn't made their pick-up announcements. Sorry for being a font of nothing. I just woke up. I'm not used to waking up this late.
Lyra Jane - May 20, 2005 10:08:28 am PDT #959 of 3486
Up with the sun
in other news, "Charmed" was renewed for God's sake. So this finale should be interesting.
Yeah, I really don't get that. Aren't they supposed to all die at the end of this finale?