El nuevo ciclo tendrá a Jack Bauer intentando salvarle la vida al presidente de un ficticio país musulmán.

Los tiempos han cambiado para la serie 24. El programa debutó sólo un par de meses después del 11 de septiembre de 2001 y disfrutó por años de éxito y del favor de la Casa Blanca, gracias a una mirada del terrorismo y la seguridad nacional que se podría resumir en algo así como “el fin justifica los medios”.

Pero desde entonces el programa protagonizado por Kiefer Sutherland se vio forzado a bajar el tono de su discurso. El giro comenzó a principios de este año, con el debut de su séptima temporada. Los productores del programa reconocieron que tomaron en cuenta las críticas que generaron algunas de las escenas (ver columna) y se lanzaron a hacer modificaciones. Uno de los detonantes fue cuando los creadores recibieron una visita del decano de la Academia Militar de EE.UU. para discutir el efecto negativo que la serie estaba teniendo en sus alumnos, que se tomaban demasiado en serio los métodos de su protagonista, que incluían decapitaciones, disparar a prisioneros y otras torturas. Según ellos, el show fomentaba comportamientos ilegales en los soldados reales y querían que eso parara.

Y en su octava temporada, el cambio parece ser definitivo. Para darse cuenta basta un dato. Después de años en que los musulmanes fueron los villanos principales y los blancos de la violencia desatada de Jack Bauer (Sutherland), ahora los roles se invierten y el agente tendrá que correr para salvar la vida al presidente de la ficticia república del Medio Oriente Kamistan. El papel cayó en manos de Anil Kapoor (Slumdog millionaire), quien dijo que tomó el rol fue porque se trata de “un muy buen hombre”.

Así, el ciclo que debuta el 17 de enero en EE.UU. se centrará en los esfuerzos de un previamente retirado Bauer por impedir el intento de asesinato. El mandatario estará en la sede en Nueva York de la ONU en tratativas de paz con la presidenta interpretada por  Cherry Jones. Entre los rostros nuevos están Freddie Prinze Jr. como un agente que tiene el mismo cargo anti-terrorista que antes ocupó Bauer. Este ciclo verá, además, el regreso del ex presidente Logan (Gregory Itzin), que finalizó la sexta temporada siendo acuchillado por su esposa, pero ahora vendrá a asesorar a la presidenta.  “Este ciclo es la culminación de todo lo que vino antes en términos emocionales.  Jack está en un lugar muy distinto de lo que lo hemos visto. Por primera vez tiene algo por qué vivir”, explicó Howard Gordon, productor ejecutivo de la serie.

Ok I made a little mistake.  I will elaborate on this later on.  My day started off with my 3^rd private lesson in Power Yoga with Lori.  It was AWESOME!  Not only did I do the usual Sun Salutations, I also got introduced to some really cool standing poses and some hand stand poses.  Handstand stuff, neato!  Again thanks Lori for the great experience.  I am definitely going to check out this Power Yoga stuff when I get back home.  Namasta Lori.  Again good luck to you, your husband and your baby!

After this I made my way to the academy to give Mehdi a hand with his training.  Mehdi had already completed 15 rounds of boxing with Perry when Josip and I got there.  I held Thai pads for Mehdi for 5 three minute rounds.  Again Mehdi was on the ball!  This is going to be a great fight.  Then I held some pads for Josip.  Josip man you look sharp!  We finished off with some bag work and some plyo ab work.

I was talking to Mehdi about our flight arrangements to Thailand and he made me realize my MISTAKE.  I thought I was leaving Thursday midnight; nope BIG mistake.  I was leaving Wed midnight; tonight.  LOL.

I rushed off to cram some Persian food down my throat, get home, do 2 loads of laundry, pack my gear in the suitcase (I did an AMAZING JOB!), packed my amazing Maxpedition sling bag, with the Jack Bauer patch, handled banking and credit card authorizations, bribed my cab driver to speed to the airport, and I MADE IT!  I did 24 hours worth of crap, in about 3 hours.  Not bad.

Mehdi just shook his head as we checked in.  This was my 1^st time flying with Eva Airlines.  This is a Taiwanese Airline (Hector and Ivano you have to come).  I actually felt pretty tall.  I was actually taller than quite a few of the passengers.  Sitting in the Deluxe section, I was treated to huge chairs, that reclined like Lazy Boy chairs, complete with foot rests, an actual glass for my wine, an actual cup for my coffee and a remote for my TV!  Heaven!  Got to kill 12 hours on this flight, so I am going to watch the Ugly Truth, Up! and Ghajini, a really awesome 3 hour love story with action (this will be the 2^nd time I have watched this good foreign film).

I did not get to say a proper “good bye” to my bro Josip.  I hope you read this guy.  Again thanks my friend for putting me up at your house, showing me a good time, eating and drinking with me (I know you gained a lot of weight because of me) and for helping me out in a lot of immeasurable intangible ways.  You’re a great friend and brother to me Josip, again thanks.

The second leg of my journey has begun.  I’m off to Thailand guys to help Mehdi as he prepares to defend his championship belt.  I’ll be back soon guys, have a good one for me-Jd

PS.  Quick update: I’ve stopped off in Taipai, Taiwan.  ALL IS GOOD

El día 17 de Enero Fox estrena en Estados Unidos la octava temporada de 24, una de las series más destacadas de la cadena y sin duda de las más esperadas por sus seguidores. Como cada año, el show llega muy cambiado en su reparto, repleto de caras nuevas que acompañarán a Kiefer Sutherland en un nuevo día del agente Jack Bauer. John Boyd, Katee Sackhoff (tan dura que… ¿podría con Jack?), Mykelti Williamson, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Annie Wersching, Anil Kapoor, Cherry Jones y Chris Diamantopoulos forman junto con Bauer / Sutherland el reparto de esta nueva campaña. Para presentar los nuevos rostros al público, Fox ha lanzado hoy una extensa galería con imágenes de cada uno de ellos. Entre el grupo, como de costumbre, duros y leales agentes, traidores, terroristas y víctimas. Y sobre ellos, por supuesto, Jack, siempre en lo alto de la pirámide alimentaria cuando el menú son amenazas al status quo.

Con poco menos de dos meses para su estreno y a pocas semanas de disfrutar sus primeros trailers, la cadena Fox ha presentado varias imágenes promocionales de la octava temporada de 24.

Como pueden ver, las imágenes siguen la tradición de los últimos años, presentando a todo el reparto o a Jack Bauer, en este caso frente a la sede de las Naciones Unidas, donde tendrá lugar gran parte de la historia.

Junto a Jack tenemos varias imágenes de personajes queridos, incluyendo a Mary Lynn Rajskub como Chloe O’Brian, o nuevos, incluyendo a Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica) como Dana Walsh y Freddy Prinze Jr. como Cole Ortiz.

Como todos los fanáticos deben saber, esta temporada tendrá lugar en Nueva York, donde Jack se ve obligado a regresar al trabajo para detener el intento de asesinato de un líder de Oriente Medio que se encuentra en charlas de paz.

La octava temporada de 24 comienza con un evento de cuatro episodios en las noches del 17 y 18 de enero.

As we’ve previously reported 24 returns for it’s 8th season on January 24th with a 2-night 4-hour event.  We knew that the show was moving to New York City this season, and we knew that there were going to be new cast members, but we didn’t know much else aside from that.  Here is the official promo cast shot for season 8 of 24.  The photo features new cast members Katee Sackhoff, Freddie Prinze, Jr, Anil Kapoor, Chris Diamantopoulos, Mykelti Williamson, and John Boyd.

Mykelti Williams, who is most well known for playing Bubba Blue in Forrest Gump will be the head of the newly reorganized CTU.  Sounds good. I feel like shrimp for lunch.

Harry Potter und der Halbblutprinz sorgen für eine zauberhafte Zeit.
Jack Bauer überbrückt im Serien-Special die nächsten 24 Stunden.
Gewinnspielfrage zum Kinofilm Paranormal Activity…

Der Winter lässt noch auf sich warten und die Eichhörnchen bunkern fleißig ihre Beute. Rüsten auch Sie sich für die kalte Jahreszeit und füllen Ihre Wunschliste mit knackiger Filmkost.

Verschieben Sie den Winterschlaf! Harry Potter und der Halbblutprinz sorgen für eine zauberhafte Zeit. Jack Bauer überbrückt im Serien-Special die nächsten 24 Stunden und bleibt hellwach, denn sein Auftrag ist eine wirklich “harte Nuss”.

Werden Sie im Magazin selbst zum Nussknacker und lösen die Gewinnspielfrage zum aktuellen Kinofilm Paranormal Activity hier!

Harry Potter und der Halbblutprinz

In ‘Harry Potter und der Halbblutprinz’ schließt sich Voldemorts Faust immer enger um die Welt der Muggels und der Zauberer – sogar in Hogwarts ist man nicht mehr so sicher wie früher. Harry vermutet die Gefahr in der Burg selbst, doch Dumbledore konzentriert sich eher darauf, Harry auf die Entscheidungsschlacht vorzubereiten, die nun bald bevorsteht.

Gemeinsam suchen sie nach einer Strategie, mit der sich Voldemorts Verteidigungslinien durchbrechen ließen. Zu diesem Zweck engagiert Dumbledore seinen alten Freund und Kollegen, den ahnungslosen Lebenskünster Professor Horace Slughorn. Denn Dumbledore ist überzeugt, dass Slughorn mit seinen guten Beziehungen über entscheidende Informationen verfügt.

Unterdessen bekommen es die Schüler mit einem ganz andersartigen Gegner zu tun: In den Mauern der Burg spielen die Hormone der Teenager verrückt. Harry fühlt sich immer stärker zu Ginny hingezogen – doch Dean Thomas geht es genauso. Und Lavender Brown hat sich Ron ausgesucht, aber nicht mit Romilda Vanes Schokolade gerechnet!

Währenddessen kocht Hermine vor Eifersucht, will aber ihre Gefühle auf keinen Fall zeigen. Nur ein Schüler bleibt inmitten dieser knospenden Romanzen völlig unbeeindruckt. Er will unbedinigt Eindruck machen – und sei es mit dunklen Machenschaften. Während alle Welt verliebt ist, bahnt sich eine Tragödie an, die Hogwarts unwiderruflich verändern könnte.

Darsteller: Michael Gambon, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, Ralph Fiennes, Helena Bonham Carter, Jim Broadbent, David Thewlis, Warwick Davis, Richard Griffiths, Timothy Spall, Fiona Shaw, David Bradley, Julie Walters, Gemma Jones, Daniel Radcliffe, Mark Williams, Helen McCrory, Emma Watson, Tom Felton, Rupert Grint, Devon Murray, James Phelps, Alfie Enoch, Jamie Waylett, Oliver Phelps, Matthew Lewis, Josh Herdman, Bonnie Wright, Dave Legeno, William Melling, Ralph Ineson, Natalia Tena, Katie Leung, Shefali Chowdhury, Afshan Azad, Jessie Cave, Evanna Lynch, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, Tony Coburn, Suzanne Toase, Amelda Brown, Nina Voelker, Robert Knox, Georgina Leonidas, Anna Shaffer, Tom Moorcroft, Johnpaul Castrianni, Rod Hunt, Freddie Stroma, Scarlett Byrne, Louis Cordice, Isabella Laughland, Teresa Mahoney, Frank Dillane, River George, Charlie Bennison, Dean Garnham.

Serien-Special
Sein Name ist Bauer, Jack Bauer. Die Zeit, die ihm bleibt:
Vierundzwanzig Stunden.

Video Buster stellt Ihnen eine Serie vor, die echtes Suchtpotential besitzt. ‘Echt’ ist in der TV-Produktion 24 weniger die Handlung, die sich von Staffel zu Staffel überbietet, echt ist zunächst einmal ein geniales Konzept: Eine Serie in Echtzeit, in der wir Zuschauer 60 Minuten unseres Lebens auch 60 Minuten des ereignisreichen Arbeitsalltag eines Mitarbeiters der Anti-Terror-Einheit CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit) begleitet.

Auf einigen Feldern ist ‘24′ mit derben Flüchen und ungeschminkten Gewaltszenarien zur TV-Hauptsendezeit ebenfalls einzigartig. Kritische Stimmen wurde immer dann laut, wenn es um Folter-Darstellungen und Waffeneinsatz zur Erzwingung der moralisch oder zumindest politisch legitimierten Ziele ging, in der inzwischen 8 Staffeln umfassenden Serie (im Januar 2010 startet Episode 1 der Season 8 in den USA).

Hauptdarsteller Sutherland gewann einen begehrten ‘Golden Globe’ und ‘24′ einen ‘Emmy’ für die beste Drama-Serie. Zu Recht? Urteilen Sie selbst und steigen Sie jetzt mit einem wahren Helden der TV-Unterhaltung in Boot: CTU’s Jack Bauer wartet auf Sie, zwar nicht ganz in Echtzeit, aber garantiert echt spannend! Weitere Informationen gibt es hier!

Here is part two of the Bi-Pixel reviews. If you missed part one, click here.

Before we begin, I have tried my utmost to avoid spoilers. What appear as vague, sporadic statements are actually beautifully surmised acumen to help you, the eager reader. That and poor writing.

“Hello narrative, how are you today?”
“I’m good thanks, how you been keeping?”
“Sorry, I can’t answer that.”
“Okay, how’s plot doing these days? The one I keep hearing about?”
“Sparta!”

This year’s summer blockbuster has been repackaged in the form of a video game. Modern Warfare 2 arrived last week under some heavy scrutiny brought on by its Arnie credentials and children’s attire. So what does one make of this spectacle? Let us begin.

The game is not trying to portray a docudrama so I will forgive the ludicrousness; we are in it for the thrill, not the accuracy. The problem is when it you are able to fully comprehend it, it’s fully preposterous. The characters are just too flat and often indistinguishable. As a narrative, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 does not measure up to the best video games, including its predecessor. That is not to say that the original Modern Warfare was in any way realistic, rather, a plausible logical progression of real world military events that we have seen, read, heard or even actively participated in.

Modern Warfare 2 seems to revel in its multiple protagonists to the point of self-parody – switching between the characters quicker than a Kyle moral stance. Four different characters get at least one full level a piece and for me that became a problem. Due to the small amount of time I had to spend in each character’s shoes, it diminished the impact of the events that take place around each character. When John Smith takes that inevitable bullet, John Smythe steps in to fill those unassuming shoes.

Remember the ‘holy shit’ moments from the original? Well, the good guys at Infinity Ward have taken that set piece and ran with it for 5 or so hours; one jaw dropping moment follows the next. The problem with the Schwarzeneggisms is that they lose their bite after a while, the game tries so hard to flummox the player that at times it feels like you are in an episode of 24 (season six, I would be okay with the Bauer 1.0). For a game that tries to stir such a vitriolic response through these set pieces it me left wondering why the game tries to place the character so specifically within their environment. Why was it that Soap in Durkastan feels more believable than Roach Sanderson in Afghanistan?

That ambiguity of the previous instalment left the player to fill in the blanks. Unfortunately, this time round we haven’t developed the capacity for analogy. The script seems as if it were written by a 9/11 conspirator. The game over screens that recite ambiguous smuggery from Voltaire and Gandhi are now coupled with quotes from progressive forward thinkers like Rumsfeld and Cheney. The morality of conflict underpins the narrative of the franchise, I accept this, but what is more concerning is how Modern Warfare 2 revels in sheer delight at the despicable atrocities on screen. The game’s power lies in its perverse achievement – you actually feel bad for playing it. Take for example that controversial incident. The game slows down to absolute zero, while you walk through taking in the ‘scenery’. Infinity Ward should have put signs up around the terminals at this point.

“Look what you are doing!”
“Yes we designed it, but you are playing it, yes you……David!”

I know i’ve defended the right for this particular scene, having not experienced it within a narrative context. Having now digested the scene within its context, I can safely say that it offered nothing to the flow of the game. It occurs far too early to hold any weight, we don’t know the character at this point and have only just dipped our toes into the plot when the onslaught proceeds. If it had come at a later stage of the game, when some emotional attachment (okay a bit far stretched) had been cemented, I would be the first celebrate. After all, the industry has had its fair share of critics since the first pixels blipped. A scene like this only supplies ample resources to the snobs who sneer, while divulging in subtitled, silent snuff films. I guess my main gripe with the single player campaign is that it feels like it has something to say about our political climate, it tries to shock and heckle, but it essentially hands you firecrackers for 5 hours then highlights what a bastard you are for using them. I must admit though, when done right those bangs are mighty impressive.

Dré

Por Fernanda Cavassana

A série não está no ar no momento, não é a mais comentada no Twitter ou nos Blogs, mas merece um post meu. Sou fã, pronto.

Produzida pela FOX e conhecida no Brasil como 24 horas, a série do magnífico Jack Bauer (personagem de Kiefer Sutherland) me conquistou desde a primeira vez em que foi passada na Globo. Patriota, ele é agente da fictícia Unidade Contra-Terrorismo (CTU) da cidade de Los Angeles – agência responsável pelo combate ao terror nos EUA.

Após os ataques de 11 de setembro de 2001, a proposta de trazer o terrorismo para a TV foi bem aceita pela população americana e 24 horas garantiu sucesso lá.

A dinâmica de cada episódio é o suficiente para prender a atenção do espectador e exigir o acompanhamento da história. São 24 episódios por temporada, com duração de uma hora cada um e com todos os acontecimentos em tempo real.

Quem acha que só há violência e a série é extremamente policial, engana-se. Relações diplomáticas entre diversos países e os EUA, chantagem, e a forma como o governo americano lida com cada ameaça terrorista: são as bases para tudo que Jack Bauer tem que enfrentar. Matar seu amigo e colega de trabalho para garantir que uma bomba não mate outros milhares de americanos, é um dos exemplos da política retratada no seriado e a importância do personagem na defesa de seu país.

Jack Bauer (Keifer Sutherland)

Diferente da maior parte dos filmes e seriados que assistimos, nem sempre há um final feliz para cada temporada de 24h. Porém, é possível se emocionar com o sofrimento e a dor presentes nas histórias. Sete temporadas já foram produzidas, e a oitava será lançada no começo de 2010. Muitos dizem que será a última, já que sua produção tem um custo muito alto à Fox.

Já assistiu a 24 horas? Senão, eu recomendo. Vale a pena ver todas as temporadas enquanto a oitava ainda não sai do forno.

In reputable newspapers and magazines, articles have surfaced about how the gang scene has returned to Los Angeles, California.  Gang related violence has increased 143% in the last year because criminologists believe those arrested in the crazy crack epidemic bust in the late 1980s and early 1990s are slowly, but surely, opening the cell doors where they’ve served their sentenced time. 

“Hail Mary, Full of Grace…..please find me a parking space,” Keith thought to himself as he turned the corner around his office building trying to find a parking spot in downtown L.A.

Los Angeles is different from New York  City – different accents, different mentality, terrible PT system. The borders of many neighborhoods in Los Angeles are very sudden (you can be on one side of the street and be in a “sunny” neighborhood, and then cross the street and end up in a “shady” part of town… and I’m not talking about the weather.)  But, one headache is the same - Parking. Especially, if you’re late for work. 

After circling the fifth time in his black Prius, he gave in.  Keith had to drive down the block and park in the lot in the dodgy side of town.

He pulled up to the ticket booth, paid his entrance fee and found the closest parking spot for his eco-friendly stealth bomber. Keith got out of his car, put on his suit jacket without a wrinkle, picked up his briefcase and bid good morning to the security guards.  After he clicked the button to lock the car, He was ready to start his day.

BANG!  BANG! BANG! BANG!

Keith’s heart was racing!  He could feel all the nervous energy fall to his stomach.  Of course this would happen the only time he had to park in the lot farthest from his office.  Looking around to find the nearest cover,  Keith tucked his body as he leaped in the air and rolled underneath the nearest car for protection.

He saw the security guards sitting on two folding chairs looking at him –  puzzled – in what seemed like  two football fields of open war zone.

“What are you guys doing!?” Keith yelled over to the men, “Take cover! Can’t you hear the gun shots!?”

The men look at each other, trying to hold it in, but they just can’t. They burst out laughing.

“They’re filming a movie down the street,” one man chuckled to Keith.

Keith rose off the ground to his feet and brushed himself off.

“I was totally getting ready for my audition for the young Jack Bauer… did it look real?  You think I’ll nail it and get the part?” 

He walked away and went to work. 

….AWKWARD!!

Well.

“24 Week” concludes a day late as we examine the Five Craziest Things Jack Bauer Has Ever Done.

This subject matter could have been an entire week in itself – but I’m going to attempt to condense it down to five glorious moments.

Enjoy, and as always, beware of spoilers.

Five: Jack goes all “Lost Boys” on some dude’s neck. (Season Six.)

As much as I hate to repeat myself, I must reiterate – Season Six sucked. It was just flat-out not very good, save for a few key moments.

This, was one of them.

Jack Bauer had gotten himself into another hairy situation, as only Jack Bauer can seem to do. Tied to a chair, with no weapons or even the use of his hands, Jack found himself at the mercy of some terrorist scum with no chance of getting the upper hand, leaving us all waiting breathlessly to see how he was going to weasel himself out of -

HE JUST BIT THE DUDE’S NECK.

There is nothing more satisfying than seeing Jack Bauer take a literal “bite out of crime” and then angrily spit out a bloody chunk of neck.

Jack Bauer is awesome.

Four: Jack goes all “Matrix” on some other dude’s neck. (Season Two.)

For those of you who are unfamiliar with “24″ and the character of Jack Bauer, allow me to let you in on a little secret: Jack Bauer hates necks. Passionately. And, more often than not, violently. His weapon of choice seems to be his deadly thighs, which he uses to gleefully snap terrorist vertebrae on a daily basis. This time, though, he took it up a notch, allowing his destructive upper legs a bit of a breather, and opted for a more straight-forwardly awesome neck-crunching super move.

By the end of Day Two, Jack had had enough. He was a tired, broken man, who’s sanity was being slowly depleted, which was of course pushing his violent streak to the max – because that’s how this shit works. It’s science.

Faced with another in a long line of terrorist douchebags, Jack executed a stunning moment of “wtf just happened,” by launching himself at the dude’s neck, running “Matrix-style” up a wall, and breaking said neck in one fluid move of beauty, grace and bloodlust.

It. Was…..killer? *snicker.*

Three: “Get me a hacksaw.” (Season Two.)

Jack was a broken man at the beginning of Season Two as well. After the events of Season One – the murder of his wife, and all – he had kind of given up on, well, everything. The only thing that seemed to matter to him anymore was his job – which on paper was “to protect the country from international terrorists,” but in Jack’s head was something more along the lines of “let’s mess these dicks up hardcore.”

And with that thought in mind, the only realistic evolution from killing an unarmed drug dealer, was to than proceed to cut off that drug dealers head with a hacksaw, to use it as a message or a warning or something towards other drug dealers.

It wasn’t the last time we’d all start to worry about Jack, but it may have been the first.

Two: Jack Bauer almost crashes a plane with his bare hands. (Season Five.)

Not content with the usual collateral damage he’s capable of, Jack Bauer decided to step it up a bit by endangering the lives of an entire plane full of innocent people. Never mind what he was doing on the plane (I can’t remember) or why he decided it was imperative to take matters into his own ands and crash a damn plane (I don’t care) the fact remains – Jack Bauer almost crashed a plane. With his bare hands.

Had he been on the upper deck when the urge to terrify the shit out of 200+ strangers hit him, I’m sure he would have blasted his way into the cockpit and tortured orderd the pilots to bring that bitch down. But he wasn’t; instead, he was locked in the cargo area, and had to get creative with his destructive tendancies.

So he opened up some panels, grabbed a few handfuls of wires or something, and started crashing the plane from there – with his bare hands.

Whatever, though. It worked, and they eventually let him out of there, to continue terrorizing terrorists and civilians alike, because he’s Jack Bauer, and that’s what he does, and besides it’s a little late to get that Creative Writing degree now.

One: “I’m sorry we let you down, Ryan. God forgive me.” (Season Three.)

In Jack’s defense, the terrifying pain and death he doles out on a daily hourly basis, is usually reserved soley for terrorists, criminals and generally bad people. Then came Ryan Chappelle, and we didn’t know what the hell to think about Jack anymore.

Chappelle was alwasy kind of a douche, but he was s douche who meant well, so I guess that’s okay. He certainly didn’t deserve to be shot in the back of the head executioner style by some dude who worked for him on the side of good, is all I’m saying.

But that’s exactly what happened, at the behest of some terrorist mastermind who wanted Ryan dead for some reason. The president assigned Jack to the task, because Jack gets shit done, and off they went to the trainyards to engage in some light bonding and murder.

In all seriousness, it really is one of the show’s best scenes. We realize that Chappelle, despite being a tight-ass and constantly at odds with the other agents, is a good man who was just trying to do his job correctly. He had no friends; just a brother he barely spoke to. He had no one to talk to before the bullet entered his brain, and that somehow made it more difficult to watch. He didn’t deserve this ignoble death, and Jack didn’t deserve to be the one to administer it.

But that’s how it went down anyway.

Well.

That’s it for “24 Week.” Join us this week as we…I dunno. Do something different.

BEEP-BOOP-BEEP-BOOP.

Oh, and as an added bonus…here’s a sweet montage of Bauer related carnage for you.

En el episodio ‘New History’ de la semana pasada, una nueva doctora cardiotoraxica arriva al hospital Seattle Grace-Mercy West, algo diferente a sus antecesores “Dioses de Cardio” (o diosas).

La Dra. Teddy Altman (Kim Raver) tiene un pasado con Owen (Kevin McKidd), el cual indudablemente creará futuros problemas para Owen y Cristina (Sandra Oh).

En una entrevista con TV Guide, Kim Raver analiza al nuevo triangulo amoroso, cuenta cuanto tiempo estará y sobre la posibilidad de su regreso a 24 para reunirse con Jack Bauer.

P: Cuentanos sobre la Dra. Teddy Altman

Kim Raver: Ella es excelente en lo que hace. Viene llegando de Irak. Ella y Owen estuvieron en Irak juntos. Yo llegó al Seatle Grace y hay algunos intereses de por medio.

P: ¿Teddy es una doctora cruel o una amable?

Kim Raver: [La productora Ejecutiva] Shonda Rhimes dice que ella es mala, pero diferente a los otros doctores de Cardio que han estado en el Seattle Grace. Ella se acerca de manera muy, realmente diferente. Ella además no es cálida ni adorable.

P: ¿Cuál es su relación con Owen?

Kim Raver: Todo lo que puedo decirles es que estuvieron en Irak juntos y eso se desenvolverá para que puedan ver que tipo de relación es. Eso es lo divertido. Puedo decir que es una especie de triangulo, pero es muy diferente a lo que ustedes esperan. Creo que Shonda y su equipo han hecho un excelente trabajo en la manera en la que introducieron a mi personaje. Me sorprendí y me pregunté como podrían hacerlo, porque sé que hay personas a las cuales les importa realmente Cristina y Owen.

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P: ¿Los fans deben estar preocupados de que Teddy llegue y se interponga entre Cristina y Owen?

Kim Raver: Es complicado. Creo que los fans estarán interesados en como la relación lidiará con eso. Ese es el por qué Shonda es tan inteligente en la forma en que agrega a Teddy a sus vidas. Es un triangulo fantastido, que se pone complicado e interesante.

P: El triangulo amoroso, actualmente contempla a un curto, Jackson Avery (Jesse Williams). Las relaciones en el hospital están peligrando

Kim Raver: Pero esa es la emoción que se viene. No saber quién está con quién, ni qué está pasando con quién. No estoy segura de cuales son los planes para eso. Nosotros definitivamente tenemos escenas, pero no estoy segura de que sus pensamientos vayan a donde esto va.

P: Owen no ha podido hablar con Cristina aún sobre su tiempo en Irak. ¿Él se abrirá más con Teddy, ya que ambos comparte ese lazo?

Kim Raver: Ya veremos. Ellos pasaron definitivamente tiempo juntos en Irak, así que ese es el hilo en común que tienen.

P: ¿Por cuánto tiempo Teddy estará en Grey’s Anatomy?

Kim Raver: Los productores y yo hemos hablado, pero estamos viendo como se desarrolla la historia. Ya veremos.

P: ¿Con quién te ha tocado trabajar más?

Kim Raver: He trabajado mucho con Eric Dane y Jessica Capshaw. Este grupo es genial. Tienen algo especial. Me reía mucho en Lipstick Jungle, pero me he reído mucho más aquí.

P: Los fans siguen enojados por la cancelación de Lipstick Jungle.

Kim Raver: Es una locura porque repentinamente hemos podido obtener numeros del DVR, y es loco porque son buenos numeros. Fui muy afortunada al estar en ese programa. Las personas siguen preguntando qué pasó, hasta el día de hoy. Es bueno en el sentido de que ahora estoy conociendo otro grupo de personas y estoy muy feliz de explorar este personaje.

P: Hay rumores sobre una posible temporada más de 24, la última. ¿Hay alguna posibilidad de que puedas regresar?

Kim Raver: Yo definitivamente tengo una debilidad romantica por Audrey y Jack. Si este es el último año, esperaría que hubiera una especie de reunion. Ese además es un programa en que que nunca sabes hasta que sabes que no sabes, ¿Sabes? Crees que es una cosa y luego es una cosa completamente diferente. Pero que si ¿he filmado algo aún? No.

No han terminado de grabar aún, asi que tendremos que esperar y ver que pasa.

Alrighty then, here are my list of ideas for episodes of 24. I got the idea for this post while I was lining up in McDonalds and it took me 20 minutes before I got to order. I thought “Gee this would make a great episode of 24″ so the rest writes itself.

Here is my list of ideas:

1. They spend the whole episode stuck in a cue in McDonald’s because they decide to get a quick snack

2. They go on a mystery tour, we spend the whole episode wondering where they will end up

3. One of the cast members goes on Big Brother, and we spend the whole episode in the house

4. Someones car runs out of fuel in the middle of the Australian Outback, and spends the whole episode trying to get to civilization

5. They spend the whole episode going on a football trip and sing “1,000,000 bottles of beer on the wall” there and back

6. Someone decides they need a holiday so they spend the whole episode taking their mother-in-law to the airport

7. They go on the search for Osama Bin Laden

8. They phone for pizza and spend the whole episode waiting for it

9. The call some company on the phone as they were overcharged on phone bill and spend the whole episode on hold

10. They spend the whole episode reading “War and Peace” or “Moby Dick”

11. Someone could go on a spending spree and spend the whole episode buying useless merchandise

12. They spend the whole episode playing Monopoly

13. They spend the whole episode at the doctors and when consulted they are told its all in their head and they should go home

14. The spend the whole episode at the dentists because of the McDonald’s they ate (See #1)

15. They spend the episode playing chess, but the both players think that its their opponents turn so they wait

16. They spend the whole episode waiting for a bus except they realise that the bus doesn’t go past on that particular day because its a public holiday

17. They spend the whole episode drinking a cup of coffee… Hey if it works for soap operas it should work for the show!

18. They decide to go running for no apparent reason across the U.S (if it works for Forest Gump, it should work for them)

19. They turn into mimes and spend the whole episode getting out of a glass box

20. They decide to go around trying to sell 200,000 boxes of girl scout cookies for their camping trip

21. They get lost trying to find their way to Wally World when they decide to take a ’short cut’

22. They spend the whole episode trying to track down Santa because they didn’t get what they wanted for Christmas

23. They spend the whole episode stuck on a ride at a carnival

24. They spend the whole episode looking for their friends because they are playing hide and seek

25. They spend the whole episode trying to find out ‘Who Killed Kenny’

26. They spend the whole episode trying to find out who shot Mr Burns

27. The spend the whole episode trying to find out who shot J.R (Note: if # 25, #26, #27 was actually aired on TV then they could release it as a pack on DVD or VHS and call it the “Trigger Happy 24 pack” or something to that effect!)

28. Someone gets abducted by aliens and they spend the episode bringing them back! (Could star Men In Black or the X-Files. Maybe even the cast from CSI if they do an autopsy, and then Law & Order to prosicute the aliens)

29. One of the cast members spends the whole time creating a blog about themselves  (Hey, wait a minute – That sounds like me!)

Ok, it’s your turn….

In no particular order I will reveal to all of you five television shows that I believe are GREAT! I have thought diligently about this for a few days and I believe I have devised a list of shows that I could watch on loop the rest of my life and be totally content. Now this list might be skewed a bit because I didn’t take into account older shows. This is not meaning I am not a fan of older shows. I love older shows! The Andy Griffith Show, Murder She Wrote, and Momma’s Family are shows that tickle my tummy every time I see them on TV, but for this list I wanted recent shows that were BOMB! So read and learn your role!

1. Seinfeld – This show was a constant in my life for years. I remember begging my parents to let me stay up just a little bit past nine so I could catch the rerun of that nights Seinfeld. The story lines were so absurd, but yet you thought your life was the model for the show. “The show about nothing” was the whole concept of Seinfeld and it really was. When I think about it now I realize how genius the show actually was. You can buy all seasons on DVD and I promise it would be worth it.
2. 24 – Two words, one man, Jack Bauer! If you ever pondered what can one man do to help save the world? Well use Jack Bauer as your model. I have seen Jack Bauer bite a Chinese man’s jugular out to escape from a prison camp. I have seen Jack Bauer die and come back to life. He is not human, he is my model American citizen. When I’m in a hairy situation I will honestly sit and think to myself, “What would Jack Bauer do?”, I really do that! If I could either have any superpower or be Jack Bauer I would chose to be Jack Bauer. The new season will be on FOX next year… I’m pumped!
3. Arrested Development – If there were ever a show that was ahead of its time it was this show. I watched the pilot episode on my 13 inch TV in my room when I was in middle school, and I never missed an episode for the three seasons it was out. Back then I didn’t get all the innuendos and jokes, but now that I am older I catch it all, and hilarious. Micheal Cera is in it, and I know some of you out there are just in love with his awkwardness. Season 2 is my favorite FYI.
4. The Office – The show is just a snapshot of our generation. This show will probably define us when vh1 puts out I love 2000.  
5. Curb your Enthusiasm – I started with a show created by Larry David and I will end with a show created by Larry David. Curb your Enthusiasm is the R-rated version of Seinfeld. It airs on HBO Sunday nights. Have you ever watched HBO’s Sunday night line up? It is amazing. The show is about nothing just like Seinfeld, Larry David plays a producer and just runs into a whole mess of problems that would never happen to you and I.

So when you have a free moment go rent or buy a season of one of these shows. I promise you that you will be left wanting more. Hope everyone is having a zippity-do-da week and I lurve you all!

OHHHH and beard update.

Well.

Two more days to endure of “24″ week!

DEAL WITH IT.

Today we examine the individual seasons of “24,” ranked from of course worst to best. There have been seven seasons of the show so far, but as I already ranted about my displeasure at Season Six yesterday, I’ve decided to move on and leave it off today’s list.

Rest assured though, that if it was on here…it would be last.

Dead last.

Six: Season Four.

Despite the rampant awesomeness of having the mummy as the main villain, Season Four couldn’t really live up to any of it’s expectations. Ridiculous terrorist plot after ridiculous terrorist plot kept elevating the threat to mammothly outlandish proportions. By the end, I wasn’t really sure what the hell was going on. Marwan (the mummy) while a pretty badass villain had way to many contingency/escape plans. It was just poor writing. Everytime the authorities would close in on him, ready to foil whatever act of terror he was planning to unleash, he would conveniantly escape through a back exit/staircase/trick ladder, ready to start a new, bigger, better plan.

It just got to be a bit too much.

Oh…and, also…I may be wrong on this, but I think this may be the only season of the show where a major character isn’t killed off.

Highlights: Jack’s videogame-like assault on a terrorist headquarters; the surprise re-emergence of Tony; the mummy.

Five: Season Three.

Season Three started off pretty well. In an effort to infiltrate a drug cartel, Jack got himself addicted to heroin. He also got himself a new partner, in the form of hunky Chase Edmunds. It’s usually a bad sign when a series adds a young partner like that, but Chase was surprisingly solid. He was an adequate foil for Jack, and I genuinely would have liked to see more of him.

The villains this season were an interesting affair, beginning with the delightfully charming Salazar brothers and ending with the delightfully British Stephen Saunders – who had amazing potential but was, naturally, pretty much wasted.

The season revolved around some virus with the capacity to kill the whole world or something, and CTU’s efforts to stop it. It also featured the emergence of fan favorite Chloe O’Brien, an interesting (and first of many) twist on the tired mole cliche, and Jack, as always, confronting his personal demons.

At some point Tony also got shot in the neck, but was on his feet glowering and barking orders a few hours later. He’s a trooper, that guy!

Highlights: Michelle gets tough in a hotel; Sherry dies (finally.); Chloe makes her first appearance; Jack plays a game of Russian Roulette; Jack kills Chappelle; Jack kills Nina; Jack doesn’t kill the main villain. (Actually, that was kind of lame.)

Four: Season One.

This is where it all began, seven or so odd years ago. (Which is like nineteen in the “24″ world.) We’re introduced to the greatest hero of all time, his annoying family, and the Counter Terrorist Unit – all tropes that would become, more or less, series staples until the Seventh Season.

It was at times meandering, at times inane (especially whilst covering whatever shenanigans Kim and Teri had gotten themselves into) and at times overstayed it’s welcome.

Still, it had it’s moments – including a scenery-chewing, bizarrely accented Dennis Hopper as the main villain, and the final scene.

Also, Lou Diamond Phillips showed up near the end for some reason – and that alone puts it higher on this list.

Highlights: We meet JACK BAUER; Nina was weirdly attractive; Dennis Hopper’s accent; Lou Diamond Phillips.

Three: Season Seven.

This should have been it. From the outset, Season Seven sounded like it might just be the be-all-end-all of “24″ seasons. And while it didn’t quite make it that far, it came damn close.

This is what we knew initially: for one thing, Season Seven would be the first season of “24″ to leave Los Angeles, the city that had endured terrorists wrath for six years. That was pretty big. Then, we found out that CTU was being done away with as well – in favour of the Effa Bee Eye, in Washington, D.C.

Then we got wind of the sexy new partner for Jack – the beautiful (but deadly!) Agent Renee Walker, played by the talented (but deadly!) Annie Wershing. Add to that a villain played by acadamy award winner Jon Voight, and another bad guy played by the always dependable B-movie star Tony Todd, and brotha, you got a stew going.

Then came the biggest news of all – Tony Almeida would be returning from the dead somehow as Jack’s newest adversary. Saint’s alive!

And, for good measure, it was coming off the heels of the worst season in the shows history. Not a tough act to follow.

While this all sounds epic to the max on paper, it faltered a bit in execution. It was still one of the strongest seasons of the show, with some great thrills, scenes, acting, characters and guest stars. Plus, it pretty much completely did away with the core “24″ cast (or what was left of it) and gave us dozens of new characters – the strongest of which may have been the new president in the “24″ universe, Allison Taylor played by Cherry Jones. (Jones would win an Emmy that year for her portrayal of the strong-willed Taylor.)

Good, maybe even great, but it could have been better…nitpicking, sure, but too many twists and some truly insipid character motivations didn’t help, either – like the amazing flip-flopping Almeida. Even by the end, I don’t really know if he was good, or evil, or what.

Janene Garafalo showed up this season for some reason as well. That didn’t help, either.

Highlights: Jon Voight; Jack’s fight with henchman Quinn; Senator Red Foreman; Bill’s sacrifice; Aaron Pierce and Ethan Kanin’s Hardy Boys Mysteries subplot; Renee Walker.

Two: Season Two.

Jack Bauer was a pretty broken man coming into the show’s second season. After the death of his wife, he kind of went off the rails a bit – which turned out to be entertaining as hell for the viewer.

Season Two revolved around an impending nuclear attack on Los Angeles, organized by a Middle Eastern terrorist cell – manipulated by wealthy American businessmen led by Peter Kingsley (the dude from “Saw.”)

It was one of the more intense seasons of the show, with very few useless subplots (though there may have been something with a cougar…dammit, Kim!) and some great action – including a bombing at CTU.

It also featured a heroic and dramatic sendoff for George Mason, Jack’s boss for the first few seasons. Although kind of a douche, George redeemed himself this season and became a fan favorite because of it.

Highlights: Kate Warner; Jack’s infamous running-wall-neck-snap; Michelle and Tony start getting it on; the  cougar dude from “Saw.”

One: Season Five.

Jack Bauer takes on the President of the United States of America.

Also RoboCop. And the dude from “Warlock.” And C. Thomas Howell.

It’s pretty damn awesome.

This season had it all – one of the best sets of villains I’ve ever seen on the show; some great acting from Gregory Itzin and Jean Smart as the President and his first lady; and super-human secret service agent Aaron Pierce blew up a dude wearing a flame-thrower.

SOLD.

Highlights: The shocking first episode deaths; that fat hobbit’s sacrifice; Aaron Pierce’s expanded role; Edgar’s death; Jack deploying another famous neck snap; Jack’s final shoot-out with Henderson; the Logans.

Well.

Tomorrow we close out “24 Week” with the five best moments in the show’s history.

And then I will return you to your regularly scheduled blog!

I was pretty upset a few months ago when the House passed the Cap and Trade bill. And then on Saturday night the House snuck through their Health Care bribery package. My knee-jerk reaction was to be upset about that, too. Anything that I view as a rights infringement, a government power grab, or a step toward communism usually provokes feelings of anger and makes me throw up a little bit in my mouth.

I realized that my decisions were based on my gut reaction. Because of this I have developed a completely objective hierarchical system to determine what my reaction/feelings about issues should be. You just simply progress down the list until the reasonable answer becomes apparent.

Let me demonstrate: Health Care bill (aka thinly disguised socialism and bribery)

1)WWJD?

That’s right. What would Jack do. I’m pretty sure Jack Bauer would take members of Congress hostage and waterboard them until they confessed that they were evil bastards who had ulterior motives about the passage of this bill. Since that’s not really an option for me, I’ll move on…

2)WWWD?

What would Wolverine do? Hmmmm. I’m really not sure what he would do in this situation. But, I’m sure it would be awesome and involve lots of coward politicians getting their trash kicked.

3)WWFD?

What would France do? Well, we know what they did. They have socialized medicine. It sucks. France sucks. They have contributed nothing to society, unless you count the several times they “donate” their country to maniacal dictators. Any non-Frenchie know that in every instance we want to do the exact opposite of whatever France does.

That solves it. If France is for socialized Health Care, I’m against it. See. Completely logical. I don’t know why more people can’t understand things that are so simple.

Well.

“24″ week continues with a (hopefully) quick look at some of “24’s” Greatest Villains.

Again, spoilers lie ahead…be weary, fair traveller.

Seven: Jonas Hodges, Season 7, Redemption. (Jon Voight.)

Angelina Jolie’s biological father was born to be a “24″ villain. And the man did not disappoint. Chewing the scenery with gleeful abandon every step of the way, Jon Voight proved to be a formidable opponent for Jack Bauer – and whoever else got in his way along the way. Hodges fast became one of my favorite Big Bads in the entire series, and I had high hopes on his returning in the future to antagonize Jack over and over again. Sadly, it turned out that he actually wasn’t the dude in charge, and was just another pawn in an increasingly ridiculous operation, and he exited the series…well, kind of lamely.

Too bad…he coulda ranked a helluva lot higher! Still a fun ride while it lasted, though.

Six: Habib Marwan, Season Four. (Arnold Vosloo.)

In Season Four, Jack Bauer was menaced by the Mummy. That’s right, the Mummy.

I kid you not.

Okay, so it was just the dude who played the mummy in those horrible Brendan Frasor films, but still.

The Mummy.

I have nothing else to add here.

Five: Christopher Henderson, Season Five. (Peter Weller.)

So we had the Mummy terrorizing Los Angeles in Season Four – that’s a tough act to follow. But the producers were more than up to the challenge.

They brought in RoboCop.

Christopher Henderson was once Jack’s mentor, and that’s cool – he’s basically an older, grizzleder, meaner Jack Bauer. The perfect nemesis, in other word. Not only can he predict Jack’s methods, but Jack can predict that he can predict his methods, so he realizes that his normal methods are all but useless – forcing him to find new methods, which I guess means Henderson didn’t really predict anything at all.

Still pretty badass, though.

Four: Tony Almeida, Season Seven. (Carlos Bernard.)

If Christopher Henderson is Jack in twenty years, than Tony Almeida is Jack now – which is far more lethal. Add to that the emotional element of discovering that your best friend, partner, and really the “only man you can trust” is now your adversary, and we have the makings of the ultimate “24″ villain. Or so I thought.

The writers didn’t seem to want to commit to Tony one way or the other – they wanted him to be the bad guy but didn’t seem to want him to be, you know, evil. Key element there.

So instead we got a mostly bad Tony, but a Tony who was bad for the right reasons. It turned him into a more tragic figure than an outright villain, and while I enjoyed the more complex journey he ended up taking, part of me still really wanted to see some hardcore Bauer vs. Almeida action.

Oh well…at least they didn’t kill him off this time.

Three: Mandy, Season One, Two and Four. (Mia Kirshner.)

Here’s a character that needs to return, like yesterday. While appearing in three separate seasons, Mandy has only appeared in seven episodes. Yet she still clocks in at Number Three.

That’s pretty incredible.

Mysterious, deadly, and, let’s face it, hot, Mandy has been a thorn in Jack’s side long before the two even came face-to-face. She always seems to appear at the worst possible moment, shocking the viewer and messing things up for Bauer and Co. even more. Whether she’s leaping out of exploding planes or poisoning presidents with a simple handshake, she’s generally pretty awesome. She’s still alive as well, which is a rarity for “24″ characters, let alone villains, and hasn’t shown up since Season Four.

I’d say her unique brand of havoc is long overdue.

Two: Nina Meyers, Season One, Two and Three. (Sarah Clarke.)

Of all the enemies on this list, I think it’s safe to say that Nina Meyers has had the most impact on Jack. She was kind of his arch-nemesis over the course of the first three seasons, and a seemingly unstoppable one at that. She started off as Jack’s most trusted ally and friend, and ended the day by killing his wife, Teri.

Jack was never a very good judge of character.

Nina would return in Season Two and Season Three to once again tangle with Bauer, and haunt him about his wife’s death. I’ve always said that a really solid, returning antagonist would really up the ante of the shows threat level, and Nina was perfect in the role.

And then, in the third season, Jack shot her like sixty times.

One: President Charles Logan, Season Five. (Gregory Itzin.)

When it was revealed midway through Season Five that it was the President who had been behind the events of that day, no one even questioned it. It was unexpected, it was terrifying, it…didn’t make a whole lot of sense. But we bought it. Without question. Because the writing was quality, but more importantly: because Greg Itzin, who had played Logan since his introduction in Season One, was just that good.

Logan’s characteristic bumbling and poor decision making skills had been an act – and we believed it because of Itzin’s performance. He (and Jean Smart, who played his wife Martha) were unbelievable that season, treading the fine line between duplicity and outright lying to your audience. They had great chemistry; and they both knew their characters inside and out.

But never mind the acting…the mere thought of the president, the most powerful man in the world being a terrorist was just too delicious for the writers of the show to pass up. Even if Logan’s turn to the dark side hadn’t been telegraphed from the very beginning (they say it was, but I think they’re lying) it was an intriguing premise – one that led to one of the best seasons of the show, and undoubtably, the show’s best villain.

]]> http://lucianogalasso.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/assjackwards-now-with-23-more-yelling/ Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:28:45 +0000 Luciano Galasso http://lucianogalasso.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/assjackwards-now-with-23-more-yelling/

Well.

Yesterday I tackled some of “24’s” most hackneyed cliches. Today, in a continuation of what I’m calling “24 Week” or “120,” I discuss five of the Worst Moments in 24 History.

This was actually surprisingly difficult; while “24″ often relies upon the same cliches and writer conventions when it inevitably paints itself into a corner (or just can’t figure out a way to fill up the middle of the season) it’s had very few truly cringe-worthy moments, scenes or subplots.

But it has had a few.

(Again, spoilers abound. You have been warned, dammit!)

Five: Bring your daughter to work day has probably never turned out worse than this.

In an unenviable effort to fill up twenty-four god damn hours of programming. the writers usually have to come up with a few inane subplots that have nothing to do with the overall arc of the series. This, then, is one of those times.

Erin Driscoll became the new Head of CTU in Season Four. She fired Jack. She didn’t seem to know what she was doing. She put too much faith in Ronnie Lobell. She was overall pretty annoying.

To complicate matters, she had a schizophrenic daughter named Maya who she ended up bringing into CTU for some dumb reason to babysit. Maya had a few “episodes” at CTU, distracted her mother from her job of, you know, saving the country and then killed herself and, thankfully, this useless subplot.

I mean, I can understand how difficult it might be to find a sitter when you’re saving the world, but come on!

At least that was the end of Driscoll.

It really came down between this and that bizarre Chloe/baby subplot from Season Three…but I like Chloe, and that subplot at least gave us some sitcom-esque situations between her and an increasingly more befuddled Chappelle, so I’ll let it slide.

Four: Ratings are low. We should kill a cast member. Wait! TWO cast members! WAIT! EVERY CAST MEMBER.

One of the things I both love and despise about “24″ is its tendency to unexpectedly do away with main characters seemingly on a whim, usually for shock value, though if we’re lucky, occasionally for “plot development.” While it can be somewhat annoying, I do understand that it serves a purpose beyond contract terminations shock value. “24″ is one of the few shows where I constantly feel dread and foreboding whenever an established character gets him or herself into some dangerous situation. They’ve used their past willingness to dispatch cast members to beat us over the head with the fact that anyone can die and probably will. And in Season Five, they proved that with a veritable bloodbath of popular characters, culminating in one of the lamest/unforgivable acts of cast murder I’ve ever seen.

After killing off the second most important character in “24″ history, President David Palmer, I was pissed but understandable. His death would set in motion the events of Season Five. Alright, cool. Then they killed off Michelle, another major character who was instrumental in the series formative seasons. Also, she was hot. Still, I could get behind it. This all happened within the first fifteen seconds of the season premiere, so it was pretty intense.

But then they took it too far.

Tony Almeida had been with the show since Season One. A fan favorite, he was like Jack, only more brooding and intense and didn’t really get a lot of shit done. But he was awesome regardless, and the only real holdover from that season. Then he got stabbed in the heart with a needle by a dude who was half dead while crying about his dead wife Michelle.

It. Was. LAME. Didn’t even get a silent clock.

Luckily, they made up for Tony’s pathetic end by retconning him back into the series, alive and well and kind of evil, in the Seventh Season. I’m sure if you asked the people behind the show they’d probably tell you that was the plan all along. But in reality, I think they got a little trigger happy, realized they had nothing to connect the show to Season One, realized the fans were pissed, and decided to awkwardly write him back into the fold, with a very vague and unbelievable explanation for how he survived being stabbed in the heart with a syringe, injected with some magical heart-stopping fluid, and then zipped up into a body bag after the commercial break with a crying Jack looking on.

Whatever, man. Tony’s BACK. I’m good.

Three: Teri has amnesia!

I’m not even sure this one needs comment. I’ve often heard “24″ compared to soap operas – a soap opera for dudes, I suppose, like dating wrestling – and, in the spirit of that, during the middle of Season One, Jack’s wife develops amnesia for some reason and spends a few episodes wandering around aimlessly trying to remember who the hell she is. You see, like her daughter, Teri added virtually nothing to the show. They were human plot devices. Luckily for us, Teri was put out of her misery far earlier than Kim was – in, ironically, one of the show’s best scenes ever.

Hey! She DID serve a purpose!

Two: Kim Bauer is pretty much useless, always.

About four episodes into the series, the “24″ writers came to the grim realization that Kim Bauer had NOTHING TO ADD TO THE SHOW. Even in the first season when her subplot was directly related to Jack, (she was lost, or kidnapped, or something, and he was going to get her back DAMMIT) she still added very little – and then when Jack finally did rescue her and her mother, she REALLY had nothing to do. But she remained, and it became – what I can only hope – an elaborate game of one-up to see what increasingly more ridiculous situation the writers could put her in. This finally came to a stupendously dumb climax when Kim found herself tangling with a freaking cougar out in the woods for some reason during the second season. That’s right – while her father was out saving the world from terrorists, Kim Bauer was staging her own retarded version of “Where The Red Fern Grows.”

She was subsequently written out of the show one season later, though still pops up from time to time. And, in her defense, a little bit of Kim goes along way. When the writers aren’t forced to shoehorn her into the plot every hour, and actually use her to advance the story, she can be very effective.

It just took them three years to realize that.

One: Season Six just wasn’t very good, was it?

Remember up above when I said that the show had surprisingly very few truly cringe-worthy moments? That’s entirely true, by the way. It’s just unfortunate that one of those cringe-worthy “moments” was, in fact, an entire damn season.

Season Six was, without a doubt, the lowest point in the show’s entire history – for twenty-four straight hours.

There’s a lot you can attribute this to. Season Five was one of the shows strongest, and a tough act to follow – which leads me to believe that maybe the writers decided to just say “screw it” and not even try to top the previous season, and instead write such an incoherent mess that they’d have nowhere to go but up afterward.

Well, mission accomplished, I guess.

The season gets off to a pretty rocky start right off the bat – and by “rocky start” I mean “amazing start” that right away signalled to the audience that “welp, there’s nowhere to go from here but down.” And down they went.

The season began with terrorists detonating a nuclear bomb in a Los Angeles suburb. The shot of Jack looking helplessly as a huge mushroom blooms over Valencia was awesome, and really kickstarted thing with gusto. But – hey, wait a sec…where the hell do you go from there?

Do you know how hard it is to top a nuclear explosion? How on earth did they expect to keep the momentum going by blasting out their money shot in the first four episodes? I honestly don’t remember what the terrorist plot was in Season Six because, who cares? A damn nuke just exploded.

And it just gets worse from there. Jack killing Curtis. Forgettable villains with ill-defined motives. The pointless and embarrassing return of the Logan’s. Ricky freaking Schroeder.

It just didn’t end.

Now, admittedly, it had its moments. The big fight scene between Jack and villain Abu Fayed was one of the best choreographed and brutal fights I’ve ever seen on the show. Unfortunately, Fayed was not nearly as menacing or memorable a villain as past baddies, so it all seemed kind of wasted. But at least it looked badass.

The lowest moment of the entire, dismal season though came near the beginning, when the writers finally revealed the identity of the mysterious blue-toothed baddie who had (apparently) been pulling Logan’s strings in Season Five. We’d seen his face in Season Five. We even got his name – Graem. But what was his last name? How did he fit into everything? We were about to find out in glorious Season Six. This was a game-changer. This was key. A recurring villain! One with shady connections, who practically owned the president, one who could…

Jack’s never-before-spoken-about brother? Jack Bauer’s brother? The terrorist mastermind from Season Five is JACK’S FREAKING BROTHER?!?

Jack’s brother is a terrorist mastermind? This has never come up before? Talk about “soap opera for dudes.” What’s next – will Tony return from the dead to save the -

Oh, no wait. There’s Jack’s dad, and he just killed Graem. Guess he was behind it all along. Looks like Jack’ll be chasing his father around for the next twenty-one hours.

God dammit, Season Six sucked.

(And, of course, shortly after Tony did return from the dead bent on revenge or something.)

Soap opera for dudes!

Tomorrow, tune in for more “24″ related madness!

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Well.

“24″ is great television. It’s ridiculous, contrived, right-leaning torture porn, but it is GREAT TELEVISION. I stand behind that.

But it can sometimes falter a bit. Often by utilizing the same hilarious cliches year after year, and occasionally by just completely missing the mark with a plotline, character, or totally weird “guh?” moment.

Today, I give you the Top Five 24 Cliches.

Tomorrow, tune in for the Five Worst 24 Moments.

It’s 48 hours of 24 madness. Better pack a lunch.

Also, some kind of anti-torture belt. Cuz Jack Bauer likes to torture.

A lot.

(Also, quick spoiler warning. This goes into quite a bit of detail if you haven’t seen the last seven seasons!)

Five: The traffic report for Los Angeles today is: CONVENIENT.

This is one of those things that I can kind of understand for pacing purposes, but it’s still ridiculous. I have never been to Los Angeles, and probably will never visit. Having said that, I do live in a city and understand that in large metropolitan areas traffic can be…well…

HORRENDOUS.

Not so in the “24″ universe…at least, not if the script dictates that it shouldn’t be. Like I said, I can totally understand the idea behind Jack driving across L.A. in a sixty-second commercial break. The show is in real-time, after all, and it would suck the excitement right out of the show if we had to watch Jack stuck in traffic, sipping his coffee and listening to talk radio for half an hour. It’s the inconsistency that bothers me. You want to cut out all the city driving to keep the pace moving at “24’s” regular break neck speed? Fine. But then don’t use L.A. traffic as an excuse when you need to fill time later on in the season.

Case in point:

Five minutes left in the episode, and Jack has to get across the city as fast as possible because he’s RUNNING OUT OF TIME. No problem. Traffic’s great. We’ll see you about thirty seconds before the end credits roll.

Half an hour left in the episode, and Jack needs to get across the city as fast as possible to ask some terrorist scum WHO ARE YOU WORKING FOR but uh oh! Traffic is crazy Jack! Luckily CTU teams are all ready in position so we can hold him while you make your way to the airport to steal a helicopter but there might be some complications so I don’t know if you’ll make it there by episodes end, but at least that gives us something to do in the first half of next week’s episode, ok? SEE YOU NEXT WEEK.

I guess after a while, it gets a bit difficult to fill “24″ hours of television.

Four: The Counter Terrorist Unit enjoys countering terrorists by hiring them.

What the EFF, CTU? Is the job market so good in the “24″ universe that you can just hire ANYBODY to work in a highly secretive government agency whose sole purpose is national freaking defense?!? Is your benefits plan THAT BAD?!? Are all of the trustworthy, non-double agent government employees out getting jobs in marketing or teaching night classes? Do you have ANY sort of screening process in place at all? This isn’t McDonald’s or Barnes and Noble…it’s the COUNTER TERRORIST UNIT.

SO STOP HIRING TERRORISTS. It’s in your name, for god’s sake!

I mean, when Nina Meyers was revealed to be the mole inside CTU at the end of Season One – leaking out important information, killing Jack’s loved ones, etc – we were cool with it. Sure, she had a high position within the organization and was one of Jack’s best lovers friends, and sure she wasn’t the only mole working within CTU that season so we kind of thought we’d already gotten that nonsense out-of-the-way, and hey, sure, if you go back and rewatch Season One with the foreknowledge that Nina is in fact the mole from the very beginning, the entire season doesn’t make any  sense and her motivations throughout are patently ridiculous…but whatever. It was a nice little surprise, and we honestly didn’t see it coming.

Then they did it again. And again. And again. Almost every season there is at least one person working at CTU, leaking important information and creating general havoc with gleeful abandon and shifty glances around the office, while the heads of CTU bumble around unknowingly, content there couldn’t POSSIBLY be another mole within the agency, because the first question on the CTU job application totally asks whether or not the potential employee has been compromised, and besides, it’s not like this has ever happened before.

Or, you know, CONSTANTLY.

They even semi-sent it up in the fifth season with a CTU mole employee leaking information left, right and center but OH HO! to the White House this time! See, he thought he was doing good! He wasn’t a double agent for evil…he was a double agent for his COUNTRY! SEE WHAT THEY DID THERE?

Except by then the White House had been compromised, so he kind of was an agent for evil, albeit unknowingly.

Shortly after, the mole-riddled CTU was finally disbanded in favor of the F.B.I. in Season Seven

There was a mole there, too.

Three: You started off as kind of a dick, but now that you finally see things my way, I hope we can be friends and….OH SHIT YOU’RE DEAD NOW.

To be fair, this cliche isn’t entirely “24’s.” Honestly, you see this one a lot – though usually just in thriller/action shows/movies of this ilk/type. But “24″ seems to have claimed a monopoly on it, especially lately. So it TOTALLY COUNTS.

First things first. Jack Bauer is not what we would call a “people” person. He was married once, sure, but we all remember how that turned out. It’s not that Jack’s a bad guy per se (minus the killing and the yelling and the rampant torturing) it’s just that people who get close to him tend to end up…well, dead.

A disturbing trend, to be sure, but what’s more disturbing is the number of people who have seemingly figured this out, yet still fall victim to the Curse of Bauer.

These are the characters who hate Jack on sight – or, in some cases, after having worked with/been investigating his methods for quite some time. These usually aren’t “bad” people. Perhaps “bad” in Jack’s universe of RIGHT and WRONG and THAT GRAY AREA BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG that you sometimes have to cross into to get to RIGHT and WRONG.

No, they’re not evil men. They just have different morales and methods than Jack that usually put them at odds with him. Whether they’re to “professional” or to “by the book” or to “unwilling to endanger innocent lives all the time” they usually end up clashing with Jack at some point or another, yelling at him, firing him, or in one case, putting him on trial for torture or treason or breaking amendments or something. Jerks!

And, regardless of how many rules he’s broken or how many lives he’s endangered or how many partners he’s shot in the neck, we, the audience, always end up on Jack’s side. Sure, he may be breaking international laws – as well as the laws of common sense – by raiding an embassy, but he’s Jack Bauer, dammit! HE KNOWS WHAT HE’S DOING. And no shady bureaucrat is going to stand in his way! Boo to you, guy who’s just doing his job within the confines of the constitution! JACK BAUER’S ALWAYS RIGHT.

And, usually he is. As unorthodox as he may be, Jack always gets the job done, and he (and we) truly believe he’s on the side of right. He doesn’t do what he does because he’s a violent madman (though I’m sure that helps); he does what he does because no one else has the balls to do it, and sometimes you gotta get your hands a little dirty to stop a nuclear apocalypse.

Inevitably, those that doubted Jack in the beginning at some point come around to his side when they realize that he’s the only chance they’ve got, and he’s making progress where their red tape and legal methods were not. George Mason, Ryan Chapelle, Larry Moss, even that senator played by Red Foreman from “That 70’s Show” all eventually stood behind Jack and even began to trust him.

Not long after that happens, they usually get gunned down in some horrific and shocking way, and we the audience feel sympathy and sadness for these characters who we initially hated and thought of as Jack Bauer hating douchebags. Way to manufacture emotions, writers of “24.”

And, in a REALLY  shocking twist that proves that a) you shouldn’t learn to like Jack Bauer and b) he really WILL do whatever it takes and maybe you should have tried to stick to your guns on that one a bit more, Bauer ended up killing Chappelle himself, execution style.

But a terrorist who was holding a bunch of people hostage with some plot device nerve gas told him to, so it was totally okay.

WHATEVER IT TAKES.

Two: “WHO ARE YOU WORKING FOR?!?”

Once again I think I could probably chalk this one up to the writers having to fill twenty-four hours of programming, coupled with the difficulty of constantly trying to one-up each season over a period of SEVEN YEARS. Combine that with a seemingly last-minute and transparent attempt at some continuity in a series that wasn’t really big on season-to-season continuity, and you get the Russian Doll Bad Guy Syndrome, which is something I totally just made up now but think sounds really sweet.

Every season has Jack tracking down the main villain (or so he thinks!) only to dispatch him and find another antagonist waiting behind that one, the dude who’s really pulling the strings. It’s usually at least half a season’s worth of tearing apart a Russian Doll full of villains until he finally gets through all of the lackeys to the final “Big Bad.”

Season Five was a good example of that. The bad guys had just murdered ex-president David Palmer, and it was up to Jack to bring them to justice! He found the sniper, who was working for a dude in the white house, who was in cahoots with a Russian dude who was outsourced by a guy who secretly answered only to another guy, who was also the current President, who was only calling the shots as they were given to him by some other dude who was on a board of directors with some other guys, who all communicated with Bluetooth headsets and believed in chaos, or something.

Of course we find out in Season Seven that IT DIDN’T END THERE! There was another even SHADIER board of directors who communicated with computers and voice modulators, and who believed in patriotism, or something, and they had Jon Voight and, uh…

But that’s not where it ends! It CAN’T be where it ends! This conspiracy needs to go higher and higher, and deeper and deeper, until EVERYBODY is implicated in this grand conspiracy, the details of which have grown fuzzy and probably weren’t that important!

Everyone except Jack, of course.

We’ll need him to kill them.

One: Target: Los Angeles: AGAIN.

Again, I’ve never been to Los Angeles. But apparently, it’s the international hot spot for terrorism. Just ask Jack Bauer, and six seasons of impending doom.

It just seems awfully convenient that apparently all of the terror activity occurring in the USA just happens to occur in the city where the Counter Terrorism Unit is located.

I mean, it’s bad enough that half the “big bads” seem to know Jack personally from the past (you’d think that just knowing Jack personally, and knowing he resides in L.A., would be enough to keep you the hell out) but even the ones he didn’t at one time trust, are showing up on the Western coast.

Every year some dude shows up in California with a nuke, or a virus, or a nuke and a virus, and tries his luck at wiping Los Angeles off the face of the planet. And every time he fails MISERABLY.

Note to “24″ villains: You wanna succeed? I mean, you really, really wanna succeed? TRY BLOWING UP SOMETHING SOMEWHERE WHERE JACK BAUER ISN’T.

But even then, we all know he’d somehow stop you anyways.

As I’m writing this column I am less than 48 hours from leaving the country for the first time in 45 years. In other words, for the first time ever.

By the time you read this I will (hopefully) be in the Dominican Republic for the start of an eight-day mission trip with twelve friends from New Community Church.

We will arrive in the capital city of Santo Domingo Saturday (yesterday) and will be headed four hours inland Sunday (today) to San Juan de la Maguana.

While I’ve visited over half of the United States, this will be my first trip outside our borders. Excited? Yes. Curious? Yes. Prayerful? Double yes!

But I’m also quite puzzled.

Certain items go with me everywhere, night or day, regardless. They are not unlike appendages such as an arm or leg or nose. My BlackBerry, laptop, running shoes, cameras, iPods, .45 automatic, and assorted other high-tech gear keep me connected and in the loop with, well, with everyone everywhere.

Thus, my puzzlement. How in the world am I supposed to survive anything or anywhere without my BlackBerry or email or laptop or assorted side arms?

And as if that was not bad enough, I’m staring at what few things I am able to bring with me for this eight-day trip to another country wondering how in the world I can fit everything in a backpack the size of a small sock.

So it’s at this point that I’ve decided to invoke a higher power and ask, WWJBD – What would Jack Bauer do? Just kidding.

The truth is even though my friends and I are disconnected from family, familiar surroundings, email, the World Wide Web, and just about every convenience known to mankind, I’m reminded that those who are followers of Christ are never cut off from him and his love.

The Apostle Paul writes in Romans 8:38-39, “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

Sometimes we live as though God were far away, detached, and disinterested in us. We treat him as a First Cause, a Higher Power, or a Supreme Being, who created the universe and then went on a really long sabbatical.

It’s easy to forget that God is a gracious, generous Father who is accessible to his children 24/7/365. In Scripture, one of the names of Christ is Immanuel, which means “God with us.”

So the next time you’re feeling disconnected, isolated, or cut off, remember God is always near. You can talk with him any time of the day or night. You can listen to his calm voice speak to you through his words in the Bible and you can sense his presence through his Spirit who indwells you if you’re a follower of Christ.

God is connected to us even when we’re in the middle of a third-world country, miles from civilization, without Internet access, without a Blackberry.  Stay connected to him.

Jak ja sobie przypomnę jak jeszcze niecałe dwa lata temu nie mogłam skumać fenomenu Jacka Bauera, tak teraz nie mogę skumać, że tyle czasu wzgardzałam nim i jego heroicznymi walkami z terroryzmem pod tytułem “24 godziny”. Dżizys, jaki człowiek był głupi. Kilka lat temu natrafiłam na Polsacie na jeden z odcinków, od biedy poświęciłam mu dziesięć minut i poczułam się ekspertem. Nieustanne ochy i achy wszystkich fanów Bauera wydawały mi się kuriozalne, bo przecież wiedziałam lepiej. Smutni panowie recenzenci wydawali mi się za każdym pro-jackowym felietonem jeszcze bardziej smutni. A, i jeszcze rankingi serialowe. Te to mnie najbardziej doprowadzały do szewskiej pasji. Bo zawsze wg nich “24″ był jedynym słusznym serialem, dla którego inne niż pierwsze miejsce nie było przewidywane.

Ale rok temu poddałam się. Zrobiłam pa pa swoim uprzedzeniom i odpaliłam premierowy odcinek pierwszego sezonu, który w świecie netu jest lepiej znany jako 24 Pilot, 24 1×1 czy też 24 s01e01. Po 45 minutach nie myślałam o niczym innym, jak tylko o tym by jak najszybciej najrzeć kolejny ep. Od tej chwili mój los był już przesądzony, a do codziennego słownika na stałe weszły damn it i son of a bitch.

Jakieś parę tygodni temu do sieci wyciekł najnowszy trailer promujący sezon ósmy. Między Bogiem a prawdą, to wiele gorszy od trailera do siódmego sezonu. Ale daje radę. Także zaczęło się nerwowe odliczanie dni i godzin, drapanie tynku i obgryzanie paznokci, byleby przetrwać do stycznia. Do premiery. Także lojalnie uprzedzam, że wówczas przemianuję się w smutną panią nawijającą z zatrważającą radością o jednym i tym samym.

Como no hay plazo que no se cumpla, ni deuda que no se cancele, hoy voy a escribir respecto a mis referentes, idolos, etc. Los voy a segmentar en los Maverick´s Awards por categoria, en los cuales ciertos personajes destacan por sus excentricidades, locuras, personalidades, etc. Estos son parte de mi vida diaria, obviamente uno debe buscar obtener su propia identidad, pero debo reconocer que estos personajes son dignos de admiracion mia, y se asemejan un poco cada uno en mi personalidad compleja que poseo.

Bueno, voy a partir por la categoria “Master del Copete”, en esto, el premio se lo lleva el maestro, el unico, el guaton mas ordinario JAJAJa, el grande, el unico: Che Copete, tambien conocido como “Don Che”, lo pueden ver algunas noches en el morande con compañia (un programa de culto, obvio). 

Don Che corriendo mano xD

Puta este weon que me da risa con su ordiariez JAJAJA, yo creo que todos se rien con Don Che, a pesar de que no soy muy bueno para el doble sentido, los sketch de el Che Copete son dignos de admiracion, cuando el weon se peina con el copete JAJAJA, cuando hace los personajes del Checo del 8, la entrevista “hasta el fondo conchecopete” xD, la doctora pollo no me gusta mucho, pero es un buen sketch, etc. Son innumerables las creaciones de el Che, por eso es mi idolo, porque me hace reir mucho y la lleva too el rato, aparte de tener higado de acero y tomarse al seco el copete el cual lo vierte en un florero, todo un personaje de culto Don Che, por eso se lleva el Maverick Award en la categoria Master del Copete.

Otro de mis idolos en la categoria musical, pero principalmente por su personalidad, es Charly, Charly Garcia, un musico de culto, a pesar de que sus canciones y composiciones son notables, no destaco a este personaje por eso, si no por sus actitudes que lo hacen ser un hijo de puta. Charly es todo un Rockstar, la lleva too el rato, quien se tira del 10 piso de un hotel directo a una piscina, quien escupe al publico, quien le pega a su baterista por que se pifeo en una nota, quien dice comentarios racistas y fuera de lugar, el unico, el inimitable, Charly Garcia, aunque ahora ya fuera de ls drogas esta mas mula, puesto de que esta rehabilitado, por ende no hace shows ni escandalos que lo caracterizaban mas que como musico, a pesar de que lo es. Por eso, en la categoria “Show Men”, el Maverick Award es para Charly.

En la categoria “Man of the year”, el Maverick Award se lo lleva Leonardo Farkas. A quien no le gustaria ser como el; a quien no le gustaria tener un auto exclusivo el cual lo tengas solo tu en todo el continente, A quien no le gustaria celebrar su cumpleaños con tu banda favorita, en su caso como lo hizo haciendo una fiesta a todo dar con KC y Air Supply, o sea, solo Leonardo Farkas es tan pro para hacer eso. A pesar de que yo ubicaba a Farkas mucho antes de que saltara a la fama, siempre lo admire por su labor filantropica en pro de mejorar el pais, aparte que es musico e ingeniero, igual que yo. Leonardo Farkas no es solo admirable por lo que tiene, si no que tambien por su pensamiento en sacar a todos los “apitutados” de la moneda. Por todo lo anterior, Leo, te mereces el Maverick Award, yo no soy un chaquetero, siempre he admirado a este personaje, y lo hare, ya que por mas basura que le tiren, el compadre es un filantropo, y este tipo de personas somos pocos en Chile, puesto que en este pais, predomina el individualismo lo cual nunca nos conllevara a ser un pais desarrollado.

En la categoria “referente musical”, el Maverick Award se lo lleva mi guru, mi motivador para tocar guitarra electrica, mi motivacion para tener una banda, sin duda “El viejo”, Andy Taylor, guitarrista de Duran Duran. A pesar de que Andy se retiro el 2006 de Duran Duran, por diferencias musicales, este guitarrista pro a pesar de hacer pop, en su manera de tocar prioriza el Rock, y eso es lo que destaco y me gusta, puesto que son super pocos los grupos pop. new wave britanico, de los cuales puedan obtener un sonido rockero, con distorsiones chamchas y efectos que te moris! xD. Por esta labor tan complicada, aparte de su personalidad, la cual trasciende sobre los demas integrantes, es que Andy Taylor es mi idolo musical. Les recomiendo que vean el DVD Live from London, el cual se grabo en el 2004, es una excelente presentacion, donde andy, como siempre, pone su toque en el escenario, lo cual hace creer que en vez de ver un grupo pop, estas viendo una banda de Rock con todas sus letras. En esta persona debo reconocer que me influencie para orientar mi camino musical. Por todo lo anterior, el Maverick Award va para El Viejo, simplemente Andy Taylor. 

Finalizando, el premio mas importante, “El weon PRO”, si con todas sus letras, weon pro, el Maverick Award se lo lleva Jack Bauer, obvio, Jack Bauer es mi idolo a toda costa, de hecho creo que mi vida, en relacion a todos mis idolos, es la que mas se asemeja, cada dia tengo mi 24 horas, por eso nunca me he quejado de que mi vida es fome, excepto cuando estaba en mi ultima relacion. Tambien otra semejanza con este personaje, es que ambos somos exitosos en el ambito profesional y laboral pero un desastre en lo emocional, y que muchas veces preferimos hacer cosas profesionales ante que darle tiempo a la pareja, por eso mi lema interno es “No dejes que tus sentimientos se interpongan ante tus intereses personales Maverick”, esta frase hace que cada dia sea mejor en lo que hago, y me convierta en mas PRO xD, aunque en lo sentimental no avance, en estos momentos eso  me da lo mismo.  A pesar de que me comparen con Dr. House, lo cual no me produce ningun halago, creo que Jack Bauer es mejor. Jack es inteligente, no tiene superpoderes, es normal, un soldado entrenado psicologica y fisicamente para cumplir sus objetivos propuestos. Por eso soy adicto a 24, viendo como el pro de jack salva el mundo mediante diferentes circunstancias, torturando weones, matando a sus amigos, familiares, terroristas, etc, desactivando bombas, sus romances, sus enemigos, etc todo con la meta de cumplir sus objetivos. Cuando todos pensamos en la temporada 2, que cuando los terroristas le pidieron que matara a Chappelle, iba a ocurrir algo, que finalmente no muriera, no no no, Jack lo mato, o cuando en la temporada 7 se piteo al negro Curtis a cambio de un terrorista el cual despues se murio xD, o sea, Jack hace solamente eso. Por eso Jack es mi idolo N° 1 y la lleva, si Jack Bauer fuera mina, le daria un hijo too el rato JAJAJAJA xD. Pero el Maverick Award al weon pro, se lo lleva sin duda Jack Bauer.

Bien, esos son los Maverick Awards 2009, el factos comun que tienen todas estas personas es que son pro en lo que hacen, son locos, excentricos, cagados de la cabeza, piteados, etc igual que yo. Por ende son dignos de admiracion por mi, asi que no se extrañen que cuando los mencionen yo diga, “es mi idolo, la lleva xD”.

Goodbye and see you later.

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