A quibble about 24 (no spoilers)

[Orrex]

Chloe: I have Jack Bauer on the line.
Bill: Put Jack Bauer through immediately.
Karen: Jack Bauer had better know what he's doing.
Bill: I trust Jack Bauer implictly.
Jack: Bill, it's Jack. Audrey Rains may be a conspirator.
Bill: Why would Audrey Rains help the terrorists?
Jack: I can't believe it, but if Audrey Rains is guilty, we have to act now.
Bill: I've known Audrey Rains for years. I've never had reason to suspect Audrey Rains.
Karen: We have to act now to find out what Audrey Rains knows.

And on and on...

What's the deal? I know that soaps use dialogue to reinforce every character's name as often as possible, but several times in a single exchange between just two people? It gets to be a bit much.

I've worked with some people for years, and I've never referred to them by their full first-and-last names!

[LisaLynne]

1. I think it seems okay when you're typing it up, but ...

when it's said outloud, it becomes apparent that it's silly. :)

But, yes, that's strange that they keep repeating the names. They should pick either the first or last name and just use that. There are enough characters to keep straight without having to know their full name.

[Shine]

2. Well, Orrex, I would have to say that's a very good point.

I hadn't really considered that, Orrex, thanks for pointing that out. Orrex, :yourock:

What I think is amusing is how we NEVER see him doing the mundane shit, like eating lunch or having a cup of coffee. It's always DRAMA, DRAMA and MORE melo-DRAMA....

You're right, Orrex, it basically is an action soap opera. :hi:

[musical_soul]

3. I was wondering something.

When does Jack sleep?

[Orrex]

4. He sleeps from 25 to 36

[Shine]

5. Exactly!

welcome to DU, btw, musical_soul! :toast:

nice user name.... :hi:

[skygazer]

6. It was about the third season when I had my epiphany

Namely that the show is a soap opera. Full of action and suspense but a soap opera nonetheless. Why else would Jack ALWAYS wind up sleeping with someone he works with (which most of us avoid in the real world and you'd think someone in his business would be even more careful about it) and why else would his wife/daughter/girlfriend always end up in peril and need to be saved by him?

Quite frankly, that's the part that irritates me the most. Can't they come up with a plot in which there ISN'T a helpless-female-needing-to-be-rescued lame plot device?

[Orrex]

7. That bothers me every season.

Where I work (a company that has very few gunfights or nerve-gas incidents on-site), it is forbidden for people in the same department to be romantically involved, and they won't hire a parent/child pair. A married couple can work in two separate departments, as can a parent and child, but it's unbelievable to me that Jack and Kim would ever have been working out of the same command center. Ditto for Michelle and Bill. Ditto for Kim and Chase. Ditto for Michelle and Tony. Ditto for Jack and Audrey. Ditto for Jack and Nina. Etc. etc. etc.

But I still can't stop watching!

[azmouse]

8. And CTU always gets to the site of disaster ONE second too late

to catch the leader of the bad guys.
But I still love the show.


BTW: Think we'll find out next week if Jack is dead or alive???