One thing that's always bugged me about "24" (no spoilers)

[kay1864]

They never ask people to stay late. Yeah, I know that every season is a one-day crisis, so most of the critical personnel are expected to work a 24-hour shift, but it'd be a little more realistic if they'd have Bill Buchanan / George Mason / whoever make a quick balcony announcement that "second shift personnel are coming on board, but critical team members, since we're in the middle of a crisis, you'll have to stay until we resolve this".

Just one line in the script would bring us back to reality <snort>, and would give a little jolt to us the viewers, that wow, these people are up WAY past their bedtime.

There's never any recognition that they're working 12, 16, 20 hours with no fatigue. We had that one time in the first season that Jack almost nodded off in that office, but other than that, it's supposed to be completely normal for CTU to work 24 hours straight? Jack and Curtis, they're physically active, running on adrenalin, but people sitting in front of a computer screen just can't function well after that long.

C'mon 24 scriptwriters, throw me a bone here!

/rant

[MadHound]

1. Frankly I find the premise that each season being only one day

Rather amusing. Keifer Sutherland and the others are starting to age rather badly for only being on the job for less than a week!

[kay1864]

2. You're kidding, right?

You do know they aren't sequential days, right? A year or so passes between seasons.

[MadHound]

8. No, actually I'm not kidding

I don't watch the show, I don't watch much TV period, and therefore I don't know all the details. In light of what you say, I suppose Keifer's aging makes more sense. Sorry, I thought that each season was another consecutive "day":shrug:

[Orrex]

9. They should just aim for seven seasons and call it 168

Jeez! Poor Jack Bauer would really fall off his game if he had to go non-stop for seven days straight!

[kay1864]

11. Oh okay.

You're in good company though--when Kiefer was on Dave Letterman during the first season, Dave said something like "so in a couple weeks you'll be ready for retirement then?" <rimshot>

I'll tell you something else that makes no sense--the guys are always clean-shaven. Yeah, it's important when you're chasing down terrorists, to duck into the bathroom with the Gillette and the shaving cream! :crazy:

[Shine]

3. LOL!! "Reality"?? What's THAT??!

:rofl:

Seriously, how come we never see Jack coming out of the bathroom or having a cup of coffee? Ya know, something mundane and normal?

Noooooooo, it's just DRAMA, DRAMA, DRAMA......

Also, how 'bout that all-miraculous PDA Jack carries around? Is it even possible to receive "real-time satellite images" on it, as in last night's episide? :shrug: What the hell would happen if there was ever a power outage??

heheheh. :popcorn:

[kay1864]

5. Reality? Reality is what I experience at 9pm Monday nights!

The blue glow from that 27" box tells me so.

(Speaking of PDA's, ya notice that nobody's PDA or cell ever needs a recharge?)

Now Jack and the bathroom, THAT could be good drama..."You're gonna TELL me where Bierko is, or God help me I will WET MY PANTS!"

[kay1864]

6. And didja know...

that IRL Kiefer is computer-illiterate? He can't operate a PDA or a PC. His daughter makes fun of him.

[Gormy Cuss]

7. Yes, and could he really SEE those tiny maps anyway?

But that part about Homeland Security being loyal to the president rather than the country and that they were too stupid to figure out that Audrey was up to something when she asked for Chloe as a personal assistant, that part was quite believable.
:popcorn:

[Orrex]

10. I don't see it as a big problem

Also, how 'bout that all-miraculous PDA Jack carries around? Is it even possible to receive "real-time satellite images" on it, as in last night's episide? What the hell would happen if there was ever a power outage??

One presumes that CTU has an independent generator of some kind, so Chloe gets the satellite feeds and then sends them to Jacks' PDA. He's just the receiver--all the heavy number-crunching goes on in the CTU mainframe.

But a few weeks back he used his cellphone to snap a photo of the terrorists in the airport. I think his phone's image resolution must be like 10 gigapixels! They blew the image up large enough to see a circuit board in a guy's pocket from 20 yards away. Amazing!

[kay1864]

12. LOL, missed that

Cell phone by Hasselblad! Plus he was probably holding the phone at arm's length, but NO camera shake whatsoever. Good ol' nerves of steel Jack.

[DrGonzoLives]

4. To say nothing of crawling through ductwork

which can't support the weight of a human being.

[bluethruandthru]

13. speaking of the crawling through the ductwork...

Didn't it seem strange that Jack crawled through all that deadly nerve gas holding his breath...but then came right back into the "safe room" without decontaminating himself. Would the nerve gas be clinging to his clothes and hair?

[kay1864]

14. Hey, this is *Jack Bauer* we're talking about...

Naturally he remembered to put on his special Sentox-repellent clothes... and hairspray... :crazy:

[DrGonzoLives]

15. Yes

Depending on what it is, it would have adsorbed through his skin or eyes as well.