Twenty-four

Well, folks, I don't have much to report, but wanted to say something before heading off to do some Christmass shopping (most for others, a bit for me...) so here is my take on the TV series 24. I have watched seasons 1-3, and the bit of shopping for me will be getting season 4 so I can watch it before season 5 airs January. I think that the concept is a very interesting one: real time events happening over the course of a "day" (obviously it takes longer than 24 hours to shoot, edit and get everything ready for the 24 episodes, but you get the idea) even taking out time for commercials. Here are a few things I have never understood about the series: 1) When do the primary characters sleep? Seriously, have you ever come back from commercials to see Jack waking up in any of the first three series? Along the same lines, when do they eat (every so often we see Kim eating, but rarely anyone else), use the facilities (only in season one is this necessity ever implied to have occurred in commercials), or shower? I don' know about anyone else, but to go 24 hours without sleeping, eating, relieving myself or showering (esp. after the myriad plane crashes, car accidents, torture sessions and surviving traumatic events that Jack and company go through every season) would leave me in a very, very bad mood (maybe that is why Jack kills so many people...). 2) Why is it that every terrorist threat, assasination plot, or other season hook has so many people manipulating other people who think that the attack/whatever is their idea? For example, Season one starts with a kidnaping, which leads to an assasination attempt, which (when foiled) leads to the original crew of bad guys being killed off by the crew of bad guys that were controling things all along, who then go on to try to make another assasination attempt, etc. Why can't one bad guy be the visible person controling things from start to finish, with the sub bad guys being know to be pawns in his/her master plan?
Anyway, aside from these two things, I enjoy the series very much (as evidenced by the fact that I watched both season two and season three in about three days each, taking only a little time to eat, sleep and work myself) and I look forward to seeing seasons four and five soon. Given I have been talking about 24, here is one of my favorite quotes from the series:
"When Plan A fails, you should have a Plan B, not Plan A recycled." - Andre Drazen, first series.
Be well all.