I’ve never cared much for action/spy/cops movies but Blork managed to get me hooked on 24 in the beginning of the second season and now of course I have to watch it every week. It’s a good show: the writing is clever, the pacing is amazing and it keeps you at the edge of the sofa. I know that shows like that have to be unrealistic to be efficient but still, I manage to get mad at just about every episode because of details that get on my nerves. (Laughing at the show is part of what makes our viewing experience enjoyable.) After a discussion with Blork on the subject, here’s a list of things that annoy me about 24:
1. The way they hang up the phone in the middle of a conversation, when they can’t even tell if the person at the end of the line was done talking.
2. Torture scenes that last forever and are painful to watch.
3. The way they abandon or kill major characters on a whim, as if they just didn’t count. They spent weeks establishing Ramon as the ultimate villain and they just blew him up and never mentioned him again!
4. Speaking of villains, did they all go to the same « scrunch-up your face » school of acting? Why did all the Mexicans have such grimacing angry faces?
5. And speaking of acting, can somebody tell Tony to raise the volume a little? The guy whispers all the time and I can’t hear what he’s saying. It’s a good thing I’ve got a PVR (Tivo style) because I constantly have to rewind. And could the guy relax his facial muscles a little?
6. Bad girl Nina wears fashionable high heel boots to make a dangerous deal in the Mexican desert. Like she didn’t know she’d have to run at some point.
7. The fact that nobody has a change of clothes at CTU, not even a t-shirt in a bottom drawer, when they know they have the kind of job that demands that they stay in the office for 24 hours at a time. I just want Michelle to get rid of that outfit with lots of cleavage. We’ve seen them enough already.
8. The way smart people do very stupid things, like Sherry driving her car through Milliken’s gate and parking right next to the house. We just know the surveillance cameras weren’t off, and now she’s going to get the president in trouble again. The poor guy is surrounded by air heads.
9. Anything concerning Chase is annoying. Chase IS annoying. His torture scene was the only one that should have lasted longer.
10. Lothaire Bluteau? Lothaire Bluteau as the new villain?
