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alfvaenSince I spent so much time last night making up my Interests list(who doesn't, eh?), I thought what might give me a long term thread topic would be elucidating them. I mean, I'm not 100% sure that I mean the same thing by some of those terms as everyone else does.
To make it easy to keep track, I'll start at the beginning and work my way down the last, backtracking for any out-of-order insertions. All righty?
So, at the top of the list is "24". This is the TV show, two seasons completed now. A daring experiment that has managed to succeed, with each season consisting of 24 episodes, from consecutive hours of a single "day". The second season ran from 8:00 AM-8:00 AM, so was two calendar days, but one 24-hour period. You know what I mean, but I am personality-bound to explicate myself as unambiguously as possible. Sorry. My wife hates it too.
Why do I like it? Well, I actually like Kiefer Sutherland, and I think he's doing a great job. Elisha Cuthbert leaves a little more to be desired, and frankly next season they better take a hard look at integrating her into the storyline a little better. The rest of the cast is damn good, too, but the writing is the best part.
The storylines mutate two or three times throughout the season/day, with plots within plots within plots. There almost always ends up being a little twist at the end of every hour, in the last thirty seconds(which is stastically unlikely, but works nonetheless). In the very last seconds of the day/season, just when things should be going into denouement, you have the final twist of the knife(both times, a major character being fatally injured), and then you're hanging over the cliff.
It's spellbinding stuff, and I am still annoyed that we managed to miss(through VCR misadventures)two episodes of the second season. Someday...
You know, having basic cable, with no TV(worth watching)in the summer, leaves us with a lot more free time in the evenings, but sometimes I really miss it anyway. Maybe it's just like a quick-fix of instant gratification, but I enjoy it, because of the extended storylines. Extended storylines are just about my favourite thing in the world.
To make it easy to keep track, I'll start at the beginning and work my way down the last, backtracking for any out-of-order insertions. All righty?
So, at the top of the list is "24". This is the TV show, two seasons completed now. A daring experiment that has managed to succeed, with each season consisting of 24 episodes, from consecutive hours of a single "day". The second season ran from 8:00 AM-8:00 AM, so was two calendar days, but one 24-hour period. You know what I mean, but I am personality-bound to explicate myself as unambiguously as possible. Sorry. My wife hates it too.
Why do I like it? Well, I actually like Kiefer Sutherland, and I think he's doing a great job. Elisha Cuthbert leaves a little more to be desired, and frankly next season they better take a hard look at integrating her into the storyline a little better. The rest of the cast is damn good, too, but the writing is the best part.
The storylines mutate two or three times throughout the season/day, with plots within plots within plots. There almost always ends up being a little twist at the end of every hour, in the last thirty seconds(which is stastically unlikely, but works nonetheless). In the very last seconds of the day/season, just when things should be going into denouement, you have the final twist of the knife(both times, a major character being fatally injured), and then you're hanging over the cliff.
It's spellbinding stuff, and I am still annoyed that we managed to miss(through VCR misadventures)two episodes of the second season. Someday...
You know, having basic cable, with no TV(worth watching)in the summer, leaves us with a lot more free time in the evenings, but sometimes I really miss it anyway. Maybe it's just like a quick-fix of instant gratification, but I enjoy it, because of the extended storylines. Extended storylines are just about my favourite thing in the world.
