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Esrever wrote:That was a great moment. And all of the parts with George Mason were so awesome, too. George Mason is my HERO.
George Mason is an absolutely
fantastic character. It's a shame they killed him-- not just because he was such a good character, but because his death was the fucking stupidest part of that whole (fucking stupid) season. Apart from the death itself, I found George's reaction to his imminent death to be genuinely tragic viewing... which is surprising considering how rubbishy pop-Hollywood the rest of the show is.
I completely agree with your season 2 sentiments. I found it to be as completely addictive as the first season, but it really did get stupid. It frustrates me how every female character in 24
has to be an utterly weak and violently blonde dumbass who spends all her time being chased by rapists, kidnappers, cougars and combinations of all three, all to contribution of absolutely zero plot progression. The only exceptions to this general rule are Sherry, who manages to be the complete opposite of this and ends up as some outrageously annoying in-your-face political feminist, and Nina, who was a completely
brilliant and unique and interesting and likeable (loveable) character in the first season but whose brilliance is ruined in the second via her faintly embarrassing Hannibal Lecter-type role. I fell in love with that woman in the first season, and then she had to go and stab me in the balls. Both balls, actually-- one fork each.
That sure is a lot of criticsm, actually. The show has irrefutable strengths... I think Jack Bauer himself is a great character and really well-played, and the pacing and plotting are obviously fantastic. It's the MGS of the TV world-- stupid, but completely and utterly compulsive.
It's also basically quite funny on some strange, primitive level. Did anyone else come to the conclusion that Season Two was comprised almost exclusively of a lot of people saying to various other people "Where's the bomb?!" over and over again, then later saying "Where's the chip?!", and occasionally saying things like "You're not going to
believe how much this next one's going to hurt, Mr Bauer!!" for some variation. All that torture really seemed like a vaguely desperate quest for 'edginess', didn't it?
