Obviously, I don't know what the whole season has in store and what the motivations of the characters in question might be, but:
Didn't it seem sort of Rah-Rah Bush to have the Secretary of Defense and his son have a confrontation. The Secretary yelling that he has to protect this country and that he's doing something for the love of his country. Then, the son have the opposite viewpoint. That enemies to today were friends yesterday.
But here's the kicker: the kid is portrayed as unwashed, uninformed (a "sixth-grade, Michael Moore education") and a pot smoker!
I dig 24, it's on my list of must-see television. But you have to wonder how much input Fox has on the show. We know they outright lie and twist the truth to help however they can with the current administration - it certainly seems like another way in which they reinforce the viewpoint. How can this kid be on the right side? How can those viewpoints be taken seriously when that side is nothing but drug users, rebelling against the establishment?
If they say it repeatedly, and show it repeatedly, it must be true.
posted by Evil Wayne @ 2:30 PM
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Hey! No talking about 24! I'm (as we speak) watching the 3rd hour of season 3 - obviously I'm a little behind the times. But I'm catching up!
Hmm, no promises, but I do try not to post spoilers without saying so first.
I almost posted something longer about how they're compressing time. That would have given stuff away.
No worries. I'm pretty good at avoiding reading something I think might be a spoiler.
Btw, hate how blogger does anon comments - it should at least ask me for a .sig line!
-- Cranky Dan
Yeah, I do like the way LiveJournal does comments - I wish I had something like that.
Heck, I'm so used to not seeing comments that it really throws me when someone does.
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