How many of you can't wait to see the new adventures of Jack Bauer?

[Artemis]

24 is the best cliffhanger type show I've ever seen. The biggest mark against it is probably how long it lasted.

It's hard to believe some here didn't even watch the first season.

I'm going to hold my hand up and say that based on the previews alone, the word overhype leaped out at me in LARGE RED WARNING LETTERS, and warned me to stay very far away from this show for sanity's sake. Over the years most of the people who I have found like minded have confirmed that my inner voice was right on the money, and that I am quite safe in not having watched a single episode....... so you can add me to your list too Busyman.

[Busyman]

24 is the best cliffhanger type show I've ever seen. The biggest mark against it is probably how long it lasted.

It's hard to believe some here didn't even watch the first season.

I'm going to hold my hand up and say that based on the previews alone, the word overhype leaped out at me in LARGE RED WARNING LETTERS, and warned me to stay very far away from this show for sanity's sake. Over the years most of the people who I have found like minded have confirmed that my inner voice was right on the money, and that I am quite safe in not having watched a single episode....... so you can add me to your list too Busyman.

Well....you missed out. The show was a nailbiter. It had it's flaws but was overall good.

It had the action, espionage, cliffhanging, treachery, and then some.

I loved this...

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Awww Clowiiiiieeee

I think many of you are a stuffy lot.

[manker]

Agreed, Busy.
It wouldn't be fair to single anyone out, but clocker didn't even like Taken.

There isn't a smilie emotive enough to depict my disbelief.

[IdolEyes787]

All the important dramatic highlights of eight seasons of 24 in 5 minutes.

[clocker]

It wouldn't be fair to single anyone out, but clocker didn't even like Taken.

There isn't a smilie emotive enough to depict my disbelief.

A valid data set requires outliers.
My exception validates you(r) rule.

All that disbelief you so willingly suspend, where do you think it goes?
It falls on me, that's where it goes...I am a credulity magnet.
The release of a Michael Bay movie can cripple me for months as I struggle to again believe in the basic laws of physics.
Avatar put me down for nearly a year (have narrowed that one down to either the "floating mountains" or "Unobtanium"...both are unbearable) but the worst of all was Taken.
Taken cost me a kidney.

[manker]

It wouldn't be fair to single anyone out, but clocker didn't even like Taken.

There isn't a smilie emotive enough to depict my disbelief.

A valid data set requires outliers.
My exception validates you(r) rule.

All that disbelief you so willingly suspend, where do you think it goes?
It falls on me, that's where it goes...I am a credulity magnet.
The release of a Michael Bay movie can cripple me for months as I struggle to again believe in the basic laws of physics.
Avatar put me down for nearly a year (have narrowed that one down to either the "floating mountains" or "Unobtanium"...both are unbearable) but the worst of all was Taken.
Taken cost me a kidney.

I actually lol'd
My problem is that I've never encountered a credulity magnet before. All the discussions I've ever had regarding Taken have been guttural and comprise almost exclusively of affirmations and expletives:

Dude, see Taken. Fuck.
Taken? fuck, yeah. Taken. Fucking hell, yes. Wow.
You saw it? Fuck.
Yeah, awesome as fuck.

In case you're wondering, yes, all of my friends are Californian 13 year olds from 1989.

[clocker]

All the discussions I've ever had regarding Taken have been guttural and comprise almost exclusively of affirmations and expletives:

Dude, see Taken. Fuck.
Taken? fuck, yeah. Taken. Fucking hell, yes. Wow.
You saw it? Fuck.
Yeah, awesome as fuck.
Ah, the Tim Allen school of film reviewing.

In case you're wondering, yes, all of my friends are Californian 13 year olds from 1989.

The upkeep (hell, the vet bills alone) must be staggering.

[Artemis]

I know you keep throwing your toys out of the cot about Taken clocker, but that steely glare and massive amount of bed rest hasn't been pointed at far more worthy recent highliners like Wanted (come on a curving bullet, didn't that make your toenails curl?) or Hitman. If those two movies didn't actually suspend belief then force time to go backwards, I'm not sure what does.

[clocker]

Except Wanted included mysticism as a story point (you didn't mention the yogurt bath for some reason?) and I don't know what Hitman is.
There was a backstory-inane as it may be- that attempted to explain how Wanted worked whereas in Taken, the only explanation is that none of the weapons in Europe work worth shit
unless operated by Liam Neeson.
At which time they become instantly lethal.
Give the man a Pez dispenser and entire nations are at risk.

[Artemis]

But then Bruce Willis made a career out of going up against heavily armed baddies with extremely poor depth perception, no peripheral vision and early stage motor-neuron disease from the total lack of coordination they exhibited. It seems to me that the studios are hiring the henchmen from brain disorder outpatient programs, and getting them cheap in bulk lots to cut down on costs.