Interestingly enough, Cracked.com did just a piece "20 Insane But Real Statistics About Fictional Universes," which includes this tidbit:
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Interestingly enough, Cracked.com did just a piece "20 Insane But Real Statistics About Fictional Universes," which includes this tidbit:
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Interestingly enough, Cracked.com did just a piece "20 Insane But Real Statistics About Fictional Universes," which includes this tidbit:
...it's been a while since I've seen the series proper but I feel like I remember that the entirety of the series -- 24, 24: Redemption, and 24: Live Another Day -- also take place over the course of between nine and twelve years. I don't think the math here adds up, at least not in total. Also, if I remember correctly, the first half hour of 24: Redemption does *not* take place in real-time, so that fudges things here as well.
If they wanted to break it down by how many people Jack was guilty of killing per day/season of the show, that'd be one thing, but that graphic above is highly misleading.
Kiefer once said that if you have a 24 drinking game based on times when Jack says things like "Dammit!", "We don't have time for this!" or "Who are you working for?", you'd be unconscious within minutes.
I heard that they filmed a joke scene where Jack was coming out of the bathroom carrying a sandwich.
Another thing I'm noticing watching Stargate. Every time anybody has an opportunity to kill a main character or important recurring character they take them hostage instead.
I'm currently watching the first episode of season 5, where Apophis captures them all by brainwashing T'ealc. They say they're keeping them alive so they can be taken as g'uald hosts. But then why don't they kill Jacob Carter?
Another thing I'm noticing watching Stargate. Every time anybody has an opportunity to kill a main character or important recurring character they take them hostage instead.
I'm currently watching the first episode of season 5, where Apophis captures them all by brainwashing T'ealc. They say they're keeping them alive so they can be taken as g'uald hosts. But then why don't they kill Jacob Carter?
That's not actually unique to 24; it happened in The Sum Of All Fears as well...
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Because its Stargate.
It's also because at the time the show was written, TV series didn't just kill off characters willy-nilly like they do today (or at least like they are more likely to do today.)
To be blunt, it's Stargate, hardly the apex of good television writing.
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How funny, that you have no trouble responding to all the discussion about 24 yet you continue to ignore the Battlestar conversation you started with all your inaccurate in misinformed assumptions about the show. Some things never change, I guess!
And The Dark Knight Rises. Which had the same President as the last series of 24. While the President in SOAF also played Jack Bauer's father. I'm seeing a pattern here.
Or else the same president as the later years of Stargate SG-1. Or else a much older President John F. Kennedy from The Missiles of October.
^Not forgetting that the POTUS in Sum of All Fears has also played both LBJ and George HW Bush onscreen.
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My favorites on this particular peculiarity of casing and genre jumping:
Stanley Anderson plays the unnamed President of the United States in both The Rock and Armageddon. I almost wish somehow they'd managed to fit in a Stanley Goodspeed cameo in Armageddon!
Pedro Armednariz, Jr. plays the President of Mexico in both Licence to Kill and Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Do 007 and El Mariachi exist in the same world? Nah. But it's still fun to notice these little things.
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In many movies and TV shows Americans know a foreign language. Often fluently. And more than one.
And 95% of the time, their foreign accents aren't picked out by the native speaker characters.
In Mission: Impossible (the series), the native "language" of any foreign country is English with a foreign accent. The written language is usually "Gellerese," a vaguely Eastern-European script that's still mostly legible to English speakers, although occasionally it's German or French.
Was that not true of pretty much every show in the 1960s?
The X-Files was one of the biggest offenders for this.
One thing that I notice in many tv shows is that when people take phone calls, there are never any pleasantries like "hello" or "goodbye." I know that they do it this way because actual phone pleasantries waste screen time without advancing the story, but the "goodbye" thing has always struck me as weird. I can't count how many times I've seen someone on a tv show just hang up on the person they're talking to. I always wonder what it would be like to be the person on the other end of the line. "...so like I was saying, the bullet pierced the left--are you still there? Hello??"
Going along with this, very short phone calls that impart an impossibly intricate amount of detail.
"Hello?" *listens for 4 seconds, hangs up phone*
"That was the lab. They found traces of poison in the victim's system consistent with the poison used to kill the victim's best friend. They're getting permission to exhume the body of the victim's dog to see if it was similarly poisoned. The lab results also showed that the victim had a metal pin in her left shoulder, and will try to get a serial number off of it. They'll call us back when the have the results, but they have to try to contact the manufacturer in Germany so it may take some time."
^Oh, yeah, that goes back decades -- a character having a conversation on the phone and pausing only briefly between lines, implying that the other person must've been talking incredibly fast. Of course this is done to minimize the dull moments of the character listening silently, but it's still amusing.
Then of course there's: "Hello? What's that? You're calling from the police station? You've been arrested? You want me to come right down and bail you out? How much? Two hundred dollars? What's that? Why am I repeating everything you say? You want me to stop that right now? Shut up already? I'm driving you crazy?"
Then of course there's: "Hello? What's that? You're calling from the police station? You've been arrested? You want me to come right down and bail you out? How much? Two hundred dollars? What's that? Why am I repeating everything you say? You want me to stop that right now? Shut up already? I'm driving you crazy?"
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