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[hamsterexastris]

Well, I've seen the first three episodes of 24 this year. And my fears have been justified. Three hours in, and the "heroes" are already torturing innocents.

I can even almost understand Jack doing it. And he—until this year—hasn't gone out of his way to inflict more pain on people, as far as I can remember. He's withheld treatment after shooting back at people trying to kill him, yes, but not inflicted more pain.

But this is the third CTU chief in a row—if not more; I don't remember whether Mason had anyone tortured or not—to torture people they had in custody. And that, of course, completely ignores the CTU agents who specialize in inflicting pain to get answers. At least they tried a new method this season—on the other hand,it's almost worse, because this is the first one the audience is led to believe is innocent (unlike others, where we've been made to believe—true or not—that they're guilty.)

Dammit, is it possible for the good guys to get through a single year without torturing someone? While I enjoy the rest of the show.... I hate to admit it, but the screams haunt me. I feel... dirty for watching the show.

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[michaelschuster.livejournal.com]

They just started showing S3 in Germany (and Austria), but I didn't start it. I watched the first two seasons, enjoyed them for what they were and considered watching S3 when it would be broadcast. However, Kim is a major pain in the donkey, and the basic plot doesn't ever seem to change (Bauer being on his own, with the US - or the world - being threatened by terrorists, evil countries, drug dealers, etc.).

Another contributing factor is that I've cut down my TV consumption considerably. Just about the only shows that I'm watching at the moment (and trying to watch all the episodes) are SG-1/Atlantis and Monk. Also, there's a Late Night that's on for a half-hour twice a week. That's about it.

There are the DVDs, though, that are turning out to be my TV replacement.

[atimson.livejournal.com]

Well, Kim's gone this year. And I'm not so sure that S3 really fit that basic plot—he certainly wan't on his own. And this year there's no discrete threat, yet.

Anyways, though, I'm done. Betwen a reminder online of Jack's hacksaw incident back in seson 2 (thus totally throwing out my mental forgiveness of him), and the fact that they only completely forgot the kid currently sitting under sensory assault in CTU headquarters for an entire episode--no mention of him, no nothing--I give up. I guess I'll now be watching five shows a week (SG, SG, BSG, Lost, and Alias) instead of six.

(And at this rate, I'll be dropping SG-1 and Alias as well; there's been two major plotholes in the last few episodes of SG-1, 813 & 814. One of which was addressed by Jack's comment "Did I miss an episode?" *sigh* But the Atlantis writers know what they're doing. That show has plot—something the SG-1 writers need to learn about. :p And Alias... is just boring this year.)

[steve-mollmann.livejournal.com]

But don't SG-1 and Atlantis have the same writers?

And 813 and 814 would both be yet-to-air-in-America-you-dastardly-downloader episodes, right?

Steve

[atimson.livejournal.com]

In theory, they're the same writers—but the new writer they hired this year has been working exclusively on Atlantis so far, and there's been at least three freelance scripts for Atlantis and just one (that was rewritten) for SG-1. So there's definitely a distinct difference between the two shows' writing staffs.

(I wonder if Martin Gero—the new staff writer—is responsible for Atlantis having discovered the concept of a plot arc. I think that Angel's arc style is probably the best comparison....)

And yes, they would be yet-to-air-in-America. Along with Atlantis 111 through 117. :D