what the Jack?!?

Did one eighth of a day last night w the 24 gang. That is, we caught up on the last three hours of 24. I looked it up and we've got five hours left of season/day 5. The plan is to abstain for three weeks and watch the next three hours together. Then watch the two-hour finale the week after. Should be a fun time.

In the dictionary next to "intensity" you'll find...

Some odd zaniness - perhaps mostly in my head - from the three hour chunk we consumed this week...

For the past nine hours or so of the show, I've noticed the music being somewhat... out of sync with the action. Not in an actual rhythmic way, but in style, or show-character, y'know? In the show, but not quite OF the show...

I mean, there were a couple hours where they introduced some heavy electric guitar licks, which I can't recall the show *ever* using before...? And not in a manner that really complemented the action on screen. After a few of these odd musical moments, I got the idea that whoever's scoring this season is getting a bit self-conscious about using and re-using themes or even small musical hits, and in trying to keep things diverse is going thru the studio's music library and grabbing anything and everything for use in the second half of this season.

Did you notice, in the last couple hours... Chloe's got theme music...?

James Bond-y theme music...?

Which I think is fun, actually, for the fans. I don't know that it works-WORKS, but I guess because I did actually get a kick out of it, it at least *works* y'know? I mean, once we were aware of it, the music got something of a disbelieving, snarky, laugh out of all of us, y'know? Maybe the writers are purposefully having fun with things...?

"Bloggers and posters on the message board LOVE Chloe - she should get her own theme music, y'know? Maybe something old school super spy, like THE AVENGERS, or BOND!"

"Yeah, we can do that! We'll just add a couple of cuts where Chloe's alone retasking a satellite or maybe walking down the hall to the bathroom, and hey, we can push the theme music right then! Perfect!"

Crazy talk...? Perhaps.

Speaking of the writers...

How bout that scene with the Writers?

Heh. That's what I called the guys behind the guys behind the guys, y'know? That sporty penthouse or board room or whatever it is with Dr. Romano from E/R on the phone with Henderson, telling him what his priorities and motivation should be. Do you see what I'm saying? The Henderson character called up the writers of the story/show to find out what he's supposed to be doing because, frankly, w the show WORKING at topping itself over and over again, adding layer upon layer to the web of conspiracy, the plot and subplot threads are just getting away from the characters on their own. I'd love to have Romano and stooges be the writers. I KNOW that's not what's going on, but I'd metalove it just the metasame.

Incidentally, do you remember Dr. Romano from FAME? =)

Wow. What about an hour that's done all in song and dance?

Oh crap. If I can think of it, it's gonna happen. It's just a question of when, isn't it?

24...

The musical...

Or wait, it would hafta be 24! with the exclamation mark. Would be a helluva show for audience AND performers... 24 hours. =)

Have you noticed how President Logan holds his head up straight when he's being the decider and all openly malevolent, but when he's the tiresome whiny little bitch, his head's tilted consistently at about 20 degrees? Schizo? Gollum?

HA. When Audrey stops at the gas station and Chloe talks her through locating the transmitter on her car... she finds it, removes it, and then, because there isn't a small animal around to feed it to, she walks over to the heavy duty tow truck and slips it under one of its fenders.

I had this thought, "There's, like, a TON of other transmitters under there!"

Cuz that week, on every show on TV where someone has to lose a tail who's tracking them by a magnetic transmitter attached to their vehicle, the driver stops somewhere, finds the lo-jack, and pulls the switcheroo on the trackers by fixing it to a heavy duty tow truck that just happens to be parked or idling nearby. Wouldn't that be excellent?

Or, it could simply be all the other people that CTU, Homeland Security, Secret Service, CIA, FBI, the Covenant, the Millenium Group, and L.A.P.D. are tracking in 24's Los Angeles. Then you could get agents of all those groups in the same place and the same time for some donuts and coffee. Wouldn't that be fun?

Yeah, I have a rich televisional fantasy life. I get more satisfaction out of the goofy what-ifs and "Brokeback" moments (so many!) in the show than what's actually going on.

Oh, Aaron. What happened to you? Have you taken a bullet for the First Boob?

Keep on keepin on~

Random unrelated televisional thought...

What if LOST's Oceanic flight 815 didn't fly out of Sydney, Australia... but Sydney... Bristow...?

Wack!

=)