January 2010 Archives

My review of the first of the new 24 and their collection of the latest and greatest cliches. Or, a quick and dirty 24 plot generator.

• Jack is retired
  
• Jack is trying to get back to normal life
  
• Random un-named-but-brown-and-islamic country is on the verge of some great peace breakthrough with the USA [saluting]
  
• [bad guys] do [bad things] in something unrelated
  
• [random person] has information that he can only get to Jack
  
• Jack still has a hotline to the Prez and calls in a favour
  
• Jack has to get [random person] to a place far from where he is
  
• Jack and [random person] opt to walk down the street 12 blocks instead of just taking a Taxi
  
• At the last second more [bad things] from [bad guys] happen
  
• Jack still tries to get back to normal life
  
• Freddie Prince Jr.? WTF?
  
• Starbuck works at CTU!? Awesome. She's hot too.
  
• Random interpersonal things happen at CTU to gie the illusion that there is character development
  
• Random un-named-but-brown-and-islamic president seems good and noble but [close person] and [other close person] seem creepy
  
• Cloe is still at CTU and all moody.
  
• Cloe is suddenly crippled by a new system. "Ha ha look at the geek who doesn't know stuff!". Oh what an original plot twist.
  
• Cloe says something ironic and 4th wall breaking... "didn't this happen too fast?"
  
• Jack is brought back to CTU when he just wants to get back to normal life.
  
• Hey look, they may have solved it in the first 2 episodes! What are the chances there'll be a [plot twist]
  
• Random [bad guys] still seem to have unlimited money and personnel to do [bad things] and [bad guy leaders] are all placed high up as [trusted figures]
  
• Technology!!
  
• [Bad guys] appear to have a line to [really high up person]
  
• [Good CTU agent] has a mysterious past and a work cell phone number available to [unsavoury people from the past]
  
• More random interpersonal stuff happens
  
• [Bad person suspect] is brought into CTU (I'll bet Jack will get to interrogate [bad person suspect])
  
• They won't listen to Jack!
  
• Jack is given the standard "I know you've been a good cop for [long time], but I'm just going to ignore your well thought out argument" response to a well thought out argument.
  
• I bet Jack will go rouge!
  
• Jack still tries to get back to normal life
  
• Jack ignores going back to normal life
  
• Cloe can't pull up a user dossier, but hack hack into archives of [surveillance] and pull up imagery needed in a few seconds.
  
• Technology. ENHANCE!!
  
• Jack and Cloe get themselves into trouble with their own team (I'll bet they have to go rouge!)
  
• Jack convinces a government agency he doesn't work for to give him support, personnel, weapons from the armory to [follow a wild and crazy hunch]
  
• DRAMATIC PLOT TWIST!
  

Then repeat the last 3 steps for the rest of the season.

Welcome to 2010. Wee.... should try to post here more than once every few months, but really nothing that interesting has happened lately. Life seems to be mostly stagnating sadly, so hopefully I'll be able to do something about that in the coming weeks and months. Christmas and new years was great though... a week off of work, great turkey dinner with Family, another great one with friends, a nice New Years Eve with friends watching the Blu Ray edition of Dark Knight on the big screen TV, and not one but two visits with friends flying through from Philadelphia. Other than that the week off was mostly sitting on the couch and doing pretty much nothing. Then at the end of it being pissed off that I pissed away a week of useful time to do the myriad of things needing to be done around the house. Ah well, that's what the 3 hours between coming home from work and going to sleep are for I guess.

It's rough going from a week of nothing to doing stuff, I do wish I had been a bit smarter in prepping for the early mornings instead of going from waking up at 9 or 10am straight to 5:30am. Though I'm still (mostly) lucid this morning somehow.

My biggest piss off is that over the week all the content creators on the Internet that I read and listen to (ie: podcasts) didn't stop, so now I have about 17 hours of podcasts that I feel I have to listen to and can't just delete. That's not even counting the remaining 17 hours of the History of Howard Stern (act III) 10 day retrospective series of the Howard Stern Show... those at least I'm willing to let those wait until I've finished listening to the daily radio show from there. I think I have a problem of sorts in the respect of feeling I have to listen to things.... it's probably a medical condition.

Hopefully work over the next few days will be slow enough that I can just sit and let the talk of tech, Apple, Microsoft, photography and whatever else is in the queue flow over me while I work. Work really hard that is. Yea, that's it.