The Carnival of Bauer!!! Day 7

January 22nd, 2009 | by | 24, blog carnival, jack bauer, miscellaneous, supernatural, talk like jack bauer day, tv shows

Jan
22

Welcome to the January 22, 2009 edition of the Carnival of Bauer!!! (been such a long time coming!)

We needed a week to get our act together after last week’s stunning four-hour premiere, but we’re raring to go.

We’ll start off with the man himself, Jack Bauer, who recaps the episode in his inimitable fashion TivoBlogging: The Following Takes Place Between 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM posted at Blogs4Bauer. Not sure what everyone’s new nickname is for the season? They’re all here. And as mean as it might seem to call Alison Taylor President Cankles, it’ll still make you giggle.

Next up, you know you missed it – we all did – Adam over at The Jack Sack gives us a 24 picture book, “Renee Walker tracks down a rare DVD.” If you don’t laugh, you have no sense of humor. By the way, President Cankles has much better taste in movies than her husband.

Wesley M. gives us a peek at what 24 would be like if it were, say, a celebreality dating show. With Nina Meyers to boot. Check it out at 24 Shots at Love: The Lost Episode posted at In My Copious Free Time.

Jarett Wieselman waxes poetic about Agent Walker and her Baueristic tendencies – and he’s also loving Janis Gold, whom he dubs the New Chloe, which I would say might possibly be accurate, except that Old Chloe is still around, hello!!! – in his post I’m Loving “24′s” Female Jack Bauer posted at POPWRAP.

Then, there’s me. First off, I’m still all confused about what happened to Agent Walker. Is she dead? Alive? The silent clock, for the first time, may have lied. Bastards. Check out my thoughts on the matter at 24: Silent clock subterfuge? And here’s my overall thoughts on Day 7, after seeing the four-hour premiere.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of bauer!!! using our carnival submission form. Past and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

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24: Silent clock subterfuge?

January 20th, 2009 | by | 24, jack bauer, miscellaneous, supernatural, talk like jack bauer day, uncategorized

Jan
20

I would recap yesterday’s episode of 24, but not much happened.

For some reason, Emerson (whose British accent was nowhere in evidence) punched out the Sangalese bodyguard instead of killing him. The ambassador and his wife almost gave their lives in their panic room until Mrs. Ambassador chickened out and opened the door.

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Jack proved he watched Mr. Wizard as a child; Tony said about 6 words; Chloe and Bill were MIA; Larry got stern with Agent Walker; we learned Queens Boulevard is having an affair.

Whoop-de-doo.

Then things got interesting.

Walker got captured, Jack roughed her up (and all the fanboys enjoyed that very much) and then … Emerson orders Jack to kill her.

We know that Jack is very capable of either killing a good person if he has to (Ryan Chappelle, Season 3, and yes, I am fully aware some might not have considered him all that good, but he wasn’t a “bad” guy) or of making it look like he’s killed someone (Nina Meyers, Season 1, before anyone knew she was a bad guy).

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TV shows, the TV Tyrant and why I started this blog

January 10th, 2009 | by | miscellaneous, tv shows

Jan
10

As a child of the ’80s, I grew up with television – albeit the kind you had to get up and change the channel on manually. TV commercials were great for bathroom breaks or grabbing a drink from the kitchen.

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By high school, we finally got cable and — gasp! — a remote control. HBO ran its movies somewhere along the lines of 35 times a day, and I saw Star Wars more times than I can even count. But no pause button, so if I had to make a trip to the little girls’ room, I’d miss something.

On viewing No. 4,236 of Star Wars, that wasn’t an issue, but if it was the HBO premiere of Down and Out in Beverly Hills, well, you just might have had to miss the part “when a dirty bum meets the filthy rich.”

We had one of those old clunky first-gen VCRs the approximate size of Rhode Island that actually had a remote pause button, but it had to be connected via a cord that snaked across the room. It was so unweildy, actually, that I believe I used it only once, during a marathon viewing of Galactica 1980. (Hey, I was incredibly crushed over the cancellation of the original BSG, I was ready to latch onto anything. Even Wolfman Jack with a Cylon.)

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