Events occur in real time…
Boop. Boop… Those heavy, imposing bass beats that 24 fans the world over have been waiting for… for almost 2 years! Somehow Kiefer’s managed to pull out yet another season of 24 — we’re at season 7 now (and he’s aged remarkably well!), and CTU has finally been shut down (something about torturing people and operating a bit outside the law.
The season started with Jack facing down a tribunal of Senators, explaining that while it’s not pleasant, torturing Muhammed bin Patel-Assad, someone has to do it. For the security of the people. Later on in the episode, there’s a fantastic scene with the President and the joint chiefs of the US military. ‘We just need to swagger in there, spray some bullets around the place, and the oppressed, war-torn people of the Fictitious African Nation will welcome us with open arms,” one of the chiefs says. Well, not quite, but he implies the same sentiment with that cocky, derisive sneer, as he tells the President that they expect no meaningful resistance.
Anyway, Tony’s back (£10 on Nina returning from beyond the veil before the end of the season…) The jury’s still out on whether he’s actually a baddie, but I’m sure we’ll be treated to lots of ‘Is he or isn’t he?!’ moments, especially at the end of each episode.
More importantly, my friend (yes, an actual bonafide friend) Dave has finally surfaced. He disappeared back in September, only to re-emerge yesterday. Turns out he was locked in some room, in Boston (he lives in Ireland), forced to code some software. A bit like that scene in Swordfish:
He was adamant that he couldn’t get in touch, so I just had to fear that he was dead for a few months. I had no one to watch Kristen Bell in Heroes with! (She is incidentally the cutest, most… arrrgh, delectable girl woman on the planet. The fact that she looks just like my ex has NOTHING to do with it)
He’s back JUST in time for 24 and the end of Battlestar Galactica (it’s going to be tough recovering from how they left it…) so he’s forgiven… just.
As I said in the previous entry, we had power cuts for about 2 1/2 hours this afternoon, so I was forced to light candles, eat whatever I randomly pulled out of the fridge, and take some self-indulgent self portraits. For anyone wondering, that’s what I looked like when I was roleplaying Jack (the cowboy).
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let me describe that picture in the words that british girls usually said ( at least on tv ) : smitten.
is that a correct word or not? HAHA.
Your ex looks like Kristen Bell btw? super cool, I love her on Veronica Mars.
January 13th, 2009 at 5:25 amThat’s a great word! And the past tense would be ‘smote’, which is what God does to unbelievers.
Yes, Kristen Bell was the only reason I watched through 3 seasons of Veronica Mars (but Season 1 and 2 were good in their own right!) And then she appeared in Heroes… and my heart missed a beat.
January 13th, 2009 at 12:09 pmhaha i got it from angus, thongs, and perfect snogging book..uh yeah apparently im 12
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January 13th, 2009 at 5:16 pmkristen got that cool electricity ability right? i watch heroes for milo ventimiglia ( who doesnt
My mother made me read Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging. It was… OK! I kind of expected it to go places, but it never did. But it was fun! And slightly shocking what the 12 year olds in her world get up to…
Is Peter really THAT cute?
January 13th, 2009 at 6:28 pm