'24'
The ratings are not in dispute - I could care less. Rather, the brainless ignorance is. I have made several comments on how utterly stupid many people are who voted for Obama. This fool tops the list, which is hard to do. Are there fools who voted for McCain - yes, for sure. The difference - those fools are so because they believed Obama something he was not or bought in to the rhetoric of how threatening Obama would be. Not to set the issue of inexperience and the threat it will play in short time, but it is qualitatively different than that which is written below.
The show 24 debuted their special made-for-tv movie event on Sunday, to a pleasant increase in ratings.
According to Nielsen estimates, the show's prequel special - 24: Redemption - averaged 12.1 million viewers, better than the spring finale at 10.3 million, but still not as good as the sixth season's debut in 2007 at 15.8 million.
Ratings began to fall alongside Bush's ratings, as the show prominently featured scenes of torture, which has become passe since the election campaign came and went.
As a result, critics called the new prequel a "kinder, gentler" version of the action series.
A reflection of the times, let's hope!
'24' did so well, in Season 1-2-3-4-5-6 because of the writing, acting, directing, and production of the program. '24' lost viewers because of its idiotic showtime schedule. You CANNOT leave a program for eight to ten months and NOT lose viewers. We find other things to do, invest our time in other projects, and lose interest. Maybe 2-5% of the viewers disappeared.
This is especially true when terrorist after terrorist chooses Los Angeles in the program. Even in the real world, they choose other cities - New York, London, Baghdad, and New Delhi are but four. Yet '24' producers/writers kept them coming back time and again to Los Angeles. Consequently, 2-5% of the viewers left.
The writers created further mayhem when they created a show for season five that began with Arabs and ended with a president implicated, only made worse in season six by a maniacal vice president jockeying for power, doing illegal acts, implicated in an attempt on a president or other illegal activities - became too much for the '24' die-hard viewer, and they took a powder - maybe 2-5%.
The writers were yet again the villain with their strike. While Kiefer thinks they did the right thing holding it off a year, you for sure lost 5%, probably 10% of your viewers. This insane act on the part of the writers in Hollywood, created a huge hole, and when viewers are given other options that are easier and more accessible, they took it.
The general drag on any series after six seasons - you always lose viewers. X-Files did and it didn't have one scene of torture to offend the sensibilities of a debilitated tosser. Maybe 2-5% drop off.
The final issue is publicity. I admit I do not watch TV and had someone not told me, I would never have watched it. Other things to do. 2-5%.
Together we have 15% minimum drop up to a possible 30 or 35% drop.
If you are really one of those anal retentive types, you could check the numbers and see how I fare with my guesstimates. I think you find find them VERY close.
The fool who wrote the pasted bit, attributes it to torture. Laughable if the fool did not believe it, and if that naive view was not part of their world-view.
To the fool - very simply - 'torture' as defined by you and other nit-wits is going on this very second, will go on next week, and in January, February, March, and April, in 2010, 2011, 2013 ... and every year thereafter. If someone stopped watching a program because the behavior was unacceptable - well, you would find every Christian not watching a majority of shows because they show drug use, promiscuity, sex acts or references to sex acts ... and you, with your warped and naive view of a world, however 'icky icky poo poo' it may be, demonstrate why academics do not think much of the rest of the world. You truly represent the most infantile among us, even if I do not appreciate their elitism, I sure as heck understand why they believe as they do and on this specific issue - we both agree.
You would mock the Christian right for their abhorrence at sex or drugs on television, yet you become disturbed by 'torture'.
First - the sex and drugs are aimed at an entire age group, or even, more largely, at the population in general. Go for it, enjoy, do it, have fun. The 'torture' was aimed at one person, one group - it was aimed at whoever it was Jack Bauer was trying to get information from - including details on a nuclear threat. It is so often the soft-ended liberals who scream about the violations of human rights and ... I doubt more than 1-2% of Americans or for that matter any population on earth, would disagree with the proposition that: Torture is acceptable if an imminent threat exists in which a large number (hundreds up to hundreds of thousands) of American/other lives would be lost. On '24' it was always a certainty, it was never just for fun, just as it was never just for fun with the Bush administration.
Secondly, how you define torture - highly subjective and overly simplistic. The fool who wrote the pasted bit above would probably argue that the UN has already developed a reasonable understanding, accepted by the civilized world, as to what torture is. The fool would be only partially correct, having never read it for them self (possibly unable to understand really big words compromised of more than one syllable). So the fool is aware - making someone listen to rock music is considered torture. Assume someone is in a home and will not come out. Assume you have surrounded the home and blast rock music at them 24 hours a day. Torture by UN standards. The civilized world does not like that.
The people Jack was fighting, and the people we fight, will kill you in your sleep, awake, anywhere, anytime - and will kill you even more painfully when you explain to them you are a liberal shirtlifter who just wants to get along. You survive, not by the laws you believe Jack broke, or the Bush administration violated, but by the actions Jack took and those taken by intelligence and military services around the world. Only as a result of their actions, do we have the luxury of writing stupid posts about '24' losing viewers because the American public is tired of torture.
I agree - the American public is tired of hearing about torture. Do it to save us, do it when the knowledge as to a threat exists - and do it to save lives. The hue and cry from the soft-bellied liberals if no actions were taken to secure the information - AFTER an attack on a massive scale would be worse than sitting with a dentists drill on, and in your mouth everyday for a month.
Are there abuses? Certainly, but Jack didn't violate laws, nor did the Bush administration, nor will the Obama administration that will follow suit (although it will be kept much quieter).
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