{"id":1672,"date":"2010-01-20T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T16:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/20\/the-good-islamic-republic-president-24-descends-further-into-fable\/"},"modified":"2010-01-20T13:33:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T20:33:30","slug":"the-good-islamic-republic-president-24-descends-further-into-fable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/20\/the-good-islamic-republic-president-24-descends-further-into-fable\/","title":{"rendered":"The good Islamic Republic President? 24 descends further into fable"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here is the idealized actor who is playing the role of President of “the Islamic Republic” in season 8 of 24, where Jack Bauer plays the intrepid grandfather role.<\/p>\n

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So, we’re supposed to believe that a thinly disguised Iran is suddenly negotiating in good faith to cancel it’s nuclear weapons program?\u00a0 And that this President of the “Islamic Republic” is opposed by radical forces including his own brother, when all he wants is peace and friendship with the west?<\/p>\n

Well…\u00a0 it IS TV.\u00a0 Fantasy land.\u00a0 Maybe the high forehead is supposed to convince us he’s the good guy.<\/p>\n

What can you expect from a show that last season portrayed a private American security company (loosely modeled on Blackwater) as the villain that was launching bio-weapon missiles all over the place?<\/p>\n

I’m afraid I’ve lost hope that TV shows can keep telling interesting stories based on who the terrorists actually are.<\/p>\n

24 managed a couple of seasons that were actually about Islamic terrorists.\u00a0 Out of 7 complete ones, so far.\u00a0 It’s too early to know where this season is going…\u00a0 but the Ahmindinewhackjob substitute is going to try to make us think he is equal parts Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr., with a bit of Thomas Jefferson thrown in…..\u00a0 no, not the part about dedication to freedom and liberty, but the feet of clay where women are concerned.<\/p>\n

Of course, on TV Superman can fly.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:\u00a0 The second episode has the necessary criminal cop, who is willing to torture and murder Jack Bauer without trial because he thinks he killed a cop.\u00a0 It also has the innocent rookie cop who reluctantly stands by while the older, evil cop does the deed.\u00a0 Gosh…\u00a0 I wonder how they get such ground breaking ideas?\u00a0\u00a0 This episode isn’t over yet…\u00a0 I’m sure they won’t kill Jack off this early in the season.\u00a0 But Jack has already been hit with a double Tazer dose, kicked, then struck in the head five times very hard…\u00a0 I’m sure after this commercial is over, he’s going to leap up in an amazing display of 50 yr old vitality and grandfatherly resilience, and triumph over the evil constables.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 2:\u00a0 It turns out I was half right.\u00a0 Jack DID leap up and take down the older evil cop, but was delayed by the younger one, who, in a fit of conscience, seems to have decided to phone it in.\u00a0 Of course, the evil older cop was a white, shaved head type, and the younger, nicer one is some kind of Asian with a nice face.\u00a0 I expect central casting sent out for someone with the look of the White Aryan Brotherhood to play the older, evil cop.<\/p>\n

Amazingly, Jack’s face does not even appear to be bruised.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, the black CTU Director is obviously not the good-hearted, competent cliche we’ve seen in police Captain roles since the 1970s, trying to subdue unruly white detectives by yelling at them without really meaning it.\u00a0 He seems to be pig-headed and easy to fool with planted evidence.\u00a0 Oh well… can’t win ’em all.<\/p>\n

The people who bought this show from the original creators at the beginning of year 7 have no apparent compunctions about resurrecting every Hollywood script cliche imaginable.\u00a0 I wonder what will be next.\u00a0 Maybe a criminally psychotic murderous priest?\u00a0 Yeah, that’s the ticket.<\/p>\n

When it first started, 24 was a really original show.\u00a0 Now, it’s just an echo.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 3:\u00a0 Oh NOOOOOO!\u00a0 It’s the Russians again!\u00a0 Maybe this time the evil priest will be Russian Orthodox.<\/p>\n

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