Skip to main content

Reminiscing 24

It was NOT just a show. Beware of the blasphemy on your part if you think otherwise.

It took Jack Bauer (a.k.a Keifer Sutherland in real world) just one day to capture the imagination of the world. And he shared 7 more days from his life with us mortals. And the journey has been nothing but spectacular.

In this world, where species have a dormant dream to be badass, 24 and Jack Bauer have been nothing short of a revitalising drug. You don't often get to see your wildest dream take an almost tangible form on the small screen and, I can smell it, add spice to our mundane lives. 

Real time storytelling, 
..the end justifies the means ideology, 
..the head-on raw approach towards terrorism, 
..Jack's colour-blindness (If there are lives to be saved, everything else goes out of the window), 
..torture redefining (yes, the taboo word has been portrayed countless times, often taking it to the next level),
..recognizing the necessity to kill (Only Jack has made through from the start to the end of the 8th day),
..Kiefer Sutherland (the show would just not have been the same without him) 
are just some of the million little pieces of why I <3 24

24th May 2010 was the day when 24 hung their boots. A bittersweet feeling, glad that the iron was still hot when they struck it, sad that there will no more of Jack.

P.S. Oh, and by the way, the last clock of the series, the only one which counted down instead of up. I noticed :)

P.S II This definitely deserves a mention. @nishitd 's blog post : You know you watch too much 24 when..  I wanted to write something like this but he beat me to it..

Posted via email from Strange Ramblings !!

Labels

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Review: Dialogue in the Dark (DiD), Hyderabad - An Unlit Experience of a kind

Ambiance ***** Food **** Experience ***** Overall ***** Often, we wonder, how would it be like to experience the world in someone else's shoes. Dialogue in the Dark gives you an overwhelming experience on one such foray. Located in the sprawling Madhapur area of Hyderabad, a stones throwaway from the Hitech City, this is the area of the city that will blend modern India with the city of Nizams for you. Located on the 3rd floor of Inorbit Mall, as soon as you reach the reception desk of the restaurant, you'll start feeling awe. What greets you is an 'unassuming' person at the reception, who matter of factly mentions, that this experience would be unique for you. There are rules to be followed, and he hands over a list of the same - key being, you don't have anything on you which emits light, in any environmental condition. Curiously placed are a few Walking Sticks lying in a corner allow your imagination run wild for a little while. The m...
Post a Comment
Read more

Google Allo - And its Content Ratings on iOS

Google just launched their new messaging app Allo in an already overcrowded market. Now there are plenty of opinions online, that you can read, talking about what are the chances that Allo succeed, so we are not going to talk about it here. However, when trying to download the app on iOS through App Store, an interesting thing caught my attention. The content rating that was given to this messaging app was 17+ with further click ins such as: Nudity, Profanity etc. On the other hand, a simple comparison with WhatsApp (the debatable leader in the market), you'd realize the same has a rating of 4+. Screenshot Dt. 23rd Sept 2016: Taken on India App Store on iPhone Similar to PG ratings on entertainment contents, App Store has the following scale : 4+, 9+, 12+ and 17+ with the varying scales of nudity, profanity, violence and other such adult (not "child" safe) references. But its simply baffling to have such a huge gap between the content rating for tw...
Post a Comment
Read more

Invasion of Privacy, or Not?

OR NOT Disclaimer: Expressed below are my views on a topic that I believe to be touchy with many people. They, are not, in any way, related to Google or any other giant, and are not endorsed in any capacity by the same. What little knowledge that I have gained in the little time that I have spent in the company yet, has no implication on what I express here. Every idea has a seed. Some may call the idea itself a seed.  Big or small, the seed is the key. The origin of this post has something that is similar and very interesting. Something that has stemmed over a good part of the internet age. The argument between where to draw the line in terms of privacy. Having started recently, there was a healthy argument on the same with a fellow noogler during one of the sessions. And that brought back everything from the vault. The argument always remains, that big internet companies, with the extent that they have penetrated into the internet sphere, and the amount of informati...
Post a Comment
Read more