24?
so saturday night at around 9:30pm, tina and i decided to try to watch 24 hours of 24 season 4 to catch up before season 5′s premiere on sunday. season 4 was on sale for $39.99 at target and tina knew she wanted to buy it so we rushed to target just before close to buy it and started watching at 9:59. we calculate that we have more than enough time to finish all the episodes (~40 minutes each) AND take a 3 hour nap AND make it to church!
about 3 episodes in, i realize that i’ve seen some episodes of season 4 (i have this bad habit of watching shows out of order and not realizing it until i’m rewatching everything in order… i’ve seen most of arrested development season 2, but not much of season 1). then tina, who i thought never saw season 4, tells me she’s already seen season 4… so really we’re watching season 4 for no real reason…. yet we continue to watch.
watching completely throws off my sense of timing. at around 5-6 episodes in, it’s midafternoon for the characters and some time after midnight for me…. i think. i’m really not sure, it really felt like afternoon to me! i think i fell asleep half way through the 12th episode, though i can’t remember anything for sure. to complicate my lack of sense of timing… we’ve been having intermitten 30 second blackouts due to a crazy wind storm. so my alarm clock is flashing since the last blackout and my cell phone is dead since i forgot to charge it… i have no watch!!
we go to bed after the 12th episode. i just went to bed, i didn’t bother setting my alarm because my alarm clock wasn’t even set to the proper time. i wake up sunday morning… erp, i guess it was afternoon. tina actually tried to set an alarm but had set it for 12am instead of 12pm…. so instead of being ahead of schedule (like we were when we went to bed), we end up being behind schedule and unable to finish the remaining 12 episodes before the season 5 premiere that night.
that was my failed attempt at a 24 hour 24 marathon.
as for the show… i’m not sure i’m really a fan of 24. it’s got pretty good action scenes (kinda scary) and some twists. i never really liked season 1… it was kind of annoying how dumb the characters were. it seems like in order to really make the show work, they have to dumb down some of the characters so that jack could rescue them. i saw bits and parts of other seasons and maybe they were a bit better… but i dunno if i’d follow the show continuously. saw the premiere of season 5 last night and it was pretty exciting. some things you could tell would happen even without seeing how season 4 ended. there is an annoying teenage kid (how does one go from moody, untrusting little teenager to willing to risk your life to warn man-who-lied-to-your-mom of terrorists in less than a hour!??! and what makes you think you can even warn him?! just ’cause u hang out with the superspy for less than a hour doesn’t mean you got some of his superspy skills by proximity!!)
