24 - Season Premiere
So last night I stayed up until after midnight to finish the edits on Her Irish Lover. Why so late? Because 24 was on! 
Priorities, people. But the book is done, it’s e-mailed to my editor’s desk, and those of you who obsess over enjoy 24 as much as I do can join me in a discussion.
We begin with Jack Bauer being in a Chinese prison camp (ala Pierce Brosnan imprisoned in North Korea in the “Die Another Day” James Bond movie). Jack is being all heroic, but honestly, we know he won’t die. He’s Jack Bauer. When the evil Fayed dude with the bad accent takes Jack in for some serious torture, we’re just waiting for Jack to become Houdini and escape. But holy vampire, Batman! :batman: I wasn’t QUITE expecting Jack to get rid of the bad guys in quite that way. Ick. Biting the carotid artery? That one was a bit high in the squick factor.
And then we had Kumar/Ahhhh med who will likely kill off the high school nerd boy. The part that cracked me up was when Jack was interrogating the traitor terrorist and just couldn’t get any information out of the man. Then the Big Bad Reformed Terrorist takes care of business. Jack is dumbfounded, questioning whether he can “do this anymore.”
“Don’t worry,” says Big Bad Reformed Terrorist. “You’ll remember.”
What, there’s a school for this? Torture 101? What on earth would the syllabus look like? Week one: Ways to interrogate using sharp pointy objects. Week two: How to endure stabbing with aforementioned sharp pointy objects and still run around like a superhero.
Can’t wait for tonight’s episode. I imagine we’ll see someone set up a perimeter. Because every time CTU sets up a perimeter, it just doesn’t work. The bad guys always escape. Somehow the show manages to pull this off, and it’s good campy fun. What I do like about “24″ is that you truly can’t predict what will happen. No one is safe, especially not secondary characters. And speaking of which, how much do you want to bet that Fayed isn’t truly behind the attacks?
Now that book #2 is turned in (and please God, I hope my editor likes it), it’s onto book three: The Book Which Must Be Written. I’m 100 pages in, and I’m now at the point where I need to start setting up the secondary storyline. I have a few different directions I could go, but I’m going to do a little research, brainstorm a bit, and see what would work best. I like this raw stage, where virtually anything can happen. It’s scary, but fun, too.
Michelle posted in Writing @ 8:34 pm | Viewed 2257 times
Melissa Mc Says:
Glad your show is back on. I can’t wait for Heroes to come back on!
Good luck with the new project! You’re at the fun part. Enjoy it
Bonnie Ferguson Says:
Woo Hoo on finishing the edits, Michelle
Wow! That sound like quite the season premiere 
MaryF Says:
What did you think of last night’s episode???? VERY twisty.
And yeah, EWWWW on the carotid artery! I told the dh Kiefer was flashing back to The Lost Boys.
WTG on finishing your edits - hope your editor loves it!
beth Says:
Very, very high on the squick factor (we caught Sunday’s episodes last night…yesterday’s will be watched tonight.) I’m guessing nerd boy dies as well.
I’m still struggling with Wayne as president. I’m sure I’ll get over it, but talk about standing in your brother’s shadow.
And I think (need to go fact check, but I’m pretty sure) that reformed Bad Guy is Dr. Bashir from StarTrek DS9 (yes, yes, I’m a geek, sue me). If so, life is very very good. (Even if not, he’s still super easy on the eyes, so the man-candy this go round is looking to be better than last season when they meanly killed off my favorite man-candy.)
Tori Lennox Says:
The gang over on Dave Barry’s blog are having a barrel of fun with 24. Well, we had fun with it last season too. But this season premiere in the first half hour alone, we had Robinson Crusoe Jack, Nerdy Jack, then Vampire Jack. And with all those scars all over his body, did you notice he didn’t have a single one on his face?
And, yes, that’s Dr. Bashir as Assad. The Dave Barry gang is having lots of fun with that, too. *g*
I totally did NOT see that ending coming last night.
Melissa Says:
Yay on sending the book to your editor! How cool is that? More dancing Snoopy’s!:snoopy::snoopy::snoopy::snoopy:
Kelly Says:
Ah yes, the ole knife to the knee trick. That was pretty cool. Did you see pt 2 of the season premiere?? Talk about your roller coasters.