In the vein of the Movie-A-Minute and Book-A-Minute reviews, found on rinkworks.com, I have made my own Series-A-Minute review of the show 24. For those of you unfamiliar with this idea, it is for those who find watching movies, books, or tv shows, too time-consuming for them but wish to know what happens anyway. I have boiled down each season of the show, 24, into a mini-story, which can be read and enjoyed in a minute or less. In doing so, I hope to have conveyed the true essense of the show and thus bring to all you busy non-viewers out there the enjoyment of each season without the expense of taking up all your time. Check our rinkworks.com for further book-a-minute and movie-a-minute reviews.
24: SEASON 1
Jack Bauer
Hello, fans, look at me. I am the most awesomest, manliest man ever. (stops terrorist attacks)
Fans
Whoa! Jack Bauer is the most awesomest, manliest man ever!
24: SEASON 2
Jack Bauer
I'm really messed up, since my wife died. (stops terrorist attacks)
Kate
I love you, Jack.
Fans
Jack Bauer is the most awesomest, manliest man ever!
24: SEASON 3
Jack Bauer
I’m a messed up JUNKIE now, but I STILL work for CTU (stops terrorist attacks)
Fans
Jack Bauer is the most awesomest, manliest man ever!
24: SEASON 4
Jack Bauer
I am the most awesomest, manliest man ever!
Chloe, Tony, Michelle
Jack, we’re your bestest, bestest friends, and we’ll do whatever you say, even if it is incredibly ILLEGAL and morally QUESTIONABLE, because we trust you IMPLICITLY.
Audrey
I love you, Jack
Jack Bauer
(Stops terrorist attacks. Fakes his own death)
Fans
Jack Bauer is the most awesomest, manliest man ever!
24: SEASON 5
Jack Bauer’s Bestest Bestest Friends
Jack! WE – (die)
Jack Bauer
I will stop these terrorist attacks and solve this conspiracy, even if I have to take down the President of the United States (stops terrorist attacks, solves conspiracy, takes down President of United States)
Fans
Jack Bauer is the most awesomest, manliest man ever!
24: SEASON 6
Ugly President
Aagh! Blurgh!
Jack Bauer
Grrr! (Stops terrorist attacks. Escapes to AFRICA)
Fans
... Huh?...
24: SEASON 7
Government
Jack Bauer, you are hereby charged with… uh… hold on. What we meant to say was, PLEASE save us – but try not to hurt anybody.
Tony
Har! I’m alive, and I’m a BAD GUY now. Haha, I fooled you, I’m really a GOOD GUY now. No, no, look! I’m really a BAD GUY now. Okay, I’m really working on my OWN to achieve REVENGE for Michelle’s DEATH. Boy, I’m messed up.
Renee
Jack, I don’t want to become you, but your methods work.
Jack Bauer
(Stops terrorist attacks) Don’t become me, Renee.
Renee
It’s too late, Jack. I’m really messed up now.
Fans
Whew! Jack Bauer really is the most awesomest, manliest man ever!
24: SEASON 8
Jack Bauer
I am the most awesomest, manliest man ever. But I really just want to be a grandpa now.
Renee
I am so messed up. But I’m ready to be the most awesomest, manliest woman ever.
Jack
No, you’re not. (stops terrorist attacks; dies)
Fans
Woohoo! Jack Bauer is the most awesomest, manliest man ever. We look forward to season 9, where President GOOSIEBRAINS brings Jack Bauer back from the DEAD to defeat yet ANOTHER terrorist attack.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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Saturday, October 03, 2009
Dreams, according to the Idiot
Dostoevsky's "The Idiot," describes that feeling you hae after waking from a vivid dream:
"And why, too, on waking up and fully returning to reality, do you feel almost every time, and sometimes with extraordinary intensity, that you have left something unexplained behind with the dream? You laugh at the absurdities of your dream, and at the same time you feel that interwoven with those absurdities some thought lies hidden, and a thought that is real, something belonging to your actual life, something that exists and has always existed in your heart. It's as though something new, prophetic, that you were awaiting, has been told you in your dream. Your4 impression is vivid, it may be joyful or agonizing, but what it is, and what was said to you, you cannot understand or recall."
I often wake up and want to share my dreams with others, if I remember them, but find myself wondering what was so incredibly magnetic about the experience. I find with surprise that the dream that was so intense and meaningful, at second glance, does not seem to carry the same weight as it had, yet for me, inside, the weight is still there. I just know deep down that there was something very important involved in the dream which I cannot seem to remember or communicate. I love that Dostoevsky had this same experience and articulates it in his story. It makes me feel validated, in some way.
"And why, too, on waking up and fully returning to reality, do you feel almost every time, and sometimes with extraordinary intensity, that you have left something unexplained behind with the dream? You laugh at the absurdities of your dream, and at the same time you feel that interwoven with those absurdities some thought lies hidden, and a thought that is real, something belonging to your actual life, something that exists and has always existed in your heart. It's as though something new, prophetic, that you were awaiting, has been told you in your dream. Your4 impression is vivid, it may be joyful or agonizing, but what it is, and what was said to you, you cannot understand or recall."
I often wake up and want to share my dreams with others, if I remember them, but find myself wondering what was so incredibly magnetic about the experience. I find with surprise that the dream that was so intense and meaningful, at second glance, does not seem to carry the same weight as it had, yet for me, inside, the weight is still there. I just know deep down that there was something very important involved in the dream which I cannot seem to remember or communicate. I love that Dostoevsky had this same experience and articulates it in his story. It makes me feel validated, in some way.
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