Archive for April, 2010
Guess what? My first article has been published on the comedy website, Cracked.com! Go check it out… NOW! 5 Worst Deaths Written for Great Characters (And Why)
You may kill Renee, you may kill Hassan, BUT YOU WILL NEVER GET RID OF US THAT EASILY ASSHOLES!
Renee Walker
7AM, Day 7 ~ 9AM, Day 8
I can’t believe I’m doing this again already. Rather than do a faux obituary as I did with Omar Hassan, I’m just going to talk about this stupid fucking piece of writing. Why do the writers of 24 hate Jack Bauer? It worked when they killed off Teri Bauer in season 1, I even went with what happened to Audrey in season 6 (though that season was pretty bad), but killing Renee? That is just idiotic. I get that the idea was to give Jack a drive to seek vengeance, but was that necessary? Having her be shot and live would have done that. It’s not like surviving a single gun shot is that unbelievable in 24. Jack’s survived worse this fucking season. This was done simply to shock viewers, and was a cheap insult to our intelligence and everything we have invested into this show. It’s beyond insulting to invest the audience in a character like this, makes us think you’re going to give them a happy ending and then taking it away at the last minute. This is the same reason I hated Repo Men. It’s a cheap fucking trick. It’s bad enough to have two silent clocks in the same season, but back to fucking back? I admit that I’ll continue to watch this season, but only because it’s the last. Were it not already canceled, I would stop watching after pulling such a stupid fucking move like that. This is actually worse than anything they wrote in season 6. Seriously, what the fuck?
Omar Hassan
4PM ~ c. 8AM
When he first started on 24 this season, many, myself included, had their doubts. We criticized his hair, picked apart his paranoia and infidelity, and made numerous allusions to his role on Slumdog Millionaire. Right up until the end, he was dogged by that reference. He overcame that adversity, however, injecting humanity into the role. He was not perfect, but he did the best he could with a bad script. We felt his pain as he was betrayed by his brother, we understood his panic as his daughter went missing, but, most of all, we knew his guilt as terrorists threatened to detonate a bomb if we were not turned in. And turn himself in he did, for he felt that it was better for him to die, than thousands, if nor millions, of innocent citizens. He truly was a hero. With the exception of Drew, none of us really expected him to die, we expected another at the last minute rescue (much like what happened with the bomb, an episode earlier). In a stroke of brilliance that the writers have not shown us until this late in the season, it really looked like Hassan would live, making the revelation of his death all the more tragic. It was a brilliant and moving piece of writing, and the reactions from the other characters were wonderful, showing us what we all knew, that these are all good actors, and the problem, up to that point, was with the writing. Hopefully this signifies a turning point in the season, and the writing from here on in will be great. Then, Omar Hassan will truly have died a hero. Either way, with his amazing acting, Anil Kapoor has a new fan.
