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January 21, 2009

Talk, Damnit!


24 is one of those television shows that has stayed on the air a year or two past its expiration date, but I decided to give the new season a shot to see if it had rediscovered how to tell a gripping story. My verdict so far: it's pretty silly. But one scene in a recent episode caught my attention. The way cute FBI agent is interrogating a wounded terrorist in his hospital room. Mr. Bad Guy isn't in a cooperative mood, so the way cute agent gets all Gitmo and pinches off his ventilator tube in an effort to make him talk. I wish to make two points to the show's writers:

  • Pinching off the vent tube is so amateur hour. It usually doesn't completely cut off the air supply and it will set off alarms. Really loud alarms. Turning off the vent is much more effective. Better yet, you could have had the way cute agent simply stick her thumb over the guy's trach stoma. It's a method guaranteed to elicit compliance. Just ask my siblings. 
  • Can I please play a terrorist in Season 8? You can make me some embittered cripple hacker who's pissed at the government for cutting his personal assistance hours. I'll work for scale and I'll let you turn off my vent for real. Just as long as I get to share my interrogation scene with a way cute agent.

Posted by wintermute2_0 at January 21, 2009 07:29 PM

Comments

roflmao
That is hilarious. I would so start watching 24 if you were in it.

Posted by: Kirstin at January 23, 2009 08:45 PM


LOL! "Just ask my siblings."

Posted by: Olga at January 25, 2009 09:34 AM


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