24, Change, and Tacky Sobriquets

"Spare me your sixth grade Michael Moore logic!"

I started watching season five of 24 last night. It was good, but something was different - and not just Jack's hair and the fact that they killed off half the cast in the first five minutes [SPOILER ALERT]. As one of my friends pointed out to me, while Jack "The Ripper" Bauer and the Chechen terrorists are killing each other, there's significantly less bloodshed than normal. I'm not talking about less people dying, but less of their blood and guts flying across the scenes. When someone explodes, I expect to see some internal organs (or at least pieces of them) everywhere, not newspaper-confetti . When someone gets shot in the back of the head and dragged across the floor, I expect it to leave a bloody trail, maybe even some bits and pieces of brains.

Now if I seem a little bit bloodthirsty, let me clarify: I'm not necessarily against the change, I'm just surprised by it. It caught me off guard, but I guess its my fault for not watching 24 for so long. And maybe its for the better, maybe what the viewers really want is less needless violence.

I guess I just feel a little empty inside, knowing things will never be the same. It will take time to heal, but I guess we always knew this was coming someday. Well, cheers to new beginnings.

Life's Too Short For Tacky Sobriquets

-Matt