WARNING: Sweeties should not read this entry, cos they'll just get mad at partner who sprained her eyeballs rolling them while watching Part 2 (!) of a four-hour (!) "24" season premiere this evening, which can be annoying when one is trying to enjoy something, no matter how illogical and amateurish, I'll admit.
That said, is it me, or does it seem like "24" is written by ninth graders? It's like the folks writing it don't know or don't care that people have to behave professionally. A woman, who is the director of an intelligence agency -- the TV-equivalent of the CIA, uses her position to redirect the LAPD so as to save herself some hassle on a personal matter? Right. And what's that personal hassle, you ask? Oh, just her schizophrenic daughter having a breakdown. Nothing to leave work over (if you're a hackneyed cold-hearted, sexless bitch character, ahem). And not only does she compromise her professional integrity and violate a whole book of ethics rules, she commandeers a subordinate to do this for her. I can barely buy the director of the quasi-CIA making this decision, but they're asking us to swallow that she would be so stupid, indiscreet, and reckless as to coerce an underling into breaking the law? Puh-frickin'-leeeeeze.
And please frickin' hire a fact checker or someone who's travelled outside the country or read a periodical other than Variety. In yesterday's 2-hour marathon a kid hacks into -- what? Something; the "internets," perhaps -- to "borrow" some Adobe and Windows code (haha!!), and he finds evidence that another hacker has been there on the internets and they're plotting to do some evil. Oh no! How can he tell? Well, that code, or their communication, whatever that may have been, was written in another language. Yikes! Do tell. "Uh, Arabic or Turkish." Um, idiots, Turkish uses a Roman alphabet. It would look like this: Kirimzi sarap istiyorum. Translation: I would like red wine, though I can't imagine that international terrorists would say exactly that in their hacker code. Then again, on this show they might. And when one is scanning streaming code, is Roman alphabet-based Turkish going to catch one's eye? Doubt it, but what do I know? I'm not a hacker kid breaking into the internets "stealing Adobe" (haha!!).
So that's Turkish; Arabic, on the other hand, looks like this:
Translation: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. (Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) Go here to learn more about beautiful, poetic Arabic. Before you do though, you'll note it doesn't look anything like what we're typing here. Sigh. I just hate stupid little details that wrench one out of the story. These are not difficult to reconcile. Keerist.
And, like, Kiefer can't buy himself some luck. Every time he wants to save the world, some meddling biddy director gets in his way. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I looked at the pictures of your dog like you suggested...very cute! I especially like the photo called "the thinker".
Posted by: northerngurl | Tuesday, 11 January 2005 at 11:01 PM
lighten up, will ya!
Posted by: db | Wednesday, 12 January 2005 at 08:29 AM