{"id":2459,"date":"2004-01-21T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-21T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2021-06-02T13:46:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T17:46:50","slug":"the-following-entry-takes-place-between-238-pm-and-258-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/01\/21\/the-following-entry-takes-place-between-238-pm-and-258-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"The Following Entry Takes Place Between 2:38 PM and 2:58 PM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/tvbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; With <i>The X-Files<\/i> long gone (even before it officially left) and <i>The West Wing<\/i> reduced to being just another hourlong drama, my TV viewing has been soulless and robotic.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; Enter <i>24<\/I>.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; My friends have been talking about this show for a while, and I finally gave it a chance when its third season started. And now I am completely hooked. The show has taken a couple weeks off over the holidays, and in that time I&#8217;ve rented seasons one and two on DVD from NetFlix. I&#8217;m devouring the discs as soon as they arrive, staying up till four or five in the morning because I can&#8217;t stop watching. I just finished disc four of season two last night, and disc five might show up Friday. I&#8217;m greatly enjoying the second season. I think expanding the story to involve global terrorism really holds up better in the long run. This truly feels like a huge eighteen or nineteen hour movie, more so than season one (which seemed to founder and lose its way during the second half).<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; It&#8217;s a lot of fun watching the episodes back to back, without commercial interruption; but the drawback is that I am so involved with last year&#8217;s story that I&#8217;ve completely lost my place in the new shows. The other drawback is that if I want to augment my interest by checking out fan sites, I run the continual risk of uncovering spoilers &#8212; like with this morning on IMDB. Thank God for <i>24<\/i> though. It reminds me of the glory days of <i>The X-Files<\/i> with its high production values and film-like look; and it&#8217;s revived the fun in TV viewing for me, by giving me something to look forward to again (and, what novelty, on a <i>Tuesday<\/i> no less).<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; <i>FUH-chum, fuh-CHUM, FUH-chum<\/i>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; With The X-Files long gone (even before it officially left) and The West Wing reduced to being just another hourlong drama, my TV viewing has been soulless and robotic.&nbsp; &nbsp; Enter 24.&nbsp; &nbsp; My friends have been talking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2004\/01\/21\/the-following-entry-takes-place-between-238-pm-and-258-pm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}