Month: January 2007

Monday nights

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Monday may be the suckiest day of the week, but it sure has the best TV! In addition to my favorite show, 24, some of the better shows are on Mondays: Prison Break, How I Met Your Mother, and The Class. Is it just me or is The Class getting better while How I Met Your Mother is getting rather stale? Barney is the only saving grace on the show. I just haven’t been into the other characters over the past month or so. At first I had no intentions of watching The Class, and even missed the very first episode, if not two, but now I’m glad I decided to watch. It’s no Friends but it’s still very entertaining and I see it improving each week. I’m glad they gave it a chance and didn’t cancel it after the first few episodes. I just hope it does better than Joey did and gets renewed at the end of the season.

I just realized I have taken over for Kevin’s lack of TV posts as of late. Hmmm … interesting.

CategoriesTV

24: 10:00 am – 11:00 am

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Holy crap, what happened last night? Jack’s brother is none other than President Logan’s puppet master from last season!?!? No way! Doesn’t that seem a bit far fetched? Here I was expecting Chad Lowe to show up. I bet the writers came up with this plot point after last season wrapped.

You just wait until Jack figures out that he got sent to China because of his own brother. He’ll do more than put a plastic bag over his head, that’s for sure. I’d like to see him have a nervous breakdown and literally tear the guy limb from limb. Notice Jack was quick to resort to violence with him to begin with? Is that because they have a rocky past or he has zero patience for bullshit after all he’s been through?

Also, it’s no coincidence that the kid looks like a product of an implied fling between Jack and Graham’s wife. He’s got the blue eyes, blonde hair and looks like Kim. Only time will tell if that’s intentional misdirection on the writers’ part. The time frame is rather interesting. The kid looks to be about 14. If that’s the case, and he is Jack’s son, that means Jack messed around on Teri before his separation and subsequent romance with Nina Meyers. Man, what a tangled web we weave! Perhaps Jack isn’t so morally superior after all hasn’t always stuck to his code of conduct.

You gotta love this dialog between Jack and his brother, though.

“I need some information. Are you going to give it to me or am I gonna have to start hurting you?” – Jack

“Actually…you’re hurting me now.” – Graham

“Trust me, I’m not.” – Jack

There’s certainly no love lost there. Poor Jack. Is he ever going to catch a break? I’d like to see them do a 24 movie when they’re ready to retire Jack; have his character find happiness that lasts more than a few hours. Perhaps become a regular citizen, and move the hell away from Los Angeles forever.

Possible replacement

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After watching Crank last night (which was ok, but not the best film), I realized that should they decide at some point to kill off Jack Bauer but continue creating new seasons of 24, Jason Statham could be an adequate replacement for the role. I’m not saying I want to see Jack Bauer die, or Kiefer relinquish the role, but there’s only so many more bad days Jack can have before he either retires or dies. Right now it would be a huge mistake because it would hurt the show’s ratings, but down the road if Kiefer decides he no longer wants to work 16 hour days 6 days a week anymore, I could stomach watching Mr. Statham take a stab at it. I really couldn’t imagine anyone else even making an attempt. What do you think?

Kiefer & the WS

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I was browsing Cd Universe earlier looking for new music when I clicked over to Video Universe and selected ‘TV on DVD’. The first thing that came up was the first 4 episodes of 24 Season 6. I clicked on Kiefer Sutherland’s name in the cast list and got a list of all the movies he’s been in that are available for purchase. A very perplexing thing was at the end of the list, however:

addstar

Curious, I clicked the button.

kiefer_wishlist

Sweet! Kiefer Sutherland is on my wish list. Does that mean I can buy him?

TGIF Sleepyhead

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Ahhh Friday night. The sweet spot of the week. It’s all downhill from here, folks! I am getting so damn old that I took a bath and afterward was reading my 24-inspired novel, Operation Hell Gate, on the bed when I got sleepy and took a little cat nap. All before 9 pm. Can you say loser? This is what happens when your husband becomes addicted to World of Warcraft. Anyone want to be my online buddy? ;)

Oh and I’m pretty miffed at LaSalle Bank at the moment. I logged into my account earlier and spotted a $25 service fee. When Joe called to ask what it was for, they explained it was due to our combined account balance falling below the threshold they have in place for our account type. This was due to us taking money out last month to put in our IRAs as well as pay off a portion of our home equity loan we had transferred over to a Discover card last year so we could lessen the interest we were paying.

We don’t recall this minimum balance rule before and learned it was instituted in July 2005. They claimed to have sent notices in the bank statements at that time. My beef with them is two-fold. First, why send such an important notice of a change in policy with the statement? They have to know a lot of people just file them quickly or even destroy them. I would think they should send a separate letter like they do whenever their privacy policy changes. Also, why didn’t they put notices up on their website so customers would see them when they logged onto their online banking account? Oh I know the answer to both those questions: they didn’t really want people to know about it. The banks make their money off those fees. They are ridiculous to boot. I have to pay them a fee because I’m not letting them use enough of my money for investments as it is? Greedy much? Plus $25 every month the balance is below the amount they’ve set is rather excessive especially considering the fact there was no threshold before and the new one is $25,000!

Joe was so pissed he had them downgrade our account type so our required combined minimum monthly balance is lower and we’re transferring the rest of the money to another bank account where we can get more interest anyway. The girl didn’t even seemed fazed by his request which to me is the worst part of all this. These companies just don’t care about customer loyalty anymore and don’t make any effort to retain their business. Near the end of the call the representative told Joe she was waiving the fee, but the damage has already been done. The money is still being transferred because when Joe first complained, that is when she should have taken action to appease a long-time customer who had a decent chunk of change invested. Oh well, HSBC will profit from their mistake now. Hope that $25 they just had to have was worth losing thousand of dollars of investment money.