in honor of the end being in sight...

for those of you who haven't heard yet, it appears the strike may be dead by monday morning. and that the giants will be superbowl champions by that time too. perchance to dream...

i've been meaning to post on this for a while now, so i will use this potential end to end our...erm...um...strike as well and get while the gettin's good.

24 last season. what. the. hell. here's the thing: while in theory it's cool to see jack stop a bomb from blowing up all of los angeles or the usa or the world or whatever, i really have no concept of what that means in my head, and i also really don't care in reality. jack fighting a drone or killing large numbers of people in non-hand-to-hand combat just doesn't do it for me. it's not jack's act of saving people that gets me excited, it's jack kicking ass. period. the show has gotten too far from that. with that in mind, and with the idea that keifer is signed up through season 8, here's my plan of what should have happened after season 5. keep in mind that season 5 ends with jack in a chinese prison.

season 6: ep 1-8 jack single handedly breaks out of a chinese prison with no help from anyone but himself. hand to hand combat, jack fighting for the life we viewers care about most (his own), and kicking ass and taking names. at the end of ep 8 jack makes contact with CTU, and by ep 10 he's lost it. ep 12 he gets caught by the chinese and we think that CTU must have sold him out. it turns out, however, that in reality country X (arab, eastern eurpean--pick your poison) has threatened both china and the USA, and they've brokered a deal to let jack go as long as he works along side china to stop this thing. meanwhile, in america, a bright young whippersnapper with an appetite for destruction is fighting the terrorists from CTU's base. curtis, perhaps? jack this time gets notoriety for his help and is interviewed by the news at the end of the season.

season 7: someone had picked up on jack's story and done research. jack has basically become a USA-saving celebrity, and all of america acknowledges how much he's done. he hates the attention, but in honor of david he runs for political office. think of it as a modified season 1, but a) it's not just an attempt on jack's life but also an international terrorist attack, and b) the candidate running for office kicks. major. ass.

season 8: jack is in office--the new palmer--and working with the new jack to save the world. at the end, jack gives his life to save millions. this is where it's ok to use a bomb or a mass destruction device--we don't want to see jack die a weak death, after all.

season 9 and beyond: curtis--or whoever the new jack has been in training since season 6--takes over. and the show lives on...




in other news, i saw rambo last night. it was unbelievable. it completely owned up to what it was and it did not hold back at all. not for a single second. ...so this is what happens when you give a camera to someone with 'roid rage...? the only thing cooler would have been if it were in 3D and/or if it even owned it more and self-referentially decided not to use any english dialog or sub titles throughout the entire movie. and john rambo's dad's first initial is R? i would LOVE it if it turns out his dad's name is Rambo Rambo.

that's is all. GO GIANTSSSSSS.