Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Sneaky...
Something just occurred to me. In the past I've blathered on about how afraid I am that Jack's going to be killed off this season and one of those fears was that they are grooming Chase to be the 'next' Jack Bauer - God no. Please.. not that. I like Chase and all, but he's not Jack. Anyway, my fears were flamed by different interviews with Kiefer in which he says over and over that even Jack is expendable on this show, because the real star is the time format.
Now the thing that just occurred to me is that maybe Kiefer's planting that idea in our heads in his interviews in order to add even more suspense to the scenes where Jack's got a gun to his head. People who don't believe TPTB can kill Jack off (hehe, Jack-off. Oh the puns, the puns) will hardly feel any tension while Hector or Ramon is pointing a gun at him. They'll just say, "Well of course he'll get out of it, Kiefer won't be written out of the show." And the producers will know this is how we viewers think. I know when I read about some of the major stars of ER didn't renew a contract, it lessened their storylines for me. I distanced myself from their arc.
So what if they all got together and decided to plant this wicked little thought in our heads... maybe Jack isn't going to make it through this day. What if he pisses Ramon off one too many times? What if they force him to fix and he ODs? What if he gets exposed to this damn virus? What if Claudia's death was really just the final straw and he just says 'Fuck this.' and shoots himself? I don't think that any of this is going to happen, mind you. I'm just what if-ing. Wouldn't it be just like 24 to use the media in this outward way to help create more tension during these intense scenes?
Maybe I'm just wishful thinking though and Kiefer truly does believe he's expendable. I don't think so though. I still don't buy the whole 'how many bad days can one guy have' line I keep hearing because a) a bad day is when you wake up, your hair won't cooperate, a pigeon plops on your one good suit on your way to work, your car won't start, Starbucks is out of your favourite latte, your boy or girlfriend picks today to break up, your boss passes your work off as his own and laughs all the way to the golf course, and as you come home, weary and pissed off, you find you locked your house key inside. THAT is a bad day. Jack's days are bad for sure, but for the most part, all had something to do with his job. Who's to say Jack doesn't have many days like the ones we're being shown? What about all the crap he probably had to go through to bring Salazar down? What about his 'previous covers' they mention in S2? What did he have to do to put Wald in jail? Surely lots of pretty bad stuff - all relating to his chosen line of work.
So I guess what I'm saying is I hope Kiefer et. al. are just being sneaky bastards and using the media to help create tension by saying Jack could die so that we gasp even harder when he's in a life and death sitch. Or so we come close to tears watching Jack, our hero, beg for his life. Yeah, that's what I'm choosing to believe. They're all just sneaky bastards :)
Now the thing that just occurred to me is that maybe Kiefer's planting that idea in our heads in his interviews in order to add even more suspense to the scenes where Jack's got a gun to his head. People who don't believe TPTB can kill Jack off (hehe, Jack-off. Oh the puns, the puns) will hardly feel any tension while Hector or Ramon is pointing a gun at him. They'll just say, "Well of course he'll get out of it, Kiefer won't be written out of the show." And the producers will know this is how we viewers think. I know when I read about some of the major stars of ER didn't renew a contract, it lessened their storylines for me. I distanced myself from their arc.
So what if they all got together and decided to plant this wicked little thought in our heads... maybe Jack isn't going to make it through this day. What if he pisses Ramon off one too many times? What if they force him to fix and he ODs? What if he gets exposed to this damn virus? What if Claudia's death was really just the final straw and he just says 'Fuck this.' and shoots himself? I don't think that any of this is going to happen, mind you. I'm just what if-ing. Wouldn't it be just like 24 to use the media in this outward way to help create more tension during these intense scenes?
Maybe I'm just wishful thinking though and Kiefer truly does believe he's expendable. I don't think so though. I still don't buy the whole 'how many bad days can one guy have' line I keep hearing because a) a bad day is when you wake up, your hair won't cooperate, a pigeon plops on your one good suit on your way to work, your car won't start, Starbucks is out of your favourite latte, your boy or girlfriend picks today to break up, your boss passes your work off as his own and laughs all the way to the golf course, and as you come home, weary and pissed off, you find you locked your house key inside. THAT is a bad day. Jack's days are bad for sure, but for the most part, all had something to do with his job. Who's to say Jack doesn't have many days like the ones we're being shown? What about all the crap he probably had to go through to bring Salazar down? What about his 'previous covers' they mention in S2? What did he have to do to put Wald in jail? Surely lots of pretty bad stuff - all relating to his chosen line of work.
So I guess what I'm saying is I hope Kiefer et. al. are just being sneaky bastards and using the media to help create tension by saying Jack could die so that we gasp even harder when he's in a life and death sitch. Or so we come close to tears watching Jack, our hero, beg for his life. Yeah, that's what I'm choosing to believe. They're all just sneaky bastards :)
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