What Would Jack Do?
Tonight I face the dilemma of whether to watch a double episode of 24 or go to my martial arts class. 24 is on once a week, and I have five martial arts classes per week. So I could afford to miss one class. It is very tempting. In fact, I don't know what decision I'll make right up until the GO/NO GO instant where I have to commit to one course of action.
Upon reflection though, it seems obvious what Jack Bauer would have me do. First of all, I don't think Jack watches television. He is so productive in a given day, that watching TV would really cramp his style. Could you imagine watching an episode of 24 where Jack is watching television? I would feel betrayed. I would say to the TV screen, enraged, "Jack, get off your lazy ass and go do something wicked-cool!" Then I would, realizing the irony, shut up and keep watching. Second, I don't think Jack learned his wicked moves by watching TV shows either. He probably went to martial arts classes for years, going assiduously every evening, no matter what was on TV. If I want to be able to shoot down bad-guy helicopters with small-calibre, short range weapons like Jack, I'm going to have to learn from this guy.
So what would Jack do? Jack would leave 24 for the arm-chair warriors, by any means necessary, and go develop his discipline in kung fu training. I guess that's what I'll have to do. I couldn't let Jack down.
Upon reflection though, it seems obvious what Jack Bauer would have me do. First of all, I don't think Jack watches television. He is so productive in a given day, that watching TV would really cramp his style. Could you imagine watching an episode of 24 where Jack is watching television? I would feel betrayed. I would say to the TV screen, enraged, "Jack, get off your lazy ass and go do something wicked-cool!" Then I would, realizing the irony, shut up and keep watching. Second, I don't think Jack learned his wicked moves by watching TV shows either. He probably went to martial arts classes for years, going assiduously every evening, no matter what was on TV. If I want to be able to shoot down bad-guy helicopters with small-calibre, short range weapons like Jack, I'm going to have to learn from this guy.
So what would Jack do? Jack would leave 24 for the arm-chair warriors, by any means necessary, and go develop his discipline in kung fu training. I guess that's what I'll have to do. I couldn't let Jack down.
posted by Lt Smash at 5:54 PM
3 Comments:
Well, I managed to watch one hour of it and still go to my class. I think that Jack will understand. I can always borrow thd DVD from somebody more dedicated than myself. I checked out the link, and that's totally hilarious. Did you realize that Dr. House and Jack Bauer are the same person in different professions? They're both brilliantly flawed characters who will use all of their wicked cool savvy tricks and stop at nothing to save good guys.
Again, I totally know what you mean. I have similar conversations with myself, beginning to end :)
Actually, what Jack would do is have Chloe download the episodes from the usenet newsgroup alt.binaries.multimedia.24 and send them to his PDA while he attended his class. Never choose just one path when you can walk two.
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