Okay, I have to do this. I planned to this morning, but felt I had to mention the Firedaemon thing. I really like 24. I don't watch much tv, and 24 is the only show on my "must see" list, so I miss it when it doesn't air and when it does, I expect a one hour thrill ride leaving me hanging in thin air until the next episode.
Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer is great, and cute too. Xander Berkeley, who played CTU Director George Mason, was fantastic this season. It's a shame he is gone. Dennis Haysbert, as President, is wonderful. Everyone does what I consider a bang up job. All but one. The one bad apple in the bunch. The shoe that stepped in doodoo. The rotten egg. Kate Warner, as played (should we call it that?) by Sarah Wynter
Since the first time we saw her skulking around her father's house before her sister's wedding, the expression on her face has not changed!! Somewhere along the way she learned to crease her forehead and do some weird Kermit the Frog thing with her mouth. It ain't pretty, folks. And it's not acting either. Finding her Father is a spy, having her sister try to kill her, sneaking into a mosque, facing torture, the look on her face is always the same. It was rumored earlier in the season that Jack Bauer might express some kind of romantic interest in her character. When he sorta/kinda did, if anything, her brow creased more tightly and her upper lip protruded a bit more. Ewwww!!
So why am I ragging on this poor woman? For one thing, she really is the weakest link on 24. Secondly, my husband, sharing my opinion of her, came in a few days ago with the latest Maxim (I hate to admit it, but yes, he subscribes. ) and slapped it down before me asking if I could believe it. Now I really don't pay much attention to the cover of Maxim other than keeping it off the top of the coffee table pile. (It is just so tacky) But he's pointing at it and I'm scanning the cover, checking the featured articles, and trying to figure out what he is so fired up about, when he points and says "Look! It's her!" It takes me a minute. After all, she is lying back and that alone smoothed some of those creases. Now I'm not saying she isn't pretty or hot or whatever the reason she is in Maxim, but the caption inside with the article is, and I quote____EVERY HOUR CAN FEEL LIKE AN ETERNITY ON FOX'S NAIL-BITINGLY TENSE SERIES 24--BUT THE STUNNING SARAH WYNTER MAKES EACH MINUTE WELL SPENT__
More aptly, it should have read: EVERY MINUTE OF SARAH WYNTER ON 24 SEEMS LIKE AN ETERNITY.
Posted by Rockelle at April 2, 2003 03:44 PMMaxim is tacky – seems like a Virgin Frat Boy's Guide To Scoring With Chicks. Have to say that if I were to subscribe to a tacky men's magazine it would have to be the classic Playboy.
Not only for the nude chicks ... I'd read it for the cartoons!
Posted by: Texas T-Bone on April 2, 2003 04:52 PM