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- ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -12/+75Not too distant? 5 years is a lot. Some diggers can lose their virginity by then.
- TheSaladMan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45It would be pretty boring if after foiling the terrorist plot with a lot of pistol whipping, the next season started with him burning his breakfast and cleaning it up for the first hour.
- emehrkay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+42No. most of the time it is years later.
- woodcoxcb, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27i would hope so...
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Jack Bauer once got told a knock knock joke. Within five minutes of torturing, he had found out who was there and where the bomb was.
- Atom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Yet theyre mysteriously using Nextel phones from 2007!
- dietprozac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Yeah, it's a whole half decade from now! Shouldn't they have flying cars by then?
- olego, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11While elections are held on years divisible by 4, the winner doesn't take office until next year. So Palmer would have been in the office for 3 (or 7) years.
- stev31h, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Each day is 24 hours, 1 hour per episode, roughly 45 minutes without commercials. The time continues through out the commercials and when you come back from commercial things have already occurred that you didn't get to see... like go to the bathroom.
- SlashNot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11you are giving us far to much credit.
- antoniojvr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11C'mon. Seriously.
- mklopez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Sources:
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/living/16564202.htm
http://www.accessatlanta.com/entertainment/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/tv/entries/2007/01/17/on_the_set_of_24.html - superguysteve, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12"We avoid date and time references as much as possible."
Except for the title of the show, the digital clock that counts before and after every commercial break, the incessant BEEP BEEP BEEP sound effect... - gfunk84, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13I've never actually watched the show, but does each season continue on the next day from the previous season?
- kilodelta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@ Atom
damn those long term contracts! - spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+724. Awesome.
You. Shut up. - BugMeNot2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Each show is around 40 minutes long, not an hour. It takes up an hour on TV because of commercials.
- JimmyIkon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5They need a new technical adviser. Who says "send it to my screen".
- JimmyIkon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6"You're going to have to trust me."
- rivvercoon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Better not let Jack know you gave up on him...
- Nothlit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Even if we ignore the fact that 2012 doesn't seem right, there's still no way this can be January. In the first episode of this season, Wayne Palmer says, "Wasn't it just three months ago that I took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution?" (3:07 into the episode) This would seem to indicate that it should be sometime in April, not January. Unless, of course, Wayne Palmer became president through some unusual circumstances and was inaugurated sometime in October, but that seems unlikely or they would have mentioned it.
- nickerbocker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"The time continues through out the commercials and when you come back from commercial things have already occurred that you didn't get to see... like go to the bathroom."
Or have a sandwich. - Aeiri, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4As for the Wire, I actually checked this out after hearing about it a couple of weeks ago in the comments. Yes the Wire is good, but you can't compare 24 and the Wire. They are completely different genres of show.
24 is a suspense show, and the Wire is about character driven stories and intrigue. It's not suspenseful, it's interesting and almost a mystery show with them trying to find ways to pin crimes to people.
They're both good. - erkokite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I wonder if this ties in with the 2012/end of the world mythos? Probably not, but it would be kinda cool.
- MrZop, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7@stev31h:
Yeah, that makes sense. Just asking if it is six days so far? Or does it do jump cuts?
LOL@ my neg diggs. amazing, I ask a question about a show i want to watch and yet i still get neg digged. Diggers are so finicky. - dasluvaluva, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Well, according to Christianity atleast, the second coming won't happen when any individual is expecting/aware of it. So to prolong the apocalypse, let's pay some homeless guys to hold some "The End is Near" signs for a while.
- Rickard, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"LOL@ my neg diggs. amazing, I ask a question about a show i want to watch and yet i still get neg digged. Diggers are so finicky."
The "funny" thing is that most diggers just go with the flow. If they see a comment that has -10 diggs, they hit the thumbs down even if they agree with what the person said. If it's any comfort, I digged your comment :) - stev31h, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It is the 6th day, but all the days have been very spread out. Most seasons have new presidents and characters. Some of the old characters are often brought back, but barely any have lasted all six days.
- SoxFanNH, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Good reasoning there, I didn't even think about it. Not sure how the power changed from the last president to Palmer, which makes it tough.
- MrZop, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Even Jack Bauer Has To Eat.
I can imagine him Patiently waiting in line at McDonalds while trying to save the country. Then try to talk on his cellphone with a mouthfull of Big-Mac. - noeljohnhoward, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32012 is the year the world is expected to end according to many acient sources that are uninfluenced by one another. i think the like, found a mayan callendar which ended in the year 2012 and then one in asia 500 years older that ended in 2012 and maybe one other/. well
>edit<
here we go
scroll down for the apocolypse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012 - falstaff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I thought it was mentioned that he'd been in office for about 3 months? Right before the 11 week terror campaign started. Previous guy resigned or died or something.
- superguysteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2careful, you'll get dugg down for using the word 'digged'.
- Afrotronics, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Kratos76
Yes Nextel phones if they have a SIM card. Nextel phones definitely take SIM cards because they use iDen and TDMA. - tboutcher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2just goes to show you in 2012 people will still run xp over vista
- SoxFanNH, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Interesting how the guard any reference to time, but you can tell with the changing of the presidents and elections, etc a rough amount of time change. Thats about it though.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2EDIT: Damn you olego and your fast typing.
- ThinkBox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4That's my 27th birthday. Cool.
- tboutcher, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It doesn’t add/subtract anything from the show to know what year it is its present dayish that’s all that matters. Although a 24-western would be pretty badass
- omatsei, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5That's a little unlikely. Given that the new President Palmer doesn't appear to have been in office for less than a week, nor does he appear to have been re-elected recently, I have to call Shenanigans. Either plus or minus 1 year would be fine for me, but being in January of an election year is improbable.
- DougO, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm still waiting for the silver jumpsuits to kick in, a la Space 1999 and Forbidden Planet. I'm tired of all the weird looks I'm getting when I go out! :-(
- Kratos76, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@Atom
Maybe Motorola phones, but not Nextel if they're talking about SIM Cards. - isthisnametaken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I think its April 2013. 2012 is an election year, and if you follow 24 closely you'll remember David Palmer was a Democrat and Logan was a Republican. So even after Logan got kicked out of office, the VP would have been president till the next election, 2012. Since Wayne was probably a Democrat like his brother, he wouldn't have been able to take over unless he won an election. Which he easily won in 2012, (probably due to the scandal with Logan).
Then, as others have stated Wayne said he took the oath "three months ago" which places him in April. - PaulLev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yes, nothing is realistic in 24. It's portrayal of null-time - or better, the empy interstices between the ticking moments - is brutally brilliant. Further, the commercial interruptions, which amount to nothing, are also quite realistic. On the other hand, the show itself is superb! http://paullevinson.blogspot.com/2007/01/24-season-6-hr-5-jacks-brother.html
- 4815162342, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1download the encrypted files to my PDA!!!1
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Too bad they got it wrong. The ***** doesn't hit the fan until December 21, 2012. Hasn't everyone heard of this by now?
- movieman742, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's impossible for it to be January 23, 2012. Unless in the future the President is inaugurated in November. In the first episode, Wayne Palmer, the newly elected President stated that these attacks started 3 weeks after his inauguration and they have been going on for 11 weeks. This is why it's impossible.
- falstaff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If he were elected regularly, he would be taking the oath in Jan 2013 anyway, so unless it's April 2013, he obviously took over after a resignation/death/etc, and it could happen at any time.
- mklopez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh yeah. Because if is in Wikipedia, it must be reality. Didn't Colbert called that "Wikiality"?
Oops! Sorry. Wrong digg discussion thread.... - Bokista, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Shut up, stupid!!" - Jack Bauer
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