re: #78 Charles Johnson

And really horrific nasty torture too. Wasn’t there one episode where Jack Bauer tortures somebody by drilling holes in them with an electric drill? That was another big “wait a fucking minute” minute for me.

Yeah, I think that was one of the many “enhanced interrogation” techniques used by Jack Bauer over the years.

I don’t mind violence in TV and movies at all. Horror is one of my favorite genres. Except when it verges on torture porn. After a few years watching 24, I got sick of it because it kept moving in that direction.

In one episode, Bauer’s team captured a guy and held him in an interrogation room. You thought Jack might torture him but he just walked in and shot the guy dead on the spot in order to scare some other bad guy.

In another, he shot a guy’s wife to make the guy give up info. And in another, he staged the execution of a guy’s entire family to get info. In TVLand, the good guy always knows the bad guy is hiding X. So problematic moral implications just disappear. Problem is, reality isn’t TVLand.