re: #74 goddamnedfrank

My main problem with it was the whitewashing of torture. That wasn’t just unforgivably amoral, they knew it was antithetical to reality when they wrote it.

I’ve only seen the first season of 24 , which apparently was not as bad/extreme as the later seasons.

What struck me at the time was how powerful the effect of audience point of view was. Viewers saw scenes of the bad guys in action, so the audience knew there was something there for torture by Bauer et al. to find.

The show would have been very different if viewers had no more information than the anti-terrorist protagonists, and were confronted with torturing people in a fog of war situation.