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So, after continuing his cult creator status with Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (Dominion approved), geekacentric writer Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel, Firefly) returns to series TV with Doll House - a show whose premise promises to leave the other Slayer (Eliza Dushku) a wide open range of acting potential.

Sorry for the delay listeners. My wireless was down last night and kicking the tower wasn’t helping.

Hunin, Rib, Wordsmythe and myself talk about good stuff we curreent dig on the tele before wandering into the topic of movies now playing. Of course, this latter topic wouldn’t be complete without some more Oscar thoughts. Instances of Wordsmythe’s feminine side surfacing: Only 1!

Part of being in your thirties is that advertisers are aiming at you so there a sea of media tailor made for you. Monday is nerd night for the big three networks featuring House, 24, Heroes, Big Bang Theory (lame), How I met your Mother and Chuck - all geared for us. That’s not even factoring the cable options - like The Princess Bride, Malcolm X, and the Transporter all on tonight, but if you haven’t seen those by now you deserve a Jason Statham grade ass whup’in.

Tonight, I choose Chuck - without 3D glasses. I see three dimensions everyday, and no presentation can surpass the best use of this optical effect shown in JAWS 3. You’d think such an obvious rip off of the 40-year-old Virgin starring a clone of Jim Halpert from the Office with a splash of Alias would suck, but remember all those things individually aren’t bad.

I like how Chuck (Zachary Levi) is a fish out of water that isn’t really hampered by his geekness because his challenges are worthy of international intrigue -anyone would get owned by a real ninja. Another asset is the cast outside of the hero and his love interest. Every character is uniquely funny from the past geek prime lush loser Jeff to super anti-nerd Devon to John Casey (a name with the same feel as Jane Cobb as is played by Adam Baldwin, whom played Serenity‘s Jane Cobb) being a shadow version of Chuck - a bad ass plunged into mediocrity for his cover.

Yvonne Strahovski’s agent Sarah Walker, Chuck’s protector/faux girlfriend/kinda crush, I’m not quite feeling. Oh, my eyes feel her. Even to the point of forgiving them for not dying her brunette to complete the proper effect of the Hutt bikini. The pathos of her mysterious background seems a bit out of place with the core comedy of this show. I do very much appreciate the professionalism of her character in not falling for Chuck - as though he were in her league - yet having a friendly appreciation for his naiveté.

I got to check out its competitor, Fox’s House one of these days. Is it too late to try to jump into fifth season? Does its drama with dark comic relief compare to Chuck’s reflection of comedy with dark tension? Speak Citizens.

24 kicks ass, has won Emmys for those buttocks booted, and despite being on hiatus - due to whiney writers - is back as good as ever for the seventh season to cram more shoe into rectum. Ironically, this action is the one interrogation technique Jack “bane of Chuck Norris” Bauer won’t do.

Still, there are some of you that don’t watch it yet still possesses average or above mental faculties, I.e. aren’t stupid - to make it plain for those just making it to average level. Here are twenty-four reasons to watch 24.

24. There’s nothing remotely as good on TV at Monday 9 pm, unless you’re a girl or wish you were born one.

23. No other show creates tension as well. Everything has a deadline that if it isn’t met will severely fuck up lots of people. There’s even deadline in deadlines. The FBI is coming so the Terrorists must force the Sangala President out of his safe room before he dies making the undercover good guys into bad guys. Thank god for commercials.

22. Keifer Sutherland is aging pretty well.

21. There are few over arching mysteries, unlike Lost. The main question is how is Jack going to pull this off and after the commercial break - in which the story is going on camera - the answer comes. It’s reply, AWESOMENESS.

20. The writers of 24 are visionaries. Season 1 had a cool ass Black president, and not a globetrotting light skinned one either, good old Mississippi black. This season, Madame President Taylor is the chief, which forecasts the Hill-Dawg striking back. Relax; it’s fiction.

19. Main characters die when you least expect it, and stay dead. The stakes are high like the real world.

18. Tony Almeida is back from the dead!

17. As reasons 18 & 19 show, you can’t predict where the story will go but guaranteed things will get worse.

16. Issues are ripped from the headlines. Bauer is under subpoena to testify for all his torturing in the past given the new administration, but a crisis brings him back to the field to avert disaster … and torture some more.

15. “Look! I’m going to shoot you. Please, go along with it; I’ve got a plan” Who the hell else could pull that line off?

14. Actions have real consequences measured in time and implications carried to other parts of the overall plot. There’s a delay to dump a body, so the terrorists can‘t get their hostage and need to crash a plain to show they‘re still a threat, now we wonder will the lady President back down and put more trust in her adviser whom is in league with the terrorists?

13. If you tie someone up with duct tape and taunt them, they can bite out your throat and use your blood to soften the tape to escape. It’s a fact.

12. Bauer makes a better bad guy than the bad guys!

11. Geeks are given a place of respect without drowning us in overly technical jargon. We can track the movements of the bodyguards by their cell phones and overlay it to the building plans. Who cares how?!

10. Watching 24 has been shown to correlate with virility and coolness.

9. Being on broadcast TV, it’s free to watch and is well worth the cost of a DTV conversion box.

8. Former President Clinton when interviewed regarding matters of national policy has referenced examples from 24 twice, and he’s a Rhodes scholar!

7. Name another show that detonated a nuclear bomb in L.A. … I’m waiting … thought not!

6. The previous 6 seasons are on DVD and it’s winter. Take some unused vacation and you can catch up. In this economic climate, I’m sure your supervisor wouldn’t mind.

5. The clean-cut character Sam Hillenger of the FBI impersonated his boss to get his wife to safety, but is also cheating on her. Yet, he’s still up to something and I‘m dying to see what.

4. Janeane Garafalo is an FBI tech specialist that will no doubt match Hack Fu with Chloe from the disbanded Counter Terrorist Unit. Catfight! Wouldn’t that be better than watching them mud wrestle?

3. Frequent Trek actor Tony Todd is playing the genocidal African dictator General Juma. He’s great in everything.

2. If Tony’s back, they may bring back Michelle Dessler-Almeida. Trust me, she does more than seductively climbing on bookshelves. I doubt it, but one can hope.

1. Jack Bauer is the shit.

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