Much like Tetris or Grand Theft Auto, if you get deep enough into a 24 DVD marathon, your brain starts to interpret the whole world around you in the language of the show.
You're sitting on the tube, you check your watch:
beep, boop, beep
8:51:34
8:51:35
8:51:36
Your world folds into a box and compresses into a corner of the screen. Your empty desk, awaiting you at work, pops in below. Your phone rings the 24-ring.
beep-beep bee-doo-wup
"This is Stokes."
"Is Dan at his desk yet?"
"Not yet."
"He's supposed to be in at nine."
"That's in..." looks at his watch. The little yellow numbers appear at the bottom of the screen.
beep boop beep
8:52:58
8:52:59
8:53:00
"Seven minutes."
"Keep me posted."
"Hey, have you been having any server problems? My computer seems to be running slow."
Split-screen of his computer monitor with a pictorial representation of a snail moving slowly. Every computer in 24-world seems to use some kind of previously unencountered OS that represents absolutely bloody everything pictorially. Like if someone surfs the internet, a surfboard appears onscreen.
"Of course it's slow. You told Dan to reboot Hub 5."
"No I didn't!"
"What the?!?"
beep boop beep
8:58:30
8:58:31
8:58:32
Back on the train. I eye the other other passengers suspiciously. The split-screen allows them to eye me suspiciously back from different angles. 9:00:00 is coming up, something exciting is bound to happen any second soon. Something catastrophic always happens on the hour, every hour. At least, it does to Jack Bauer. Bloody Jack Bauer. Not only does he get three exciting things done EVERY HOUR, he does it all on no food and no sleep. My life revolves around food and sleep, and what did I do this hour? I woke up and got on a train. That's another thing about Jack Bauer- he seems to ignore regular travel times. When they asked him what they should built CTU headquarters next to, he must have said: "Everything." I'd bet I could do as much as he does if I could get anywhere in the city in five minutes, as well.
I check my watch again. Ten seconds left until the exciting cliff-hanger ending to the hour.
beep boop beep
8:59:58
8:59:59
9:00:00
Oh...nothing happened. Must have been the season finale.
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What I love about their computer system, is how they can just "send that to my screen".
What operating system platform is this, where they can just dump whole active applications, images, text, whatever to someone elses computer, but without actually needing to specificy if they are just trasfering data or an application or what.
So every time someone says "send it to my screen" my innergeek shouts "but send what, and how"
I hate the show's entire attitude to computers and the internet. Like, just last night they were going on about an internet attack that was 'hiding' behind the fact that everyone was using the internet to watch this shocking video they'd released. I was screaming: "THAT'S NOT HOW THE INTERNET WORKS!!!" at the television. Muh! And they're constantly throwing in computer gobbledigook that bears no relation to the way computers actually work.
However if I was viewing a word document (or whatever) and someone said: "Send that to my screen." I wouldn't say: "What, and how?", I'd just mail it to them. I don't think that part is particularly unrealistic.
Except no one actually mails a word document. People send the entire word application with the open document to someone else's screen, and then someone else just carries on working on the word document.
And that's not who computers work.
Wouldn't it be great if that's how computers did work? You can put that on your aprés-ski to-do list, mon frére.
Presumably they have a macro which opens up any internal e-mails they receive, along with any attachments it has. Like, duh.
That makes sense. Having an internet attack graphically represented by a fountain of red numbers spilling out of a series of ordered white numbers, on the other hand, does not.
I wish my working day was like 24. That way every hour would only last 45 minutes.
but what you can't see is them hitting shift-printscreen in the background.