24 (What is Sleep?)

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(**WARNING: The following thread contains no bias. If you came here looking for bias, you came to the wrong place. Everything stated following this notice is completely objective/all-factual and has no opinion whatsoever) 

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Opening Statement:
Hello, everyone and especially my fellow/potential Amazon Prime holders! -Pardon if you didn't want to get tagged- (@Phenomenal, @Voakie , @EqAtOmBe , @✨101✨ ,@Breakfast , @Conquest, @QueenHeather, @Relax , @Shadow Fox) If you saw my poll that conducted how many people used Amazon Prime, this is the follow-up thread. On this thread, I will be revealing what I strongly believe is the BEST show ever: 24. This show features Kiefer Sutherland as its main character Jack Bauer, whom you will grow to love. On a side note, I know you are thinking this thread consists of so many words. Yes, I am aware of that. Normally, when someone is in awe of something, he/she is speechless and has "no words." Sorry, my bad, but this show is so great that there's just so much to say. It would appreciate if you could read with the same passion and joy that I experienced when creating this thread. Anyhow, let's begin.



24, created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran, is possibly the greatest American crime-thriller of all-time. And yes, I mean it. I've seen other shows that I thought were just amazingly good. Then, I stumbled onto this show via recommendation. The person--let's call this person 'John'--who recommended this show to me told that I would become instantly hooked and would not be able to stop watching all-night. My response? Overwhelming doubt. There was no way a TV show could simply keep me up all-night and erase all existing self-discipline. I "knew" that John was simply exaggerating and that no show can be watched for such consecutive long periods of time. And of course, I was wrong. I was willing to pull an all-nighter to watch this show to the end. Fortunately, self-discipline ruled, and I was able to turn off the show, stop watching, and go to sleep.

This show was aired on Fox. Fox originally ordered 13 episodes of this show of season 1, in case the show wasn't successful. The show is still being produced today. Also, Netflix originally had this show for streaming. Seeing the success of this show, Amazon paid Netflix to take the show off Netflix and put it on Amazon Prime video. Smart move for Amazon

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Brief Overview:
To clarify, 24 is a show that originally aired on Fox back in 2001. Now, I know what you're thinking, especially you younger ones: OMG, a show in 2001? That's got to be sooooo low quality and sooooo boring! Every season features a different plot and the same main cast, so don't worry about having to meet a whole new batch of characters every season. The seasons are interconnected in a way, so I'd say watching in order definitely matters. One interesting thing about this show is that all events occur in real-time.

Now, I'm sure being the professional agar players you all are, you know about real-time splitrunning  Basically, what the show means by "All events occur in real-time" is exactly what it says. Nothing is sped up nor slowed down. 

For example, let's say it takes 15 minutes for a specialist to diffuse a nuclear bomb. The show makes it so that it won't be 'till 15 minutes in real life go by that you will see the person successfully defuse the bomb. Why does this matter? Well, in most movies/shows I've watched, if a person starts defusing a bomb, the show will skip and literally 1 minute later, the bomb will be defused. See what I'm trying to say? (Bomb defusing example is made-up to serve as example). If you still don't get it, just watch the show, and you will instantly understand.

Next, in every season, there are exactly 24 episodes. Each episode represents 1 hour and actually is 1 hour long, if you include the commercials. Fortunately, for those who own the disk and have Amazon prime, no commercials! In fact, the only way you CAN watch 24 today is WITHOUT commercials because it's not longer airing live (duh). So each episode is approximately 42 minutes long. 

The show makes brilliant use of split-screen imaging. What is this? Well, at certain times of the show--after every commercial break there used to be--the show will divide your monitor/TV screen into different segments. In those different segments, you can see different scenes, which are all happening real-time and at the same time as the other displayed scenes. Once again, hard to explain. You will understand as soon as you start watching the show. Here's an example:



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Season 1 Main Plot (no spoilers):
This is the main plot of season one. Also, this isn't really a spoiler simply because this is something you learn basically five minutes into the show; additionally, you can read the back of the DVD case of season one and learn more than simply this. Anyway here's the MAIN plot (notice I said main... yes, there are subplots that are actually worth your time. Subplots worth my time? Mhm) :

It's the day of the California presidential primary--if you don't know what this is, just look it up. But basically what the primary is... It's a day where voters vote to determine who will be their political party nominee.

Anyway, let me restart:
It's the day of the California presidential primary, and senator David Palmer (played by Dennis Haysbert aka the All-State Guy) is one of the people hoping to get elected to become his party's nominee. CTU (Counter-Terrorist Unit) is informed that an assassination attempt will be made on David Palmer's life. CTU is also informed that there is a unknown mole (aka a traitor) within the CTU organization who is working against them. CTU agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is tasked with stopping the attempt on Palmer's life. At the same time, he must find the mole by working together with the rest of CTU, which includes the mole. Problem is, who can he trust? Find out more by watching via DVD or Amazon Prime!



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Departing Words:
One thing I noticed about this show is that using subtitles actually helps a lot. Like Netflix, Amazon Prime has subtitles. If you're using Amazon Prime, please read this message:

(**WARNING: If you are using Amazon Prime to watch this show commercial-free and free HD, when you click on the season you want to watch, there will be a scroll-down page of all the 24 episodes on that season. On the left, there will be a picture/thumbnail thingy and on the right, there will be a brief summary of that episode. AVOID THAT SUMMARY/SPOILER AT ALL COSTS!!!!!! I DID IT, AND SO CAN YOU)

Basically, what this show is: You take your favorite show (such as Breaking Bad). Tell yourself that Breaking Bad is one of the best shows ever, watch 24, and then watch your TV show standards get set higher than ever before. (Oh, man. I thought Breaking Bad was good. 24 is just a whole 'nother level!)

Last but not least, I know this is a forum meant for our treasured Agar.io, but on this thread, it would be awesome if we could get on-topic, SPOILER-FREE discussion about 24 amongst the people who decide to watch. 

For example:
Person A: just finished watching episode 3, season 1.
Person B: yeah, me too. omg i didn't see that one coming
Person C: I love Amazon prime!
Person A & B: tru

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Trailer isn't anywhere near as epic as modern-day trailers. But at least the show is actually better than the trailer and not the other way around. So many movies are "all talk, no action" Here's to the greatest TV show in potentially all of TV, a spoiler-free trailer:





If you start the show, the first episode will be probably a meh episode like it was for me. But once you get to episode 2, it starts to get crazier. And as the show progresses, just when you thought things couldn't get any crazier, the show blows your expectations. 

Hope you enjoy ~