04.28 | 'Pure 24' - off it's knees and starting to crawl
There's only one thing to say about 'Pure 24': get Charlie Brooker back on the show. John Aizlewood, last night's guest, was a decent enough stand-in,m though. He's charming, well-spoken and could come up with theories about the storyline that weren't puerile (hello, Natalie Casey), regurgited nonsense (hello, everyone who 'txts' in to 'Pure 24' and most of the kids on the BBC messageboards) or based on the fact that they've already seen the next few episodes (hello, Tamzin Sylvester).
Whilst I'm on the subject of our favourite - nay, only - televisual '24' discussion hostness, I'm pleased to note that 24weblog.com is currently google's top hit for the search 'Tamzin Sylvester Naked'. And they'll have to invite me onto the show if they want me to discard of that little piece of information, I'm telling you...
A good timely interview with Laura Harris, the actress who plays the newly-bad Marie Warner. Aside from being blonde, there's another trend with '24' actresses:
I'm also beginning to think that the BBC producers are far more clever than I've previously given them credit for. Sod all this talk about Lynne 'boring' Kresge being a mole on Palmer's staff, but I'm beginning to think that the BBC are planting moles in the 'Pure 24' audience. After all, there's my two friends who have disappeared and I'm starting to realise that there's only ever been about five people in the audience that have ever been invited to share their views. I think the BBC are planting them, and then in the last episode of 'Pure 24', the moles will be revealed and the viewers at home will be expected to go 'oh, phew, and I never noticed, how clever', but hopefully, with my help, we can point this out to as many people as possible and blow their plans.They're 'all' Canadian - well, at least Elisha Cuthbert (Kim) and Leslie Hope (Teri Bauer) are.
None of them use their '24' voices in real life - Sarah Wynter (Kate) has a pretty broad Australian accent, whilst Laura Harris (Marie) and Sarah Clarke (Nina) have the most Hollywood accents imaginable - well done to them for being able to turn them off when acting.
Err, that's it - A pretty weak bunch of links, really.
In a shocking turn of events, it'll probably turn out that all the phone-in callers were voiced by the same man who was the voice of Marvin The Martian in all those Bugs Bunny cartoons. Now that would be a double bluff.
