It’s been more than a week since my last post. I had started this exercise with great gusto thinking that I would not let a day pass without writing something or the other. But then distractions do catch up and over the last week, I was addicted to television.
In one of my earlier posts, I have given my opinion on Indian Television. So obviously it was nothing on Star, Zee or Sony that I was hooked on to. It was the Season 1 of the hit series ‘24’, the DVDs of which I picked up last Sunday. The most peculiar thing about this series is that each episode of the series (24 in all) are events that happen in real time over each hour of a day. The episodes are aptly titled – 12:00 am, 01:00 am, and so on up to 11:00 pm.
Real time stories are extremely interesting. This one revolves around a complex conspiracy to assassinate a US Presidential candidate, while the principal agent investigating it has his wife and daughter kidnapped too. And as it is told in real-time, every second has to be dramatic and suspenseful.
Right from the first scene in the first episode, Smita and I were totally hooked. As soon as I’d get home, we would put it on. Have dinner in front of the TV. Drive the kids out of the room. And sit up till we were almost nodding off in front of the screen, late into the night.
I particularly remember one night when I was in the kids’ room, trying to put Aashay, my three-year old to sleep. As always, he takes particularly long to sleep and needs to be hugged and patted for almost 15 minutes before he sleeps off. That night I was dying to get back to my TV and I was getting increasingly irritated with him for not sleeping and even scolded him some. For those 15 minutes, my thoughts were totally on 24. I was fully concerned about Agent Jack Bauer being caught in a mess and the life threatening situation that his family was in.
In hindsight now, I realise that I was so out of sync with my personal real-time and caught up in the on-screen real-time. These were 15 minutes of my life which will now never come back. For how long will Aashay need his hugs to sleep? Wouldn’t it have been great if I could have simply savoured those 15 minutes with my child completely, knowing that this bonding is going to be irreplaceable?
But the feeling is passing. I can’t wait to see season 2 now.
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I love Jack Bauer. Man the way he holds his gun looks around all intense and hardly ever blinks :)waiting for Season 7 to come out on DVD. Soooo addictive.
welcome to the 24 club. am just about finishing season 6.
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