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Best show on Broadcast TV?
Okay, I'll weigh in on this one on a couple fronts. I haven't bought this item, nor do I plan on buying it. That brings me to the first front. <
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>Double-dipping. I hate studio double-dipping. For that reason I won't ever buy a "preview" or "partial" or "single-disc volumatic" set. I'm squarely in the camp that thing should be released complete or not at all. They did almost the same thing with the new Battlestar Galactica when they broke up the second season release into season 2.0 and 2.5 (releasing season 2.0 right after the first half season concluded and before the second half of the season started). This may be good for the die-hard DVD fan who wants everything "right now" and is willing to pay a premium for it. But to the rest of us it's double-dipping. What did we get for our money? Half a season's worth of episodes for the price we'd normally pay for a full season. That seems to be overkill on price and under-performance on price-to-content grounds. <
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>Sorry, didn't mean to get off track there. But I feel much the same way about the "teaser" release as I do about other "partial season" sets. It's maybe nice for those who are willing to pay extra to get a sneak peek or get it before everyone else. For the rest of us, it's double-dipping. It'll be on the season set, probably with more features, so why buy it? <
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>That said, I've watched the first few episodes on Broadcast TV, and it looks like this season will be in some regards a lot different from the first 5 seasons. It's moved into contemporary times, and deals with current issues of "war-on-terror," free-speech, freedom-of-association, civil liberties, racial profiling, unjust imprisonment in "detention centers" (can we call them "concentration camps?") on religious/ethnic grounds. It looks like it'll be just as compelling and gritty, if no more so than previous seasons. So, I look forward to seeing the rest of the season play out. I'll probably wait until the complete season is released sometime late this year/early next year before buying it though. I won't encourage studios' double-dipping efforts.

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The Public Wants To See The Islamic Terrorists Lose
The stunning popularity of this DVD proves one thing: people are very worried about Islamofascist bad guys. They want to see them portrayed on the small screen as evil and cruel, want to see their patterns of wickedness and deception exposed, and want to see them defeated by patriotic Americans. This is very much the same way Nazi Germans and Imperialist Japanese were portrayed in movies during World War II, when Americans were looking for protectors and heroes to save them from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. <
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>I think the big questions Fox had after Season 4, which was the last season when "24" pitted CTU against Muslim bad guys, was whether or not the public still wanted to see Islamic jihadists portrayed unsympathetically as villains, and whether or not Fox's studios would get blown up by an Islamic suicide bomber, if Fox dared to go ahead with such a portrayal. So far, the answer to the first question has been a resounding "yes", and the answer to the second question seems to be "no". <
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>Packaging the first 4 episodes of Season 6 in a DVD probably was Fox's way of determining what the public wanted, and was 24's way of convincing the network corporate types that it would be profitable to launch such a politically incorrect season storyline (especially given the outcome of the recent mid-term elections). It's actually quite satisfying to note that "politically incorrect" has become increasingly synonymous with "accurate", "meaningful", and "popular". <
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>There will doubtless be a major protest from CAIR, and from other pro-Muslim organizations, all claiming that Fox isn't being fair or balanced, that Fox is making life hard for American Muslims, and a bunch of allegations will be trotted out claiming that somebody's rights are being violated. It would be brilliant for Fox to counter by incorporating these well-known Islamist rhetorical strategies into the writing for later episodes in Season 6. <
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>Here is the bottom line, folks: In the series "24", CTU is a US counter-terrorism unit based in LA. There is nobody who gets up before noon and eats safely with a pointed utensil who has failed to notice that the biggest terrorist threat to the USA and the Free World comes from Muslim extremists. If the series "24" pitted CTU against non-Muslim terrorists, it would look like the writers were bending over backwards to be politically correct, and the show would appeal to far fewer people by fading into irrelevance. <
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Great Idea!!
This DVD is a great idea and a lifesaver. Because of a blackout, we missed the first two hours of 24 and I thought we would have to wait until the boxed set. We have done that before. <
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>24 is one of my favorite shows. I always wait for the twists and turns in the actions and the messages. Nothing is politically correct on this show and I like it that way. <
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