Clichés
- All terrorists are one dimensional characters, who scowl, or sneer at the good guys and any good intentions shown to them. Whilst the heroes have families and friends and truly grieve for their fallen comrades.
- Terrorists will carry their fancy, or not so fancy, bombs in canvas holdalls.
- And usually dress as some sort of workmen. Beware the boiler-suited men carrying large cloth-type bags!
- All bombs will have a timer, probably digital, thus allowing the audience to see how much peril the characters are in.
- And it will beep as each second passes. Although no one passing this bomb will hear the beeping.
- The timer will have a display so simple even the greatest technophobe could deal with it.
- The terrorists will conveniently leave their laptop, usually the device displaying the timer, near the explosives.
- If no code is needed (perhaps terrorists aren't that desperate yet) then all that needs to be done is to cut a wire or two.
- If the bomb requires a code to disarm it, it won't be a collection of random numbers and letters. Nor will you have to turn Caps Lock on or off during the input of the code. Terrorists are so slack on their security.
- The code will be cracked, if not alphanumeric gobbledygook (highly unlikely, see point above) by an expert, probably a professor, that the heroes have dragged into the case. This expert is likely to be helping against his or her will.
- The mole amongst the heroes will have been on screen within the first 5 (or so) minutes. You won't have paid any attention to them. But you may have suspected that the new maverick, or female or bossy -type character is the one leaking the vital information to the bad guys.
Three guesses as to what I watched last night. No prize will be awarded for the sucessful guesser.
Bowling tonight. How I manage to get into that, I don't know.
(I will write up about the bloomin' wedding soon. With piccies. I promise. Permission to flog me for failing to keep this promise is given………….now!)
dotdavid said,
15 September, 2005 at 8:41 pm
Gotta be 24. That or Global Frequency (you seen that? they canned the first episode, but it’s on t’net).
whale said,
17 September, 2005 at 3:53 pm
Nope, no non-prize for (the very helpful, more so than Mr D. Baxter, who seems to have gone very quiet) David.
Clue: British show, shown on prime-time BBC1. Just started a new series. I was quite unimpressed.
KM said,
19 September, 2005 at 8:47 am
It wasn’t the new series of Spooks was it??? Episode 2 of series 4 to be exact??
whale said,
19 September, 2005 at 3:03 pm
Wooo! Non-prize to km. I thought it was a big pile of pants: stained, smelly ones.
Anonymous said,
20 September, 2005 at 9:04 am
More like MFI than MI5!!
KM, Named said,
20 September, 2005 at 9:08 am
Sorry that was me, don’t know why it put me as anon .Grrr
KM said,
22 September, 2005 at 2:08 pm
Enquiring minds want to know, who it is you would hug if you had both hands free ……and…… what are you doing that leaves you without the use of one or more of your hands???