Name: Linn, artist name; Fayenix (Fay).
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5 ways that 24 and TWD are parallel, and 1 way they are polar opposites.
It's a universal constant that I can't write fic late at night, so I'm pondering all the amazing prompts in my inbox and planning to hit at least one of them hard first thing in the morning. Meanwhile, since imorca gave me the above awesome meta prompt, behind the read more we go.
Parallels:
1. Everyone you love dies.
Seriously, the universal invariant for both of these shows. Truth? I pretty much blame 24 for starting the entire bullshit thing where TV shows try to be shocking by proving they are willing to kill anyone. Although most people who are bothering to read this probably won't even have a clue what I'm talking about, Teri Bauer's murder remains one of the most surprising moments in TV history. Nobody thought they'd actually go there, but they did. And everyone has been doing the same ever since.
So in short, unless a character is the protagonist (or the protagonist's child or Daryl Dixon), don't get too attached. Because they gonna die. Probably soon. And probably horribly.
2. The violence is the least interesting part of the show, and yet the showrunners remain endlessly convinced that finding new and creative ways to make the show more violent is a truly excellent use of their time and their creative powers.
All I am saying is that Jack Bauer bit the fuck of a dude's neck a decade before RG got around to it.
Both shows were/are famous for their over-the-top sequences of total grossness, but I humbly maintain that exactly zero of those moments are what audiences will remember twenty years later.
Twenty years later, audiences will remember Jack's speech about what Nina took away from the world when she killed Teri. They'll remember George Mason's choice to die on his own terms. They'll remember Jack pulling off his own gas mask to save a dying child. They'll remember the look on Renee's face when she found out Jack was going to die.
Twenty years later, audiences will remember the women laughing at the quarry. They'll remember Dale's beautiful unstoppable quiet morality in the face of indescribable horror. They'll remember Lori's final speech to Carl. They'll remember Michonne teasing Carl with squeezie cheese. They'll remember the look on Carol's face the second she puts a bullet in Lizzie's head. They'll remember Daryl hugging Carol so tightly she probably couldn't breathe, touching her everywhere, holding on to one of the only things in his life he ever loved that actually came back to him.
3. When they do it right, they knock it so far out of the park that it hits the edge of the universe. But when they do it wrong, well . . .
I'm not even gonna expand on this one, because it would wind up a novel. I'm only going to say that I will live forever astonished that both these shows have moments that will forever crack my soul wide open followed by moments that leave me facepalming until the end of time.
4. They're super iffy on female characters.
I'll get in so much trouble for this one, but whatever. I'm living wild since nobody will read this anyway. 24 had some crazy amazing women. I'd make a list but this post would never end. It's no secret that Renee Walker was my favorite, and she was practically perfect in every way . . . until they had to write S8. In short, they wrote a female character who was as fully developed as the guys, and apparently that made them so nervous they had to destroy her.
But I mean, no female character escaped 24 unscathed. Please TWD. Do it better. I'm begging.
TWD? Remains to be seen. They choked hard on Lori, Andrea, and Beth, and continue to do the same in varying degrees with Maggie, Sasha, Rosita, Tara, and Michonne. Carol's the only one who's keeping pace with the boys in terms of a character arc. Yeah, we all know I worship at her altar, but that doesn't mean I'd object to other women being written three-dimensionally like, all the time. Bring it writers. Please.
5. They want to raise important and confusing moral questions, but they do it with the subtlety of nuclear war.
GODS. 24's endless question was, "Do the ends justify the means?" and TWD's appears to be some combo of "How far can you go before you're too far gone?" and "Can you come back from what you've done?"
Maybe it's just me, but I'd swap all that noise for one conversation where Carol and Michonne talk about their favorite movie or swap their worst dating stories.
Life isn't about one endless huge moral question. Life is about whether you're the person who tips twenty percent or more, all the time every time.
One way they are polar opposites.
Their protagonists probably couldn't be more different.
Jack Bauer is the most selfless human being ever to land on the planet. Except Renee Walker because she died doing her job when he told her not to I mean wut. (Well and I mean Carol, okay don't get me started on that.) He will suffer and sacrifice anything, all things, everything, as long as he thinks he's saving people (most often people he has never met) and working for the greater good.
RG is -- generally speaking -- a self-centered, sometimes delusional asshole who makes all of his choices based on whether or not they protect his biological family.
