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It sucks they can't do a 4-6 ep. mini-series because of the whole 24 hours

posted 8 years ago by bennylax10
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The premise of this show is everything happens in a day. A 12 episode season works because you can skip 12 hours. What limits the show from doing a 4-6 episode mini-series that all the main cast could MAYBE agree on coming back to is shorter filming. But the whole 24 hours in a day, I don't know how they could swing it. If some magically way it could happen it would be the best way to get closure on all the characters.

[–] Dark_Sithlord 8 years ago

They would have to ditch the whole 24 hour, real-time premise. Maybe each episode would represent 4 hours, and then a 6-episode series would be viable.

[–] Dark_Sithlord 8 years ago

They would have to ditch the whole 24 hour, real-time premise. Maybe each episode would represent 4 hours, and then a 6-episode series would be viable.

[–] bennylax10 8 years ago

Yeah that's what I'm saying saying. The whole pitch of the show being each episode being an hour in real time kind of hurts them.

I kind of like your idea of maybe 4 hours per episode. They could have the ability to take planes and be more loose with time during the episode.

[–] Dark_Sithlord 8 years ago

To compress 4 hours into an episode, they should probably make each episode 1.5 hours (2 hours with commercials).

Hopefully we haven't heard the last of Jack Bauer.

[–] picturetaker 8 years ago

Or they could make each episode a 24 hour day. Would open things up in story.