24 To Life - General Discussion - 24 To Life

@SilverStormmThanks for creating this! Much appreciated. So, my wife just started watching this because her mother told her about it. She'd recorded S2E3 "Desperate Measures" and I saw it on the TiVO. We watched it together and I found it to be really interesting. One thing that really piqued my interest was Ben's desperate attempt

@SilverStormm Thanks for creating this! Much appreciated.

So, my wife just started watching this because her mother told her about it. She'd recorded S2E3 "Desperate Measures" and I saw it on the TiVO. We watched it together and I found it to be really interesting. One thing that really piqued my interest was Ben's desperate attempt to get a delay in reporting/surrendering due to his medical issues. I couldn't help but think "Guy, if you haven't managed to get the doctors to sign anything for you a month or two ago, then you've got no hope on the very last day". Besides, even if he had gotten something signed, I wouldn't think you could just hop down to the courthouse and demand a judge to hear your appeal that day. And that means he would have had to report to prison while his attorney tried to get him a reprieve, but it's not very likely they're going to turn you out of prison once you're there. Of course, I didn't have much sympathy for him because I figured that he was getting locked up for arson since they'd mentioned he was a firefighter and how what he did has ruined any possibility of that career for him.

I found Elisha to be more interesting and more sympathetic. I also thought her crime would end up being drug dealing or possibly prostitution (but I couldn't figure out why they'd send her to Federal prison for prostitution). I was glad her brother decided to move in with her family while she is in prison in order to help pay the bills. Some families would have left her twisting in the wind. (Odds are mine would have, but surprising things do happen.) And I liked that they showed her doing her normal things, like taking the kids to school and such. I'm not sure how smart it was to tell the kids she's going to camp, rather than being honest about it. But I can understand wanting to protect the children from that, too.

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