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When 24 blows up your hometown

by Meredith O'Brien, posted Jan 23rd 2007 5:30PM

Map of ValenciaLA Daily News entertainment editor Robert Loman was ticked off after he finished watching 24 last Monday night.

He wanted to know why the creators of 24 decided to wipe out his hometown of Valencia, CA with a suitcase nuke in hour four of its sixth season.

"In Valencia?" Loman wrote. "Hey, we practically invented soccer moms."

So indignant was he that he called 24 executive producer Howard Gordon to find out why they chose to detonate the nuclear bomb in Valencia and not, say, in Burbank, or a some fictional California community. Gordon told Loman that they "liked the sound of Valencia." Loman then went on to interview a city councilor who mused that this probably wasn't the kind of civic promotion that would please the local chamber of commerce.

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epobirs

I'm just a few miles north in Castaic but the location they showed as Ground Zero is so far north in Valencia there is infighting as to whether it is actually part of Castaic.

So I guess I'm a goner, too. And I don't even watch that show.

January 31 2007 at 3:59 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
danielobvt

hrmph.... My hometown (Washington DC) seems to get hit on almost every TV show (yeah, I am looking at you Jericho) that involves the US getting attacked or Nuked. The only other people that can understand this are the people from the good city to our north, NYC. Sorry if I feel enjoyment that its not my hometown....

January 25 2007 at 12:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tucker

I wish my town would get blown up on 24 :(

January 24 2007 at 11:23 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Alan Hoffman

haha, my house is about a centimeter from the star on the map. it was kinda sureal to see my hometown blown up on "24."

January 23 2007 at 6:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
David

"[Why] In Valencia?" Loman wrote. "Hey, we practically invented soccer moms."

He answered his own question.

January 23 2007 at 6:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
VitoTheTiVo

As a longtime resident of Valencia and fan of "24", I can tell you that they love using the surrounding area as their go to place that is LA but not LA.

They've made it home to Kim and Teri's kidnappers, a secret underground prison, a massive trainwreck, a cougar with a taste for starlets, liquor store robberies, Kevin Dillon the survivalist, and numerous other random things.

January 23 2007 at 6:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
LC

On a positive note, the bomb wasn't intended to go off in Valencia.

January 23 2007 at 5:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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