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TOP TEN - Ways to know that you're on drugs / a sentinel

10. When you concentrate too much on one sense, everything else disappears and you are likely to have a confrontation with death

9. When you're looking at your room-mate/partner and you see before you a guy who's dressed like a hippie, and the thought that runs through your head is "What the hell am I doing with him?"

8. You start seeing ghosts of people who were murdered 50 years ago

7. You communicate with those ghosts

6. You start hearing voices that no one else does

5. You start having visions about animals that transform into people / people who transform into animals

4. You're about to make love to the same woman who killed your best friend only a few days ago

3. You taste something that you found on the floor of your apartment

2. You're guided by a dead Indian shaman

1. You feel that everything is closing up on you and you empty your loft from everything, cut off the power and stand by the open window, watching the city while mumbling something about an evil power

TOP TEN - things we love about Blair

10. His opinion about guns

9. His spiritual beliefs

8. His knowledge about everything

7. His long and curly hair

6. His sense of humor and naughtiness

5. His enthusiasm

4. His kind and naive heart

3. His smile ( the make-you-melt kind )

2. His blue eyes ( they make the sky envy)

1. His worry for Jim

TOP TEN - ways to know that you're addicted to

'The Sentinel'

10. You're seriously thinking about becoming a cop/anthropologist

9. You have all the episodes on tapes

8. You've seen every episode at least five times

7. You know all the episodes by heart

6. You start to listen to Fiona Apple just because she's Garett's sister

5. Your family and friends know that there is one hour every week that no one can talk to you, and that there must be silence in the house

4. You start to watch all the shows that the guys had guest appearance on, just to catch those episodes

3. Every time that you're in a library and pass by the anthropology section, you smile

2. Every time you hear chief/buddy, your heart misses a beat

1. Every time you see a guy in the street that has long and curly hair, or a well build guy with short army like hair cut, you wonder what Blair/Jim is doing there

TOP TEN - things we love about Jim

10. His ultimate macho guy act

9. His white socks

8. His decorative abilities ( just look at the loft )

7. His love for junk food

6. His great physique

5. His steel blue eyes

4. His poker face when something fishy is up

3. His bright smile ( so rare )

2. How he always tries to cover up how concernedhe is about Blair

1. Two words - Blessed Protector

All I Have To Know About Life, I Learned From The Sentinel

10. Always charge your cellphone battery and carry a spare because you never know when you'll need to contact the police for backup (or find out if your room-mate is okay)

9. It never hurts to be too paranoid about your room-mate's safety, cause you never know, they might end up kidnapped, beaten or murdered

8. Don't make a move on a girl who you find locked in the back of a car

7. Don't let Jim Ellison drive your car

6. Never be friends with anthropologists who hang out with cops cause you're bound to have a shorter life span

5. You'll always have a near death escape from the bad guys if you are a lively well-meaning Anthropologist/guide who's partnered with a stone faced well meaning cop/sentinel

4. Trust your feelings

3. Don't ever rely on outside apearence or first encounters; a guy who's dressed like a hippie might just turn out to be your best friend and even if someone slams you against a wall and calles you a neo-hippy witch doctor punk, he just may turn out to be your best friend too

2. When something bothers you, talk about it; That's what friends are for

1. Never walk away angry because you never know when it might be too late to say you're sorry

TOP TEN - things that repeat on the show

10. Simon glaring at Blair

9. Simon telling Blair he's not a cop

8. Jim giving Blair the cellphone, to call for backup

7. Blair being kidnap/hurt

6. Jim saving a kidnapt/hurt Blair

5. An action packed sequence that has something to do with Jim in a car chase

4. Jim destroying his car in a car chase

3. Jim losing his gun

2. Jim's white socks

1. Chief / Buddy

The Ten Commandments - according to "The Sentinel"

10. Thou shalt not involve old friends in your police cases

9. Thou shalt honor thy Captain

8. Thou shalt not trust old friends that you happen to meet after years of not hearing from them

7. Thou shalt not let Jim Ellison drive your car

6. Thou shalt not call a serious looking cop, on your first meeting with him, a behavioural throwback to a pre-civilized breed of man (or any meeting for that matter)

5. Thou shalt not leave your thesis lying around where people can see it

4. Thou shalt not hide things from your sentinel

3. Thou shalt not hide things from your guide

2. Thou shalt have no other sentinels before Jim Ellison

1. Remember the "sentinel too - part one" episode - to learn from your mistakes.

TOP TEN - Ways to know you're a sentinel

10. You can hear the walls cracking up just before falling down

9. You can hear unconscious people's heartbeats from the other side of your cellphone

8. You can use only one brand of detergent for your clothes

7. You know when people are lying to you just by listening to their heartbeats with your hearing (without using any medical device)

6. When you get your ears cleaned, you feel like everything is operating at maximum volume

5. Your roommate starts complaining that you never turn on the radio/TV loud enough for anyone else to hear

4. You can't take normal medication because it makes you loopy and you might end up on the wrong side of the train (as in UNDER it)

3. When concentrating too much on one sense, everything else disappears and you are more than likely to be run over by a truck / step on a mine field

2. You can track down your kidnapped captain in the rain forests just by following the smell of his cigars

1. A young Anthropologist tells you that you are a behavioural throwback to a pre-civilized breed of man and that he wants to write his thesis on you because you are the living embodiment of his field of study

TOP TEN - things that the fans want to see more on

'The Sentinel'

10. References to previous episodes

9. Every day scenes in the loft

8. A birthday celebration

7. Flashbacks to when the guys were kids

6. Simon taking part in the action

5. Blair helping Jim with his senses

4. Spirituality ( visions, shaman...)

3. Blair saving Jim

2. Jim talking about his feelings

1. A hug

TOP TEN - Ways to help your sentinel

10. Make sure he charges his cell-phone before he goes out for the day (get him a spare battery too)

9. Use air freshener / deodorant

8. Don't eat a pizza that's been ordered to your office by someone who you don't know (it would only lead to you risking your life and he risking his in a try to save you)

7. Open his eyes when he's so in love/attracted to a woman that he can't see that she's one of the bad guys

6. Keep close to you a list of excuses to use everytime that he uses his senses in front of other people

5. Stay indoor all the time, wait no, the bad guys can still pay you a visit. Hmmm, maybe you should lock yourself up in a bank vault and not tell anyone you're there. Hmmm... maybe

4. Always forgive your sentinel; it's not his fault that he doesn't know how to express his feelings

3. Never be insulted if he doesn't listen to you, your motto in life should be 'If at first I don't succeed, I must try and try again' (or until that thick-headed sentinel gets it anyway)

2. Keep on reminding him that the tests that you're doing on him are for his own good and will only help him in the future (like to get back on a train after falling under it)

1. Keep on reminding him how much good his senses brought him and how many people he helped using them...even stone faced sentinels need some encouragement now and then

TOP TEN - Cliches of the sentinel

10. When there's a high speed car chase involving Jim and Blair (and God knows there are a lot of those) the bad guys will always lose the chase and Jim and blair will go out of it without even a scratch

9. When someone is shot, the shot will always be fatal, no matter where it hits him (unless of course it's one of the guys)

8. A meeting with friends from the past will never end well; in most cases the friend will die (What ever happened to happy reunions ?)

.7. The guys will always find evidence that are almost completely destroyed, but have just enough to convict the bad guys (with some help of Jim's senses that always see the right thing)

6. A certain sentinel can never hold on to his gun for long when he fights the bad guys (What's the use of being in the army/police when you're lousy in hand-to-hand combat?)

5. The girl that one of the boys fall for will almost always turn out to be connected in some way to the case that they are working on / the bad guys

4. Troubles always seem to follow the guys, even when they are on vacations (can a person really be such a trouble magnet?)

3. No matter how big the explostion is and how close the guys are to it (very close most of the times) they will never get hurt from the blast and the fragments (well, maybe get a scratch or two on the cheek).

2. The bad guys are caught and the good guys win

1. No matter what the episode is about, a certain guide will always get himself into trouble and his sentinel will have to bail him out

TOP TEN - Ways to know you're Jim Ellison

10. 4 wheeled vehicles and you don't go along well, as in, you're bound to wreck them

9. Your past/present love interests are women who turn out to be a sophisticated thief / a hit man of the Shang Syndicate/ a woman who planned with her husband to incriminate you in his "murder", and when he really does die, you find out that she actually planed to incriminate you in her husband's murder with the internal investigation guy who's been taking your juice out for the last couple of days

8. You learn how to talk with a southern accent from old episodes of "Bonanza"

7. When you finally decide to take a vacation you drive to some remote small city only to be caught in the middle of a money train hijacking / go to a monastery only to find out that there's a murderer among the monks who's looking for a former mafia guy who escaped and found refuge in the monastery

6. You almost always have to grapple (stupidly) with a bad guy for half a minute before you conk him out

5. When you grapple (stupidly) with a bad guy, he almost always makes you lose your gun

4. You have a lively well-meaning friend who helps you go through life and makes you age faster because of his magnetism (for bad babes and trouble - hey wait, they're the same thing!)

3. You call your roommate/partner "chief"

2. Your roommate/partner is a young Anthropologist that's writing his thesis about you because he claims that you are the living embodiment of his field of study.

1. The words "thank you" and "sorry" are not in your daily dictionary (not when it comes to your roommate/partner/best friend)

TOP TEN - Ways to know that your roommate / partner / best friend is a sentinel

10. He can find a bomb on a bus by hearing the direction that it's ticking is coming from

9. He can identify crooks from a distance of about 20 cars

8. He can identify the smell of the bad guys shampoo from a piece of fabric that he finds in a bird nest on a tree

7. He can find fingerprints in a crime scene, using only his eye vision

6. He can read words from a blank paper by using his fingers

5. He ends up under a speeding train after taking syrup for his cold

4. When he's blind after accidentally sniffing golden, he can "see" by whistling and clapping his hands, listening to the echoes that come from the objects around him...you know, like bats do

3. He can hear the TV even when it's on the lowest volume

2. He comes to you in the middle of the night, claiming that your writing with your pencil interferes his sleep

1. His name is Jim Ellison

TOP TEN - Things that you won't see on "The Sentinel"

10. A girl who isn't attracted to at least one of the guys

9. A girl who the boys aren't attracted to

8. An investigation that the guys aren't making personal

7. A relationship that last more than one episode

6. Simon treating Blair as a cop

5. Blair cutting his hair

4. Jim listening to Blair's words with respect and his full attention

3. Blair staying behind like he was told to do

2. Jim admitting that he was wrong

1. A hug