Day 6, 8 AM - 9 AM (Episode 3)
- Fayed calls the President directly, and the President calls him "Fayed", and tells him that he shouldn't be trusted because he lied about Assad. It's obvious to us how the President knows that Fayed is behind everything - Jack told him, and the intercepted phone call in the last hour confirmed this. But how does Fayed, who doesn't seem shocked at all at the President's knowledge, expect the President to know this? From all he knows, the US believes that he's given the US Assad's location in exchange for Bauer, not that he's behind everything. Nothing that's happened since he captured Bauer should change this. Yet not only does Fayed talk as if the President should already know he's the mastermind, the President makes no effort to hide this information, either. It is possible that Fayed assumes Jack went directly to the President after they stopped chasing him, but at the very least the President should feign ignorance, since it might come in handy later.
- Politics minute: Everyone's up in arms over Fayed's demands that the "Freedom fighters" in Palmdale be released. Karen Hayes talks about them as "extremely dangerous terrorists". But if they're anything like the people in the real world who are being kept at Guantanamo or some of our other detention facilities, none of them have been convicted of anything, and our government refuses to provide them a fair trial, presumably because they don't have any real evidence to convict them. It's certainly possible that some of these people are actually dangerous, but many of them have been people we picked up erroneously and refuse to allow to challenge their detention. Just remember that calling someone a "terrorist" doesn't make it so. See, in America, you're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. Sorry about that interlude - back to fun stuff now!
- As mentioned last episode, Assad seems to be willing to risk a lot - imprisonment, death - in order to capture Fayed. This makes no sense. He may have a lot invested in his political movement that he's trying to make legitimate, but it certainly would be a lot more prudent for him to run away and live to fight, or negotiate, another day. My guess is he bites it in the next few episodes.
- Jack was awfully careless when he intentionally crashed into Fayed's man's car. He hit him in the driver's door, and if he kills or maims him, then the gig's up. Maybe he's out of practice?
- After getting his car wrecked, Fayed's man just hops in the car with Assad? He doesn't even see if his car still works? He doesn't call Fayed to let him know what's up? Pretty inept henchman.
- When Fayed's man gets to the storage facility and gets in a gunfight with the CTU dudes (who give away their position accidentally - pretty shoddy work for what must be one of their highest importance missions ever), they seem to have no problem at indiscriminately shooting back, even though the gunman is surrounded by tons what look to be explosives or other deadly materials.
- Scott's dad calls home when the dealer asks for an extra 50 grand, and Ahmed immediately answers the phone. What was he going to say if the caller wasn't Scott's dad? Admittedly, he looks at the phone for the caller ID for a millisecond, but it seems pretty unlikely that he knows the dealer's number, or that it's even listed, for that matter.
- After Fayed's man dies, the pieces are put together a little too fast, and are way too tenuous, even for 24: The destroyed computer happens to have enough information on it for Assad to be able to read the type of the bomb, which Nadia happens to have heard of, and of which all were destroyed except for one, apparently, which was rumored to belong to a guy whose name no one knows, but who they happen to have a single picture of, and who Assad happens to recognize AND know the name of.
- Fayed is able to plant a traitorous guard at Palmdale, but unable to free a terrorist being kept there without this incredibly elaborate plan that is prone to failure?
- Politics minute: Everyone's up in arms over Fayed's demands that the "Freedom fighters" in Palmdale be released. Karen Hayes talks about them as "extremely dangerous terrorists". But if they're anything like the people in the real world who are being kept at Guantanamo or some of our other detention facilities, none of them have been convicted of anything, and our government refuses to provide them a fair trial, presumably because they don't have any real evidence to convict them. It's certainly possible that some of these people are actually dangerous, but many of them have been people we picked up erroneously and refuse to allow to challenge their detention. Just remember that calling someone a "terrorist" doesn't make it so. See, in America, you're supposed to be innocent until proven guilty. Sorry about that interlude - back to fun stuff now!
- As mentioned last episode, Assad seems to be willing to risk a lot - imprisonment, death - in order to capture Fayed. This makes no sense. He may have a lot invested in his political movement that he's trying to make legitimate, but it certainly would be a lot more prudent for him to run away and live to fight, or negotiate, another day. My guess is he bites it in the next few episodes.
- Jack was awfully careless when he intentionally crashed into Fayed's man's car. He hit him in the driver's door, and if he kills or maims him, then the gig's up. Maybe he's out of practice?
- After getting his car wrecked, Fayed's man just hops in the car with Assad? He doesn't even see if his car still works? He doesn't call Fayed to let him know what's up? Pretty inept henchman.
- When Fayed's man gets to the storage facility and gets in a gunfight with the CTU dudes (who give away their position accidentally - pretty shoddy work for what must be one of their highest importance missions ever), they seem to have no problem at indiscriminately shooting back, even though the gunman is surrounded by tons what look to be explosives or other deadly materials.
- Scott's dad calls home when the dealer asks for an extra 50 grand, and Ahmed immediately answers the phone. What was he going to say if the caller wasn't Scott's dad? Admittedly, he looks at the phone for the caller ID for a millisecond, but it seems pretty unlikely that he knows the dealer's number, or that it's even listed, for that matter.
- After Fayed's man dies, the pieces are put together a little too fast, and are way too tenuous, even for 24: The destroyed computer happens to have enough information on it for Assad to be able to read the type of the bomb, which Nadia happens to have heard of, and of which all were destroyed except for one, apparently, which was rumored to belong to a guy whose name no one knows, but who they happen to have a single picture of, and who Assad happens to recognize AND know the name of.
- Fayed is able to plant a traitorous guard at Palmdale, but unable to free a terrorist being kept there without this incredibly elaborate plan that is prone to failure?
posted by Dave at 11:23:00 PM
2 Comments:
Smut-Li again laments the length of the entries! This is starting to feel like work!
Not going to go over all the points.
The elaborite plan to get all the detainees on the plane is so that he can free the dude AND so that he can blow up the plane and create more anti-america sentiment in his potential recruits, He'll blame the US for their deaths.
C4 -clearly marked on the crates-is not prone to impact detonation. Bullets won't set it off. This is common knowledge, right?
The decision to make this season less-nuanced and more action-packed certainly forces their hands on having things happen quickly and conveniently so that it can all happen in a 24 hour period of time. I believe most of your gripes reside in this vein. One of two things needs to happen. Either they abandon their "all in one day" premise or they tone-down their scope and invest in writers who specialize in suspense through nuance and who carefully scrutinze their revealed actions and information.
You think it was work for you? This took a long time! At least from now on, it's one post a week.
- I must have missed the details about Fayed blowing up the plane.
- I didn't see the C4 notation.
- They can't abandon the "24" gimmick. They just need to think things through in more details. But you're right about the scope - they keep trying to up the ante every season, but at some point, it can no longer be upped. Season 1 was good because it was on a much smaller scale. Season 2 increase the scale drastically, but now they can't top it.
- Clearly, I was getting tired too, since I made a couple errors. I will have to regain my focus.
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