Day 6, 12 PM - 1 PM (Episode 7)
- The show opens with one of the its most nonsensical conversations ever, and for "24", that's saying a lot. The President is rightfully suspect of Karen's motives for resigning, and Tom is clearly not being forthright. Palmer figures that much, because he's not a total moron. Tom referring to her as a "worthy adversary" seems kinda stupid right there. I can understand political parties referring to each other that way, but if two members of your cabinet (well, we don't really know what Tom is - maybe he's Minority Whip or something) see each other as adversaries, you've got bigger problems. Tom then claims that maybe she resigned because he was planning to resubmit his proposed executive order! Yes, yes, that makes perfect sense. Well, it does to Palmer, or he has the attention span of a cocker spaniel puppy, because he completely forgets about Karen. I guess Tom's smarter than I thought.
- Graeme says it's his job to worry, but he clearly doesn't worry enough. He's gotta know that his brother, Jack, is the bestest agent ever to exist. I can understand not wanting to shoot him in broad daylight, but maybe the plan should have been to shoot him as soon as they get to the spot they wanted to execute him at, instead of this elaborate method of having him kneel before a hole in the ground. What are they going to do next, use some sort of device that the Joker from the old Batman TV series would devise? The Pit and the Pendulum? Sharks with friggin' laser beams?
- "Daaaad! Don't shoot the last remaining bad guy! I needed to question him! Darn it! You always ruin everything!" "Sorry, son, I wasn't thinking. Oops! "
- How can CTU happen to intercept the McCarthy-Fayed call, but hardly any other communications? They aren't talking on some encrypted line? And, presumably, McCarthy sent the "Curriculum Vitae" of the replacement nuclear missile armer to Fayed's screen (just like at CTU!) over the internet so it couldn't be intercepted, but CTU got that too. The terrorists are really slacking off.
- One of the coolest things about CTU is that they have mobile interrogation kits. Where can I get one of those? Brookstone?
- It'll take Chloe half an hour to figure out what Morris has done? He's only been working on his program for like 10 minutes! Maybe she should just start from scratch. Or, maybe CTU workers should stop spending time combing the lists of injured people looking for relatives of their worker so they can debate whether or not to tell them bad news.
- Wayne Palmer is like the anti-Bush. Bush never changes his mind; Wayne changes his mind depending on which way the breeze blows. If you want to convince the President of something, just make sure that you're the last one to talk to him.
- Graeme says it's his job to worry, but he clearly doesn't worry enough. He's gotta know that his brother, Jack, is the bestest agent ever to exist. I can understand not wanting to shoot him in broad daylight, but maybe the plan should have been to shoot him as soon as they get to the spot they wanted to execute him at, instead of this elaborate method of having him kneel before a hole in the ground. What are they going to do next, use some sort of device that the Joker from the old Batman TV series would devise? The Pit and the Pendulum? Sharks with friggin' laser beams?
- "Daaaad! Don't shoot the last remaining bad guy! I needed to question him! Darn it! You always ruin everything!
- How can CTU happen to intercept the McCarthy-Fayed call, but hardly any other communications? They aren't talking on some encrypted line? And, presumably, McCarthy sent the "Curriculum Vitae" of the replacement nuclear missile armer to Fayed's screen (just like at CTU!) over the internet so it couldn't be intercepted, but CTU got that too. The terrorists are really slacking off.
- One of the coolest things about CTU is that they have mobile interrogation kits. Where can I get one of those? Brookstone?
- It'll take Chloe half an hour to figure out what Morris has done? He's only been working on his program for like 10 minutes! Maybe she should just start from scratch. Or, maybe CTU workers should stop spending time combing the lists of injured people looking for relatives of their worker so they can debate whether or not to tell them bad news.
- Wayne Palmer is like the anti-Bush. Bush never changes his mind; Wayne changes his mind depending on which way the breeze blows. If you want to convince the President of something, just make sure that you're the last one to talk to him.
posted by Dave at 9:43:00 PM
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Smut-Li Honking Mad!
Honk!
Honk-honk!
Why in the name of all that is sacred do you agree to let Daddy Bauer have time alone with his evil-mastermind son? This was horrible for two reasons. #1. It made no sense - Graem is super valuable on many different fronts and so is Dad. Maybe they need supervision? It's okay, right cause Jack is there to protect them, right! Wrong, Jack just left. Hey doofus, don't leave them alone! Seriously, I see Dad ask for time alone with Graeioum and I shout "DAD KILLS GRAIEOUM! DAD KILLS SELF? or is it DAD KILLS GRAEEIOUM, DAD REVEALS SELF?" #2. Didn't anyone care what the two were going to talk about? Hell-o???? between these two guys happened a presidential assasination! I don't think that you just let them get together to talk.
Remember that smell I spoke about? Well it's back and it's pungent. As soon as Chloe's boy-toy was assigned the task of decoding the photo and as soon as he said "I'm leaving", Smut-Li said: Photo is of him! That's how they'd do it on Days-of-our-lives! Seriously, if you want to predict this show, just guess what will be the most outrageous shock value and that is what is going to happen. I'm getting sick of the stupidity.
Here's another gem of crusty turd-dom: Dad congratulates Greaioum for "taking me with Jack so that Jack didn't suspect me!" when they went to kill Jack and him in the elaborate cement-mixer construction-yard-holes plan. Why the frank did they do that? If Dad and Graeioum were in on it together, why not just kill Jack when they had the chance in the office complex? Why the elaborate scheme to gain Jack's trust for dad and then have Greiouium 'turn bad' and then fake have Dad going to be executed with Jack, just before they killed Jack? What purpose does it serve for either Dad or Greiouium to convince jack that Dad is good if he's going to be killed anyway?
My final beef is that they are making it hard for me to believe Jack has any motivation or "base" for his love of life or his sense to fight. His wife is dead. He's been tortured more times than I can even remember. Kim, his daughter hates him. Nina -the hot chick who he loved - was a super traitor, He had to kill two of his best friends: Mason, and Curtis. He had to kill his own boss as part of a terrorist demand (can't remember the name of the di@kwad boss he wasted in season 3). He had to send Samwise gamgee to his death. Now he finds out his own father and brother are indirectly responsible for much of the terror that he's been fighting against? Smut-Li is starting to have troubble suspending disbelief. It's one thing to pretend that one man is as adept at fighting and surviving as jack is. It's quite another to believe that his life is so particularly cruel and perfectly aweful
I didn't mention the leaving Daddy with Graem thing, but upon further reflection, it's really stupid. See, I actually like the idea that Jack is finally realizing the toll that being "Jack Bauer" has taken on him, and also possibly realizing that he can't do it any more. Something along the lines of how torturing people is as damaging to one's soul and being tortured is to one's body. If that were the theme of this season, it might be worthwhile. But they're hyper-inconsistent with it. Sometimes, Jack is the old Jack, and sometimes he's a blithering idiot. Leaving Dad with Graem was too far on the blithering idiot side, given that he just confessed to assassinating the President. And even if Jack was somehow completely distracted by the realization that he almost killed his brother, the other field agents probably should have been a little sharper.
Morris did try his brother, by the way, though the hospital. We can presume that cell phone circuits are busy too, but, of course, they still work when convenient.
I can't yet criticize their plan to get Jack to trust his Dad because presumably there's a larger plan that we don't know of yet. I bet it'll be stupid, but it's still conceivable it was deliberate.
I don't mind red herrings - it's almost necessary so smarties like Smut-Li don't figure out everything ahead of time.
I'd be willing to give them credit for the "Dad is really good" plan -but they were trying to kill him!
How does carefully orchestrating the Good Guy/Bad Guy manipulation of Jack pay off when Jack is dead?
Smut-Li say "stanky!"
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