Day 6, 5 PM - 6 PM (Episode 12)
- I realize there's a whole lot of chaos in the wake of the bomb, but it's pretty strange what's going on in the bunker. First of all, the Secretary of Defense is in charge because he's the "ranking" member of the Cabinet? Well, according to the line of succession, it's the Secretary of State who's at the top of the list. But the SecDef seems to just be bossing people around left and right. Also, doesn't the Vice President have his own Chief of Staff? Of course, he's not yet around. And, lastly, poor Chad Lowe always seems to make up an excuse for Lennox's absence that just happens to contradict the recent experiences of the person he's talking to. ("I just saw the Attorney General...")
- I said it last week, but since they insist on basically repeating the exact same conversation as before, so will I: Chad Lowe and the Magic Marker Assassin are ridiculous. Why isn't the assassin willing to kill Chad Lowe too? Once you've tried to kill the President, the rest is pretty much gravy, don'tcha think? And why doesn't Chad Lowe think that especially now, with the President not actually dead (and liable to undo whatever his replacement does once he regains coherence), that Lennox isn't an incredible liability to their long-term plans if he's alive? They're pretty much the dumbest assassins ever.
- So, they just kinda glossed over this one: Logan had/has evidence that Markov was somehow responsible for the Sentox nerve gas attacks from Season 4, but never did anything about it? Well, it's no surprise that he's involved in another terrorist attack. Logan was even worse than we thought!
- 30 minutes ago, Jack said that he doesn't trust Logan. Yet he's willing to allow Logan to hear him talk to Chloe about another covert operation into the Russian Consulate? Why not step out of the car first, so Logan doesn't have any blackmail material?
- Aside from the misconceptions in the public's eye about torture being effective and necessary, there's another myth that I think "24" is largely responsible for: The President as Commander-in-Chief over everyone. The President is Commander-in-Chief of the military, not civilians. If the President orders you to do something illegal, he may pardon you later, but it's still illegal. But in "24", the President seems to have ultimate authority over everything. In this particular case, he can isolate himself with an assassination suspect, and also tells another lackey that Lennox's statement shouldn't be given directly to the Attorney General. I can certainly understand in "24"-land that people give deference to the President and don't want to disobey him (if nothing else, for fear of losing their jobs), but you'd have to figure at some point, in the real world, someone would at least think twice about trashing whatever policies and procedures they've probably been trained their whole life to obey.
- This bears repeating too - Lennox's plan is stupid, not just in the long-term (where there will be extreme backlash), but in the short-term. How are they going to round up all of the Middle Eastern people in the entire country? What criteria will they use? Who will do the rounding up? While the authorities are all busy finding the easy-to-finyd Middle Easterners, the terrorists will be literally getting away with murder. It's not like they don't know what Fayed and Gredenko look like, but still haven't been able to find them. How will this help with that? They're in the Mojave desert now anyways...
- So, the Russian guy who asked Jack what he was doing got an answer back in Russian. Did he think that Jack worked for the embassy and he just didn't recognize him? Or did he think that he was encountering a Secret Service agent who just happened to speak Russian? Neither answer really makes much sense.
- What the hell was Jack doing? He thought he'd just walk out of the front door of the Consulate? And there's really no good reason why Markov should have known as much information as he did.
- I said it last week, but since they insist on basically repeating the exact same conversation as before, so will I: Chad Lowe and the Magic Marker Assassin are ridiculous. Why isn't the assassin willing to kill Chad Lowe too? Once you've tried to kill the President, the rest is pretty much gravy, don'tcha think? And why doesn't Chad Lowe think that especially now, with the President not actually dead (and liable to undo whatever his replacement does once he regains coherence), that Lennox isn't an incredible liability to their long-term plans if he's alive? They're pretty much the dumbest assassins ever.
- So, they just kinda glossed over this one: Logan had/has evidence that Markov was somehow responsible for the Sentox nerve gas attacks from Season 4, but never did anything about it? Well, it's no surprise that he's involved in another terrorist attack. Logan was even worse than we thought!
- 30 minutes ago, Jack said that he doesn't trust Logan. Yet he's willing to allow Logan to hear him talk to Chloe about another covert operation into the Russian Consulate? Why not step out of the car first, so Logan doesn't have any blackmail material?
- Aside from the misconceptions in the public's eye about torture being effective and necessary, there's another myth that I think "24" is largely responsible for: The President as Commander-in-Chief over everyone. The President is Commander-in-Chief of the military, not civilians. If the President orders you to do something illegal, he may pardon you later, but it's still illegal. But in "24", the President seems to have ultimate authority over everything. In this particular case, he can isolate himself with an assassination suspect, and also tells another lackey that Lennox's statement shouldn't be given directly to the Attorney General. I can certainly understand in "24"-land that people give deference to the President and don't want to disobey him (if nothing else, for fear of losing their jobs), but you'd have to figure at some point, in the real world, someone would at least think twice about trashing whatever policies and procedures they've probably been trained their whole life to obey.
- This bears repeating too - Lennox's plan is stupid, not just in the long-term (where there will be extreme backlash), but in the short-term. How are they going to round up all of the Middle Eastern people in the entire country? What criteria will they use? Who will do the rounding up? While the authorities are all busy finding the easy-to-finyd Middle Easterners, the terrorists will be literally getting away with murder. It's not like they don't know what Fayed and Gredenko look like, but still haven't been able to find them. How will this help with that? They're in the Mojave desert now anyways...
- So, the Russian guy who asked Jack what he was doing got an answer back in Russian. Did he think that Jack worked for the embassy and he just didn't recognize him? Or did he think that he was encountering a Secret Service agent who just happened to speak Russian? Neither answer really makes much sense.
- What the hell was Jack doing? He thought he'd just walk out of the front door of the Consulate? And there's really no good reason why Markov should have known as much information as he did.
posted by Dave at 9:46:00 PM
1 Comments:
Yes! I was screaming at the TV when Jack got his information and made his way to the front door as if he was just going to waltz on out. Pretty stupid if you ask me.
I was excited to see Denethor get his pinky finger snipped off. Serves him right for the way he treated poor ol' Faramir. Lauren thinks Jack should have covered Markov in kerosene and threatened to light him on fire to get the information out of him, just to make him feel like he was in his element again.
I would also like to point out that we haven't seen Zephryn Cockrin for two hours now. My theory is that he's leveraging his profits from the sale of the nuclear bombs to fund his warp drive technology initiative.
And to complete the trifecta of "these guest stars are detracting from the story" motif...does anyone else expect Tom Lennox to suddenly start taking commands from an ancient life-sized painting of Viggo the Carpathian? I sure do.
Okay, one more. Chloe is probably so unhappy because her previous job was directing contestants in the little-miss sunshine pagent in Redondo Beach. (Go Redondo Beach!)
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