And so we embark on the first episode of 24 since we all learned that this season would be the last one for the show.
Arlo has been trying to help Chloe widen her grid all season.
Oh yeah, remember the President of the United States? She's spent the last three hours traveling to New Jersey.
Renee is going to accompany Jack in case he needs to be stabbed again.
We're just keeping the radioactive rods in a duffel bag now?
They're going to take Hassan to New Jersey. So he's sneaking out through a sewer TO a sewer!
I don't think President Taylor needs to deliver a campaign speech to her own cabinet.
40 square blocks of Manhattan will become an irradiated, toxic wasteland. So... New New Jersey.
Now we're just handling the radioactive rods like pool cues.
The terrorist is able to just find parking in Manhattan?
Weiss tries to give a lame excuse to Ethan for using his computer. Maybe he should have gone with "I was surfing for porn on your machine because it's all blocked on mine."
"This is beyond madness," says Ethan, perhaps referring to the presence of yet another mole at CTU.
Even the heart attack plot point is a re-run. It was much cooler when Sherry Palmer talked a man to death with the power of her pure evil.
They've called one of the guys from The Unit to face off against Jack. No chance we'll see Jonas Blane, of course.
They couldn't clear the rest of this stuff out of the tunnel? There wasn't a fork lift handy?
If your mission is to take a subject alive, is it really correct terminology to refer to the ambush point as the "kill zone?"
I see that a few splinters are flying off these pallets, but really, shouldn't they be getting shot to nothing?
Hassan should just tuck his head down and run forward to the car. His helmet hair would surely protect him.
Who the hell is shipping all these empty pallets to the United Nations?
Why does the strike team leader have all this information about the nature of his operation? And why the hell is he just giving it all to Jack?
No drinking this episode? Lame!
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I know it was supposed to be all exciting gun fight shoot em up action, but those were American soldiers shooting at highly respected American escort guards. and the assassins didn't even question their orders or seem to have any remorse for killing good people. I was uncomfortable watching the whole thing. and to find out that the dude knew why he was given his orders... ugh! the only fun part was that he tried to throw it back on Jack with the "it's up to you now!" thing.
and at least Hassan got a bit of gun action I guess that's worth something, even if it was rather cliche'... oh no Jack's about to be killed! but in with the save, not Renee, but Hassan! kinda lame but dammit I smiled anyway.
what an interesting thing to have set the bomb to go off in about 14 minutes into next weeks episode. it looks very much like there is no way to stop it!
the mole
Damn that was bad. So bad, in fact, that I'm wondering if I'll bother to sit down and watch the rest.
In the article you've linked to about the end of the series, Sutherland says that the writers have been producing the equivalent of 12 movies per year -- and, well, it shows. Are those guys writing on the dashboard of a car while they drive between production meetings? Sounds like a first draft to me, with no time whatsoever for rewrites.
Nothing works anymore... I mean, the season started out rather cliché, but it was still fun. No more. I was almost screaming "Oh, come on!" at the TV when Hassan saved Jack at the last second... or each time Dana narrowed her eyes and tried to look like a mean, mean person... or when the poor bastard at the end gets told to set the timer but STAY WITH THE BOMB (to make sure no one tampers with it). Then why bother with a timer? Just set off the damn thing!!!
(Sorry, had to get a load off my chest.)
And yeah, I'm sort of tempted to watch until the end because the producers are saying they took the show to "a very complex place" in the last few episodes... but they said there'd be major changes for two years now, and look where that's gotten us. 24 has gotten more and more about technology and less and less about characters.
I don't care for that.
(Did anyone else think of the Borg communications array in First Contact when we were shown the terrorists putting the rods into place on the bomb casing?)
FKL
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