Jack’s back!
For those who thought that Jack Bauer couldn’t find another level of awesome to ascend to, I present to you: Killing a terrorist by biting a chunk out of his neck, while handcuffed. All other American heroes, move along.
So things are bad in LA. Really bad. Like, Wayne Palmer is now the President kinda bad. What did he ever do to warrant an office like that? Most of his involvement over the years has been running away and hiding from cooler people. I want President Aaron Pierce, dammit! He’s been secret service long enough anyway, and David would have wanted it that way.
Second-coolest thing about the four-parter: Terrorists finally making good on a threat to detonate a nuke. Poor Jack was already breaking and wondering if the day could get any worse, and then WHOOMP, mushroom cloud. God, I love this show.
Canadian viewers were likely amused at the thought of Shaun Majumder as a skulking bomb-maker, but then he blew himself up anyway. Equally amusing was Kumar playing a terrorist, but he’s dead too. Basically they’re rounding up everyone in Hollywood who looks the least bit Arab and using them this season, I guess, so expect IP’s own Murtz Jaffer to show up as a plucky suicide bomber soon.
And Curtis, if you had to go, at least you went out getting shot by Jack Bauer and not by some terrorist. Poor Chloe has so much seniority now that she’s likely next on the list, but I hope not. She’s wearing dresses and getting regular sex now, you can’t kill her!
Anxiously awaiting the return of the Bluetooth Mafia, Naked Mandy, Audrey and President Logan…
Yeah, bad casting and terrible Presidential choice aside, the first episodes were awesome. Jack is cracking, back on his game, then cracking again…..can we possibly worship this character any more? When he suffers, we suffer, damn it!
Action Chloe….slut of the office! And, she’s dressing the part, too.
I know the show is unrealistic …..I DON’T CARE!!! If I have to hear one more person say that to me and nitpick every damn thing, like Jack finding a call with a cell phone or being at just the right spot for Dr Bashir to pick him up, I’ll vomit. I get it…..but it’s 24 and people get bitten to death and shot in thighs, so I love it!!
Had to comment in a rush and didn’t spot check or finish my thought…..damn job keeping me for what I really want to do during the day, blog about 24 to whoever will read it.
Anyway, I meant to say “Jack finding a CAR with a cell phone that apparently has latitude/longitude direction capability”, but maybe it was understood.
Anyway, Wayne being President really bugs me and not just because he has the pussy from Ally McBarf as his top advisor. He worked in the private sector before becoming David Palmer’s chief-of-staff (a job he only got because he was David’s brother and trustworthy), then did illegal activities with Jack during Season 5. Those are the credentials for being President?
Oh well, this show goes through Presidents like post-it notes, so I’m sure we’ll have a new Pres next season……maybe President Chloe O’Brien!
Finally, now that Curtis is dead, we NEED Aaron Pierce back.
I assume that Wayne road the sympathy vote of his brother’s death to the office; I can think of no other reason why someone so NON-presidential (aside from the current actual occupant) could be in the office. Just because you’re the child of a slayer doesn’t mean you’re cut out for the Oval.
And I love Bashir being back; always dug him on DS9 and enjoyed his someone small but pivotal role in Syriana (one of the few bright spots in that otherwise dreary movie).
I too was also glad to see that mushroom cloud - finally we get a payoff on a nuke that doesn’t allow jack to cover his eyes and hide behind a rock to survive. This one was the “real” thing. Very well done. When the promos said that there would be a shocker ending, I thought Curtis’ death was it, but then they smack the viewers with a nuke - GENIUS!
I actually like the idea of Wayne as President, if only so that his storyline for the season is coming to the realization of how totally unqualified for the job he is. I think it could be interesting to finally not have a president who can do no wrong or one who is an evil terrorist assisting mastermind.
When Jack used his belt to guide that airplane in season five, I realized he was basically Batman, and when he landed it on the LA freeway, I accepted it. Now, after biting a man to death, he’s surpassed Batman and become God.
My only gripe is that Ahmed turned out to be a terrorist. The show is essentially saying that it was okay for those two guys to harass him, and for the one guy attacking him in his house later. I think they could have had a real chance to show that not every person who looks the slightest bit Middle Eastern is a bad person.
Don’t forget, though, that the dad the FBI detained is–apparently–innocent of being a terrorist/knowingly having terrorist ties. It’s the son who was the terrorist. It was funny, as the guy was kicking his ass I was thinking “man, I wish the kid would pull out a gun and shoot the guy…”–and he did! They trick you into rooting for the terrorist!
That’s the genius of 24. It doesn’t really espouse any specific geopolitical viewpoint: rather it shows them all in their best and worst lights. The audience comes away having their own pre-existing viewpoints reinforced.
The raw-recap legend lives!
Sorry but the genius of propaganda, I mean 24 is people do not see it as the obvious propaganda it is. I wish I could give people more credit and think they are smart enough to see through it, but reality is most can’t.
But it’s fun propaganda!
Anybody else notice how many times they tried to fit in FOX news on the show.
This site has nice little document of 24 pimping FOX News.
http://therratedblogger.blogspot.com/2007/01/pimping-fox-news.html