REVIEW

24 Day 5: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Written by Jeff Kouba
Published March 07, 2006

That graphic violence warning is welded to the camera film. The entire episode could be the gals of CTU sitting around sipping tea, and they'd put in the graphic violence warning.

Tony must have a larval Goa'uld in him. Amazing recuperative powers, even better than Jack's. He's been conscious for 20 minutes. Not bad for a guy who was nearly blowed up, and recovering from surgery. The Doc doesn't want to tell him just yet about Michelle. It might send his blood pressure to the moon.

So, Bill goes in and tap dances around Michelle's fate. He says "Tony, we need you to get better." Why? Tony doesn't work at CTU anymore.

Back amidst the smoldering remains of the Suvarov motorcade, Martha rats out Logan to Aaron, who can't quite believe even if a dishrag like Logan would knowingly allow something like that to happen.

We check in with Terrorist HQ. Bad guys are still soldering. Perhaps they're taking some down time to finish up their ashtrays for shop class.

We check in with Twisted Sister and Boyfriend Dwayne. I'll be danged, Boyfriend is going to sell Samwise's key card to the terrorists.

*SCCCRREEEECCCCCHHH*

Now let's just stop right here, shall we. Was this the reason for luring Lynn out to the parking lot? Was Boyfriend in contact with these terrorists before, and they're using him to get the key card? Or, did Boyfriend somehow contact the terrorists after he discovered he had the key card, and if so, how did he know who to contact? We're not told any of this.

Remember, the original plan was to take all these gas canisters and put them on a ship bound for Central Asia. The terrorists were going to use them against the Russkies. The terrorists were aided by PATRIOTS in the US like Walt, who really wanted to use the gas against the terrorists themselves, as some sort of lame pretext to get troops in Central Asia and something about oil yadda yadda.

So, if that was the original plan, when did this plan to use Boyfriend to obtain the key card get hatched?!? And the whole plan hinged on requiring Lynn to come alone with his key card? What if he brought security, or didn't have his key card?

I fear we will never know. So back to our regularly scheduled rant.

Chloe, being a master hacker, and so really should have had no need for Spenser Wolff-ff-ff on the assault on Rossler, has hacked into Henderson's home computer. (If this show teaches you nothing else, kids, don't put sensitive information on a computer that has an Internet connection to the outside world!)

Chloe distinctly says Henderson's computer has been "wiped." BUT, then why is there still an operating system on this thing capable of running a network connection? AND, why is this computer still exchanging data with something? Was there some data that was not wiped? Did the wiper do a poor job?

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24 Day 5: 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Published: March 07, 2006
Type: Review
Section: Video
Filed Under: Video: Television, Video: Drama, Video: Action
Writer: Jeff Kouba
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#1 — March 7, 2006 @ 13:06PM — Mary K. Williams [URL]

Same goes with you Jeff - not going to read this yet, but..I'm sure its good!

#2 — March 8, 2006 @ 02:41AM — Joanie [URL]

Congrats! Your article was selected for Advance.net

#3 — March 8, 2006 @ 07:36AM — Mary K. Williams [URL]

Finally got around to reading this Jeff
Good job, as always. Your guest Paul great too.

Congrats about the Advance.net!

#4 — March 9, 2006 @ 12:58PM — Jeff [URL]

Thanks Joanie, and thanks Mary.

#5 — March 22, 2006 @ 04:26AM — Seriously!

Stop freaking analyzing every bit of the show for 5 minutes.

#6 — March 22, 2006 @ 08:29AM — Paul

Jeff and I were weaned on Mystery Science Theater 3000, so when ya gots lemons, says we, ya makes lemonade. But there's more here than just a couple of guys having some fun at the expense of the show. There's a "Calvin and Hobbes" strip that has Calvin asking something like, "What did it mean when Marx said religion is the opiate of the masses?" followed by a television saying something like, "That he hadn't seen anything yet." We're doing our small bit to help break the addiction by encouraging active (i.e., thoughtful), rather than passive, watching. The best entertainment should get better, not worse, with analysis.

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