This show is becoming a cry for help. Please, if there are any professional psychologists reading this, contact Fox and help their writers in any way you can. Lives may be at stake.
Tony starts us off by telling us "multiple trackers" were planted on Beiruts. Well, yeah, I guess *2* counts as multiple. (Why haven't the terrorists checked anybody else for tracking devices? Like Dina, Jack himself, etc...)
El Presidente tells us he has been flying for 20 hours! Later he also says he had been on a low-level state visit to Mexico. Well, Mexico is a long ways from the US. Takes time to fly back.
But why is he going to LA? Just an incredible stroke of luck for the terrorists? But then, how could they have planned the Mr. Anndderrson operation if they didn't know where the President was going? So, LA must have been the original destination. But there are two problems with that. First, with the terrorist attacks of the day, why would the President continue on to his original destination after the attacks? You'd think the President would go quickly to the White House, or a very secure location. Worse, if LA was the President's original destination, he would've been originally scheduled to get there hours ago. So why was Mr. Andderrrson planning his flight to leave at 10 pm? He couldn't have known the President was going to arrive in LA at that time. Sigh.
The President said that in LA he wants to address the nation before the 11 o'clock news. Um, El Presidente? On the East Coast it's already 1 am. I think you've already missed most of the nation's 11 pm news.
Paul is out of surgery. Will he be ok? Jack calls in and wants to talk to Audrey. Ms. Raines is very distant with Jack. Jack has got be thinking of those lines from the late Renaissance school of poets, Motley Crue, who wrote "Girl, don't go away mad. Girl, just go away."
CTU big cheeses talk to Chloe about the raid on the warehouse where Jack was held. Chloe said the IR picked up 8 hostiles. But just minutes before, she had told Jack they hadn't seen any activity. Well, which is it Chloe? I know she's been out of the game for hours now, so she's a bit rusty.
Mr. Annderrson is flying around in the Stealth fighter. When they first showed the plane in the hanger, it looked more like an F-14. I'm sure this show wouldn't make such a dumb mistake as to use footage of the wrong plane. Naaah.
Article comments
1 - Eric Berlin
Man, I had no idea there was so much prose being spilled in honor of 24 Season 4!
It's nice to know I'm not the only TV maniac not glued to the American Idol out there...
2 - rohin
jeff, i respect you for being able to so cohesively identify plotholes in '24.' i'm always so addicted (or sometimes spacing out cause i get lost in the technical garble) that i fail to find plotholes. this is my first season watching '24' and i tuned in for shoreh aghdashloo and i have to say that she was one of the most stunning characters i think i've ever seen on tv -- even factoring in pay tv shows in...
there have been a few things that have bugged me that i have let shamelessly slide --like when people describe visitors inside a hotel as "middle eastern-looking." but one would do well to leave their politics at home while watching this. this show is a thriller, not a political drama and i like it like that.
oh and i think i'm in the minority fringe for this, but i adore Chloe. mary-lynn rajskub is stellar.
3 - Jeff
Ha, yes, I'm proud that I haven't seen so much as 5 seconds of American Idol. Despite the apparent tone, I am a fan of 24. I've been hooked since the beginning, it's great fun, though I obviously think they've gotten a bit lazy with the plotting this season. I think past seasons have held together better.
These reviews are mostly about a fan having some fun with the show, trying to do something nobody else is doing.
And I, too, am a big fan of Ms. Rajskub. Chloe is one of my favorite characters. The acting on the show is usually top-notch, and part of what makes the show so compelling. If I've had complaints, it is in the way the characters are used sometimes. For instance, I think they've had Chloe be her irascible self just because that's what people like about her, so they force it in.
4 - Jeff
Oh, and I too have been a big fan of Shohreh Aghdashloo. I haven't gotten around to seeing House of Sand and Fog yet, so this is the first time I've seen her, and I was hooked on her from her first moments on screen. I was quite sad to see her leave the story.