Call me picky, but I'd like to see the characters react like human beings instead of plot devices. This year, when Kim Bauer was running away with her juvenile charge Megan to escape the abusive daddy/husband she was employed by, why didn't the abused Mommy run away with her, instead of just handing her the car keys, and standing there in the hall way as Angry Awful Daddy rushed by her?
Ok, make up something about Abused Victims Syndrome, I'll buy that. But then later, when Kim and the kid were sitting in the SUV in an alley, unable to back up, and Angry Daddy steps in front of the vehicle yelling, I'll Kill You Kim!, while unlocking the door with his remote, what did they do? Of course, they got OUT OF THE CAR and ran. Me? I would have said "Not if I kill you first a*hole," and stepped on the gas, knocking the summabitch into the Bernie Mac Show.
Jack Bauer (Keifer Sutherland) meanwhile, is undercover with some nasty aryan or else just low life sleazeballs who plot to blow something up (turns out it's Jack's old job, the Counter Terrorism Unit - personally, I wouldn't mind if somebody wanted to blow up my old job, but, that's just me). These grease monkeys are holed up in a junkyard garage where they put together complicated things like bombs. Obviously they are mechanical. So what does Jack do when he doesn't want to leave the scene but has no excuse in the guise of his cover to stay? He floods his car and pretends it isn't working. Good thing none of those mechanic/bad guys know anything about cars, they might get suspicious otherwise!
George Mason, District Director of the Good Guys, who always was a sleazy me-first kind of guy in the first season, outdoes himself in Hour 2 of this year. He decides to drive to Bakersfield to get out of range of the nuclear blast (sounds good to me, only why stop at Bakersfield? I'd make it Portland, Oregon). So he makes up an excuse, and nobody asks him about it, 'cause, like, he's the Deputy Director of the Good Guys! Only, on the way out, he gets a call, the Home Office wants him to stop by some place in LA (it's on his way to Bakersfield, so no big whoop) and check out something with the LAPD.
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