Last night’s two-hour broadcast of the amazingly fresh series 24 left me numb but also agitated enough not to be able to sleep for a while. So I sat up and started thinking about this season (now at the halfway mark) and how it has been such a great ride, even if I was forced to sit through those few brutal final seconds when Edgar met his end.
The way things have been going thus far, I knew one of the canisters would actually go off and kill people. The terrorists got a few in the mall, but they really hit a homerun at CTU headquarters. The problem is that so much of this is identifiable from previous seasons (especially think the virus from Season 3), and it seems no one has learned anything more about stopping such things.
Another recurrent (and increasingly annoying) issue is the infiltration of CTU by malevolent persons. I mean it is getting more and more frustrating seeing how easily these people can get through CTU security, do some damage, and end up being whacked by Jack. It is almost implausible that a counter-terrorist unit would have such terrible security.
Then there is the security of CTU itself, manned by those guys in red shirts just like on the old Star Trek series. As a nod to that show, it seems the security guards are as dispensable as they were on the Starship Enterprise. (You know how Kirk would beam down with three security guards and they’d be promptly killed?) Perhaps this team should start wearing a less obvious uniform. Remember what the Americans did to the Redcoats?
Of course, Kim Bauer has returned and found a way to pucker her lips, tell Papa Jack that she’s not into a big reunion since she buried him, and get herself into a jam all in the matter of 60 minutes. The good news is that Jack is with her (had he been in the past, that mountain lion would have been dead, as would have been the survivalist dude and other menacing punks).
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1 - Mary K. Williams
Not going to read this yet (I try real hard not read others' stuff before I do my own)
but #1 I agree with your title - too much and not enough!
#2 Glad to see you posted something!
I'll read this eventually Victor, but I have to finish my own first...this takes me forever!
2 - Furio
I Agree
3 - Victor Lana
Thanks, Mary K. and Furio. By the way, I forgot to mention Tony (who once again must walk around with a bandage on his face). While amazingly resilient for a guy who was almost blown-up earlier in the day, Tony has his second wind and is probably going to go after Henderson (since Bill named him when telling Tony the story) soon and may even spring into action with Jack.
If any of this stretches credibility, just think about how Jack "died" in Season 2 and was brought back to life only to go on with his pursuit of the baddies (holding his heart once and a while to remind us that he was almost toast).
I just love this show!
4 - Me
The angry bearded guy...was...Ponyboy!
That's right, I believe we were looking at a time-has-not-been-kind C. Thomas Howell. I used to love him in seventh grade! More so than Tom Cruise or Rob Lowe combined.
5 - Victor Lana
Thanks very much, Me. I couldn't place him, but I knew that face from somewhere. On an honest note, time hasn't been too kind to lots of people in that movie after all these years (1983) and to many of us who first saw it in a theater.
6 - Acel
Laughed my ____ off! 2cool4school
7 - Mary K. Williams
I had a hard time sleeping last night too. Especially the Edgar thing.
Anyway Victor, yeah I finally read it. Very good.
Loved this line:
she's not into a big reunion since she buried him, and get herself into a jam all in the matter of 60 minutes
yeah, that's our Kim!
8 - Victor Lana
I have been thinking about Ponyboy (now I know it's C. Thomas Howell) in the mix and I think he is a mole. Yeah, because Jack questioned Audrey about his background. Could he have sought out Kim to be her therapist, knowing that Jack was really a live, and hoping that it would give his group an edge? He may be part of this vast Russian conspiracy. We'll have to wait and see.
9 - Joanie
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