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Tuesday, January 24, 2006
We are only three nights into the latest adventures of Jack Bauer, and I am already aggrevated. I have been aggrevated at some point during every season since the third. The second season had its moments, but overall the story kept moving. The characters in the first two were interesting, and the action kept them busy all the time. By the third season, I was actively hoping that someone would kill Palmer's wife, the evil Sherry, and got so aggrevated at the drug-dealer-linked-to-terrorists thing that I quit watching it for about half the season. I was on again, off again for the first half of last season. I came around for the end. Here's what bugs me, so far this year. The bad guys on "24" are stupid. For whatever reason, every single terrorist group that has tried to kill us all on that show have all done whatever they're going to do right down the street from CTU headquarters. On every show, Jack has time to go kill someone, then run back to HQ for an update, and then leave again in another friggin' Tahoe loaded to the gills with weapons. All of his backup is there, waiting on him to give the word to storm a building. The bad guys are never in Chicago, or even San Francisco, where it would be impossible for CTU to stop them, because they would never get there in time. They keep picking spots on the same block with their enemies, which is stupid. One group did actually set off a bomb at CTU, but this same bomb that killed like half of the people working there failed to destroy enough computers to keep the survivors from working. I mean, they didn't even knock out the phone service. And what happened? CTU rebuilt on the same spot, and the next stupid terrorists showed up right there on the same block, again. Didn't anyone tell them? They have all this intelligence about who works there, when they're there, how many Tahoes they have, that kind of stuff, but no one told them CTU was right next door to their bomb. Tony Almeda is not only indestructable, but is a miracle healer. He got shot in the throat on one show, and was back at work with a band-aid two episodes later. He's been a no-good bum alcoholic, and now has been blown up. At least they killed his wife this time. And, he's still alive! I will bet anyone that he has a gun in his hand within the next four episodes, and I mean I'll bet something like my car. No, I do not have a thing about killing wives. Jack has cut off one of his own agent's hand, cut off a guy's head after shooting him, executed one of his own bosses--you know, there's something to be said for that--and to top it all, let one of his bosses fly a plane until he got blown up by a nuclear bomb. Do you get that? He didn't kill the guy, he blew him up with a nuclear weapon. He snaps fingers in two just to prove the point to people that he is about to hurt you really, really bad in a few minutes, whenever he's off this phone call. And everyone loves him. Greatest guy, that Jack.
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