I thought this episode was a big improvement. We’ve still got perhaps the stupidest non-cougar 24 plot twist ever hanging over us (Russia threatening military action), but just about everything else this episode was good times, from recurring characters getting randomly gunned down to a surprisingly good acting performance from Evil Blonde (Lisa Miller).
I wonder if Grampa Bauer is after Josh from some truly twisted and silly reason, ie, some important code or other is on a chip that was injected into Josh for safekeeping or something stupid like that. I sure hope not.
You know what I think is funny? Earlier in the season they fell all over themselves to make the point that not all Muslims are evil, cold-blooded psychopaths – the whole bit in the detention center, Assad working to make peace, the verbal gymnastics to avoid mentioning what country Assad and the ambassador are from.
And now every Chinese person who appears on the show is an evil, cold-blooded psychopath.
Every plot twist from the two seasons ago was nothing but stupid plot twist after stupid plot twist, IMO far exceeding what has been going on this season. I think they learned that year they really had to roll back on the one-upsmanship of continually coming up with a newer. bigger twists every two hours.
Ah, but the cougar thing gets extra points because it was funny! Kim not smart enough to realize that getting out of a cougar trap simply required opposable thumbs…
I dunno, it feels different to me. Two seasons ago (that was Habib Marwan and the nuclear reactors, right?), there were plenty of examples of various typical kinds of 24 silliness (even ignoring Jack-never-peeing and everywhere-being-5-minutes-away), the two big ones being:
(1) Technological McGuffins
and
(2) Hilariously overelaborate multi-layered enemy plans with a never-ending supply of squads of goons all ready at various locations to leap into action, precisely where and when needed, etc.
This business with Russia is something different entirely, namely, a real-world entity whose nature we in the real world basically kind of understand; acting in a unbelievably stupid and incomprehensible fashion. It’s made worse by the fact that Suvarov has been a moderately prominent character previously on the show, and has NEVER been a trigger-happy nutbar until now.
If Chloe needs to defribulate the comma-separated matrix so that the super-satellite can track a single car through all of LA traffic in a rainstorm, well, whatever, I chuckle a bit and get back to the ass-kicking. But Russia suddenly becoming suicidal and insane?
As long as we’re discussing the rapidly escalating level of 24 dumbness (and that seems to be all that’s worth discussing this season), how about the whole jaw-droppingly awful Milo/Nadia/Silver Spoons soap opera triangle? Milo has always been a whiny little bitch, so last night he accuses Nadia of having “feelings” for Doyle. Which would be dumb enough by itself, but then she doesn’t deny it.
So we’re supposed to accept the fact that this woman has, over a span of a few hours, developed an awkward crush on the man who, earlier the same day, made insulting comments about her ethnicity/religion, accused her of being a terrorist, and tortured her? I’ve heard of Stockholm syndrome, but this is just nuts!
Seriously, that might have been the biggest WTF moment of the season for me.
So…I would have thought that it would have been easier to grab the kid tomorrow morning after they go home instead of assaulting a quasi-military building. Apparently I had forgotten it was CTU.
Where do they keep the endless supply of “tactical” guys who get killed in the field by the dozen?
But Doyle read the Koran! And the Bible, and the Rig-Vedas! And he’s on a quest for spiritual enlightenment when he isn’t killing and torturing! So he’s deep as well as dangerous – what girl could say no to that?
“I don’t know how I feel. I think I might… want him! Oh I’m all so confused. On one hand, there’s effeminate long-faced goateed guy who pines away after me. on the other, there’s rugged manly-guy who I’d love to have handcuff me to the bed…”
But, but, but… he helped protect Milo’s mistake, and in doing so, proved to her that despite his crunchy pock-marked exterior, he has a heart of gold…
Heh. Nadia needs to just forget about both their asses and come experience some Monstre.
Hey, you reminded me…did we get a silent countdown yet this season? I know it’s not always done (I don’t think season 4 had one,) but part of me also thinks it was there when the nuke went off in Valencia.
Edit: Just re-watched the end of that ep, and nope, no silent clock.
