I love how the plan was changed basically because they found out there was a terrorist on the airplane full of terrorists they were releasing. Who knew?
Hmm. That was the most anemic looking nukyular bomb I’ve ever seen. Yeah, I know it was a small suitcase bomb, but the base of the mushroom cloud looked more like chimney smoke.
I gotta say I’ve very disappointed with the first 4 hours. The acting (and writing) just isn’t very good. Black Bauer has no depth, Sis Palmer is a terrible actress and her boyfriend (or husband) is just reading his (pooly written) lines as if he was in a HS play. Dr. Bashir (that’s him, right?) has one of the phoniest arab accents I’ve ever heard. Where have we seen AHCH-med “I Was A Teenage Terrorist” before? Has he played a terror teen on “24” in any earlier seasons?
Jack and Chloe are great, of course, and there were some good moments-- Jack’s teeth as lethal weapons, Chloe’s “You mean like what I’m already doing?” remark. But usually the fist few hours of “24” are much, much better. All we need is for women to stop getting pregnant and you’ll have a very bad version of “Children of Men”. Oh yeah, that $50k Radio Shack circuit… if they have 4 bombs, I assume they are going to need to procure 4 more triggers-- assuming they didn’t plan to acquire the first one they needed last.
Dude, Alexander Siddig is Arab.
Tastes like chicken! :eek:
He’s Kumar from Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, and he was in Van Wilder’s whatever it was.
Being stoned hurts your reflexes, there’s just no two ways about it.
Why not just nuke 'em from space?
This season seems more explosin-filled than most, and that’s saying a lot. We have had 5 in four hours by my count: 1) The bus in front of the Walt Disney Concert Hall; 2) the house where Jack “rescued” Asaad; 3) the subway with the suicide bomber; 4) the storage place with the terrorist; 5) the nuclear bomb. What’s even more interesting is that 3 of the 4 terrorists have managed to JUST detonate their explosives.
Which makes it even more amazing that during all this mayhem people still apparently think it’s a good day to take the kids to the mall for a Cinnabon. 
Yep – but as I’ve noted in previous seasons, I think the problem is in the CTU training manual glossary.
“Per-i-me-ter: (n): A 180 degree arc of a circle.”
Agreed. When the nuke exploded in season 2 – even though it was out in the desert – that was just chilling to me. The way that episode ended (and that’s still one of my all time favorite episodes of 24).
This one… Interesting, but I pretty much expected it. And also have to agree on the anemic-looking mushroom cloud. Looked to me like it was enough to destroy that building it was in, but not much else.
The guy writing the summary must have missed the BIG RIVER OF BLOOD running to the grate that the camera zoomed in on.
Poor Curtis. He was far too cool - at least he went out at Jack’s hands. Kind of prestigious. He died stupidly, but at least he didn’t die a super-stupid bitch death like Tony.
-Joe
Well, after this long in the 24-verse in L.A., the “dimwit civilians” are the only ones left. After this many terrorist attacks, surely all the civilians with an ounce of common sense have long since moved to Kansas or North Dakota.
“A cow was blown up in Bismark by a suicide bomber. In other news, the city council modified the city’s leash law to provide…”
You mean Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Abderahman Mohammed Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi? Dude, the guy was born in Sudan (not an Arab country) and his mother is British (where he lived most of his life). His English accent slips thru his fake arab accent in much the same way that Naveen Andrews’ does in “lost”.
“…releasing a super-sized dose of cow flatulence into the air and accelerating the global warming crisis. More on this as it develops…”
Let alone that the subway is still running and Union Station is open for business less than two hours after an attack on a city bus. Apparently an alert level of Red isn’t as serious as we assumed it to be.
And, see, I am all for protecting civil rights and all that, but Sister Palmer really needs to stop bugging her borther. I don’t know, half a dozen terrorists strikes killing hundreds of citizens is probably of a more immediate concern to him as opposed to his sister’s boyfriend’s false imprisonment. For now.
Imagine that, a wide-eyed liberal in 24-land who wants to do good but just doesn’t Understand The Big Picture. I’m pretty sure we get one every season.
You’ll also notice that everyone was completely sure that the guys at Guantanamo (errr…wherever within a 10 minute drive of LA) were all 100% guilty hard core terrorists.
-Joe
Tony was shot by a random terrorist flunky. Curtis was shot by Jack Bauer. You do the math.
I knew I had seen the bad guy in Palmdale/Guantanamo before, but I didn’t remember where until I read FARK this morning. It’s Kumar’s brother, from when they went to the hospital in Harold & Kumar!
Are Sduanese Indo-Europeans, like Iranians?
I thought the accent it was due to learning English from a Britisher. Seems I’ve heard many Arabs speak that way.
Sadly, Curtis appears to be dead. From the Fox website episode guide:
Anyone want to guess whether, by 4 or 5 p.m., anyone will remember that, gee, I dunno, there was a NUCLEAR EXPLOSION IN LA this morning?
(Not that I’m criticizing… this was some fantastic 24 action.)
Sudan is in Africa, just below Egypt. There are ethnic Arabs in Sudan (mostly Kushites, really), and maybe his father is/was one, but the guy is clearly British in upbringing. I’m not sure why you’d pick “Indo-European” as the only alternative to “Arab speaking”, though. I think the official languages of Sudan are Arabic and English. Anyway, I’m not talking about his accent when he’s speaking Arabic, but when he’s speaking English. He’s clearly a native English speaker, so he wouldn’t have a natural Arabic accent to his English.