That would be out of ignorance. I am become the poster child of the SDMB. :rolleyes:
More than anything, I was mad at the family for going along with Kumar. I mean, for God’s sake, he was sitting in an incredible amount of pain, and the nurse mom doesn’t use any of her knowledge of physiology and medicine to incapacitate him. All she had to do was give him a shit ton of some other medication instead of the painkillers. Maybe aspirin? He was bleeding a whole lot, so I can’t imagine giving him blood thinners would be a good idea. Or while treating the wound, she could have pressed down on it really fucking hard, and while he was crying in pain, smack the gun out of his hand.
No, Curtis is gone.
Frankly, I think that most of the actors (aside from those who produce the show (Kiefer)) want to take a Golden parachute out while there is still time. Or get better shows. (Hayesbert with “The Unit”) I think the actor who plays Curtis probably asked to be taken out.
I don’t think that was the point. Speculation that is tied into next week::
It was obvious to me, the way the shot was framed, with Jack all but emotionally bankrupt, after shooting Curtis, that Jack seeing the cloud was what was needed to cement Jack in for this round. Jack says something to this effect next week.
Ironically, I feel the same way about the entire 24 franchise.
A lot was needed to jolt Jack back into CTU mode from his two years of silence.
I can’t even go 2 minutes with out speaking. And that’s with out torture
Just me, or has Chloe grown balls? I don’t know if it is simply the 5 previous ‘days’ taking its toll, or if Chloe is the only one to exert the force, but she is moving up there with the intimidation. Edgar seemed to echo how Chloe used to be, and it would appear that Chloe is at the point of no return now.
I too am amazed at how ‘stupid’ the suburban family was.
Then again, we do not have the fear they had.
On top of that, most if not all of us are returning fans, we know, or at least resepect how CTU does the job. I don’t think that the family was “stupid”, I think its more, they werent “smart”. I mean, they were into survival mode. If they had the facilities to do something ‘more’ they would have. They do not have the training, nor the previous 5 days to take notes from.
Interesting line the show is walking. I don’t know the (overall) stance/message the show is making on ethnic profiling yet.
I stand to inherit a house in Granada Hills, California. But with that nuke going off in Valencia and Granada Hills being downwind (although there are mountains), my property values have plummeted.
Interesting that for the Palmdale/Newhall/Valencia addresses they used street names that really are in that area or sounded very close to ones there. (Sand Canyon Road, Old Mill Road)
But for Granada Hills, they used two street names that are completely out of place (15th and Manning.)
Another thing that bugged me:
I know next to nothing about urban combat tactics, but when entering a building, such as the CTU team was doing, especially with the intent to capture, not kill, wouldn’t it make sense to throw three or four flashbangs in there first? Kind of hard to set off the nuke if the guy couldn’t see anything.
By the way… as far as I noticed, neither Curtis nor thousands of innocent inhabitants of Valencia were worthy of the famous Silent Countdown. That seems a bit harsh.
Is no one else annoyed by the current Palmer President?
Every scenario is two dimensional to him. How many times is he going to pretend he is all smart by becoming serious and saying “we must listen to the terrorist or they will kill more people, there is just no other way”. Of course there is another way, listening to them is the worst possible way of handling this.
He is not even taking the advice of anyone in a military uniform from what I’ve seen. The closest is Bill Buchanan who strangely does not give tactical advice to the President. Is everyone assuming Palmer is a world class military agent or something? That he knows better that CTU, the military and Jack Bauer, so that everyone in uniform must reluctantly follow his orders without question?
Everyone is missing the REAL question this season has brought us:
Milo has the cheeeeeeeeeeeeesiest facial hair in television history - true or false? I’m in the midwest, so maybe that ‘mustache’ is hip on the coast, but eeeeeeeww.
And this Lennox character - I mean, the writers are trying to make us hate him a bit too much, right? They usually don’t have the obvious ones end up being the traitors, but man, what a tool.
True.
He’s a plot device to get the country into stuff for Jack to get it out of. 
IIRC, Palmer is an Annapolis grad and was a successful Marine officer before going into politics.
All Suburban Mom needed to do was give Achmed a sleeping pill (and what suburban family doesn’t have those in the medicine cabinet?) - I noticed that he took the pill from the son without seeing the pill bottle.
I think President Palmer II needs a lesson from the Russians on negotiating with terrorists (remember the movie theatre filled with hostages in real life? That was unbelievably cold.)
“Jack Bauer, you’ve just been released from two years of torture in a foreign land - what are you gonna do now?”
“I’m going to go to (save) Disneyland!”
Poor guy. All that murder, torture (to and from), and mayhem seems to be taking its toll.
That dude is woefully miscast for this show anyway. It looks like he got lost on the way to audition for 3hree 3ast 3 Furiou3 or something.
Oh yeah, that reminds me of another thing that’s bugging me about this season - what is up with Morris’ insubordination, and why hasn’t he had his ass canned for it yet? Is he going to stop being a total douche to Milo now that Chloe has “cleared up” the dating situation? I’ve noticed that this kind of attitude seems to be business as usual at CTU (my name for where Chloe works is The Snake Pit due to all the bad attitudes and sniping). Wouldn’t a government installation like this be expected to have people acting quite deferential to superiors, and at least polite to co-workers (with massive HR departments to keep everyone in line)?
Oh, and every time they cut back to PPII, I hear him saying in my head (and my husband usually gets to hear it out loud), “I don’t want to be president any more.” in a little boy voice.
Yeah, but give 'em a break- they’re under a lot of stress and never get any sleep.
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Seriously, even if they WERE Vicodins, the way he was putting them down, wouldn’t he have been high as a kite???
So, are we all in agreement that there are a few extremely minor aspects of the show that don’t make a lot of sense and aside from that the script and logic are as tight as say something like The Matrix trilogy?
That just tells me that something even crazier will happen that does merit the silent countdown.
The last supervisor who gave him a hard time had the decimal place on his W-2 form shifted to the right two decimal places after his return had been electronically filed.