More importantly, will Jack be able to track down Methos? He’ll need a nice sharp sword to do the trick. And Methos isn’t fooling anyone with that phony American accent either.
After the sniper took out Scarface and his henchman, the FBI boss said to someone, “We’ve got three dead bodies.”
Did I miss something? I only counted two!
And what are the odds that, say, Kim Bauer is on one of those planes!
Two dozen posts and nary a mention of Ms. Janeane Garofalo as Chloe nouveau-ey?
Nice call. I was watching with a friend, and actually turned to her after one of Garofolo’s scenes and said, “She’s the FBI’s Chloe…”
How soon before real Chloe turns up and trains her FBI counterpart in Sardonic Snarkiness 101 ?
I had the Pres’s son pegged as a bad guy in Redemption, so I was really surprised to see him turn up dead.
I don’t believe the girlfriend’s story about the money.
I’m hoping we don’t have a replay of the President’s spouse knows truth but is deemed crazy plotline.
So far I am intrigued by this season. A strong opener with good action and it hasn’t been too over the top.
I agree. So far so good, not too over the top, and the side storyline is starting out as a pretty good one – the First Hubby investigating his belief that the son’s death was not suicide, though everybody else thinks he’s going overboard. It has good potential, and it appears likely to connect with the main plot.
While African warlords are probably not the most realistic terrorists to be mounting a real threat to U.S. technology infrastructure (not as widespread as other terror networks, for example), I don’t have too much problem with this plot point – after all, Madame President is getting ready to take down their regime militarily, so that gives Mr. You-Killed-My-Brother-Prepare-To-Die plenty of motive for hitting America before the U.S. military bitch-slaps them back into the stone age.
Nice start. And I like the hot rowrrr-inducing FBI agent, who seems more willing to try out some of Jack’s not-so-by-the-book instincts. Nice little partnership that’s forming.
Jack Bauer and Jack Rowrrrrr!
Agreed. Tony is definitely still a “good guy” and I eagerly await the episode where Jack figures this out and they go killing terrorists side by side. Because it would be awesome.
I noticed that too. I assumed Steckner had a second henchman that ended up completely on the cutting room floor, but that was sloppy editing.
Hope Hot FBI Chick stays around for a while. She’s great eye candy and hasn’t really interfered with Jack yet.
Anyone see the previews for next episode?
There’s supposed to be the first big plot twist/suspenseful moment involving a phone call between Jack and a person he recognizes. Hoping it’s Chloe but I guess it could be anyone.
Oh also, we shouldn’t assume the president’s son is dead. Seems like everyone in the 24verse fakes their death. Maybe he IS the bad guy.
Was that DeadMeat running ATC? “I’m an air traffic controller, what could go wrong?”. Well it sounded like him, anyway.
I hate these high-tech storylines. There’s absolutely no reason for water treatment plants to be remote controlled. Same thing previous season with the nuclear power plants. Maybe I could buy the ATC system being online, and perhaps the power grid. But prevent the tower from communicating with a plane? That’s as bad as Die Hard 2.
I like how they said something like a huge blackout would cause rioting in the streets, but when we actually had that huge northeast blackout I don’t remember any rioting.
Anyway, as usual, the storyline isn’t all that important. Jack kicking ass with ballpoint pens is.
Seriously, this is the ultimate “off screen death”. We know how well those go in 24 land.
What’s amazing to me is that this little bit of Applied Phlebotinum is able, with a few tweaks, to be used in all these different systems and subsystems. In the Byzantine web of grossly inefficient bureaucratic US departments?
Well, like in previous years I’ll keep watching until something happens which pegs my Bullshit Meter at Ludicrous.
What’s more, this chief engineer fella was able to build this device within an hour using components that Team Almeida already had on hand. Presumably without the benefit of any circuit diagrams. Oh, and using handheld soldering tools.
Yeah. That’d happen.
You can always tell the bad guys’ lair because it’s underlit.
I thought the beginning of the first hour wasn’t happening in real time. It was less than ten minutes after his kidnapping that the tech guy had been taken the boat and completed jury rigging the McGuffin box.
Plus, how’d they know what he needed? They should have kidnapped him first, then stole all the stuff that he said was necessary.
Jack Bauer proves once again that the pen is mightier than the car battery testicle zappin’ doohickey.
Dude, it was USB. Probably nothing tricky to it whatsoever.
-Joe
HIJACK: Unless I am mistaken, that guy was a guest star on one of my favorite episodes of Law & Order, where he plays a regular dude initially suspected of a murder, then pressed into service as a witness to the crime, although it jams his personal life up. (<- extra NYPD Blue slang thrown in to add flavor). Mike Bodack was his character’s name… Anyway, he’s a good actor, nice to see him getting some work.
Mostly, I liked it. Things that were good:
- Big change in general tone and setting, with CTU no more
- Actually talking about the fact that Jack tortures people but it’s illegal but maybe it’s effective and he does after save schoolbuses but still it’s torture and won’t he ever get in trouble?
- Hot FBI agent who thinks she can handle Bauer
- Generally, I agreed with the Onion AV Club review here.
Things that were bad:
- The preposterous idea that things like power plants can’t just unplug themselves from the internet (or whatever the US government infrastructure equivalent is) and run standalone
- As others have pointed out, the idea that glass-nerd-guy could build that device in 10 minutes. They should have just had his kidnapping happen off screen months ago.
- Also, who sends someone who is a key member of your conspiracy and knows key things to go do rooftop sniping in downtown LA, rather than disposable assassin #7?
- No Chloe!
What I was wondering was, if you want a guy to do some pretty detail-oriented fixing of a complex item, why do you kidnap by repeatedly ramming his car from all angles? That’s a good way to make a clear-headed man not so clear-headed.
Was it this guy? I got excited to see him because he’s Wild Bill Guarnere in Band of Brothers.
Where was this season of 24 filmed? Despite the cliche shots of the Capitol building in the back window of the car all the time, this clearly was not shot in Washington. There’s no port in DC like the one shown, for instance.