24 - Tonight's show

[Mr. Downtown]

Damn it, I missed all of it except for the last 5 mins.

Can someone give me a brief? Thanks.

 

[Gord's Bro]

Amazing summary UMustang. Are you a writer for this show or what???

G's B.

 

[Mr. Downtown]

Excellent! Thats alot for the update. Sounds like a really great episode.

 

[countstudly]

Thanks bunches for the summary. Sadly, I too missed the show. It's a pretty good show. Amazingly, the most terrible news and reality show network (Fox) has the best shows on TV: 24, Arrested Development, The Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle. But of course, PBS has Now.

 

[doubledown]

Go to the newsgroups, you should find the episode, I'm sure someone has uploaded it.

 

[The Doctor]

When I miss an episode I just assume that something or someone from Jack's failed mission in Kosovo will come back and present some form of threat to the Western parts of the US that will involve the President facing moral dilemas regarding the people of Los Angeles. The sexual/relationship tension between Tony and Michelle will heighten while everyone in the viewing audience tries to determine if Ryan Chapelle is a good guy or a bad guy. Kim will find herself somewhat helpless to assist her father in his efforts to erradicate terrorism in the US and will just have to sit around with a concerned look on her face, but looking good. There will be some form of an attack on a building shortly after Jack has apprehended a suspect and in the ensuing fire fight, the suspect will be killed. Fortunately Jack will realize that the attack was not directed at him but at some form of electronic device that the suspect possess (a micro chip usually) which will contain the answer to question of who is behind the threat.

If I happen to miss two weeks in a row, I assume that the information contained on the electronic device is encrypted forcing CTU to devote all its resources to decoding either to find that the info has been damaged in the attack, their decoding has triggered some form of detonation device or that the electronic device was a decoy and the bad guys have made another move. I then continue with the scenario outlined above.

This has worked for three seasons now and has been pretty accurate. This year they threw in an unfortunate wrinkle to the Kim story line in that while she is sitting around looking concerned and fretting about her father's safety, she is fully clothed and there does not seem to be a plausible plot twist that will cause her to remove her jacket this year. Given that I just picture her wearing her wardbrobe from season one and all is fine.

That said, nothing beats watching it in person.

 

[countstudly]

Season 3 is done

The ending was a disappointment. I guess the scriptwriters hadn't planned on the torture commited by Americans in all parts of the world to come to light in the mainstream media, even in the Orwellian media environment of the US and Canada.

It kinda took the edge off Jack Bauer's liberties with the cool MI-6 dude's daughter. Threatening the "bad guy" with harm to his relatives is getting old on the show. A really commitment would be to sacrifice the relatives for the cause but that would mess up the plot. Anyway, we know for a fact that in real life, the American people have tortured 9 and 11 year old boys (possibly castrated both of them in front of their father), tortured an aged man to death in front of his son (lawsuit filed by Center for Constitutional Rights), and brutally raped a 14 year old Iraqi boy (oddly, the media barely mentioned this from the US Congressional hearings a couple of weeks ago, I guess it forgot). Considering that they bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki just for fun, is there anything really shocking about Jack's behaviour. Yes, that it was so unrepresentatively tame compared to real state terrorism.

Is there really a need for a fourth season?