24: Hour Fifteen

24: Hour Fifteen

1. I think the 24 writers have had numerous unpleasant run-ins with the LAPD. Because they make them look dumber than a sack of dirt.

2. It's amusing how the fact that Audrey is the Secretary of Defense's daughter doesn't give her any bit of power. It doesn't even make the acting head of CTU pause for a moment, when debating whether or not to torture her for information they're pretty sure she doesn't have. It was more of a cover-your-ass torture session than a "real" one but still. Not that I felt bad for her. If anything it was disappointing that Jack managed to stop it so fast. Especially after finding out that she let Walt Cummings climb aboard the Audrey Express. Blleeeccchhhhh.

3. Who else said "Slow down little boy, you think you're bad ass because you carry that silver case and inflict pain on people for a living, but JACK BAUER WILL FUCK YOU UP" when Mr. Torture Guy stepped to Jack. Or something to that effect.

4. The best line of the night was one word long, when New Girl said "I guess I shouldn't make any mistakes" because of her work history, not the 17 canisters of nerve gas floating around and Chloe said... "Uh yeah" in that Chloe tone of voice.

5. It's kind of weird that Sam the Gasworks Guy is willing to let people release something into the system. He must know it's toxic or why would they be doing it. So to save the two or so people in the room (they can't kill him since they won't know how to operate anything) he gased hundreds of thousands of people. But then again everyone thinks they'd be brave in that situation.

6. I think Audrey figures the torture was worth it, to get a hug and mini-smooch from Jack. She'd probably take another 50 or so ccs of that drug if it'd get him to bang her.

7. We already knew Jack was badass but it's fun to see it confirmed. Terrorist chick regularly spends time with some of the most evil people in the world. But one sentence "You do not want to try me" and one look from Jack and she's shitting bricks. She was SHOOK. Hell, I was shook.

8. The writers really do get off on messing with everyone's heads and making them change gears in mid-thought. I was just barely done thinking "You go New Girl, with your de-pressurizing knowledge" before she got creepy and I had to think "Great, just what this fucking show needed, another crazy broad running loose around CTU."

9. The Wayne Palmer storyline is moving really fucking slow. I like him only because David Palmer is dead so any residual liking I have left was automatically transfered to him. But the storyline needs to pick up pace or I'm going to use his face as the signal for a bathroom break during future episodes.

10. Thank you thank you thank you so much writers, for giving us a one episode break from the First Couple From Hell.

Some things Kwame has reminded me I missed:

-After weeks spent bitching that the one pseudo-Asian woman on the show was a moron, it turns out she may *not* be stupid, she might be a traitor. Nice. Why do I get the feeling that next week we'll find out she is actually stupid, and couldn't even get her traitorous activities right.

-Audrey replaced Jack Bauer after he "died" with Walt Cummings? That's like having to pick up a bus pass after your Ferrari gets stolen. Also on the Audrey front, she switched gears mighty fast in the interrogation room. She might just be into S&M, possibly auto-erotic asphyxiation. You know those strait-laced types.

-For all his stiffness which can probably be attributed to the whole Secret Service thing, Aaron is possessed with the Jack Bauer gene. I think at family barbeques they toss back some Johnnie black label, roast meat, shoot a little heroin and have knife-throwing competitions.