I decided to skip my usual "top 10 complaints" about the show for last night. But high on my list would have been how Jack, rushing to the rescue of Chloe, steals a chopper. While en-route on the chopper, he calls the mother and tells her to drive to LA. Now, I don't know where they were before (I thought he was supposed to be in Mexico, but I guess they were somewhere in the U.S.) but she manages to get into her car, and drive all the way to LA, and get's there within an hour or so of when he arrived.
I'd have to check the exact timeline which I can't do because I didn't tape the show, but it seems absurd that she can drive all the way to LA that quickly, when it took Jack more than 15 minutes by helicopter.
It is clear you have to ignore the time-to-travel in this show. Except once in a while, like last year when Chloe had to shoot the bad guy, it suddenly becomes critical to the plot (in that show it seemed Chloe got from CTU to a house, and got inside, and was talking to the people, and then got attacked, and called CTU, in LESS time than CTU said it would take to then send ANYBODY to the same location to save her, either from CTU or from the local police department.
agreed
Jack and his new chick were in the Mojave. Not sure about geography, but it seems reasonable that Jack could get there in a chopper in 15 min. and she would take an hour to drive.
Jack wasn't in Mexico, he was in Mojave CA, which I guess is not too far from LA. When he calls the kid's mother, she was enroute to LA, but wasn't there yet. The airport to which he directed her was the Ontario airport, about 30 miles East of LA.
The times were screwed up right off the bat. Palmer was shot about 5-7 minutes (or less) into the show, but by minute 12 or 15, EVERYONE (including Fox News) knew about it and knew he was dead. Hell, it took them 30 minutes (after Parkland arrival) to pronouce Kennedy dead even though a quarter of his head was gone.
I was a bit annoyed by the sunglasses when Jack went to the crime scene. The only guy with sunglasses would have been a bit of a standout.
You do have to suspend disbelief a ~little~
I have a harder time with some of the technology leaps than I do travel time. :~D
It took the mother more than an hour to meet up with Jack and the kid. She met up with him at the Ontario airport at about 8:40am. The opening identified the oilfield as being near Mojave, California which is 80 - 100 miles from LA.
The real timing issue on the premier was the time from Palmer's assassination to the TV reports. He was shot about 7:05 am, but the TV news had it within 10 minutes. If he had been killed in a public place, perhaps, but he was killed in his brother's apartment.
The media would only know that something bad had happened in the brother's apartment, not that the former president had been shot and killed. News would have leaked out quickly, but the news cycle would go from reporting that something had happened in the home of the former president's brother to unconfirmed reports that the former president had been injured and finally after some time that the former president had been killed.
The current President and CTU would have known immediately, but the outside world would have been in the dark for at least an hour.
Additionally, how would CTU know about the attack on Tony and Michelle so quickly?
I love the show, but sometimes I need a crane to suspend my disbelief.
Looked like Bakersfield.