I am getting a bit dissappointed in this show. It's not just that it is getting a bit predictable, it's that I feel like I've already seen the same mistakes in previous years, and I would hope someone would learn a lesson now and then.
10) How could the russian girl have a weapon in her room? She was being held captive by that guy, he wouldn't have left a weapon in the room.
9) Sorry, but as soon as the showed her listening to Jack, I said to my wife -- "by the end of the episode, she'll shoot him and they'll have to send jack pretending to be him". It was way too obvious, and it's like at least the 3rd time someone has shot a suspect because they were mad. (BTW, my wife wasn't actually watching the show, and I'm not altogether sure she was even in the other room. I never let that get in the way of our conversations).
8) If the software guy owned an entire building, why did he need to make a little extra money on the side, why did he hate our country, what's the deal? I'm not saying it wouldn't happen, it's just that it was so undeveloped.
7) I was a bit disturbed that they could trace a land line talking to a 'sat phone', but not the 'sat phone'. It looked like a cell phone, but they said they couldn't trace it because it was bouncing off of satellites or something -- don't you wish you could get your cell phone to talk to a geosynchronous satellite, I bet it would improve your coverage area....
6) Rudy getting mugged was also very anticlimatic. You'd think he would have learned after the whole smeagol thing that you can't trust people to change.....
5) Didn't the computer guy hear today that the attorney general lies under oath and therefore can't be trusted? And yet he seemed quite content to accept a paper with his signature. :-> OK, seriously, could we ever grant a terrorist the right to kidnap a girl and take her to foreign soil? What if he had said he wanted to upgrade, would we have delivered an actress to him? Or did it have to be someone he already had in his possession?
4) Of course Walt killed himself. The only thing more trite would have been if he had done so before Jack got information out of him -- but the show has to get us just enough information to get to the next episode, or we'd spend an hour sitting around waiting for the NSA to illegally intercept another communication and then wait while they found someone who spoke the language to interpret it.
3) Not specific to this show, but have they got a new vice president anywhere? I just can't remember, but I'm thinking if they do Jack could serve his country by making the president resign before he helped out. After all, Logan wants jack to sacrifice his life, the president ought to have to sacrifice as well.
2) Well, at least Jack got to kill a couple of people, but just as many people were killed by others. Actually, I don't know if Jack killed two people or not, it seemed he shot at least one, maybe Curtis got the other -- if so, that would put Jack even with the other professionals in this weeks battle, but behind 2-1 to the amateurs (I assume that if you kill yourself that counts). Assuming the girl is an amateur, she shot pretty well for a 15-year-old that was kidnapped from a poor country in Eastern Europe when she was 13 and has been held hostage for two years).
1) I thought the McCain cameo was only a little too long.
It was so long I missed it entirely !
Dooood, yer thinkin' waaay too much!
PS your McCain quip is funny!
Was there anything about the show you did like? ;~\
FWIW, we also predicted the girl killing the Russian guy... they've done that a couple times now.
Everyone else is enjoying 24.....may I say that this is just a TV show...for entertainment only......Can't wait until next week.....
Yep, I've been a fan since day one, but last night's show was really a rehash of old themes. It's a shame the professional writers on this show don't have a plan. This show could be less hackneyed if they really put an effort into it.
Rudy the Hobbit needs a distracting family member? Didn't the chick who ran CTU last season have an annoying, distracting daughter?
Critical suspect killed by vengeful woman? Yep, done in season two or three.
CTU agent under arrest/detention needed for technical expertise? Done to death. Wasn't Chloe herself in trouble in the first hour or two? Recycling themes from the same season is really poor.
Chloe bringing the snark is about the only genuine enjoyment I got out of this one.
I was waiting for the mechanic/metalworker, asked to open the cannister precisely 10 mm from the edge to say, "Sure. How big's a millimeter anyway?"
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Another thing that didn't add up. The machinist that cut open the canisters said everyone else was at lunch (I think). How come they never came back from lunch. It had to take at least a couple hours to do all that cutting.