To: SlowBoat407; conservativebabe; CSM; hummingbird; eastforker; Yehuda; secret garden; kesg; ...
I didn't receive any instructions from Ox today, and I haven't heard anything from him tonight. So here's a sub-24 ping just in case.
Ox, I'm apologize if I'm stepping on your toes here.
6,500 posted on
03/06/2006 4:51:59 PM PST by
silent_jonny
("... anger rests in the bosom of fools" -- Ecclesiastes 7:9)
To: silent_jonny
Oh yeah..been waiting a whole week. I did watch some shows from a few years past (I'm a new fan) and they are definitely getting better.
6,526 posted on
03/06/2006 4:56:49 PM PST by
eleni121
('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
To: silent_jonny
OK, Here's my list of complaints about tonight's two shows. These were particularly full of unbelievable and weird things, so there may be more than 10. Some have been pointed out all ready by others, but I steal them shamelessly without attribution.
- In a previous episode I noted that Lynn managed to get back into the building without his key card. The only way he could do that is if the guards knew him and let him in, or if they had him on file with his picture. But then they would have cleared his key code in any REAL world. NOW, here comes the terrorist using his keycode and they don't seem to notice it's not Lynn but let him in anyway.
- CTU once again demonstrates is inter-spacial-dimensional qualities. The terrorist is at Lynn's sister's place, and makes it to CTU in under 8 minutes, even though he has to program the key card. I can't make it from my house to work in 8 minutes and I live 3 miles away. Sure they could have been nearby, but it's awfully convenient.
- Why not use baggies? The things don't blow up, they just emit a gas. Why not just carry around a dozen hefty trash bags and bag the stupid things? It should at least work for a minute while you get your anti-nerve gas vacuum. Heck, I wonder if you couldn't just jamb the thing into a concrete space where it wouldn't be able to open -- I can't imagine they spent a lot of money on an extra-heavy-duty motor for the opening mechanism. Clamp if shut, duct-tape the seams.
- We've now had 3 attacks, all at the central ventilation, and they still haven't started there when looking. And why not carry the little containment box into the place? I suppose it should be too big and unwieldy to carry, but it didn't look like it was.
- Earlier, the Flotus assistant tried to stop that dead chief of staff from coming into the room because flotus said keep everybody out, but when he insisted she HAD to let him in. But she was able to order the president to stay out. Something just isn't right about that.
- Why don't they have enough gas masks for all the CTU people? They have them for all the guys running around to the scenes, surely within 4 hours they could have picked up a couple hundred masks for the workers at CTU?
- Why 10 minutes after an evacuation starts does the hospital still have workers just standing around in the aisles getting in the way, none of them looking like they are in much of a hurry? I understand that evacuating patients is hard, so why aren't all the workers in rooms getting patients out?
- The case the terrorist carried into CTU wasn't large enough to hold the cannister, nor did it look heavy enough either when compared to Curtis picking up and running with cannister. Further, when we see the cannister/bag later at CTU, the bag is bigger.
- So CTU doesn't have any gas masks -- OK, maybe they don't expect a gas attack. But wait, they have SEALING ROOMS, with fancy rubber seals mysteriously snaking down between the edges of the glass conference room doors? Why would those three areas be the only place they can seal? Wouldn't ANY seal protocol have started with the VENTILATION SYSTEM? Doesn't anybody know how to shut off the ventilation system? See, I can believe they wouldn't, but I can't believe they would build a hi-tech sealant system and NOT do the air ducts.
- And the final nail in the coffin -- The gas released 50 seconds EARLY. The 15 minute countdown started at about 6:43:20, and the gas started at 6:57:30. It shouldn't have started until 6:58:20. Then Edgar could have made it.
Wouldn't Edgar have been safer if he stayed in the room with the dead girl? After all, there was a huge fan sucking all the gas away from that room.......
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