HOUR 14
24 has reached new heights of silliness, even for 24. I heard something to
suggest that the writers don't really design the whole plot from beginning
to end, they sort of make it up as they go. I guess that way, it makes them
more like Jack. Whatever.....
1 - Some bald dude working for the terrorists sets up shop in what appears
to be an abandoned warehouse. This is no hack with a laptop, he's got dual
monitors, interactive graphics, a cozy place to sit, no one running around
to bother him, and he looks like one of Milo's clubbing buddies. But of
course what matters most is the 1980's style joystick that he uses to pilot
the drone.
Drones, by the way: have no pilots on the ground... only UAVs (Unmaned Air Vehicle)
Speaking of UAVs, did you see that rediculous little toy-plane Fayed and the Russian flew?
That is shaped like a UAV called Global Hawk (google it and see)
In the show they were supposed to use a "UAV to launch the bomb"
Their wing span is 161 feet!!!! The one they showed on 24 was barely higher than Richard Simmons.....
ahhh, dear 24 people... do your research!!!!!
BTW, worry not about the fact that this little toy plane landed and caught fire with the atomic bomb...
fire is maybe the safest thing that can happen to a nuclear bomb...
it lowers the chances to bomb (it has to do with atoms and all that good stuff, you sure you want to hear?)
2 - Fayed and the Soviet general are pissed at each other because the US
government has found their huge terrorist operations center in the middle of
California. I'm not sure how they found it, but it seems that they have
plenty of time to pack up and hide somewhere else.
3 - CTU is tracking the drone, until it goes off line because someone has
hacked into CTU's computer with inside help. Terrorists have figured out how
to hack into a top secret government computer system and figured out how to
make a radar image of a moving target disappear.
4 - The software heroics continue as Morris "sends a pulse through the
network" and figures out that it is Nadia's machine that has been hacked
into. This is followed by some absurd antics I frankly wished I'd missed:
a. Milo putting his club moves on Nadia
b. Ricky Schroeder trying to interrogate Nadia and getting nowhere
c. Chloe French kissing her ex husband / current boyfriend to see if she can
taste any booze.
5 a - Things go from bad to worse as Jack's attractive ex sister in law/ ex
girlfriend tells Jack that "she wished things could have worked out between
them". She never offers any reason why she took the occasion of their break
up to hook up with Jack's fat, bald, professional criminal/terrorist younger
brother and embark on a 17 year marriage with him, but maybe it was all part
of her master plan to get back together with Jack. Almost Shakespearean.....
5b- She tries to kiss Jack, but he lets her know that he first needs to
figure out what is up with Audrey, his true love. We learn that Audrey spent
a year in China eating Kung Pao chicken and shrimp while she was looking for
Jack, until she "mysteriously died in a car crash" . Actually they are not
100 %sure she is dead, which means she is alive. Sounds like she tried the
Uma Thurman "Kill Bill" thing. Either that or the Chinese just let her roll
in and look for a federal prisoner for 12 months. Jack vows revenge on the
entire nation. Jack must have seen some of those websites that predicted
that he would actually win in a fight against a billion Chinese.
6 - Jack of course gets a hold of the joystick and saves San Francisco!
Cool! The nuke doesn't blow up, but it radioactivizes a few fireman. That is
more than enough for the veep, who we now recognize as Curly Bill Brosius
from Tombstone( a movie about the legendary gunfight at the OK Coral) , to
order a nucular strike against the "middle eastern country"
Another sillyness in this episode:
"no one can reach the Tu-Pac the president of the united states unless they
get a premission from his family, in this case: his sister...
Martha Atwewart begs from the doctor: "I must see him, it's a matter of national security!"
well, National security cancels "family" .... It's like a cool magic trick in World
of Warcraft that cancels everything else....
Bring it on 24!!!!!
