Really, 24?
CTU has just been EMP’d and no one even thinks twice about some random parole agent who’s bumbling around, asking questions about some idiot thief?
And how freakin’ committed is this parole officer that he sees that the COUNTER-TERRORISM AGENCY of the United Freakin’ States of America IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A MASSIVE NATIONAL SECURITY CRISIS, but, you know, he needs to get back to Arkansas so this just can’t wait.
Sorry for yelling, but Monday night’s episode was so moronically stupid that I still am quite upset.
I’m not gonna say not to read if you didn’t watch, because, frankly, you’re better off not watching and just viewing the liveblog we did over at Blogs4Bauer. I’ve been told it’s quite amusing. And you’ll get all the main points.
So, first, I would just like to ask:
A MOLE? I mean, I know it’s become de rigeur and all by now, but imagine how things would have been by season’s end if there hadn’t been a mole. The fans would have been all, “Hey, this season sucked, but at least there wasn’t a mole, so that’s something anyway.”
Now, we don’t even have that to hold onto.
And I (and the rest of the world) was hoping that Dana/Jenny would meet her untimely death sooner rather than later, but now that she’s the mole, who knows when that will happen. I really think that whoever does hiring at CTU seriously needs to be locked in a Chinese prison for 14 months. At least 14 months. Or, locked in a room with Jack Bauer and no security cameras.
So Dana/Jenny is engaged to a hotshot CTU agent who can’t hold onto his NYC accent for more than about 10 seconds at a time and has now killed some stupid hayseed crooks for his fiance, who is working for the bad guys. Great.
And now she’s killed a probation officer (poor Milton, you were the most dedicated probation officer in the history of mankind) and hidden his body. Of course, because of the EMP blast, no cameras recorded that, so she has that going in her favor.
And who thought the NSA jerkoff was going to be the mole? Best line of the night, “I’m sure you’re a nice guy, when you’re not at work,” Chloe says as she’s holding a pistol to his face. Chloe rocks, even in the midst of all this idiocy. And Hastings has had the best CTU director redemption since Bill Buchanan. Possibly, even, George Mason.
Go get some shrimp, Bubba. You deserve it.
Once again, we see that everyone should just listen to Jack and Chloe. I don’t know why people don’t. Those two redshirts who got killed with Jack and Chico Jr. totally deserved it. The first one for breaking formation in the first place (though that formation looked like the guys from Animal House trying to hide from the dean or something) and the second for being stupid. I really wished Jack had told him the guy he died trying to save was dead when he went out for him, because he deserved to know what a moron he was before he died.
Sorry, do I sound a bit harsh? Well, I’m pissed off.
I’m pissed off that Jack isn’t killing people.
I’m pissed off about the whole Dana/Jenny storyline.
I’m pissed off that the president of 70sHairistan’s daughter is all, “I’m not going anywhere until you tell me everything, even though I know you deal with national security and I obviously brought a car to you that kind of blew everything up. But you owe me!”
If it weren’t for live-blogging, I would have wanted to bang my head against the wall throughout most of the episode. Hell, I probably wouldn’t have made it through to the end. But we have a great audience over at B4B, so that makes it easier to stomach eps like this.
When the word “Rods!” is used more in an episode than “Dammit,” there’s an issue.
Chloe needs to tase someone. Red Hot got the kills, which was awesome, but Jack needs to start taking out bad guys. He needs to shoot someone in the knee and yell at them.
We’re halfway through this, our last 24 hours. Please don’t wrap it all up neatly into some stupid storyline that makes me want to drown myself in the toilet. Please?