JimK:  Well. That was some ride, eh?  What I love about 24 is the very thing I complain about in other shows…the frenetic, breakneck impossibility of it all.  The last couple of years they forgot that bigger doesn’t mean better, but with this scaled-down, more personal storytelling, I find it somewhat easy to forgive the Brannon Braga Bullshit moments. Plus I rarely think about the logic, even while writing these posts.  24 is pure popcorn for me this year, and episodes like 3-4 PM are why I can enjoy it.  Action, minimal political intrigue, decent acting by most…that works.

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This week I had some good reasons for not caring about the logic of it all. Mainly because Jack Bauer carjacked a bitch.  He also, in no particular order, t-boned a Secret service agent’s car, caved in his chest, threatened to kill a baby (indirectly) stabbed the same agent, got the President to authorize him to do whatever the hell he wants and told off Agent McSimperingWeakpants about fighting terrorists.  Plus he brought Agent Boobs McBauer, AKA Femjack, AKA Big Red, Aka Freckles McTitterson (I could do this all day) one step closer to the Church of Bauer, which holds as its motto “Get it done by any means or get people killed. There is no other choice.”  Secondary motto is “TELL ME WHERE THE ____ IS!!!”

Best line from Red McFreckleboobs: Jack senses she’s torn up about threatening Agent Vossler’s wife & baby, and he tells her maybe she should get out.  Her reply: “Maybe I will…..tomorrow.”  She’s so Jack Bauer with a vagina.  I swear she was created to give all the dudes with mancrushes on Bauer something they can feel comfortable ogling.

Anyone care about Ike’s girlfriend/sister subplot?  Seems like that Braga Bullshit I was referring to earlier. It exists solely to expose Dubaku at the time when he would be hunkered down working his evil plans so jack couldn’t catch him.  Instead we know that Ike Dubaku will be captured at some point and Jack bauer will go all Gitmo on his ass to get intel on Juma, which they will then use to rescue the Sengalese peoples from the clutches of a barbarian warlord and Jack bauer will end up sitting in front of that Senator Dickweed again knowing he just saved the god-damned world again and they’ll try to railroad him - or conversely maybe Senator Dicksmoke will be forced to thank him for his service which would be a nice change of pace.  Maybe Boobs McFBI will play some part in that.  But I’m way ahead of myself.  We don’t even know what the real threat is yet.

Oh and the First Gentleman subplot.  Love that Hillary Bush  Allison Taylor (that is such a porn name) was going to let him die. Needs of the many, sister.  You stay strong, Laura Roslin Allison Taylor.

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