24: day 4
Spoilers aheadOK. This is a TV show, so I understand concessions have to be made. Jack isn't going to the washroom, get hungry or die of exhaustion because he should of had 10 adrenaline dumps by now. But there are huge jumps in logic that are frustrating.
1) Having worked in some industrial sites, I have at least a slight understanding of what's happening. Yet according to the show, there's some magic black box that's able to take control of 100+ nuclear power plants and meltdown them down. Therefore ignoring the fact that there are going to be valves that need to be manually adjusted and there are on-site physical safety mechanisms that also need to be bypassed. Not to mention, each plant might have it's own software programs controlling matters, but of course, the magic black box must have some universal interfacing program.
2) A defense contractor wants to protect itself, so some workers try to discreetly delete incriminating files that might interest Jack & Co. Fair enough.
But when that failed, in come the hired mercenaries to eliminate Jack & Co. And to think, the workers worried about getting found out. Jack and 3 untrained civilians do eventually kill the aforementioned team of well trained mercenaries. Why worry about logic now.
3) The terrorists hold Jack hostage. They exchange Jack for the son of a terrorist family who was held captive at CTU. Supposedly this exchange was made because the kid had valuable information. The kid's value is never explained and he never appears in another episode.
4) Wife has nuclear codes. Husband is being tortured by terrorists. Wife can't bear the pain, so she turns over the codes to stop the torture on the condition that the terrorists don't kill the couple afterwards. I realize females are emotional creatures, but terrorists generally aren't the most trustworthy people. Unfortunately, before the terrorist could've killed the wife, Jack miraculously shows up and saves the day.
5) Jack has morphed into a crack shot killing machine this season. Master Chief has nothing on this guy. I don't really remember repeated 1-man killing sprees in previous seasons.
6) Jack kidnaps a chinese consulate conspiring with the terrorists. After knocking the dude out, Jack tries to quickly carry the consulate to a van waiting outside. The chinese guards decide to open fire on Jack while the consulate is slung over his shoulder. Great plan on recovering the consulate unharmed. The consulate is badly wounded leading to a hilarious situation at the CTU operating room.
7) To escape the clutches of the chinese goverment, Jack commits a pseudo-suicide and heads to the border to start a new life. With the help of epinephrine, Jack stops and starts his heart like a light switch. Is this believable? Beats me, I'm not a medical major.
Of course, they'll just figure out some contrived loophole so that Jack can resume his life in the next season.
8) Elected officials aren't always the most competent people, but it seems like the vice-president (and later president thanks to the 25th amendment) just stumbled off a bar stool into his job. He is simply over the top awful.
This is now 2 consecutive weak seasons of 24. I've used up all of the good faith built by seasons 1 and 2. Supposedly, season 5 is really good. If not, I might have to jump off this bandwagon.
posted by Edward @ 12:41 AM
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