Mon, 15 Jan 2007 00:06:00
24 - Day 6, 6 Am - 8 AM
When Jack said “I don’t know how to do this anymore,” to Assad, it kind of came out like “I wish I knew how to quit you.” I’m just saying. ;)
Spoilers below!
Random thoughts, in no particular order:
Well, that was certainly 24. Fast paced, plot holes you could drive a big rig through and a nagging suspicion that the U.S. is going to be painted as morally equal to the terrorists.
Still, I mean what are you gonna do? It’s Jack Bauer. Chinese torture be damned. Death can’t stop Jack Bauer. A shitty crepe hair beard can’t stop Jack Bauer. Some bald half-assed “I’m out to revenge my brother who you threw off the 32nd floor of the Nakotomi Towers building” terrorist isn’t going to stop Jack Bauer...and I’ll be there, watching every minute.
At least the bad guys are all actually Middle Eastern terrorists this time and not Serbian or Uzfuckistani or whatever.
The moment before the cargo plane opened and Jack Bauer stepped off, fresh from a Chinese prison, at about the same instant I saw the glowing red interior light up, I said out loud “Oh for fuck’s sake it’s not Jesus getting off the plane!” Donna said “ Yes it is.” and then Jack stepped into the light with his REALLY sweet crepe hair beard, looking for all the world like the Jesus in your local theater company’s version of “Superstar.” All he was missing was a funky groove and a colored robe.
I saw some bloggers mention that line, the “I don’t know how to do this anymore” line as being a mark of the pussification of Jack. But they never mentioned the line that Assad hits back with, which was simply “You’ll remember.” Which of course Jack does...by the end of the second hour he’s drop-kicking a suicide bomber out of a moving train.
It’s like riding a bike. By hour four, he’ll be torturing Audrey with lamp cord just to get a hummer.
I spotted product placement for Toyota, Nextel, U-Haul and the Toshiba Gigabeat...anyone see anything else?
OK, I feel like I have to explain the crepe hair beard thing. In the director’s commentary to Cannibal! The Musical, Matt Stone and Trey Parker talk about the truly horrible crepe hair beards they had to wear and how utterly fake and stupid they looked. They would go on and on about these beards, cracking jokes constantly. “Dude, that is a really sweet crepe hair beard you got there!” “Dude, you too!” One day Matt showed up without his and they were needed for shooting and he was all “Aww man nobody told me it was crepe hair beard day!” As soon as I saw Jack’s beard, that was all I could think about.
Anyway...now the Pres and CTU are gonna want to help Jack officially but we have yet another bad guy advisor to the President who wants to intern all Muslims in holding camps. WoooOoOooOoo...he’s like Cheney and Rove all rolled into one! And we have a big-time terrorist actively - like in the field actively - helping Jack and the U.S. government. Sure. Fine. If I can swallow that Jack could hot-wire some shitbox car and drive across L.A. in time to get to Assad three minutes before two assault choppers could fucking fly there, I’ll believe anything.
I just want to see him get his messenger bag back is all I’m saying. And can we finally have that mountain lion eat Kim already?
Next week: Jack throws a satellite into orbit by hand, finds out who was really behind 9/11 and weaves a basket in which to carry kittens he rescues from a fire, all without stopping to pee. Can’t wait!
Posted by JimK at 12:06 AM on January 15, 2007
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#2 Posted by Ryley R. Hayes 
on 01/15 at 03:50 AM -
Was I the only one cheering when Assad stuck a knife under a persons KNEECAP? Holy shit!
Also, am I the only who noticed that Assad is played by the guy who did Dr. Bashir in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine? God I’m such a TV nerd.
#3 Posted by Buzzion on 01/15 at 03:53 AM -
No, I noticed it as well. He was also in Kingdom of Heaven and that movie george clooney did centering on oil.
#4 Posted by Rann Aridorn on 01/15 at 07:19 AM -
Well, Bashir did always want to play spy. I guess now he’s just playing a, uh, different sort of spy.
#5 Posted by Harley W Daugherty on 01/15 at 07:43 AM -
never saw 24.............
Lee’s site is still fucked for me..
cant get it to load.
#6 Posted by Christian on 01/16 at 12:40 AM -
Bashir (can’t remember his real name..oh well) is a Muslim, and has played a terrorist before on the great BBC show MI:5. But here he’s definitely way more bad assed.
#7 Posted by JimK on 01/16 at 01:27 AM -
da_ubu: You know what’s killing me?
Fayed is played by a Greek guy from Philly. They couldn’t find *any* more Arabic actors in LA? ;)
Personally I blame the crying garbage indian from the 70s. As soon as everyone found out he was Italian, it was all over for getting ethnically accurate actors.
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#1 Posted by Buzzion
on 01/15 at 03:06 AM -
Can I place a bet that the guy in charge of the 24 version of CAIR ends up being in with the terrorists before the end of the season?