Tue, 08 May 2007 19:07:00
24 is so frigging ridiculous
I’m a little late, but I needed to set this down and get this clear in my head. I’m supposed to accept that…
SPOILER!
CTU...The Counter fucking Terrorism Unit - the same place that was assaulted last year - can be assaulted by some assbagging Chinese mercs in the god-damned sewer system? Were they so god-damned concerned with designing the bad-ass glass walls and making sure they had hi-def plasma screens covering every fucking bare inch of the concrete walls that they FORGOT TO SECURE THE MOTHER-FUCKING SEWERS? What kind of backward-ass idiot terrorism fighting task force is this? Is Brownie in charge of security or something? Did Rumsfeld design this fucking place?
Oh, also, what the fucking go-damned son-of-a-whoring bitch cock is the Los Angeles division of the Counter Terrorism Unit doing without hardened communications? On this program I am expected to believe that CTU is the central location for all the terrorism information that flows through the government. WHY THE FUCK CAN SOME CHINESE MERCS TAKE OUT THE PHONES? What the fuck kind of moron wrote this and why weren’t they fired immediately?
OK...here’s another one: Why did Jack Bauer, the superagent bad-ass who can withstand a heroin habit, two years of non-stop torture - and let us not forget that Jack beat death - why did he walk right past the terrorist he shot to save his new wife and long-lost son (Oh come on it’s obvious) and not pick up a single extra magazine of ammo? Oh I know - it;s so that HE COULD BE CAPTURED AGAIN WHEN HE RAN OUT OF AMMO.
Look, I am no soldier or survivalist or anything. Even I know you grab the mags because you never know how much you’ll need. Have these idiots never played a video game, or think none of us have played one? Jack ran out of ammo because the script couldn’t move forward unless he did. It’s writing such as this that exposes all the other huge glaring flaws in the show and serves to destroy any ability to suspend disbelief. The suspension of disbelief was required to believe that Jack’s father had access to the latest security codes that would have been changed at least twice during the day from hell CTU has had. The bad writing ruined my ability to accept that Jack’s father still had that information.
Also, I’m sort of glad that the poor man’s Skeet Ulrich took a bullet to the brain pan.
I think it’s time to cancel 24. We’ve taken this as far as it can go.
Posted by JimK at 07:07 PM on May 08, 2007
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#2 Posted by Drumwaster 
on 05/08 at 09:23 PM -
What?!? No blog entry for Heroes yet? Where the hell have you been?!? :-o
#5 Posted by JimK on 05/08 at 11:59 PM -
I hear ya. I’m going to have a hard time keeping that season pass for next year.
#6 Posted by jo-jo on 05/09 at 12:03 AM -
we’ve been watching since season 1.
once you’ve seen jack get screwed, jack scream, jack save the day, jack scream, then something stupidly fucked up happen once, jack scream, repeat, well, you’ve seen every season ;)
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#1 Posted by Buzzion
on 05/08 at 08:38 PM -
I don’t think Drive caused the ratings to drop off for 24