Please, someone kill Jack Bauer!
By fred | February 21, 2007
(S06E10) Seriously, this season of 24 really sucks. I know 24 has never been a “great� show, filled with Bauer’s heroic moments, unrealistic actions and unbelievable plots; but none of this ever really mattered because it’s 24, it’s Jack Bauer, and it’s great entertainment !
Or at least, it was. When the season started I was quite happy, because even though many things didn’t change (such as same characters, or everything happens in Los Angeles: firstly people from CTU LA had to be in charge in the return of Jack, but somehow terrorists always both target and live in LA…) there was some new & interesting development, some exciting ideas (such as having the action started before the first episode of the season, having Jack killing a friend, or a bomb to actually go off on US soil…)
Yet all of this new excitement faded away as soon as the very first episode. But it was just a mix, during the first episodes there was both great ideas, and lame plots. Obviously we could do without those, it’d be much better, but still things evened out and the show was still compelling to watch.
Lately though, things have changed. Enormously. Main reason is, the great ideas are gone. No more interesting twists, or stimulating plots. And the worst part is, they’re even asking viewers to believe things that no one can believe, even the most hardcore fans.
Jack’s dad yelling “I’m a bad guy!� and killing people in front of everyone at CTU and yet no one hears anything, all look the other way and pretend nothing happened, somehow. CTU agents not keeping tracks of the deadly drugs they use, or having long coffee break and taking their time even after a nuclear bomb went off a few miles away. Regular people (by that I mean agents working on a computer all day long, not highly trained soldier) being heavily tortured and yet not requiring any surgery and being back to work within minutes.
Nothing feels right. Nothing makes sense. After having Morris back to work like that, this week we had Milo playing Jack Bauer and getting shot, not that it would affect his work though. And then Morris felt guilty, went to buy some alcohol on one of the few stores still opened like never happened despite the nuclear explosion, but that might not be recommended since he used to be alcoholic.
Then we had a scene like I love them on TV: Everyone is having an important reunion, and Morris is asked to go do something, now, cause it’s important. Chloe goes with him, so have a chat under some stairs or whatever, she knows he had a drink, but he throw it all up right after, so he thinks that’s ok (it’s not like he went through rough things lately, like being tortured) and she agrees. Then they go back to the reunion, cause whatever they had to do probably got done on its own. Things get done all the time, George.
Meanwhile, Jack learned that his daddy was a bad guy after all. “How could I be so stupid?� he asks. “Yeah, how the fuck could you all be so damn it retarded?!!?� I yelled right back.
