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By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 16 Apr 2005 05:23:34 +0000

No a supreme court justice is not needed to swear in the President. There are at least three that I know of, one if Washington there was no supreme court yet and I think Truman or Eisenhower used his father which was a Justice of the Peace. The third was Johnson after Kennedy was killed. All you need is some type of Judge to swear you in.

By: superhawk

superhawk — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:03:29 +0000

Adrienne:

I could have sworn one of those two guys was Baldy-the guy that Curtis pistol whipped at the office where Marwan was directing the meltdowns.

Dave:

Curtis was killed in those offices by a wounded merc who shot him in he back. And I agree with most of what you said about the implausibility of the entire sequence. But rather than turn it off I’ve decided to suspend belief.

Greg:

My understanding of the way the football works (read Buzz Anderson’s great book on how Clinton lost his pocket code book!) is that the go/no-go launch codes have to be sent electronically to the launch platform (missile, sub, plane) where it’s verified by humans who get a copy of the code for that day.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Thu, 14 Apr 2005 13:00:49 +0000

I think that “Baldy” is dead. I watched Monday night’s episode again last night and too a good hard look at the 2 bald men with Marwan and neither of them resembled the Baldy that Curtis took out. Sorry, your bald friend is indeed dead.

And I can appreciate the implausibility of this show. Sometimes the connections between TV and reality can hit too close to home (specifically I recall the “3 nameless middle-eastern countries” that Palmer almost declared war on, just weeks after Pres. Bush’s “axis of evil” comments in his State of the Union). Keeping it implausible also makes sure the government keeps it’s own secrets secure. Otherwise, now we all know how to damage and tracking device on the football so we can make our escape undetected.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 19:13:43 +0000

On a trident the codes are locked away on a safe, out in the middle of now where. If they are intergal to the codes in the football, then it could take a long time to change them. IF the football codes are can be changed while leaving the remote codes in tact…? Hmmm
And aren’t these launch codes? What good is a code book to a stolen nuke? I doubt you need a code book to reverse engr it enough to make it go bang.

But love the show .

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 18:44:20 +0000

I thought this episode was pretty weak. There wasn’t enough good stuff to compensate for the absurd implausibility of what’s going on. So the nuclear football is stolen and it’s going to take an hour to change the codes of the warheads? Please. So the plan all along was to shoot down Air Force One and just hope that the football gets sucked out of the plane far enough away so they can get there before CTU? Please. And the SecDef has determined that the recovery of the football is the TOP priority. And thus they send one (1) friggin’ helicopter, with Jack and one (1) other agent to recover it. Please. And speaking of the SecDef, where has Heller been? He had to run off to plan for martial law and we haven’t seen him since. Did the producers just run out of things for him to do, or did they need to get him out of the way so that Bill Buchanan could come into the picture? And what’s Curtis up to? Doesn’t he still work there?

Anyway, I don’t mind 24’s lack of believability as a general matter, but the show needs to help us get past it so we don’t notice it too much in the heat of the episode. Not so good this week.

By: SuzyQ

SuzyQ — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:22:57 +0000

Regarding “Scratch Anderson,” don’t forget that Anderson told Marwan last episode (or the one before?) that he wanted everyone to think he was dead. Marwan said it was covered. So, either he escaped from the Stealth somehow, faked the hit on the Stealth (how?), or there’s another Air Force stooge in on it.

Also, I’d like, just once, to see a female character who isn’t going to cave in the first time a loved one is tortured! I was really disappointed that she didn’t even try to hide the case somewhere safe or misdirect the terrorists to stall for time.

By: The MaryHunter

The MaryHunter — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:30:43 +0000

“I wonder if we should read any significance into the writers not including “So help me God” in this instance?”
Ya think? You know, this is FOX, not FNC.

“Wonder what the life expectancy is for being Jack’s back-up?”
Can you say “Drummer for Spinal Tap”?

Keep up the specticulatin, SH. This show is driving me nuts in a good way, even if it’s fraying around several seams.

By: Catscape

Catscape — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:56:58 +0000

This Is Not A Top Ten List
I was going to do another top ten list (Top Ten Songs on Robert “KKK” Bird’s iPod), but I’ve had my fill of them for a while. Instead, here’s a roundup of some good (and not so good) reading around the “internets” today.