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basil's blog » Blog Archive » Picnic 01-18-2006 — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 20:40:01 +0000

[...] Right Wing Nutt House reviews "24" [...]

By: Below The Beltway

Below The Beltway — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:16:26 +0000

This Season On 24

Am I alone in thinking that the current season of Fox’s 24 is the best yet ?
I have to believe that I’m not. I mean, look at what we’ve got so far. Jack Bauer back from the dead. A terrorist threat that seems to be knowingly playing on the weakn ….

By: euphoricreality.net

euphoricreality.net — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 22:51:28 +0000

Now That’s a Bummer

And how many of you were screaming at the TV “Flank 2, you morons! Flank-effin’-2!!!” It’s A Code!!!” I though Curtis would be the one to catch it, but, duhh, no - it had to be the Hobbit??

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By: bigfatnobody

bigfatnobody — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 10:09:56 +0000

Regarding the body count for Jack:
He triggered the diversion/explosion of the first vest with his cellphone, agreed?
Therefore he killed two baddies with a gun, and one with his cellphone. That makes three for the Monday episode(s), and six for the season.

By: diamond

diamond — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:04:21 +0000

Maryhunter: I thought Jack’s plugging Nina as she was down was pretty cold also. But what the hell, those two were just a piece of human debree (sp?)

By: The MaryHunter

The MaryHunter — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:28:56 +0000

Good point, Penelope, especially the second one. In fact, it could be argued (on the other hand) that Jack certainly can give his word and then break it - as he did with the gunman in the refinery, saying he’d get him to medical care if he talked.

If that was one of the coldest killings Jack had done in the history of 24, it surely was prudent. Yet, he did give that crook his word. Which means, his word is only as good as the person to whom he profers it — in keeping with the Jack Moral Compass.

By: Penelope

Penelope — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 03:19:52 +0000

“Flank 2″ wasn’t meaningless to CTU. Bill Buchanan points out to Samwise that “Flank 2″ is a term referring to a position. He was saying (they thought)hey, I’m gonna be *here* so don’t shoot me when you come it!

And about Jack’s honor, the fact that Derek was there at all was what made Jack need to save him, not the promise to Diane. Jack may curse circumstances, but he’d never curse his sense of what’s right - if you get an innocent kid into a messy situation, you’ve got an obligation to get him out of it if you can. If he lost his sense of honoring what’s right, he’d become a monster.

By: diamond

diamond — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:30:24 +0000

Don’t you just love the humor of these folks, they named Derek Derek, son of mother who rents to Jack who works on oil platforms.

By: Tom Freeman

Tom Freeman — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:19:11 +0000

On “Flank 2″ there are two absurdities, only one of which has been mentioned. Yes, it is bizarre that CTU agents hear Jack say “Flank 2″ multiple times, without (a) noticing that it doesn’t mean anything in normal parlance - i.e. what the hell is he talking about?; or (b) having it ring a bell “hey - didn’t that used to be a distress code?”

But equally absurd to me is having the terrorist listen to Jack say “Flank 2″ several times without it clicking that it could be some kind of a secret signal. Are these guys supposed to be that stupid? This Flank 2 gambit would never have gotten by Marwan last year.

For these reasons, I assume that in real counter-terrorism life, distress codes are normal meaningful phrases that could be put into a conversation without arousing too much suspicion (something like “move all your men to the south entrance now - I CAN’T EMPHASIZE THIS ENOUGH - move them to the south entrance), not phrases with no meaning.

By: diamond

diamond — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:15:39 +0000

MARTHA LOGAN FOR PRESIDENT with or without the pills. She is scary good.
Rick, love your description of the Hobbit, I’m still laughing. I was prepared to suspect and/or hate the twerp until he came to the rescue regarding the “duress code” Still will keep an eye on him because he could of done the code thing to “make his bones” at CTU. Jack wouldn’t trust him so I won’t either. But could this Hobbit’s inability to go with gut feelings get lots of people killed? Reduces the chance of Jack being the one to rack up a stellar number of kills. But I know better, my money is on Jack.
Jack shoots to disarm, who’d thunk it. Is he mellowing with age, sure hope not. Don’t give me that he wanted more info from him, he certainly didn’t wait around for more info from shooter.
Your truism, “We only know him by observing him on the absolute worst days of his life” Jack doesn’t know that we are watching - ha-ha - so can we assume that Jack acts with honor when no one is watching? Yep, he is just an honorable man with a mission, that’s why he’s dangerous. I think he also knows that if you don’t save the one you won’t stand a chance to save the many. It’s a universe thingie. I feel this character has a good sense of right and wrong, he’s right, end of story?
One of my most hated expressions, “you go girl” well I think I need to use it here, Chloe was great. Like Jack, Chloe cuts to the chase, no nonsense kind of gal! Can’t watch Jack with Audrey, Audrey would be the kind of wife that Jack would be constantly apolizing to. I liked her indigant question to Jack when her hubby was SHOT IN A SHOOT OUT WITH BAD GUYS and she yells at Jack how could he let that happen.
Now as for Logan being a republican. Palmer was a democrat, in first hour of first 24 Jack said that if Palmer gets elected he’ll gut this place. This place was CTU. Doesn’t sound like a republican. Mike Novik worked for him. Season four and five Mike Novik works for Logan. Close advisors usually don’t party hop. Cummings, what evidence he’s republican? Now Martha said that Logan and Palmer had different politics, i.e. liberal, moderate, conservative. I don’t take that as being of different parties. See first season, see the campaign promises made, the “what can I do for you that they are not doing now” They are all democrats, some with different stripes, well not since Palmer was plugged.
This season is going great and we are getting too much in the weeds, let’s just sit back and enjoy, oh put on your seat belts.-