Monday, January 15, 2007
Who Has Jack's Back?
He just hangs up on Bill, and he's clearly in trouble, and Bill is all like, later...patch me through to the President?
Doesn't Assad Know What Happens To Anyone Jack Gets A Pardon For?
"M" is right...Curtis is going to go all medieval on Assad's assad...
Does Jack really believe Curtis?
Does Jack really believe Curtis?
And Chloe's Got it All Going On With The Gen-Y Set
She's got to be 10 years older than 6 Feet Under Guy!
Jack's Going to Step In
Kumar may pass out first, though...so that they can give him a medical interrogation...
No, wrong! They're going to blow him up real good...some trigger happy kid in riot gear took Kumar out before he could give up the information about Fayed.
But Brent comes through...
No, wrong! They're going to blow him up real good...some trigger happy kid in riot gear took Kumar out before he could give up the information about Fayed.
But Brent comes through...
Ugh,
Indigo the wonderdog is now requesting my attention. if it's not one kid, it's another!
Good thing that Ahmed is about to pass out. I think the boy can take him with that steak knife
WHAT?? Did you see that commercial? The first 5 shows of this year are being released tomorrow???
Good thing that Ahmed is about to pass out. I think the boy can take him with that steak knife
WHAT?? Did you see that commercial? The first 5 shows of this year are being released tomorrow???
Oh, No...Ray!!!
He's a goner. "M", you're a total psychic.
And Fayed has basically confessed in front of yet another stranger. (We should make a label for that occurrence, so that we can sort how many times it happens!)
Oh, and if Kumar kills Brent (or whatever the kid's name is), Suburban Mom is going to go all Kill Bill on our asses, and thus increasing her attractiveness to Jack!
And Fayed has basically confessed in front of yet another stranger. (We should make a label for that occurrence, so that we can sort how many times it happens!)
Oh, and if Kumar kills Brent (or whatever the kid's name is), Suburban Mom is going to go all Kill Bill on our asses, and thus increasing her attractiveness to Jack!
"M" is Right, Too!
Suburban Mom is kind of Jack's type...
and now, another bad guy confessing to a complete stranger. (And in this case, someone we think is a good guy...)
and now, another bad guy confessing to a complete stranger. (And in this case, someone we think is a good guy...)
Ooo Sandra,
Way to really tell him. Some how I think that Peter MacNichol is going to have her taken out. Boy I like Larry Fleinhart better in Numb3ers. Won't be the first time the "administration" has had to "deal" with someone like her.
I'll take that bet
I bet that the mom falls for Jack after Ray gets blowed up. I agree Ahmed is going to pass out from blood loss and all those pain meds
One Thing We Noticed Last Season
It is like every 3 hours is a separate mini-series.
So now, with the introduction to the Ambassador, we now have the next episode.
So if you miss 3 hours, you can catch up on the 4th, when an almost entirely new story will start. Brilliant, given the state of the American viewing audience for network TV.
The NY Times (ugh, I will link to them) has an article the fact that viewers won't commit to serial dramas, and about all of the high-budget serials that were cancelled this fall after 3 episodes...
...people just don't have the attention span to make the commitment. (Which is what happened to the late, great Firefly!)
So now, with the introduction to the Ambassador, we now have the next episode.
So if you miss 3 hours, you can catch up on the 4th, when an almost entirely new story will start. Brilliant, given the state of the American viewing audience for network TV.
The NY Times (ugh, I will link to them) has an article the fact that viewers won't commit to serial dramas, and about all of the high-budget serials that were cancelled this fall after 3 episodes...
...people just don't have the attention span to make the commitment. (Which is what happened to the late, great Firefly!)
She's Gonna Turn Out To Be Evil
Suburban Mom, substituting for Ray in the balls department....
...you go girl.
"M", wanna have a bet about whether we get to noon (Jack time) without Suburban Mom killing someone, too?
(Kumar might go down, we'll have to wait to see what drug she gave to him!)
...you go girl.
"M", wanna have a bet about whether we get to noon (Jack time) without Suburban Mom killing someone, too?
(Kumar might go down, we'll have to wait to see what drug she gave to him!)
Now "W" is Talking Sense
It is time to bring Jack into the loop.
Finally.
Oh, no...I'm smelling some doubt in Jack. Poor Jack, he hasn't had any time to process. He has got to be suffering from PTSD, even as tough as he is.
Maybe he'll be ok, but by 10pm (Jack's time), he's going to have to crash.
Now Jack, playing the trust card with Curtis. I don't think Curtis is buying it, though...
...and how many times in the past 5 years has Jack said, "Chloe, I need you to do something for me"?
I miss Eggar!
Finally.
Oh, no...I'm smelling some doubt in Jack. Poor Jack, he hasn't had any time to process. He has got to be suffering from PTSD, even as tough as he is.
Maybe he'll be ok, but by 10pm (Jack's time), he's going to have to crash.
Now Jack, playing the trust card with Curtis. I don't think Curtis is buying it, though...
...and how many times in the past 5 years has Jack said, "Chloe, I need you to do something for me"?
I miss Eggar!
Shut Up!
The middle-aged white drill sergeant with the Chuck Yeager accent is a bad guy, too? (On the positive side -- relatively speaking -- at least he's breaking the color barrier.)
Oh, Yeah...Seat Backs and Tray Tables in the Full Upright and Locked Position
And Prisoner Numair, you're not getting upgraded to First...
Not Another Blueprint of a Bomb!
And the bad guys always seem to be engineers...this wasn't my view of the engineers in my business school class, they were all pretty nice.
And did Jack say "nucular"?
"M", please check when you review on Tivo
And did Jack say "nucular"?
"M", please check when you review on Tivo
This is Probable!
Can I use your phone?
Please...and now, the teenaged bad guy is going to hold something over suburban dad...and suburban Dad is gong to throw down with the bad guy's supplier...no, he is actually going all Lord of the Flies on him?!!!
And what is the bad guy's supplier selling? (Guns? Anthrax?)
Please...and now, the teenaged bad guy is going to hold something over suburban dad...and suburban Dad is gong to throw down with the bad guy's supplier...no, he is actually going all Lord of the Flies on him?!!!
And what is the bad guy's supplier selling? (Guns? Anthrax?)
Standby, I'm setting up a perimeter around my dinner
I'll be back in a few minutes. I'm HUNGRY. But I did bathe "J" (who needed that bath) before his dinner. He went down with no issues. I didn't tell him 24 was on. I'll be back in 10-15 minutes.
Yeah, Chloe is Going to Have to Rebuild That Laptop!
But first she and Morris are going to have to get over themselves, and the fact that younger, perkier, hungrier management have come in over their heads....
Ouch! That's One Way to Get Rid of Clutter...
Don't most people with mini-store units wish that CTU would let them get blown up?
What part of Non-Lethal force didn't they understand
he blewed up real good! But Chloe can fix the laptop!
It's full of Rednecks
Wow, are all white people like that? I guess that is a detainment camp like what they did to Japanese-Americans?
"W" is for Whipped
The President can be sure that he didn't just win that argument with his sister...she did, we just don't know how yet.
The Teen Bad Guy -- Also Not So Bright!
Sending a suburban neighbor guy to pick up his "package"...so do we know what is in the package, did I miss that yesterday?
"M"! "M"! get out here!
Let DH bathe the Little Man!
"M"! "M"! get out here!
Let DH bathe the Little Man!
"M"! Where are you?
Now's the time to be bringing up all kinds of conjectures about whether Curtis will cooperate or not...
Tender Reunion
But Jack blows Chloe off...
And who briefed Jack to get him up to speed on all of the whos and wherefores of today's political situation?
(Does NY Times home delivery zone extend to Chinese prison?)
And who briefed Jack to get him up to speed on all of the whos and wherefores of today's political situation?
(Does NY Times home delivery zone extend to Chinese prison?)
Thank Goodness for "Previously on 24"
All kinds of stuff I forgot (including the fact that there is more than one Buffy alum on this season of 24).
Maybe we could save 24 hours of our lives by just TIVOing the whole season, and then just watching, "Previously on 24"...it would probably take, what 15 minutes?
Maybe we could save 24 hours of our lives by just TIVOing the whole season, and then just watching, "Previously on 24"...it would probably take, what 15 minutes?
Brief Summary of Yesterday
I missed the first 20 minutes due to a social engagement. (Yes, people are more important than TV. Even 24.)
But it is a world where car and bus bombings happen all of the time, here in the US. Supposedly, 2 years have passed since Jack was taken prisoner by the Chinese...I thought last season was now -- it seemed to mirror our then current political environment: imperial powers in the White House, fear of "other" of all forms.
Now, the supposed good guys are in power, and the dead president's 28 year old brother is now president. (He's actually as cute as some of the terrorists, though.)
Yet things are so chaotic here in the US that the administration is willing to step all over the Constitution.
(Which, oh yeah, is the whole basis of 24..."medical interrogations" and all.)
Jack comes out of Chinese prison looking like Grizzly Adams on a seriously too high dosage of anti-psychotic drugs, and is somehow shaven and then traded to the bad guys for information about another bad guy.
The bad guys beat and torture Jack, and he flatlines. But before he dies, the bad guy confesses that the other bad guy isn't really a bad guy: he's on the side of right! And the first bad guy is trying to stop the former bad guy.
You follow?
Jack somehow comes back from the dead, rips out the throat of one of the guards with his teeth (eew) and gets a clean set of clothes and becomes all perky.
He finds the not bad guy, rescues him, and now they are doing something to save the world.
There was other drama, I didn't pick up on all of it, you don't really have to...Chloe and her dreamy husband almost screw things up by trying to use their surfeit of technology skills to rescue Jack...the President's sister somehow runs an organization that is being searched by the government.
Is she unknowingly fronting for terrorists?
Because, as you know, other than Chloe, women on 24 are either stupid or evil.
But it is a world where car and bus bombings happen all of the time, here in the US. Supposedly, 2 years have passed since Jack was taken prisoner by the Chinese...I thought last season was now -- it seemed to mirror our then current political environment: imperial powers in the White House, fear of "other" of all forms.
Now, the supposed good guys are in power, and the dead president's 28 year old brother is now president. (He's actually as cute as some of the terrorists, though.)
Yet things are so chaotic here in the US that the administration is willing to step all over the Constitution.
(Which, oh yeah, is the whole basis of 24..."medical interrogations" and all.)
Jack comes out of Chinese prison looking like Grizzly Adams on a seriously too high dosage of anti-psychotic drugs, and is somehow shaven and then traded to the bad guys for information about another bad guy.
The bad guys beat and torture Jack, and he flatlines. But before he dies, the bad guy confesses that the other bad guy isn't really a bad guy: he's on the side of right! And the first bad guy is trying to stop the former bad guy.
You follow?
Jack somehow comes back from the dead, rips out the throat of one of the guards with his teeth (eew) and gets a clean set of clothes and becomes all perky.
He finds the not bad guy, rescues him, and now they are doing something to save the world.
There was other drama, I didn't pick up on all of it, you don't really have to...Chloe and her dreamy husband almost screw things up by trying to use their surfeit of technology skills to rescue Jack...the President's sister somehow runs an organization that is being searched by the government.
Is she unknowingly fronting for terrorists?
Because, as you know, other than Chloe, women on 24 are either stupid or evil.
T Minus 28 Minutes and Counting!
I'm getting ready!
"M" may have to bathe "J" during the early part of the show! I suggested that it was difficult to understand how important hygiene could be to a 13 month old, couldn't it wait until tomorrow.
She said the verboten words: something about poopy diapers. The two words that can stop any conversation with me.
As I have a cold, I'm stocking up on provisions before the show starts. Hot Ginger Lemonade (sure cure for anything) and organic ramen soup. Hee Hee, whose idea was organic ramen soup?
"M" may have to bathe "J" during the early part of the show! I suggested that it was difficult to understand how important hygiene could be to a 13 month old, couldn't it wait until tomorrow.
She said the verboten words: something about poopy diapers. The two words that can stop any conversation with me.
As I have a cold, I'm stocking up on provisions before the show starts. Hot Ginger Lemonade (sure cure for anything) and organic ramen soup. Hee Hee, whose idea was organic ramen soup?
Original hot ginger lemonade recipe is from the NY Times, which annoyingly only posts it for pay...if you have the flu, though it might be worth it:
- grate 2 tbsp raw ginger (organic, natch)
- boil 2 cups of water
- squeeze 1/2 lemon (or a whole one, if they are small)
- pour the boiling water over the ginger in a teapot or covered bowl, let steep for 6-10 minutes
- add lemon juice
- pour concoction through a strainer
- add honey to taste
- add as much cayenne pepper as you can stand
I promise, you'll feel better.
If only I could get the recipe to Chloe. She could put it on Jack's screen. (Oh, yeah, the Sprint ad came on right after we saw the Nextel phone Jack's carrying; I'm telling you, CTU left it with him. Proof: somehow, when the number comes up on the President's caller ID, he takes the call! And this W is actually smart. Or at least he was last season. Kind of.)
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