Monday, March 19, 2007

Split Screen Montage

Evil Veep, disappointed that he can't blow up some of our enemies.

But no! The untold environmental damage he speaks of? There's a good side to the Veep, he's "green" and concerned about the environment?

Evil Veep is very, very evil. Will "W"'s guys really just roll over and do what Evil Veep says to do? Oh, please.

Karen's gonna be thinking about waking up the suffering 28 year old president!

PUT OUT THE FIRE

They can do that from farther way and WHHYYYYY wasn't hazmat with them already! Good-ness our guys are much better than that!

OK, That Was 30 Seconds of Good TV

Those were some cool effects.

I'm worried about the first responders, though. No way they're prepared to go in and recover the suitcase.

(whew, thank goodness they had geiger counters. But it can't be good that the suitcase nuke is on fire, can it?)

HAHAHAHA

Jack is going to save the day by flying the drone. hahahahahaha PERIMETER Ricky should have taken over. He probably spent more time in the arcades.

Yes, let's park this thing in a residental area. Good they didn't.


The Hubby and I agree, they should have crashed it in the ocean!

CRASH and BURN

Jack's In Charge

Thank goodness! I worry about Ricky's impulse control issues.

Go get that cute balding terrorist. (He's a babe, but sometimes they've just got to go.)

Now Jack's gonna play the video game. He's gonna have to navigate the suitcase into the ocean.

Jack's on Point

No Ricky, I'm in control of this with my broken ribs and internal bleeding. Kill! I think that is one , no two for Jack

Wait, Who is In Charge?

Jack, or Doyle?

I smell Fireworks!!!

Perimeter!!

Jack needs a PDA and phone! Aren't they usually the same? He should really consider a blackberry! He's going to go help the TAC team

Jack's Gonna Be Able to Tell That Audrey Isn't Dead

This isn't Audrey's torso! She was an innie! This is the photo of a corpse with an outie!

Finally, Another Medical Interrogation

It has been weeks and weeks (or hours and hours) since we last had one.

Now, will Milo confess to Nadia and then kill her?

Ricky is Jack's protoege

Who knew Jack was a mentor?

"W"is Back!

Karen, what kind of suggestion is that? If the President is in a coma, what kind of sensible advice do you expect him to offer?

She should have napped at the airport. (and now I'll bet she's going to go over and pick up his eyelid, like "M" used to do to me when she wanted me to wake up when we were little.)

Hmmm, Maybe it's Milo

Milo might be the bad guy? That is what the Hubby and I are thinking right now. Maybe Nadia is just stupid?

Milo is About To Get Bombed Back to Starbucks

Or is Milo the bad guy?

(Or Morris? I don't totally trust the guy. After all, one of the nucular bombs happened due to his actions...)

Omar!

Mmmmuaaaah

That almost looked like a Mentos commercial!

There is a good idea Evil Veep

Let's set a nuke off to start world war III. Karen is righty right

More 24 Hairdo News

It looks like Karen may have gotten a cut at the airport.

Or maybe just a blow-out? At least someone on 24 knows what hair gel is for.

I want that File! NOW

Can you say priorities? Come on now! Jack! There is a suit nuke bomb that is going to blow up in like TWO minutes! Audrey is dead, deal with it on your day off!!! He is in a total WOP (world of pain for any new readers)

Eew!

Gross! Jack, Marilyn smoldery glances.

And yet, excitement. Audrey is coming back? Or is she dead!

Or was "A" so right? The Chinese have Audrey!!!! I can't even believe it! How is it possible that I could be so right? (Or did we know this and I just think that I'm so smart?)

(Nope, I read it on some other site.)

M's comment : I think that Audrey is being held in China

RENA! Marilyn She's back!

She's still there! And Jack is going to medical. Smouldery glances and a mention of AUDREY!!!! What is up with Audrey... SHE IS DEAD NO WAY!!!!

Come On Morris...

Please, please redeem yourself, Morris, you can do it. (But Milo, don't put IT guys on the phone with the General?)

And who was that handsome Omar Sharif-type guy?

Does the Evil Veep's facial skin move at all?

Nadia evil or Stupid

Nadia and Milo are busted by By-The-Book Chloe. I'm pretty sure that Nadia is going to end up being Evil

Misspent Youth

All those hours in the Video Arcade in Russia finally paid off. That guy is flying the drone, video game style

Chloe Is Back!

And she's mad!

(But is she mad about the felony security breach, or because of the smolderly glances between Milo and Nadia?)

Gradenko's Hair!

"M", yelp, help! Order up some hair gel for the poor ba$tard!!!! Stat!

Or maybe Fayed can just kill him.

Previously on 24: The 24 Blog Recap

OK, I know it is "M"s turn. She got kind of backed up, so I'm stepping in for her.

At least she won't be at a jewelry party tonight!

So, last week. Overall, a far better episode than the Big ZZZZZZZZZ of the week before. Here's who we didn't see last week: Jack's Dad, Rena, Rena's son, Walid, Sandra, the 28 year old President, and the weaselly character played by Chad Lowe. (Rumor has it the Principal Wood, I mean the 28 year old President will make a full recovery. Maybe by next season. In the meantime, we're stuck with the evil Veep and his blonde Toady.)

Oh, and no sign at all of Jack's mom. (I'm still holding out hope that Jack's mom is Karen.)

Sometimes I have a hard time trying to remember what happened last week vs. a prior week, so bear with me while I go back and check last week's blog entries.

Freakishly odd President Logan was back at CTU, and all peeved about being left alone in Interrogation. (I guess that once you get used to Leader of The Free World treatment, it is hard to go back to being an ordinary criminal.) He complains, and someone (was it Nadia? Milo?) tells him, look, we're up to our a$$es in alligators because of the international incident Jack has fomented at the Russian consulate. Logan says, get Buchanan in here, I can help.

(I think he also asked if Milo would pull him a soy latte with a pump of hazelnut; they've got a fully staffed hospital at CTU, so I'll bet there's an espresso machine in the CTU kitchen. And don't you think that Milo probably worked at Starbucks before he got his posting at CTU? Probably why Ricky Schoeder thinks Milo is such a waste of space. A hard-a$$ like Ricky thinks that "shots" and coffee should be mutually exclusive. And knowing how to make espresso? Poor Milo gets no respect -- and Starbucks has better benefits and a more collegial working environment than CTU!)

Oh, Ricky. As "M" points out, he is not aging well. And his character is a real sourpuss with impulse control issues. He grabs Morris by the throat for not fulfilling some IT requests. (Rack me some servers? I can't remember what he wanted.)

Milo tells Ricky to lay off his CTU team, which adds credence to my theory that Milo has taken some management courses. (Maybe something related to the Seven Habits of Highly Effective CTU Agents -- otherwise he never would have lived through 20 minutes in the field so that he could save Rena's life.)

It also proves that Milo and Ricky have "history".

Chloe starts pouting and giving lip again. Finally. I was getting worried. Her wrap dress may be Isaac Mizrahi for Target, but it shows far too much attention to non-IT, non-Jack related interests and had concerned me seriously. What could the writers have been thinking?

The reason that Ricky is here is to go in and extract Anatoly, because he knows where the canisters, I mean suitcase nukes are. Jack is initially viewed as expendable.

Jack has, I think, amputated Anatoly's finger with a cigar trimmer (ouch) in order to find out where the nukes are. He then escapes to the bowels of the consulate, where first gets Morris on the phone, tells him he knows where Gradenko is, and then is cut off. (How come Jack's mobile doesn't work?)

Then, Jack takes hostages. Two idiotic 20 somethings are making out in the basement. Jack sends the guy off for a sat phone, threatening to kill the woman. He then wearily and tenderly tells the woman not to worry.

There is more drama, I can't remember what happened when, but Jack cuts off power to the consulate by bashing his gun into a fuse box. "M" and Hubby are very adamant that I point out that this would have killed him.

Duh, if he weren't Jack Bauer!!!

And hello, a human living through this is not as implausible as the freaking consulate having power at all!!!! Hello, nucular suitcase bomb in Valencia. Even if no power plants went down, the man would be shutting down gas and electricity to prevent fires. The consulate shouldn't have power at all! (Although I guess they
could be operating on backup generators. )

Meanwhile, Logan has persuaded Bill to send him out into the field. Martha's living in a fairly nice pad in some kind of funny farm with Aaron. Aaron must have been doing weight watchers or something, he is long and lean. (Maybe Aaron and Martha live at Canyon Ranch.) Aaron brings Martha some fruit from the fruit market.

(Can I point out, fruit market. Nucular bomb? Or should I just let that whole thing go!?)

Logan's there to persuade Martha to talk to the Russian first lady, who needs to know that Anatoly is a bad guy and to give CTU permission to storm the Russian consulate. Odd, but not very interesting Logan, Martha, Aaron triangle, where Aaron and Logan are on the same side to persuade Martha.

Martha is crazy, but efficient. First, she stabs Logan with the kiwi knife. Then, she places her call. Successfully, because after the Russian president is not successful at geting Anatoly to give it up. (I think that Anatoly hangs up on him and books, but I was too hung up on the kiwis that Aaron brought to Martha to pay attention.)

Ricky and his tac team storm the embassy, there's lots of shooting, and Ricky and Jack meet each other. Jack chivalrously points out that the hostage chick has been pinned down by all of the gunfire...don't shoot her!

(I could find no record that Jack, I mean Kiefer and Ricky ever worked together in their pre-24 lives.)

Meanwhile, at the Presidential bunker, the evil Veep is talking with Tom about implementing Tom's eeevil plan to turn the US into a totalitarian regime (if TV hasn't already accomplished this) and about Tom not having been involved in the attempt on the President's life.

The evil Veep uses emotional blackmail to get Tom to blaming the assassination attempt on the dead Assad.

Karen, still at the airport, looks up from her Real Simple magazine, and calls Bill. It looks like instead of going to LA to be blowed up with Bill after all, she'll be heading back to the bunker. After all, she hasn't officially resigned, she has just abandoned her job during what might loosely be called a freaking disaster.

That's all I got. "M", anything else?