Yoga Pose of the Day: Simhasana

I'm every bit as vain as Jack Lord. It's difficult to imagine the circumstance under which I'd allow myself to be photographed in this yoga pose!

It's not exactly a yawn, but it looks like one. You actually exhale audibly and extend energy outwards. It's one of the few poses done with an open mouth.

(And I'm pretty sure that I've used it before to indicate boredom, another possible rerun. Actually, in the Shambhala lineage of Buddhist meditation, the phrase "cool boredom" is sometimes used. But there's no explicit physical pose associated with that one...other than sitting.)

Peace out.

Recap

Perimeter = 1
Leadership by Running Around And Shrieking =1
Resurrection =1 (I'm counting Tarin as a resurrection, though that may be pushing it.)
Dammit=0
Hair Gel moments=several
Sloppy NYC geography = several
Women proven stupid =0
Women proven evil =0
False Advertising =1 - that was no "twist"! CTU routinely gets taken out. Remember how we lost Eggar?

What happened to Mme. President and all of the diplomats who would ordinarily be dealing with President Jack Lord's "issues"?

Sigh.

Bring back Nina.

Yawn

Hastings, You Tool

Running and Shrieking, not leadership.

Kayla, I Told You So

He's A Bad Guy

Don't let Kayla into CTU

9621 East Broadway?

Writers, have you heard of Google Maps? There is no 9621 East Broadway.

Ok, T-Minus about 10 minutes and Counting

Waiting for that twist. (Surprising bad guy revelation? Hastings? Faline?)

Everyone Knows Where CTU Is

Faline, you're showing promise! I hope you find your way there. You can probably enter it into the search function on your GPS.

(If you she had tried to "save" her evil and also stupid boyfriend, I would have lost it.)

Faline, I'm Telling You

He does NOT love you.

Yawn

When will we see the twist that will change everything?

Columbo Much?

Maybe Kevin's Parole Officer isn't a bad guy, but he's definitely more than he seems.

Faline, Tarin Does NOT Love You

No matter what he says. Look at what he does.

Nucular

Sigh.

You're A Vain Man, Concerned About Appearances

File 33. Must contain a hair gel recipe.

The Old Empty Bank Vault

Always a good place to take your kidnap victim.

And what year is it on 24? 2015? (Jack looks good for his TV age!)

That would explain the open real estate with gigantic vaults like that.

A Parole Officer With A Heart of Gold!?

He just cares about what happens to MethHead Kevin?

I don't think so. I'm guessing he's a bad guy

I Missed It

Bridezilla changed out of that cocktail dress!

And Tai was so right. It's stone disappointing to see this wonderful actress practically lobotomized by her current character.

Is she going to come clean?

Ah, The Rods!

And a man with a soldering iron. Just what you need to turn the Rods into a nucular bomb.

Jack On The Lower East Side?

Come on over for coffee after you nail Tarin!

(I'm unclear on where that tunnel is, though.)

Kayla, Not An Oprah Fan

Never let the guy take you to location number two!

And an insubordinate NYPD sergeant? Ack.

Perimeter!

Yes!

NYPD Is 10 Minutes Out?

As if! Our law enforcement moves a lot more quickly than that, here in the city that never sleeps.

A Twist That Will Change Everything?

Previously On 24: Was it 2am - 3am?

So, last week "M" and I both had issues during the first half of the show.

Depending on 24's resilient formula of changing plotlines (if that's what they are) every 3 hours, I'm back on track, though, baby.

What I picked up about last week was that the googly eyed kid had been recruited by the bad guys to wear a bomb -- they had more than recruited him, he was in their thrall. Something about his dad's bad deal in America.

Jack, the kid's mom, and various others tried to get him to give up and come back to his senses, but no go.

Splat.

Faline, having run away with her illicit boyfriend, winds up learning that Dad was right, and he's a bad guy. (Mom, back in the picture, gives her the signal.) She now has to figure out how to sneak out of their hotel room. (Spoiler alert: previews indicate that this likely won't end well.)

Mr. Hastings has a talk with Bridezilla, and she appears to be trying to get herself back on track at the office. It's hard having to sneak away to kill and dump the bodies of her old ex and his Bromantic Partner. Good thing there are swamps convenient to Manhattan.

As soon as she feels back on track (though we think that she was fooling herself about her Intended's Intentions) MethHead Kevin's parole officer rings her up. On her cell. Not sure how he got her number.

She's stressing, and her BF is trying to figure out how to get out of this mess...

I'd go into it more, but it's too late. (I'm old school, I still watch it live.)

Tick tick tick tick, bloop, bloop.