Monday, March 22, 2010

Yoga Pose of The Day: Mountain Pose

This photo, from Yoga Journal online, is a beautiful version of mountain pose, astanga style. She's tall, steady and grounded. Just like Chloe was, when she tapped into that trunk line and saved the day.

Recap

Dammit =2
Perimeter =0
Women proven stupid =0
Women proven evil =YES! 1, Bridezilla, shows herself, pulls a Nina.
Missing heads of state =0
Issues with NYC geography = several
Hair gel moments = many
Predictions proven accurate = 1 (RIP, Owen)
Handsome black men killed = 0
Bauer kills = many...

The best episode of the season. Hands down.

It's still no Season One. (I might have to netflix that. That is, when I'm done with Battlestar Galactica.)

And best of all? Chloe is back. I mean, she's BACK. She pouted, she flounced, she called in backup for Jack, she was multiply insubordinate, she pointed a gun at someone who was behaving like a total @$$, and she saved the day.

You go, girl.

Aaaagh

I was wondering who the head bad guy was on the phone with before he escaped.

Bridezilla, not stupid after all. Evil!

Bridezilla Goes The Other Way

Now, she's got a dead parole agent in an interrogation room.

Split screen montage.

Now this is what 24 is supposed to be about.

WTF?

How did Renee find them? Psychic powers?

Broken rib. Medic!

And wait, they're in Jersey again? Or is it Brooklyn? How did Renee get there from Jack's apartment? And why does Jack still have an apartment, considering he's theoretically just late for the plane that's supposed to move him back to LA?

Wait, How Is Jack In Command?

He's not even an agent anymore!

And, helmet anyone?

"M" Rules

RIP, Owen.

OK, This Is What We're Talking About

Ground yourself, Chloe!

NSA Agents Aren't Armed?

And Columbo didn't leave.

Will Bridezilla Sacrifice Herself?

She's going to have to do something to redeem herself.

Electrocuting herself on the trunk line, that would probably do it.

Get Me Some Hair Gel, Stat!

President Jack Lord, oh my goodness.

Oh, in my recap I forgot about File 33, the computer file that has every single bit of intelligence about the US security systems. Everything.

Owen!

Aaagh

Is That Bambi?

What happened to the poorly trained 19 year old?

Ah, Owen is with Jack. Is this where M's prediction comes true?

Chloe!

It's the NSA guy is the one who shouldn't have gone into the server room!

Chloe has gone postal!

Blood Simple


The parole officer is channeling both Columbo and that gnarly private detective from Blood Simple.

He's leaving for Little Rock? Just like that?

But all of the bridges and tunnels are closed!

OMG

I completely forgot about Renee's existence. I am not kidding!

And now, she's going to get back into the game?

Do We Trust That NSA Guy?

Hmmm...

We all know what happens to people who go into the server room. Chloe, I would be careful if I were you.

Hastings Weighs In

With a weak "dammit".

NSA? Hopefully they'll take command here...

I Have It On Good Authority

That Night Vision Goggles don't actually work well enough to identify individual terrorists a half a football field away in the middle of a firefight...

Everyone Knows Jack

That terrorist probably has his CTU agent baseball card...

And did the head terrorist just show his Jersey accent?

4 Bars Means Nothing In Manhattan

Cell coverage stinks here

Dammit! First one.

Tarin Does Not Love You


Kayla, Faline, whatever we're calling you...

Phil, You're Handsome

And, you're a black man. I'm afraid you won't make it through the next 3 episodes.

And note to writers: West Broadway is nowhere near the Williamsburg Bridge. (You'd think they might have hipster Billburg friends they could ask for this kind of detail...)

That's Leadership, Hastings


"I am not ok."

The Rods

They might actually be in the bottom of my laptop -- it feels hotter than usual.

Previously on 24, 3am - 4am

After being led to expect a twist that will change everything, spoiler alert, don't worry. The bad guys have just taken CTU out again. (They really need to get someone like Blackwater to come in and give them some security advice. But I digress.)

Before the EMP blast that "changes everything" (not), we're treated to a few sparks of the old 24, and so much of the new far less spicy version.

Faline and her boyfriend Tarin, having decamped to a swanky hotel in lower Manhattan, are tracked down by Faline's mom. Mom rats out the evil Tarin, who then drags Faline off by her hair to an empty bank that hasn't been turned into condos, but instead has been conveniently left open for terrorists to set up a TV studio.

They use their setup to stream threatening video to POTIR and his disapproving wife. Somehow, Chloe (the only woman of 24 who would leave an image on one of those airport body scanners, the others are so insubstantial) figures out where they are, and Jack and his team are en route.

But first, Tarin and Faline do a faux escape, and Tarin faux dies. Yawn. Faline punches CTU into the GPS on the "random" car she gets into -- the one with the EMP bomb poorly disguised under a blanket that CTU security didn't catch.

Hilarious scene of Hastings, that tool, attempting to lead CTU out of the impending crisis by running and shrieking. To No Avail.

Oops. Boom.

A "parole officer" searching for MethHead Kevin somehow gets Bridzilla's cell number, and he has come into CTU. He's asking so many "stupid" questions, ala Columbo, that he clearly has something else going on. He's onto her, but we don't know what his deal is.

(We're pretty sure he's a bad guy of some sort. And now he's stuck in the disabled CTU to wreak some kind of havoc, although whether just in Bridezilla's life, or as part of a bigger agenda, we don't know.)

The Rods? They're on their way to town. Once CTU is disabled, the only thing standing between my beloved city and a small scale nucular armegeddon? (And was someone in CTU implicated somehow, I can't remember?)

Yawn.

MIA? Madame President and her sneaky aides, Kim Bauer & family, as well as POTIR's Infidel Girlfriend. Bridezilla's Intended, Cole, keeping his distance.

Of course, we still don't know what happened to Tony. Morris, Prescott, and the child's babu (whatever that was), also nowhere to be found. (Thankfully, it was not "take your children to work" day at CTU.)

And "A" has found approving comments (sigh, necessary because we're being assailed by spammers) to be difficult. I accidentally deleted some of Tai's fun comments...and then I think I approved some of the spammer's comments. (Which I can't find.)

Sigh.