02.17 | So, here’s what you missed
OK - let's begin with 8AM - 9AM. Great start. After all that news that the series is completely sponsored by Ford, what happens? President Palmer spends the first five minutes bombing around in some kind of military four-wheel drive. It's blatently not a Ford product, but I'd still want one. If Terri Bauer and 'Alan Yorke' were driving around for six hours in some kind of all-destroying utilitary vechicle, the untouchable season one would have been a touch better.
In true televisual 'how do we show that the character has matured?' style, Jack Bauer has grown a beard. He ended the hour shaving it off in some bathroom that was so full of green tiles and condensation, it looked like a Tatu video.
I can't identify the song used to soundtrack the part near the end just before Gary beats up Kim and Megan. Any pop pickers out there with knowledge of American punk rock soundtrack music?
The programme's makers are obviously trying to make CTU new girl Michelle Dressler into the new 'is she a mole?' talking point. She's filling the same job role at the agency as the last mole (and we don't mean Jamey Farrell), she's slobbering all over Tony Almeida (always a sign of the dark side) and she's the only current member of CTU to be using a Dell PC.
All in all, it was a slow episode, but at least it's introduced a whole slew of new people - the nameless dumb blondes aside. The sooner that nuke goes off, the better, in their case. Or, more hopefully, in the middle of their stupid back garden wedding.
It might be a bit of a hint, but all of the surviving lead characters from the last series either appeared in, or were mentioned in, the first episode last night – including Keith, Nicole and Sherry Palmer, Mike Novick, George Mason, Tony Almeida and Ryan Chappelle. That is, all with two notable exceptions – Nina Myers being one of them. Is this a clue for eagle-eyed and big-earred viewers? Or will it turn out that bully boy kidnapper Rick is behind the Second Wave nuclear attack? Join in with more post-episode discussion in the forum.
