03.31 | Episode seven, 2PM - 3PM
Oh my God, '24' is just like manna from heaven right now. Jack Bauer is the Lord, and we are those who praise him with our watching. The light shining down upon us is of a '24' wallpaper, and the theme tune plays whenever we log on.
Want to know something? It gets better every week. I have my secret personal sweepstake on when Nina and Jack are going to have a little 'liason' - you know it'll happen. He's tough and she's dirty and desperate. Hell, I think Jack's desperate too if his wife has been dead for a year and a half. Nina'll encharm him like a snake.
Whereas Bob and Reza are so blatantly involved with the bad guys that it's unreal. How many dirty, knowing looks does Tony need to see from them? I've got the theory that Marie must be 'bad' as well, seeing as she's too stupid to be anything but a baddie. Leaving little miss Kate as the only 'goodie' from that side of the story, and more fool her for not realising it. Man, she's going to kick herself when she realises. Stop defending your daddy - he's got a beard, and is thus evil.
Nice to see that all these well-paid government agents let their offspring slum it around Los Angeles working crappy jobs. Mason's estranged surf-dude son works in a burger van, in an oh-so-nice touch that weirdly reminded me of Vinnie in Home and Away a few years back. And remember that Jack was happy to let Kim look after a whole family of, to be quite fair, freaks - and for what must have been minimum wage, too. No wonder she keeps stealing cars.
Tony is bringing Bob Warner, Reza and a whole entourage of stupid happy baddies into the bombed-out CTU building for questioning. The same CTU building that seems to have remarkably little damage for somewhere that got blew up. The pillar that had the weight to crush the life out of Paula, the girl out of Roseanne, obviously wasn't holding anything important up.
One thing that this season has got right is the cliff hangers. Last year, they were kinda obvious, and hence, a bit weak. Jack shooting Nina whilst making her a bullet-proof jacket, for example, was all too easy to guess beforehand. But I had no idea that the policeman would find a body in the boot of the car. It was all seeming that Miguel would try to speed off and outrun the cop car, then it seemed like they'd got away with it, but then - blam! They're cornered by a drip of blood. I like that type of cliff hanger.
Right about now it would be easier for me to write about all the thoughts in my head that aren't to do with '24'. I could do '24weblog.com' and 'not24weblog.com', and the former would get updated twice as often. There's so much more to think about. I care more about how they're ever going to find out what's up with Reza than I do about where my next paycheque is coming from.
