05.16 | How '24' Jacked it up
A spoiler-free quote from last week's edition of America's 'Entertainment Weekly' magazine:
'24' is now freed of stagnant plot threads, like Jack's weekly jonesing from his deep-cover heroin addiction. "Around the 12th episode, Kiefer said, 'I don't know how much longer I can do this,'" says Gordon. (Jack was given a methadone-like fix to hold him through the season.) "But [the arc] did the trick of establishing him as someone who sacrificed so much for the job." Fine, as long as his next sacrifice isn't fighting an amnesiac cougar.It's the issue with Brad Pitt on the cover and the article's entitled 'How '24' Jacked it up'.
It's telling, isn't it? 'I don't know how much longer I do this'? Refering to '24'? Pretending to be a junkie? Acting out sub-standard scripts? Who knows, eh? But, yeah, fixing implausible subplots with 'a methadone-like fix to hold him through the season' is ridiculous. Does this mean Jack's addiction is completely forgotten, or are the powers that be just kidding us? I'd like to believe that latter, but I think the former's more likely.
