| Tuesday, February 20, 2007 |
| 24 Review 2/19/07-An hour not really well spent |
We all have time management issues. I, for one, should be working right now. A lot of us get caught up in surfing the 'net when we originally wanted to just check email and suddenly find it's been almost 2 hours and we've learned everything about Britney's shaved head that we could possibly want to know about in our entire life. But yet--we continue to do it!!!
On "24", Jack Bauer knows the meaning of the words time management. And thankfully, so do his producers and writers of the show (obviously). As an avid fan of the show, I look forward to at least holding my breath a few times during the show in anticipation, shock, or pure awe of the direction the story is going. Last night was an exception to the rule.
I was dissapointed with this hour on 24. It seemed to have a lot of things in it that were just really "time killers"--maybe that's perhaps due to the level that the show has raised the stakes to over this season, but it was kind of drab to me.
Milo's drinking was something of note, and it will be interesting to see how things play out with that and if it will cause problems. Tom turning on his aide Chad Lowe was pretty cool but not something that 24 addicts would be overly blown away by; the biggest revelation was that Wayne Palmer was going to be killed, not just "removed"; the incident with getting Graham back and Jack and his father was anti-climactic, and the biggest jaw-dropper was with Jack talking at the end to ex-prez Charles Logan, who looked like he just stepped out of a newly constructed box on Hollywood Blvd. Now that we have some full circle issues coming about with Jack's brother and our knowledge of where that was at with Logan last season, it will be very interesting to see where this pseudo-relationship will go. My gut tells me that Logan is going to come clean about the assassination attempt on Palmer and Jack will save the day, er, hour, again.
However, there are still so many holes and subplots that were ignored last night--now that all of this is going on with Tom and his apparent turncoating on the treasoners, will Karen be back involved? What history of alcoholism affected Milo and Chloe, or did it? What is Fayed up to this hour? Do we just presume nothing, maybe just took an hour on the toilet reading up on how to put together a bomb? And Assad, where has he gone in this? Are he and Buchanan playing Monopoly in the war room?
I understand that 24 thrives off of all of the things going on at once that can keep viewers on edge, but last night, to me, was a dissapointment at best. I'll be interested to hear what everyone has to say about this as well as where you think the story is going now.
GooseyLabels: 24, action, Bauer, Chloe, editorial, Fox, Jack, Keifer, Milo, Palmer, popular, review, show, Sutherland, television, tv |
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