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Let's hope the second two hours of this season are filled with nail-biting suspense, Heather, because the first two were duds, with too much set-up. Not just duds, but bad enough to make me long for Kim and the cougar. Well, almost.
Yes, Jack is superhuman and cartoonish and I buy that. Yes, 24 is wild, frantic, over-heated and sometimes silly, but doesn't usually pile up so many weaknesses and incongruities, like
1--weak dialogue. "I'm not some idealistic flag-burning--" Who talks like that, and what the hell does it mean, and how did it apply to the point at hand?
2--No FBI agent would arrest the President's sister, sorry. Not believable.
3--Jack is always right. All the other characters who have interacted with Jack before know this. Why didn't they listen? Just for the sake of moving the story along. Tacky.
4--What administration would make a deal with terrorists without looking more deeply at their motives?
5--What administration would give its intel and security info over to terrorists without some kind of back-up?
6--Two doors are kicked open in this first two hours with just one kick. Front doors of houses? Jive jive jive.
I'll keep watching, but I'm worried that the show's amazing success has turned the heads of its writers.
