popular thinking

Here is your 24 spoiler alert...It's spoiled! All spoiled. This show has finally lost it beyond repair. Where is the suspense? Where is the logic? Even a cougar and the return of Kim Bauer (see: Season 2) would help bring this show back from the depths of desperation. So the president comes out of a coma to turn back a coup from his vice president, only to launch the nuclear strike the VP wanted...to the UNNAMED COUNTRY that's fighting us? The big bad terrorist gets caught in a blue-collar bar? Don't worry, though, because previews show us his bad bad friends will launch an escape plan for him? Where have we seen that before? Where have we seen all of this before? And what about all of those people dying in California from nuclear fallout? I guess they're not important right now. The previews for next week also show Jack Bauer getting shot (though apparently in his bulletproof vest). Yawn, yawn, yawn. What about Jack's evil dad? And his wacko sister-in-law who's in love with him? And his nephew/son? And that soap opera back in CTU? And what about the former First Family? Seriously, this nonsense is out of hand. Yes, every season of 24 has its leaps of logic. But this one...seriously.

Why couldn't they have simply done the sensible thing and make this season all about getting Bauer out of that Chinese prison...but that would've taken some actual initiative.

Or perhaps it woudd've looked too much like that other silly suspense show on FOX that precedes it, Prison Break.

At least now I know I don't have to worry about what to watch at 9 p.m. Mondays anymore.

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