Wednesday, May 21, 2003

Things that worked for me

Things that worked for me on the season finale of 24: * Jack doing a helicopter on that dude’s neck.  * SWAT team to the rescue at the last possible moment.  * Tony playing it cool. 

Things that didn’t work so well for me on the season finale of 24: * Kim Bauer survives.  * No mention of Nina, the arabic secret agent, the dead cop who was supposed to watch Kim, or Kim’s boyfriend in the hospital with the amputated foot.  * Noisy hissy soundtrack when David finds out Sherry’s been in on the bomb plot for months.  * Upswell of soundtrack music when the vp/prez stands down his troops or whatever he does - you can’t hear it over the atmosphere.

And did anyone else think that they’d finished the show, for better or worse, and then someone at Division told them that some major character - who doesn’t take sultry showers and bubble baths every few episodes - has to get iced?  So they just grafted the bioterror plot from an old Mission: Implausable onto President Palmer’s palm… the irony is overshadowed by the heartrending clumsiness of this wanna-be plot complication - less of a complication than a transplant, like when you get a frog to grow extra legs. 

Conclusion: I can’t believe this represented 24 hours of my life, never to be regained, never to be shared with loved ones and supermodels… and I have lost even more self-respect than time in my pursuit of the Cypress Recording and associated source materials.  Does this mean I won’t watch 24(x3): Jack Bauer and the Temple of Insolent Offspring and Bad Plans Gone Awry?  You bet I will.  Just let me get my heart refibrillated and I’ll be right with you.  And don’t forget to set your vcrs: The Amazing Race starts May 29th.