Monday, May 08, 2006
If Bauer gets through...
...you're screwed, basically.
I, for one, would like to see Logan and his puppetmaster royally screwed and if there is one man in the world who can do it, it's Jack Bauer.
Now if you take that comment literally, it does not conjure up a very pleasant mental image (unless you're into that sort of thing. Slash freak :) ) but yeah, I want Logan to go down. Err.. well you know what I mean.
Anyway, have you ever worked with someone who constantly needs to be in the know? Who cannot take being outside of the loop? Who will backstab, suck up - whatever it takes to remain one of the "cool kids" who has their finger on the pulse? Yeah, that's Miles. I hate him.
Great show tonight with one minor flaw. Wot? Me? Complain about 24? I know, I know it's rare. I am the perfect fan in that I can happily suspend disbelief and sometimes reality in order to enjoy a show. But tonight even I had a hard time not tripping on this speed bump: Heller survived his nosedive into the lake apparently. I can only hope he is to serve a higher purpose I'm not aware of yet because otherwise it was a bit of a pussy thing to do. It would have been more "24" to let him go down with the car. So there you go Kelly, I found something to whinge about.
But hey other than that is was a stellar show full of spectacular plane sequences, Curtis and more Chloe sourpuss-ness :)
So we left off with Jack aboard the plane and Logan given the order to shoot the plane down by Graham (I'll stop calling him Romano now.) Graham tells Logan that they will make the plane simulate a VCI distress call that makes it legal to shoot the plane down. Graham seems like he can manipulate anything. WTF does he need to work with Logan for?
Back at CTU, Audrey's being stitched up, Curtis tells her that her father survived (blech) and Buchanan is let out of holding and starts working with Karen Hayes in a conference room.
Meanwhile Logan and Novick speak with an Admiral who tells them the options for shooting the plane down. Logan is, of course, adamant the plane be shot down but Novick, who knows Bauer's history, believes he has his reasons for his actions and doesn't think it's a good idea. But Logan won't listen and orders the plane shot down.
CTU learns of the distress signal and they alert Jack. Jack puts them to work finding an alternate place to land the plane that turns out to be a strip of freeway that ends at an overpass. If they don't brake in time, they'll be smushed.
Let the nailbiting commence.
With his gun to the head of the traitorous copilot, Jack orders the pilot to put the plane down on that strip. Meanwhile at CTU Chloe has arrived. Yay! Miles has a bit of a strop about it (and about not knowing why she's even there) but no one pays attention to the little dickhead. Chloe gets to work tracking the F-18 that's going to shoot them down.
With only a couple of minutes to spare, Jack orders the pilot to descend the plane in a sharp dive. The F-18 is almost in range and the pilot is panicking. Jack tells him to level the plane and has to help him pull on the steering column to level it. They lower the landing gear. What's cool about all of this is that Jack knows that the F-18 will be able to tell he is attempting to land which negates that order to shoot him down because they do not present a threat. Jack is always thinking three or four steps ahead of EVERYONE. I don't know how he does it.
Logan loses his cool a bit and screams at the admiral to shoot down the plane but he quickly realizes he's giving himself away and finally acquiesces and rescinds the order to shoot them down.
After a very harrowing landing (and much vomit in the cabin of the plane I'm sure) that comes up just a few feet short of the overpass, Jack pops an emergency hatch and amscrays.
Logan has Marines cordoning off the area though so escaping could be problematic. Now Logan has to explain to Graham why he had to let the plane land. he'd give himself away for sure otherwise. He tells Graham he knows what's at stake if Bauer escapes with the recording and then he sits back and waits for his Marines to apprehend him.
But Jack meets up with Curtis and Curtis smoothly talks his way through a roadblock with Jack sitting in the backseat and they get away. SO while Jack heads back to CTU, Miles calls Karen and whines like a bitch about being out of the loop and makes a veiled threat to get her to tell him what's going on. And stupidly, she decides to let him in on it because she believes in his loyalty to her. Pffft.
After she fills Miles in, she walks over to sign off on a bunged up Bierko's transfer to another holding facility. Bierko stares daggers at her as he waddles off in chains, even spitting on the ground in contempt as he passes her. When he's loaded into the van, there are a couple of meaningful glances between Bierko and the driver and well, I guess he's going to escape. I see that one coming.
At the retreat, Novick tells Logan that Bauer slipped through the net. Logan doesn't take it well. His phone rings - Graham calling for an update - and Logan does not answer. He's scared.
Jack arrives back at CTU, and entrusts the recording to his geekgirl Chloe. Now that his mission is complete all he can think to do is get to Audrey. They have a lovely reunion. he thanks her for helping him find the people responsible for David Palmer's death. Jack asks to just sit with her for a moment and settles at the foot of her bed as she relaxes. He kisses her knee and a million Jack lovers sigh a dreamy sigh as they watch Jack lovingly stroke her shin. *sigh*
Finally, Logan picks up his phone and calls Graham. Logan has the "I'm telling you I'm going to kill myself and make sure you're not implicated but I know what we did was good for the country" speech without really being quite so blatant about it. He hangs up and picks up a handgun and checks the cartridge and I jump to the edge of my seat simultaneously feeling guilty for condoning suicide and sheer joy at the thought of someone like Logan taking such a cowardly way out of his situation and not having to deal with him anymore.
A few minutes later we see Martha staring numbly at a TV screen watching mourners holding a vigil for Palmer and Logan comes in Nd tries to apologize for it all. Trying to illicit some sympathy. But she's so far gone, so betrayed that all she can say to him is, "You know what really gets me Charles? That you had me going for so long. I had no idea you were such a good liar. If I wasn't so horrified by the fact that I married you I might actually be impressed."
BURN.
Then she goes back to watching the vigil and Logan sort of slinks out of the room. That was hawesome.
He leaves her and goes back to his office. Opens the case with the gun, pulls out of bottle of, I don't know, whiskey I guess, and downs a shot. He builds whatever passes for courage in his heart and takes the gun and... the fucking phone rings.
And it's fucking Miles. ARGH!
And Miles basically rats out Karen and offers to get to the recording and destroy it in the hopes that Logan will "remember him" when all of this is over. The fucking little climber. Of course Logans approves of his plan to "intervene." He puts the gun away. Damnit.
After the call Miles walks into the room where Chloe's working on the recording and pesters her with inane questions. It's a distraction because as Chloe gets tetchy about his stupid questions, he's really holding a device by the recorder that is obviously mucking it up. And with one last shot of Chloe's eyes rolling, the show ends.
Damnit.
I, for one, would like to see Logan and his puppetmaster royally screwed and if there is one man in the world who can do it, it's Jack Bauer.
Now if you take that comment literally, it does not conjure up a very pleasant mental image (unless you're into that sort of thing. Slash freak :) ) but yeah, I want Logan to go down. Err.. well you know what I mean.
Anyway, have you ever worked with someone who constantly needs to be in the know? Who cannot take being outside of the loop? Who will backstab, suck up - whatever it takes to remain one of the "cool kids" who has their finger on the pulse? Yeah, that's Miles. I hate him.
Great show tonight with one minor flaw. Wot? Me? Complain about 24? I know, I know it's rare. I am the perfect fan in that I can happily suspend disbelief and sometimes reality in order to enjoy a show. But tonight even I had a hard time not tripping on this speed bump: Heller survived his nosedive into the lake apparently. I can only hope he is to serve a higher purpose I'm not aware of yet because otherwise it was a bit of a pussy thing to do. It would have been more "24" to let him go down with the car. So there you go Kelly, I found something to whinge about.
But hey other than that is was a stellar show full of spectacular plane sequences, Curtis and more Chloe sourpuss-ness :)
So we left off with Jack aboard the plane and Logan given the order to shoot the plane down by Graham (I'll stop calling him Romano now.) Graham tells Logan that they will make the plane simulate a VCI distress call that makes it legal to shoot the plane down. Graham seems like he can manipulate anything. WTF does he need to work with Logan for?
Back at CTU, Audrey's being stitched up, Curtis tells her that her father survived (blech) and Buchanan is let out of holding and starts working with Karen Hayes in a conference room.
Meanwhile Logan and Novick speak with an Admiral who tells them the options for shooting the plane down. Logan is, of course, adamant the plane be shot down but Novick, who knows Bauer's history, believes he has his reasons for his actions and doesn't think it's a good idea. But Logan won't listen and orders the plane shot down.
CTU learns of the distress signal and they alert Jack. Jack puts them to work finding an alternate place to land the plane that turns out to be a strip of freeway that ends at an overpass. If they don't brake in time, they'll be smushed.
Let the nailbiting commence.
With his gun to the head of the traitorous copilot, Jack orders the pilot to put the plane down on that strip. Meanwhile at CTU Chloe has arrived. Yay! Miles has a bit of a strop about it (and about not knowing why she's even there) but no one pays attention to the little dickhead. Chloe gets to work tracking the F-18 that's going to shoot them down.
With only a couple of minutes to spare, Jack orders the pilot to descend the plane in a sharp dive. The F-18 is almost in range and the pilot is panicking. Jack tells him to level the plane and has to help him pull on the steering column to level it. They lower the landing gear. What's cool about all of this is that Jack knows that the F-18 will be able to tell he is attempting to land which negates that order to shoot him down because they do not present a threat. Jack is always thinking three or four steps ahead of EVERYONE. I don't know how he does it.
Logan loses his cool a bit and screams at the admiral to shoot down the plane but he quickly realizes he's giving himself away and finally acquiesces and rescinds the order to shoot them down.
After a very harrowing landing (and much vomit in the cabin of the plane I'm sure) that comes up just a few feet short of the overpass, Jack pops an emergency hatch and amscrays.
Logan has Marines cordoning off the area though so escaping could be problematic. Now Logan has to explain to Graham why he had to let the plane land. he'd give himself away for sure otherwise. He tells Graham he knows what's at stake if Bauer escapes with the recording and then he sits back and waits for his Marines to apprehend him.
But Jack meets up with Curtis and Curtis smoothly talks his way through a roadblock with Jack sitting in the backseat and they get away. SO while Jack heads back to CTU, Miles calls Karen and whines like a bitch about being out of the loop and makes a veiled threat to get her to tell him what's going on. And stupidly, she decides to let him in on it because she believes in his loyalty to her. Pffft.
After she fills Miles in, she walks over to sign off on a bunged up Bierko's transfer to another holding facility. Bierko stares daggers at her as he waddles off in chains, even spitting on the ground in contempt as he passes her. When he's loaded into the van, there are a couple of meaningful glances between Bierko and the driver and well, I guess he's going to escape. I see that one coming.
At the retreat, Novick tells Logan that Bauer slipped through the net. Logan doesn't take it well. His phone rings - Graham calling for an update - and Logan does not answer. He's scared.
Jack arrives back at CTU, and entrusts the recording to his geekgirl Chloe. Now that his mission is complete all he can think to do is get to Audrey. They have a lovely reunion. he thanks her for helping him find the people responsible for David Palmer's death. Jack asks to just sit with her for a moment and settles at the foot of her bed as she relaxes. He kisses her knee and a million Jack lovers sigh a dreamy sigh as they watch Jack lovingly stroke her shin. *sigh*
Finally, Logan picks up his phone and calls Graham. Logan has the "I'm telling you I'm going to kill myself and make sure you're not implicated but I know what we did was good for the country" speech without really being quite so blatant about it. He hangs up and picks up a handgun and checks the cartridge and I jump to the edge of my seat simultaneously feeling guilty for condoning suicide and sheer joy at the thought of someone like Logan taking such a cowardly way out of his situation and not having to deal with him anymore.
A few minutes later we see Martha staring numbly at a TV screen watching mourners holding a vigil for Palmer and Logan comes in Nd tries to apologize for it all. Trying to illicit some sympathy. But she's so far gone, so betrayed that all she can say to him is, "You know what really gets me Charles? That you had me going for so long. I had no idea you were such a good liar. If I wasn't so horrified by the fact that I married you I might actually be impressed."
BURN.
Then she goes back to watching the vigil and Logan sort of slinks out of the room. That was hawesome.
He leaves her and goes back to his office. Opens the case with the gun, pulls out of bottle of, I don't know, whiskey I guess, and downs a shot. He builds whatever passes for courage in his heart and takes the gun and... the fucking phone rings.
And it's fucking Miles. ARGH!
And Miles basically rats out Karen and offers to get to the recording and destroy it in the hopes that Logan will "remember him" when all of this is over. The fucking little climber. Of course Logans approves of his plan to "intervene." He puts the gun away. Damnit.
After the call Miles walks into the room where Chloe's working on the recording and pesters her with inane questions. It's a distraction because as Chloe gets tetchy about his stupid questions, he's really holding a device by the recorder that is obviously mucking it up. And with one last shot of Chloe's eyes rolling, the show ends.
Damnit.
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Yeah miles just sucks. Should be interesting to see how Jack proceeds and what happens with Bierko.
I think I saw Romano sitting and drinking in a place that looked like a saloon or something with a bunch of drinking buddys. What the hell was that? Maybe they were watching 24 on TV and armchair quarterbacking the show? I guess even they couldn't resist that fun (joke).
All of the signs and coded messages out there are hinting at Heller going for the next presidental seat. The only reason they did the kill off in 3 episodes is because he was under contract restrictions with ABC and could only do 3. So what better way to send him off after 3...take a plunge and give 24 fans another "oh shit" moment. But he is a fan favorite and bringing him back was a good thing to do..
I am already getting my "Heller for President" t-shirts ready. Oh yeah!
Am I the only 24 fan that was a little let down last night? Ok, the plane scenes and landing was pretty darn good. And the stuff about Logan/suicide. But - Bierko's going to escape?? Come on, is everyone incompetent except Jack and Chloe??? And Miles the whiner was another disappointment - it was almost predictable. Heller as president next year would be good.
I was going to do a "spoiler alert" but I won't - I'm afraid Melia would see it and get upset! ;>) I'll just say I saw something on the previews that made me really happy.
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I was actually pretty excited by lastnight's episode. Here's what I liked...
-They brought back Curtis, Audrey, and Henderson first thing. We find out Helle is alive -just as we all guessed.
- Curtis, the voice of reason, when told of Jack's whereabouts, "What's Jack doing in a plane?"
- They got the airplane scenario overwith and moved on. They could have dragged it out. Thanks, writers.
- I actually thought Logan's impending suicide was suspenseful. Until he dragged it out and you knew the phone would ring to stop his chicken sh&^t ass from actually following through. How many of us, having prepared and settled our mind on that act, would take a call? Oh, but it was an IMPORTANT call. Well, better take that, then I'll kill myself. Who else thought he was going to take Martha out with him? She kind of deserves it at this point.
- I really like the way Karen has come around. Her conversion to "our" has not felt contrived. I really enjoyed her working side by side with Bill. They would make a cute couple. However, she obviously needs some sleep if she thought she could trust Miles.
- I really liked that they refrenced people greiving for Palmer (on Fox News, of course)
Here's what made me go hmmm....
- Graham and his drinking buddies looked like they were hanging out in hospital waiting room. And what's with water reflection on all the walls at the Presidential retreat? I kept waiting for Logan to put on his trunks and jump in.
- If Graham knew immediately that Chloe called Karen last week, how come he didn't know the second Jack Bauer walked into CTU? Or that Karen was talking to Jack out in the field? Instead of giving up and drinking bourbon, why didn't tell Logan that they had not listened to the tape yet and send the marines to CTU? Or order Karen relieved of command?
- Please Chloe, tell us you made a copy of the tape. Please.
- Thanks Audrey. If it wasn't for you, Jack would never have let that tape out of sight and he and Chloe would be working together side by side in a closed room. Do you think Jack will beat Chloe or put a bullet in her thigh for letting Miles scramble the tape? Either way, Miles is about to have a REAL unpleasant encounter with Jack next week.
- Mike, grow a spine and catch up with what's happening please.
- It must be really tough with all these Anglo-Saxon looking Russian terrorists running around this year. Hard to tell whose's a terrorist until they nod to each other. Why are they transferring Bierko? Would they really do this at this time or did the writers think we wouldn't buy more of his buddies raiding CTU and killing all the HS people? All I could think of when he was driving off was, enjoy it buddy, you'll be dead within 3 hours.
- Please let Jack just beat the utter shit out of Henderson next week.
- Aaron shows up next week. Bloody and battered and held captive like we thought. Who'll rescue him, Mike or the VP? Martha appears to be a bit to drugged up.
- The whole deal with Miles betraying Karen was so obvious it was actually suprising. I look forward to him meeting Jack's fist, elbow, knees, and pistol butt next week.
mike13
Argh Mike13 - PLEASE warn if you're going to talk about next week's previews. Pretty please? I don't watch them because I'm spoilerphobic and I didn't want to know anything about what's going to happen next week or who's coming back. -Ta!
I agree with Dee that Bierko escaping makes my teeth ache. Good grief, half the people at CTU are whackjobs and the other half are moles, and very few of any of them are competent! Except Curtis...sigh. He is my hero.
The other thing that makes me scream is the recording! The recording! Make a copy; beam it to someone else for crap's sake! Here's Dave Barry's explanation:
"Many of you have asked why -- since Jack is in constant contact with Chloe, and he is an extremely high-tech individual, and he has a PDA that can do pretty much anything, including remotely detonate terrorists -- Jack doesn't simply transmit the recording to Chloe, so she can broadcast it. There is a simple, logical explanation for why Jack has not done this, which is: Shut up."
Yes, I thought there would be a Martha-Charles murder-suicide.
I also have been kind of hoping the recording does get destroyed for a few episodes, now. I agree with the idea Logan floated to Graham about the "psychological damage" to the nation if there's a spectacle trial etc. I've been even wondering if Logan will get away with it entirely. Anyway, I don't think the nation could take the truth and I reckon Logan will either die or stay in office, having gotten off scot-free. Hard to imaging the latter scenario. But in any case, the nation won't ever really know the details of his involvement.
PonyBoy and Kim are just waiting in the wings. I can feel it. Cue the cougar!
Sorry about spoiling anything, I didn't realize some folks tuned out the previews. But how can you go throught the week, though, without seeing adds for next week's show? How can watch the whole hour and NOT want to get a taste of what's happeing next week? Oh well, I apologize and will be more considerate from here on out.
By the way I forgot one of my biggest gripes that the preview did not show - Where the heck is WAYNE??!!
Easy Mike, whenever I see an ad starting up for 24, I either mute the TV and close my eyes, or change the channel, or if I'm feeling particularly silly I jam my fingers in my ears and sing the 'LA LA LA LA LA LA' song until my daughter tells me it's over.
And really, it seems to be just 24 that I'm spoilerphobic about. Which might be because the ads FOX shows for it are so damn spoilery. It's also the one show where viewing is enhanced for me if I don't know what to expect.
I'm one of those people that my wife and coworkers hate because Iwant o know the ending before I see it or read it. When my wife wants to see a movie, I can usually tell her who the bad guy is because I've looked it up online. A lot of books (some, not all) I'll flip through the back to see how it ends. I spent 15 minutes at Walmart reading the last 30 pages of Revenge of the Sith just to see how it ended before I saw the movie. For some reason this doesn't bother me, I enjoy finding out how we get to the ending just as much. I think its a patience issue. I try to keep it in check and only use it to annoy my wife when she deserves it. I think thats one reason I enjoy this blog so much. It gives me an outlet to postulate theories and listen to other viewer's ideas.
Ben:
You are right. The blond chick is up to no good. At least 3 shots of her eyeballing things.
Mike H (college fraternity brother of Mike N)
I was a bit distraught to see Audrey in the clinc! That clinic doesn't exactly have the best survival rate, in fact, I think everyone who's ever been in there has died. Anyone care to list out the survival rate?
Isn't that the clinic where Erin Driscoll's daughter Maya died the last season? I mean, before even talking about Tony. Brrrrrr..
Finally some development! The coincidence of Bierko being transfered now and Miles erasing the recording (what kind of device did he have, I thought the recording would be on some flash memory!? How can this be deleted so easily?) might lead to a new scenario: Bierko might implicate Logan as well, but in the moment the recording is destroyed Bierko escapes and becomes the last available evidence against Logan. I wonder how long it took for Chloe to copy the recording, I think it was about five minutes until Miles arrived. The recording was quite short so it should not take that much time. I would have appreciated it if Chloe had put some fake device on her desk or copied it already somewhere else anticipating the existence of a mole within CTU.
Why does everybody think the American people could not take the truth (pyschological damage, ...)? Did Watergate weaken the US? No, it might have weakend the the trust in the government but this strengthens the democracy. It is an evidence of incapacity for a democracy if heros have to break laws in order to cope with a corrupt president. David Palmer thought that way in the previous seasons, Logan does it, and Heller, the maybe-future-president does it, too. Democracy does not work this way. Compare a psychological damage for the government, a public trial against a president, demonstrations all over the US compared to a conspirating president who does the best for his country by starting a new war leading to the death of thousands of Americans? I know what I would prefer. Do you remember David Palmer arresting this journalist in his retreat in the second (?) season? Palmer told him that arresting him would be best for the nation. The journalist answered, that this might be true but it would not be on the president to decide. This was the best response to that strange "never go public, Americans must not know anything"-belief all over 24 that have seen so far. Bauer only seems to fight this thinking, but not because of political reasons or idealism but because he has very concrete goals (arresting Logan for murder, protecting Heller from Logan, ...).
When I heard Graham talking to Logan it remembered me of sects. Maybe the conspiracy originates from some religious fanatism. This is pure speculation of course. But initially everybody thought, there would be some petrochemical or military interest behind the conspiracy. At the moment it sound like Logan really sees himself as a martyr.
michael
Monica - you and I are on the same page! The other thing that has been bugging me is the recording - why didn't Jack send it to someone using is PDA that can do anything?? I also thought it was going to be a Charles-Martha murder/suicide. And I totally forgot about Curtis when I said Jack and Chloe are the only CTU competents! I love him too. And Ben - I'm with you on the blonde chick at CTU - I told my sister the same thing - she's definitely up to something.
>That clinic doesn't exactly have the best survival rate, in fact, I think everyone who's ever been in there has died. Anyone care to list out the survival rate?
Henderson is the only person I remember walking out alive.
It seems everyone is asking the same questions - why haven't they made copies of the tape? Why didn't Jack send Chloe copies of the tape? Major plot hole/leap of logic.
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I love how they do a short preview after the show and then during House, they show an extended version. Judging by what I saw last night, they are empasizing Bierko with another WMD and Jack having to race to save the day. It seemed like the exact situation were in 5 or 6 hours ago!
mike13
The suspension of disbelief the show requires grows stronger with each season, and each episode. We want tension, we want thrills, and the writers have been giving us that successfully, but I think a little plausability is needed also.
Having said that... what I think is really funny is how some at CTU are putting their asses on the line, yet when Jack arrives no one of them asks to hear the tape. I think is the first thing I'd do the moment Jack appeared on the door.
I hear you. Another example is Heller's survival after what seemed to be like 200+ feets dive from a cliff at full speed. Even Audrey looked perplexed at the news Curtis brought. But it's OK. Scrutinizing the show is part of fun, right?
We should have little contest. Everyone describes wha they think the final fate of their favorite character/characters will be. Examples
Logan - the tape never comes out, but Marhta shoots him
Graham - Killed by Curtis
Audrey - resigns from CTU, watches Jack leave again. Will resurface as high level official in her father's administration.
Henderson - Escapes to cause trouble next season.
Bierko - death by Jack
Karen - Hailed as hero for her part. Promoted out of CTU/HS to high ranking post in Heller administration.
Miles - Humiliatingly arrested by crazy girl he harrassed. Raped in prison.
Chloe - ????
Jack - Must disappear again, breaks Audrey's heart, but comes back next year to save her and her Dad from the puppetmaster who controls Graham.
Anyone game?
mike13
My guess:
Graham - death by Bierko
Bierko - death by Jack Bauer
Henderson - tortured and killed by Jack Bauer
Logan - death by Martha
Martha - death by Martha
Aaron - ???
Miles - burnt alive by Chloe
Karen - killed by one of Graham's drinking buddies
Bill - reinstated
Heller - does another Thelma and Louise dive and survies for no apparent reason
Audrey - death due to the the curse of the clinic
Mike - still has no idea what has happened
Kim Bauer - eaten by a couger
Barry Landes - eaten by a couger
Chloe - saves the world, and stays at CTU, but confesses love to Mandy
Jack - saves the world, and goes back to his hot girl frient, Dianne, and takes her to England
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