don't forget the premiere of 24 is tonight!

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Don't feel bad. There wasn't much of a plot this season, so every episode had a new plot, and following it over 24 episodes was pretty much impossible. There was a theme, though: LAME. It went from awesome to lame in 18 weeks. Pretty impressive as far as self-destruction goes. The last four hours were relatively okay, and the first four hours were freaking awesome---but the middle just sucked.

I found it pretty easy to follow the plot. Then again, I did fail my IQ test.

Maybe the 24 experts can answer: if jack's father just wanted his grandson all along, wouldn't it have been easier to do so by abducting him before all this happened, as opposed to having to bribe/ work with the chinese to get him?

Well, he did want to live in China, so he wanted to get in good with them before he moved to their country.

What I don't get is why he wanted the kid in the first place. If I were Phil, I would have given up on him after he took a swing at me. I'm sure there are plenty of starving Chinese kids who would love to have been Little Baby Bauer.

Question: Why was Jack clutching his hand after Josh shot Phil?

Answer: Because Josh shot Jack's pa!

Oh.... that was so bad .

*ducks tomato*

*Gets in the groin by next tomato*

What the heck happened to "Milo's brother," if that's who he REALLY was. You can't have a guy disappear in a suspicious manner and just not bring it up again!

Season Finale(s)!

Vice President Personality Disorder (in the previous episode) agrees with Jack's Dad to give his son to him in exchange for the circuit chip. Manface argues that stupid since Jack's Dad is a psychopath and cannot be trusted. But the Vice President says they have to do it since otherwise there will be war with the Russians (like, OMG!). Manface: (weeping) But's it's an innocent, boy! VP: Screw 'em. ... I'm with the VP on this one.

CTU is informed and Jack is informed and Jack, naturally, doesn't want to go along. Jack: IT ISN'T FAIR!! ! Jack calls Manface, who agrees that it's A-OK to betray the acting commander-and-chief and agrees to call Bill to conspire with Jack.

Oh, before this, of course, the package turns out to be a fake, and Doyle is blinded (which means we won't have to deal with little Ricky Schroeder next year). This makes Jack retroactively right, as always, and the Vice President wrong in the magical world of television logic.

Admittedly, the episode was pretty well done considering there was anything super shocking or anything.

One thing that was kinda dumb was Jack's dad using oil rig's within site of the coast. I mean, come on! Why not just station a submarine a short distance out. Oh, but that would be a violation of US coastal waters! But like the Chinese have really cared about legalities "today!"

EDIT: Oh, yeah. Milo's brother. That was strange.

NEXT...

Jack and Bill go in the helicopter to rescue Josh. The sequence, mixed with the incoming fighters and missiles, isn't as cool as it should have been considering the set. First, Cheng hands Jack's dad the circuit board, and then goes with all of his men to fight whatever force was coming. Why? Why not leave someone to escort Jack's dad and the boy. Also, why not have someone in case, just as it happens, the boy gets a hold of the gun. Why does it take so long for Jack's dad to decide to leave?

The fight is OK but anti-climatic. I didn't think Josh would shoot his grandfather at all, but...meh....it wasn't that surprising. Jack's conversation with his father ("You are getting off easy.") rally didn't amount to much considering the rather smart buildup to having Jack having such an evil father. The rest after that wrote itself.

The White House stuff was fine this time.

The Chloe "pregnant" thing was just stupid. I mean there is nothing wrong with having a character pregnant or mentioning it but pretending that is a dramatic announcement on a show like 24 is kind of lame. Especially after all the terrible dialogue between Chloe and, I can't even remember the bald guy's name! It's not him though, it the writing.

The ending was fine and probably a good idea. They needed to leave something that left open possibilities, and did just that. Overall this was easily the poorest season of 24. From A to F, perhaps a C-, but much of that would be skewed by the strong opening (that probably hurt the show for the season in the long run). Remember, people, in episode 4 of this year a nuke went off in Valenzia? That's big. After that, and the introduction of evil Jack's father, pretty much all downhill.

And they forgot to play the dramatic soap-opera-ish organ music when Chloe announced she was pregnant.

By the way, jimservo, I really liked your reviews this season.

Here's something to think about: what will Jack Bauer's next job be? He's already been, or posed as, a counterterrorist agent, an unemployed bum, a domestic militia member, a drug czar's chum, a prison guard, a drug czar's chum (redux), assistant to the Secretary of Defense, small-time crook, an oil-rig worker, an FBI agent, an arms dealer, an airplane passenger, a marine pilot, an enraged motorist, and probably many other things that I cannot recall. So what occupation will Jack take up next?

Some choices:
a. Stockboy ("Cleanup in Aisle 9...Now!")
b. Interior decorator ("These terrible drapes are responsible for everything that's happened in this room today!")
c. Priest ("Right now, I'm the only one you can trust.")
d. Kindergarten teacher ("Get your hands off of Susie's pigtails or I will put a bullet in your head. Do you understand me?")

So, what do you think?

Oh, great. First the Chinese try to acquire the subcircuit board, and now this. Where's Jack Bauer when you really need him?