Unlikely Words

5:00: So the President got blowed up. Judging by how long that takes people out of commission in past seasons, President Palmer should be in major surgery for all of this episode. We should see him back in indecisive action sometime next week.
-Wouldn’t the Russians know President Logan was under house arrest or was that some sort of secret deal?
-Why isn’t Jack Bauer using this time productively instead of chatting with Logan? This should be a long car ride.
-So Assad died. You’d like to think the US Government is more sophisticated than to blame Assad for this, but, well, this is “24” we’re talking about.
-I just missed that. Did the doctor say that President Palmer escaped getting directly exploded. Then he said that it would be a miracle if he survived? What does that mean?
-I’m thinking that when Reed Pollack’s plot gets foiled, he’ll be the first person to spill is beans in exchange for immunity.
-Why doesn’t Tom Lennox just say he agrees and then turn them in?
-I don’t think Tom Lennox is going to do the right thing.
-The three of them look so guilty.
-YES!!!!!!!
-FINALLY. FINALLY SOMETHING ON “24” GOES THE RIGHT WAY.
5:16: So do we think Lennox is going to be overruled in favor of the US attacking Assad and his unknown Arab Nation?
-Why is the VP calling Buchannon? This is like Cheney calling folks at the CIA. Oh wait, that happens.
5:18: Jessie thinks Logan “is a fucking villain.” Aside from being shocked at her foul language, I’m not quite sure what he’s up to, but it’s not villainy.
-Oh, great. Afghani veterans.
-So this Russian guy was part of last season’s plot? Interesting.
5:22: Jack Bauer loves going into other countries consulates. He really needs to stop this shit.
-What’s that saying? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
5:29: “They won’t know the full extent of his injuries until he regains consciousness.” What the hell does that mean? When Palmer wakes up, he’s going to tell the doctors what’s wrong with him.
-So this is Karen Hayes how is worked back into the show.
-The VP has Ann Coulter as an assistant?
-Why didn’t anyone tell the VP about the assassination plot? Oh, they’re telling him now.
-Reed Pollack and Bruce Carson are going to say Tom Lennox is the mastermind.
-“Until I have all the facts, I’m not about to tell the country that Assad is innocent in all of this.” Uh, so, let’s tell the country that we think Assad is guilty even though we don’t have any proof he had anything to do with it and do have proof that he didn’t? Right.
-Let me tell you what’s happening here. This is exactly what Bush and Cheney did after 9/11 in regards to Iraq. This is yet another example of the creators of “24” aping the Bush Administration. What I STILL don’t understand is who watches this and thinks it makes any sense at all? How could even a supporter of Bush watch this, see how ridiculous the VP is being by ignoring any and all information contrary to his beliefs, and think it’s a good thing? How? I’m not saying this right, so let me try again. The VP is being made to look like a jackass for ignoring information that doesn’t jive with his beliefs. This is exactly what has happened time and again in the current administration. What I don’t get is why the creators of “24” want to make the current administration look like jackasses.
5:35: Jack Bauer speaks great Russian.
-Jack Bauer is a whispery international incident. All the time.
5:43: “A situation has developed at the Russian Consulate.” “What kind of situation?” “Jack Bauer…” OK, you don’t need to go further than that.
-Is this the way that government works? The Russian President phones his counterpart mere minutes after Markov is taken hostage, and the VP calling a press conference 40 minutes after an assassination attempt on the President. My guess is that if an assassination attempt happened in the White House bunker, there’s no way we’d hear about it for several hours.
-The Russian President seems nervous.
-Torture Scene: 10 (Russian Consulate)
-Uh, oh. You screwed up big time, Mr. Russian Consulate.
-I’m thinking he loses at least 1 finger before telling.
-There it goes.
-So they’re launching aerial drones in two hours? Why is the Russian consulate smiling and laughing about it?
-Jack Bauer just got blowed up without even being able to communicate his info…
-That means Jack Bauer will be in custody for just around two hours before escaping somehow or getting released and then getting the drones exploded, right?
-Didn’t they shoot down something with a nuclear bomb on it a couple years ago?
-5:54: YES! Buchannon is the man! Drawing up plans to storm the consulate.
-This is better than I thought it was going to be, but it’s still suspect that the message is going to get out of there.
5:58: This is where the Russian gets shot.
-Too easy.
-How’d that Russian guy know to kill that other Russian guy?

It was definitely a better episode this week, but it didn’t end strongly. The scenes from next week do look kind of cool when the US goes to war with Russia. At least on a little part of Russian soil in CA.

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