Full disclosure: I am a 24 junkie and have all the released 24 DVDs. Unlike previous electrifying 24 Seasons, this year’s 24 Season Premiere (Season Eight, Episodes 1-4) failed to establish a reason why anyone should care enough to Tivo the rest of the season.
It’s not too late to slip in a real reason viewers should want the just-another Arab president-king-dictator to live. How about: If Jack can keep him alive 24 hours the dictator will give us .29 cent a gallon gas? Or he wants to wear a sandwich board endorsing Sarah Palin and Rev Wright? Or, he just accepted Jesus and wants to construct Baptist churches all over the Middle East? Or he wants to give every American a million dollars and bring back gas-guzzling American power-cars? Or more believable, the dictator doesn’t want the Israelis to turn his sandbox into a glass parking lot, and a signed treaty might delay for a couple of weeks the imminent and inevitable nuclear war in the Middle East?
Currently, in Season Eight, the U.S. president wants a ‘deal’ with a good-guy Arab president-for-life-dictator who wants to give up his nukes. Yawn. Give me a break! Already the basic synopsis is flawed. I mean, really, ‘a good-guy Arab potentate’ who wants to give up his nukes while cheating on his wife and breathing-heavily with a blonde bimbo liberal reporter? And that is suppose to support all that follows?
Nevertheless, CTU is still easily penetrated by spies and a sink-hole of government bureaucratic incompetence. Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is doing what he does best by assisting various nasty-guys in assuming room-temperature (Yawn). Chloe O’Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub), plays the same character overcoming obstacles and is perfect for her role. Katee Sackoff (Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica) plays a more sophisticated character and reinforces that she is genuinely the sexist lady on TV.
The first 24 season was electrifying and cost me a lot of lost sleep. The bad guys were going to nuke L.A. (some parts could still use renovating) which would probably screw up rush hour traffic even more than normal but also, god forbid—take out the Hollywood sign—now that was a reason to TiVo.

Full disclosure: I am a 24 junkie and have all the released 24 DVDs. Unlike previous electrifying 24 Seasons, this year’s 24 Season Premiere (Season Eight, Episodes 1-4) failed to establish a reason why anyone should care enough to Tivo the rest of the season.
It’s not too late to slip in a real reason viewers should want the just-another Arab president-king-dictator to live. How about: If Jack can keep him alive 24 hours the dictator will give us .29 cent a gallon gas? Or he wants to wear a sandwich board endorsing Sarah Palin and Rev Wright? Or, he just accepted Jesus and wants to construct Baptist churches all over the Middle East? Or he wants to give every American a million dollars and bring back gas-guzzling American power-cars? Or more believable, the dictator doesn’t want the Israelis to turn his sandbox into a glass parking lot, and a signed treaty might delay for a couple of weeks the imminent and inevitable nuclear war in the Middle East?
Currently, in Season Eight, the U.S. president wants a ‘deal’ with a good-guy Arab president-for-life-dictator who wants to give up his nukes. Yawn. Give me a break! Already the basic synopsis is flawed. I mean, really, ‘a good-guy Arab potentate’ who wants to give up his nukes while cheating on his wife and breathing-heavily with a blonde bimbo liberal reporter? And that is suppose to support all that follows?
Nevertheless, CTU is still easily penetrated by spies and a sink-hole of government bureaucratic incompetence. Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is doing what he does best by assisting various nasty-guys in assuming room-temperature (Yawn). Chloe O’Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub), plays the same character overcoming obstacles and is perfect for her role. Katee Sackoff (Starbuck on Battlestar Galactica) plays a more sophisticated character and reinforces that she is genuinely the sexist lady on TV.
The first 24 season was electrifying and cost me a lot of lost sleep. The bad guys were going to nuke L.A. (some parts could still use renovating) which would probably screw up rush hour traffic even more than normal but also, god forbid—take out the Hollywood sign—now that was a reason to TiVo.

I do not see a point where that Plot line will even be remotely relevant…