Thursday, January 26, 2006

Groundhog Day...With Terrorists
Bauer gonna knock you outI love 24. With more turns than Lombard Street, it always promises a thrill ride. And the opening of this season definitely lived up to its hype.

However, with the last three hours, I feel this show might become victim of its own internal predictability. Without fail, the show has already provided the exact same plot points that have been in every season:
  • There is a mole at CTU.

  • The mole always kills someone or does Something Very Bad in the windowless Server/Socket Room

  • A major character lays, life in the balance, in CTU medical.

  • Someone has died in CTU medical.

  • There’s a secret cabal in the administration working against the President/Senator (caveat for first season).

How can a show that is once so innovative be becoming so stale? I had expected a radically different direction for this year, but it’s readily becoming apparent we are not going to get a horse of a different color, we’re just going to get the same old Painted Pony this year.

You’d at least think that by now they’d get wise to the fact that something bad always happens in the Server Socket room, and taken steps to install some durn windows into the room. Just saying.
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Can they still use cell phones in this highly classified area as in every other season...I forgot to keep an eye out to see if that was also true!

By Shelli, at 7:11 PM  

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