Blow by Blow Review: "24" April 11th, 2005
With one of the coolest, ultimately complex and intriguing continually-weaving storylines ever, "24" continues to spin a web of interest, excitement and outright intoxication. Let's get to this edition!
Blow by Blow Review: "24" April 11th, 2005
I would regale how on the edge-of-my-seat I was during the first quick minutes of this episode but dude: how can one NOT be on the edge of their sear, after Air Force One has received devestating damage from a stolen Stealth Fighter over our own soil?!? That being said:
-- The Connection to the Downed Secret Service Agents: This has to be one of the coolest items I've never even anticipated in previous shows where we see Secret Service agents. Of course they're going to have their "own channels" but how many other shows have tapped "their channel" to get immediate response from people that are more than likely dead? Super slick.
-- Bodies Seen: While I am not a professional emergency medical anything, how about anyone check the pulses on the people that are down? While we're talking about "victims" I'd like to comment on the status of the plane in general. From the video it looks as though the fuselage actually is very intact, ie, there is an actual "tube" that is not in fragments which makes it all that more likely that people that were secured appropriately just may have survived what is clearly a devestating situation. That being said:
-- Seat Belts: Who the hell are these Secret Service Agents that know there is impending Steath Doom on the President's doorstep and noone dives on him to get his ass secured into a seatbelt? Same story with the dead son and at least one "victim" that is depited in what was apparently a hallway/not in a chair with a seatbelt as the camera crew walked in. Just like you've seen in so many other movies, imminent danger to the man in charge ellicits the ultimate response in regard to the President's security and I am saddened that with four guys standing around last hour, NONE of them get his ass into a chair and buckled up.
-- Just When You Thought the President Was the Worse Person to Have in Office: Tought it was impossible to have a worse president in place in the realm of "24?" Bzzzzzzzzzzzer! Wrong! We now have what is one of the most inept politicians in place apparently that takes pages from previous US leaders that make him one of the most useless pieces of political flesh ever!
-- Stealth Visually Engaged and Destroyed/ShotDown: Might this be what Anderson was referring to? Surely he didn't want to get shot down and ejected from the doomed Stealth fighter. Come to think of it, wouldn't there be some sort of signal that can be traced - perhaps the communication signal to Jack to track him? Why does the Stealth Fighter now become visible for the 5 fighter jets to take him out? Did you also notice that they didn't really show Air Force One "perfoming any evasive manuvers" ala the movie "Air Force One?" No chaff, either from Air Force One or the fighters -- nothing. In any case, how is it that they were able to find and shoot down the stealth?
-- The Importance of Meetings: I have worked for many bosses: Some of them have used and liked meetings - others haven't and say they are a waste of time. I guess what I would say is look at this situation: Air Force One has been shot down, the nuclear football is loose and CTU has a meeting to get everyone on the same page. Now - I SURELY am not in charge of anything that is as important (to our nation I suppose) as Air Force One, or the nuclear football, but even in the midst of all hell breaking loose, meetings happen and they help to get everyone on the same page and up to date - quickly and efficiently. 'Nuff said on that, I suppose.
-- Buchanans Discussion About Michellle and Tony: I am happy that this scene was quick, straightforward and done in general, but I hope it wasn't added in to satisfy. It felt super short, but did the jobs overall.
-- Air Force One Recovery Video: Noted above, Air Force One looks very intact. There's fire, but not out of control blazes. Very little smoke, and dude: - Again - Where the hell are the seatbelts on this flight?
-- Football Season Has STARTED: Where's Our Team? The control box and launch codes to our entire nuclear arsenal is loose and will soon be in the hands of terrorists. Wny in the hell is it that Jack's Chopper, with a pilot and ONE support agent is the one that's on the way to save the day? No Air Force Bases in California? Where are the fighter jets that were escorting Air Force One? Surely they don't have to protect the crumped and ablaze remains of Air Force One. Why are they not encircling the "football" and shooting anything in sight that they can clearly lock onto with their multi-million dollar weapons systems?
-- Kicking the Football with a Missle Barrage? More on the football being loose: Wouldn't, rather than having the football potentially fall into terrorist hands, destroying it be a much better idea? I am sure that the fighter jets are armed with missles: Why not use them to lock onto the frequency of the transmitter and destroy it? The process of creating new codes and getting a new box set up is already in motion: nothing to lose here but the potential of it falling into unfriendly hands.
-- DSL and Charter Cable Internet - >SKOFF<: Jack is mobile, in a helicopter, racing over a desert in the dead of night and requests the schematics for the (another?) abandoned/unmanned auxillarypower station. Tony has them up in almost an instant. I have no idea what kind of connection Jack has to CTU and vice versa, but I want it, folks. Whether it be a handheld PDA, his cell phone, a screen in a 2006 Ford Whatchmacallit - Jack wans and gets the information almost immediately.
-- FUMBLE! The Football is Loose! To continue the gridiron euphamisms, the football has been fumbled. The football is the case that secures the control panel and detailed codes for the location, control and launch of our massive nuclear weapons arsenal. In the wrong hands, the reults are clearly something that would threaten life as we know it on our planet: The resources provided to give solution to this situation? Two CTU agents armed with handguns and a news-style helicopter - with no weapons on it. Huh?
-- Set! Hutt 1! Hutt 2 Hutt 716411! Jack finds reason to tell the campers the case code? Why? How does this help the effort at this point? If they're not going to leave the case and destroy it with a missle barage from overhead aircraft, what is it this person can do to help? Giving them the combination/PIN number allows anyone able to extract the information out of them at another time.
-- Split up? Why? Rather than "splitting up" why didn't Jack tell them to destroy the pages when they found the thing? There were at least what - 20 different visible fires at the Air Force One wreckage. Why not open up the code book, take the pages and burn them? Even in the factory: They were CAMPING - how possible is it that they didn't bring some lighter or something? Tell them to destroy the play book pages and the only thing that the terrorists go home with is a cool new console system with which they can mod their Playstation into. If they are in the power station, why not smash the board with some of those heavy pipes around them? Hide the pieces in the building and run away until backup arrives (minutes, right?)
The Old Lighting Bullets with Open Flame-burned twigs? I am skeptical that the bullets would go off this quick in a tin with burning twigs as the ignition source. It services to help Jack move forward and make the kill, but just not sure that would work.
-- "If you promise not to kill us?" Just a note to all of us, in case you meet or are involved in even an hour of your day with a terrorist that has derailed a train and killed 53, just killed thousands by having one of 109 nuclear reactors meltdown, stolen a stealth aircraft, shotdown the President and his entire staff and son, and stolen a live nuclear warhead: His word doesn't mean anything.
-- Air Support Doesn't Disable/Destroy the Vehicles? Wouldn't/shouldn't the vehicles have been disabled as one of the first objectives of this portion of Jack's day? The only person that has "license" to walk out of that building, in my opinion, is Jack. Everyone else coming out better be friendly or dead. Come to think of it, that helicopter (now confirmed via digital rewind) doesn't even have any weaponry on it! Can we give Jack, the only sole hope of stopping the terrorists trying to steal the football the ARMED helicopter next time?
-- Number 2 Jeep: Gone! They just had live real-time satellite overview of air force one and it's escorts, but they can't track one of two jeeps? Earlier this evening, they were able to pick up heat signatures on cars, people, etc. in the middle of a city - how is it that now, in a DESERT where there are only two visible vehicles, they are unable to apply the same technology?
The next episode promises to be solid, and did I just spy Jack being put into "set loose" mode? Holy smokes! I'm still intoxicated with 7 hours left in Jack's day!
Blow by Blow Review: "24" April 11th, 2005
I would regale how on the edge-of-my-seat I was during the first quick minutes of this episode but dude: how can one NOT be on the edge of their sear, after Air Force One has received devestating damage from a stolen Stealth Fighter over our own soil?!? That being said:
-- The Connection to the Downed Secret Service Agents: This has to be one of the coolest items I've never even anticipated in previous shows where we see Secret Service agents. Of course they're going to have their "own channels" but how many other shows have tapped "their channel" to get immediate response from people that are more than likely dead? Super slick.
-- Bodies Seen: While I am not a professional emergency medical anything, how about anyone check the pulses on the people that are down? While we're talking about "victims" I'd like to comment on the status of the plane in general. From the video it looks as though the fuselage actually is very intact, ie, there is an actual "tube" that is not in fragments which makes it all that more likely that people that were secured appropriately just may have survived what is clearly a devestating situation. That being said:
-- Seat Belts: Who the hell are these Secret Service Agents that know there is impending Steath Doom on the President's doorstep and noone dives on him to get his ass secured into a seatbelt? Same story with the dead son and at least one "victim" that is depited in what was apparently a hallway/not in a chair with a seatbelt as the camera crew walked in. Just like you've seen in so many other movies, imminent danger to the man in charge ellicits the ultimate response in regard to the President's security and I am saddened that with four guys standing around last hour, NONE of them get his ass into a chair and buckled up.
-- Just When You Thought the President Was the Worse Person to Have in Office: Tought it was impossible to have a worse president in place in the realm of "24?" Bzzzzzzzzzzzer! Wrong! We now have what is one of the most inept politicians in place apparently that takes pages from previous US leaders that make him one of the most useless pieces of political flesh ever!
-- Stealth Visually Engaged and Destroyed/ShotDown: Might this be what Anderson was referring to? Surely he didn't want to get shot down and ejected from the doomed Stealth fighter. Come to think of it, wouldn't there be some sort of signal that can be traced - perhaps the communication signal to Jack to track him? Why does the Stealth Fighter now become visible for the 5 fighter jets to take him out? Did you also notice that they didn't really show Air Force One "perfoming any evasive manuvers" ala the movie "Air Force One?" No chaff, either from Air Force One or the fighters -- nothing. In any case, how is it that they were able to find and shoot down the stealth?
-- The Importance of Meetings: I have worked for many bosses: Some of them have used and liked meetings - others haven't and say they are a waste of time. I guess what I would say is look at this situation: Air Force One has been shot down, the nuclear football is loose and CTU has a meeting to get everyone on the same page. Now - I SURELY am not in charge of anything that is as important (to our nation I suppose) as Air Force One, or the nuclear football, but even in the midst of all hell breaking loose, meetings happen and they help to get everyone on the same page and up to date - quickly and efficiently. 'Nuff said on that, I suppose.
-- Buchanans Discussion About Michellle and Tony: I am happy that this scene was quick, straightforward and done in general, but I hope it wasn't added in to satisfy. It felt super short, but did the jobs overall.
-- Air Force One Recovery Video: Noted above, Air Force One looks very intact. There's fire, but not out of control blazes. Very little smoke, and dude: - Again - Where the hell are the seatbelts on this flight?
-- Football Season Has STARTED: Where's Our Team? The control box and launch codes to our entire nuclear arsenal is loose and will soon be in the hands of terrorists. Wny in the hell is it that Jack's Chopper, with a pilot and ONE support agent is the one that's on the way to save the day? No Air Force Bases in California? Where are the fighter jets that were escorting Air Force One? Surely they don't have to protect the crumped and ablaze remains of Air Force One. Why are they not encircling the "football" and shooting anything in sight that they can clearly lock onto with their multi-million dollar weapons systems?
-- Kicking the Football with a Missle Barrage? More on the football being loose: Wouldn't, rather than having the football potentially fall into terrorist hands, destroying it be a much better idea? I am sure that the fighter jets are armed with missles: Why not use them to lock onto the frequency of the transmitter and destroy it? The process of creating new codes and getting a new box set up is already in motion: nothing to lose here but the potential of it falling into unfriendly hands.
-- DSL and Charter Cable Internet - >SKOFF<: Jack is mobile, in a helicopter, racing over a desert in the dead of night and requests the schematics for the (another?) abandoned/unmanned auxillarypower station. Tony has them up in almost an instant. I have no idea what kind of connection Jack has to CTU and vice versa, but I want it, folks. Whether it be a handheld PDA, his cell phone, a screen in a 2006 Ford Whatchmacallit - Jack wans and gets the information almost immediately.
-- FUMBLE! The Football is Loose! To continue the gridiron euphamisms, the football has been fumbled. The football is the case that secures the control panel and detailed codes for the location, control and launch of our massive nuclear weapons arsenal. In the wrong hands, the reults are clearly something that would threaten life as we know it on our planet: The resources provided to give solution to this situation? Two CTU agents armed with handguns and a news-style helicopter - with no weapons on it. Huh?
-- Set! Hutt 1! Hutt 2 Hutt 716411! Jack finds reason to tell the campers the case code? Why? How does this help the effort at this point? If they're not going to leave the case and destroy it with a missle barage from overhead aircraft, what is it this person can do to help? Giving them the combination/PIN number allows anyone able to extract the information out of them at another time.
-- Split up? Why? Rather than "splitting up" why didn't Jack tell them to destroy the pages when they found the thing? There were at least what - 20 different visible fires at the Air Force One wreckage. Why not open up the code book, take the pages and burn them? Even in the factory: They were CAMPING - how possible is it that they didn't bring some lighter or something? Tell them to destroy the play book pages and the only thing that the terrorists go home with is a cool new console system with which they can mod their Playstation into. If they are in the power station, why not smash the board with some of those heavy pipes around them? Hide the pieces in the building and run away until backup arrives (minutes, right?)
The Old Lighting Bullets with Open Flame-burned twigs? I am skeptical that the bullets would go off this quick in a tin with burning twigs as the ignition source. It services to help Jack move forward and make the kill, but just not sure that would work.
-- "If you promise not to kill us?" Just a note to all of us, in case you meet or are involved in even an hour of your day with a terrorist that has derailed a train and killed 53, just killed thousands by having one of 109 nuclear reactors meltdown, stolen a stealth aircraft, shotdown the President and his entire staff and son, and stolen a live nuclear warhead: His word doesn't mean anything.
-- Air Support Doesn't Disable/Destroy the Vehicles? Wouldn't/shouldn't the vehicles have been disabled as one of the first objectives of this portion of Jack's day? The only person that has "license" to walk out of that building, in my opinion, is Jack. Everyone else coming out better be friendly or dead. Come to think of it, that helicopter (now confirmed via digital rewind) doesn't even have any weaponry on it! Can we give Jack, the only sole hope of stopping the terrorists trying to steal the football the ARMED helicopter next time?
-- Number 2 Jeep: Gone! They just had live real-time satellite overview of air force one and it's escorts, but they can't track one of two jeeps? Earlier this evening, they were able to pick up heat signatures on cars, people, etc. in the middle of a city - how is it that now, in a DESERT where there are only two visible vehicles, they are unable to apply the same technology?
The next episode promises to be solid, and did I just spy Jack being put into "set loose" mode? Holy smokes! I'm still intoxicated with 7 hours left in Jack's day!
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