Oh Jack, you got me again…DAMMIT! at iconogeek

I gotta say I think I’ve been Jack-rolled. You know, “Jack-rolled” – the 5 season old network-TV phenomenon that gets unsuspecting viewers to watch yet another shark-jumping episode of 24. Yeah, I definitely was…how is that that none of these villians can get anything done without compromising a law enforcement agency (or the President himself, for that matter).

You know, I’ve been a 24-hater since the second season. Ever since Kim had her “Dr. Greene” moment and had every conceivable tragedy happen to her – I just couldn’t do it anymore. The amazing, tense writing and action of season one had me hooked. But then the same shit kept happening. How come it took them this long to close down CTU? An agency riddled with that many leaks, charged with anti-terrorism?!?!? Uuugh.

Needles-to-say I had to watch the episode. The wife likes the show, so i thought I’d give it the benefit of the doubt and see if it could capture the old magic.

Nope.

Tony Almeida is a bad guy? Really? He was FUCKING dead. Come one, this isn’t Melrose Place, they couldn’t come up with a different vehicle to get Jack back?

OK, so let’s talk about what I did like:

Colm Feore. Every since “Storm of the Century” he’s been the man.
Janeane Garofalo. Interesting casting choice, of course we need to fill the socially akward hole left vacant by Chloe. So far, nice job.
The FBI’s digs. Plain, Steel Case desks and partitions. This is really what a gov’t agency office looks like. The old CTU had too much high-end hardware and ridiculous-looking software.
Jack didn’t say “Dammit” yet, but he did say “We have to do it My Way.” Uuugh.
Peter Wingfield. Methos is awesome. Nuff Said.
Colm Feore. Wait, did I say him already?
The rounding out of the Robocop cast. Seriously. Peter Weller, Paul McCrane, Kurtwood Smith, Ray Wise.

OK, so I’ll probably give the 3rd hour episode a shot and see, but I don’t know. I am SURE Tony is running something that is a big-picture thing and he’s doing the wrong thing for the right reason…but again?!?!?! IT’s the same story over-and-over-again.

Can’t…look…away…must…stop

dink…dink…dink…dooooooooo

..sigh..

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1 Chuck
January 13, 2009 at 10:55 pm

Oh jeez. It happened again. I said I would give the next hour a shot and I did. But to jack-roll me again, that “just ain’t right.”

Ok, it wasn’t ALL bad, there was some good! Particularly James Morrison reprising his roll as Bill Buchanan. I’ve always liked Morrison, ever since he played the intense Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius “T.C.” McQueen on the canceled-too-soon “Space: Above and Beyond” – so bringing him back is awesome and almost saved the episode for me. Unfortunately, Morrison’s raspy drawl can’t cover the fact that this show just keeps jumping the shark at every conceivable corner.

Let’s begin with the fact that CTU is now a small band of rogue agents who are funded…how exactly? Tony is actually undercover (I told you) and Jack is the only one who can get him back in? And he’s accepted that easily? At least now Jack doesn’t have to break protocol, since…well there is none. Although, I did like the switcheroo that Jack’s the straight arrow now in this “new” CTU.

Let’s end with the fact that, AGAIN, there is a bad guy in the administration. My guess is that it’s the White House Chief of Staff, Ethan (slickly played by Bob Gunton). I just would like to see this show have a plot that doesn’t revolve around this tired mechanic.

OK, I’m done ranting…When does LOST start?