Wednesday, November 06, 2002

 
Tick, tick, tick
I'm not going to go into snark mode like the good people at Television Without Pity, but I'll tackle this week's 24 in whatever way possible. It's odd to think that I can find it both gripping and unintentionally hilarious at the same time. They started moving the Jack angle reasonably well, and actually pacing in "real time" for the most part -- it took him most of the hour at one place to figure out what the next move will be -- and it's a doozy. The timing of the arc with the wedding also worked out well, only introducing it in the last 20 minutes and making the most of the time the show focused on it (outside of the sister bonding stuff). You have to wonder what life would be like if Palmer was really our president -- it would be hell on the press, based on how the one reporter was treated at the end of the show (oh, by the way, how the hell did a reporter find his way into the president's command headquarters in BFN that quickly?).

However, I'm wondering how necessary it is to have Kim and that weird arc with the abusive dad, other than making Jack sweat even more as he wards off terrorists and worries about his kid at the same time. The whole thing seems tacked on, although I won't complain about the unintentional Charlie's Angels/Baywatch moments with Kim running away from creepy yuppy wife beater. It also seems like an excuse to cast as many blondes and other beautiful people as possible.