24, the Fifth Day, at the 11th Hour

I just finished watching tonight’s 2-hour special of 24. The 2nd hour was especially good. I was totally on the edge of my seat. My thoughts:

• I am shocked that Jack would shoot Henderson’s wife. I am even more shocked that Henderson wouldn’t budge even after his wife was shot. I guess the guy used to be Jack’s boss for a reason.
• When I saw that Lynn’s loser sister’s boyfriend refused to return the ID card, I knew the terrorists were going to get their hands on it to get inside CTU.
• I don’t understand why they just have to bring Kim back on the show. It seems that they have make up some family/love affairs for Jack just to make him appears more human. Kim really doesn’t add much to the story, except getting in the way EVERY SINGLE TIME.
• The whole mess about the attack at the hospital, do they have a container that is more portable? I mean, how come they couldn’t make a more portable container so that they can bring it into the hospital to contain the sentox canister? Is it really THAT difficult to make a container like that?
• I thought Tony would’ve known Michelle was dead. When the car bomb first exploded and Tony went to check out his wife, she already looked pretty dead right there. I really thought Tony would realized that already.
• What’s up with the VP’s plan of “preemptive martial law?” That’s the stupidest plan I’ve ever heard. On the other hand, do they have to keep showing us every week what an incompetent moron Charles Logan is? Is that what we get after 3 seasons of David Palmer?
• I can’t believe CTU’s keycard can be reprogramed so easily. If it contains that much information, then it should have security measures to prevent tempering of data. That terrorist dude reprogramed it in 5 minutes simply doesn’t make sense. Were they trying to show us our government is really that incompetent?
• How could the security guard not notice something was wrong with the guy? First, if he only replaced the image inside the card, then the name would still be Lynn McGill right? For someone of Lynn’s rank and who created a big ruckus just a while ago, how could the guard not recognize it was the wrong guy? Let’s say he changed the name as well, how did he get his hands on the list of CTU employees? When the system was doing the authentication, shouldn’t it have the employee’s image on file to compare to the one on the card, along with names and other information?
• This Henderson dude is really a monster. Both physically and mentally. He withstood the torture and didn’t give in until the end. Sheeesh.
• What kind of black technology was used to design the CTU office anyway? They actually could seal the room to prevent nerve gas sneaking in? I bet even the White House doesn’t get this kind of protection…
• Poor Edgar, last season (or was it 2 seasons ago?) he couldn’t help his sick mother to evacuate and she died. This time it was him to kick the bucket. It’s pretty sad to see him go like that.
• I don’t think I saw Lynn after they started the evacuation. Was he dead too?
• From the preview of next week’s episode, they said 40% of the CTU was wiped out. They also mentioned that one guy would need to make a sacrifice to save others. I kind of think that it would be Tony. Let’s see what’s going to happen next week.

~ by haydeé on March 7, 2006.