[texasflower]

Relax and remember it's a TV show, not national policy.

[HitmanLV]

'24' would consistently start strong but lose steam around hour 13 or 14. I didn't even bother with it this season.

The Shield is back, after all! ;-)

[Euro-American Scum]

The most amazing thing is. . . Jacks' cell phone batteries never run out of juice. He must be using the super industrial strength, classified, government batteries. I know mine don't last that long.

[nutmeg]

For your ping list?

[Diddle E. Squat]

bump

[StrictTime]

I am comforted by the fact that the producers are making it far-fetched. I do not want too much reality when broadcasting terrorist activities. I believe it's better to make people who would be crazy enough to actually attempt an act of terrorism (read DU lately?) think that "it would be just like they saw on '24'".
No way could it really happen that way, but let the freaks think so...at their own peril.

[isom35]

its all ok, Michelle Dessler is hot. besides, its not like a cougar has showed up growling for Kim at CTU :)

[SoothingDave]

i confess, i watched the first 3 seasons of 24 with bated breath every week. I thought it certainly was one of the best shows on t.v. but this year has got to be the biggest load of far fetched bull i've seen in my life. Pilots with dishonorable discharges hijacking top secret aircraft to shoot down air force one right around a squadron (probably more like a wing) of fighter escort. The same unknown person ungrounding the aircraft with absolutely no trouble from the officer in charge simply by changing into coveralls and saying it's "okay". A terrorist manages over and over to escape from buildings SURROUNDED by government agents over and over again simply by dropping off a fire escape and running.....

Yeah, next thing you know Jack will be dead, and then have his heart re-started and start kicking butt. Or Tony will take a bullet in the neck and be up and around running CTU 3 hours later.

SD

[tomkat]

They lost me with the first ass kissin' PSA to the moos at CAIR.

[Wolfstar]

...does anyone else think this is a bunch of crap?

Yep, I sure do. I didn't watch the show from the beginning. Only began watching mid-way through this season due to the comments I read here on FR.

It may be only a TV show, but I still expect at least a touch of believability in a show with a modern terrorist-related theme.

I also hate the soap opera relationships. I mean, get even vaguely real.

In last night's script, AF1 has just been shot down, they don't know if the POTUS is alive or dead, and several key characters take time out for their own personal nonsense. The hero is in a helo on his way to retrieve the nuclear football, and he's on the phone with his former honey. Not only that, but the hero has been informed that the terrorists are onto the location of the football. The hero is on his way in one helo, with just one other agent, and he doesn't bother to make sure backup gets there? In fact, why didn't they send multiple helos with military personnel to back up the agent? Sheesh!