Monday, May 08, 2006
If Bauer gets through...
...you're screwed, basically.
I, for one, would like to see Logan and his puppetmaster royally screwed and if there is one man in the world who can do it, it's Jack Bauer.
Now if you take that comment literally, it does not conjure up a very pleasant mental image (unless you're into that sort of thing. Slash freak :) ) but yeah, I want Logan to go down. Err.. well you know what I mean.
Anyway, have you ever worked with someone who constantly needs to be in the know? Who cannot take being outside of the loop? Who will backstab, suck up - whatever it takes to remain one of the "cool kids" who has their finger on the pulse? Yeah, that's Miles. I hate him.
Great show tonight with one minor flaw. Wot? Me? Complain about 24? I know, I know it's rare. I am the perfect fan in that I can happily suspend disbelief and sometimes reality in order to enjoy a show. But tonight even I had a hard time not tripping on this speed bump: Heller survived his nosedive into the lake apparently. I can only hope he is to serve a higher purpose I'm not aware of yet because otherwise it was a bit of a pussy thing to do. It would have been more "24" to let him go down with the car. So there you go Kelly, I found something to whinge about.
But hey other than that is was a stellar show full of spectacular plane sequences, Curtis and more Chloe sourpuss-ness :)
So we left off with Jack aboard the plane and Logan given the order to shoot the plane down by Graham (I'll stop calling him Romano now.) Graham tells Logan that they will make the plane simulate a VCI distress call that makes it legal to shoot the plane down. Graham seems like he can manipulate anything. WTF does he need to work with Logan for?
Back at CTU, Audrey's being stitched up, Curtis tells her that her father survived (blech) and Buchanan is let out of holding and starts working with Karen Hayes in a conference room.
Meanwhile Logan and Novick speak with an Admiral who tells them the options for shooting the plane down. Logan is, of course, adamant the plane be shot down but Novick, who knows Bauer's history, believes he has his reasons for his actions and doesn't think it's a good idea. But Logan won't listen and orders the plane shot down.
CTU learns of the distress signal and they alert Jack. Jack puts them to work finding an alternate place to land the plane that turns out to be a strip of freeway that ends at an overpass. If they don't brake in time, they'll be smushed.
Let the nailbiting commence.
With his gun to the head of the traitorous copilot, Jack orders the pilot to put the plane down on that strip. Meanwhile at CTU Chloe has arrived. Yay! Miles has a bit of a strop about it (and about not knowing why she's even there) but no one pays attention to the little dickhead. Chloe gets to work tracking the F-18 that's going to shoot them down.
With only a couple of minutes to spare, Jack orders the pilot to descend the plane in a sharp dive. The F-18 is almost in range and the pilot is panicking. Jack tells him to level the plane and has to help him pull on the steering column to level it. They lower the landing gear. What's cool about all of this is that Jack knows that the F-18 will be able to tell he is attempting to land which negates that order to shoot him down because they do not present a threat. Jack is always thinking three or four steps ahead of EVERYONE. I don't know how he does it.
Logan loses his cool a bit and screams at the admiral to shoot down the plane but he quickly realizes he's giving himself away and finally acquiesces and rescinds the order to shoot them down.
After a very harrowing landing (and much vomit in the cabin of the plane I'm sure) that comes up just a few feet short of the overpass, Jack pops an emergency hatch and amscrays.
Logan has Marines cordoning off the area though so escaping could be problematic. Now Logan has to explain to Graham why he had to let the plane land. he'd give himself away for sure otherwise. He tells Graham he knows what's at stake if Bauer escapes with the recording and then he sits back and waits for his Marines to apprehend him.
But Jack meets up with Curtis and Curtis smoothly talks his way through a roadblock with Jack sitting in the backseat and they get away. SO while Jack heads back to CTU, Miles calls Karen and whines like a bitch about being out of the loop and makes a veiled threat to get her to tell him what's going on. And stupidly, she decides to let him in on it because she believes in his loyalty to her. Pffft.
After she fills Miles in, she walks over to sign off on a bunged up Bierko's transfer to another holding facility. Bierko stares daggers at her as he waddles off in chains, even spitting on the ground in contempt as he passes her. When he's loaded into the van, there are a couple of meaningful glances between Bierko and the driver and well, I guess he's going to escape. I see that one coming.
At the retreat, Novick tells Logan that Bauer slipped through the net. Logan doesn't take it well. His phone rings - Graham calling for an update - and Logan does not answer. He's scared.
Jack arrives back at CTU, and entrusts the recording to his geekgirl Chloe. Now that his mission is complete all he can think to do is get to Audrey. They have a lovely reunion. he thanks her for helping him find the people responsible for David Palmer's death. Jack asks to just sit with her for a moment and settles at the foot of her bed as she relaxes. He kisses her knee and a million Jack lovers sigh a dreamy sigh as they watch Jack lovingly stroke her shin. *sigh*
Finally, Logan picks up his phone and calls Graham. Logan has the "I'm telling you I'm going to kill myself and make sure you're not implicated but I know what we did was good for the country" speech without really being quite so blatant about it. He hangs up and picks up a handgun and checks the cartridge and I jump to the edge of my seat simultaneously feeling guilty for condoning suicide and sheer joy at the thought of someone like Logan taking such a cowardly way out of his situation and not having to deal with him anymore.
A few minutes later we see Martha staring numbly at a TV screen watching mourners holding a vigil for Palmer and Logan comes in Nd tries to apologize for it all. Trying to illicit some sympathy. But she's so far gone, so betrayed that all she can say to him is, "You know what really gets me Charles? That you had me going for so long. I had no idea you were such a good liar. If I wasn't so horrified by the fact that I married you I might actually be impressed."
BURN.
Then she goes back to watching the vigil and Logan sort of slinks out of the room. That was hawesome.
He leaves her and goes back to his office. Opens the case with the gun, pulls out of bottle of, I don't know, whiskey I guess, and downs a shot. He builds whatever passes for courage in his heart and takes the gun and... the fucking phone rings.
And it's fucking Miles. ARGH!
And Miles basically rats out Karen and offers to get to the recording and destroy it in the hopes that Logan will "remember him" when all of this is over. The fucking little climber. Of course Logans approves of his plan to "intervene." He puts the gun away. Damnit.
After the call Miles walks into the room where Chloe's working on the recording and pesters her with inane questions. It's a distraction because as Chloe gets tetchy about his stupid questions, he's really holding a device by the recorder that is obviously mucking it up. And with one last shot of Chloe's eyes rolling, the show ends.
Damnit.
I, for one, would like to see Logan and his puppetmaster royally screwed and if there is one man in the world who can do it, it's Jack Bauer.
Now if you take that comment literally, it does not conjure up a very pleasant mental image (unless you're into that sort of thing. Slash freak :) ) but yeah, I want Logan to go down. Err.. well you know what I mean.
Anyway, have you ever worked with someone who constantly needs to be in the know? Who cannot take being outside of the loop? Who will backstab, suck up - whatever it takes to remain one of the "cool kids" who has their finger on the pulse? Yeah, that's Miles. I hate him.
Great show tonight with one minor flaw. Wot? Me? Complain about 24? I know, I know it's rare. I am the perfect fan in that I can happily suspend disbelief and sometimes reality in order to enjoy a show. But tonight even I had a hard time not tripping on this speed bump: Heller survived his nosedive into the lake apparently. I can only hope he is to serve a higher purpose I'm not aware of yet because otherwise it was a bit of a pussy thing to do. It would have been more "24" to let him go down with the car. So there you go Kelly, I found something to whinge about.
But hey other than that is was a stellar show full of spectacular plane sequences, Curtis and more Chloe sourpuss-ness :)
So we left off with Jack aboard the plane and Logan given the order to shoot the plane down by Graham (I'll stop calling him Romano now.) Graham tells Logan that they will make the plane simulate a VCI distress call that makes it legal to shoot the plane down. Graham seems like he can manipulate anything. WTF does he need to work with Logan for?
Back at CTU, Audrey's being stitched up, Curtis tells her that her father survived (blech) and Buchanan is let out of holding and starts working with Karen Hayes in a conference room.
Meanwhile Logan and Novick speak with an Admiral who tells them the options for shooting the plane down. Logan is, of course, adamant the plane be shot down but Novick, who knows Bauer's history, believes he has his reasons for his actions and doesn't think it's a good idea. But Logan won't listen and orders the plane shot down.
CTU learns of the distress signal and they alert Jack. Jack puts them to work finding an alternate place to land the plane that turns out to be a strip of freeway that ends at an overpass. If they don't brake in time, they'll be smushed.
Let the nailbiting commence.
With his gun to the head of the traitorous copilot, Jack orders the pilot to put the plane down on that strip. Meanwhile at CTU Chloe has arrived. Yay! Miles has a bit of a strop about it (and about not knowing why she's even there) but no one pays attention to the little dickhead. Chloe gets to work tracking the F-18 that's going to shoot them down.
With only a couple of minutes to spare, Jack orders the pilot to descend the plane in a sharp dive. The F-18 is almost in range and the pilot is panicking. Jack tells him to level the plane and has to help him pull on the steering column to level it. They lower the landing gear. What's cool about all of this is that Jack knows that the F-18 will be able to tell he is attempting to land which negates that order to shoot him down because they do not present a threat. Jack is always thinking three or four steps ahead of EVERYONE. I don't know how he does it.
Logan loses his cool a bit and screams at the admiral to shoot down the plane but he quickly realizes he's giving himself away and finally acquiesces and rescinds the order to shoot them down.
After a very harrowing landing (and much vomit in the cabin of the plane I'm sure) that comes up just a few feet short of the overpass, Jack pops an emergency hatch and amscrays.
Logan has Marines cordoning off the area though so escaping could be problematic. Now Logan has to explain to Graham why he had to let the plane land. he'd give himself away for sure otherwise. He tells Graham he knows what's at stake if Bauer escapes with the recording and then he sits back and waits for his Marines to apprehend him.
But Jack meets up with Curtis and Curtis smoothly talks his way through a roadblock with Jack sitting in the backseat and they get away. SO while Jack heads back to CTU, Miles calls Karen and whines like a bitch about being out of the loop and makes a veiled threat to get her to tell him what's going on. And stupidly, she decides to let him in on it because she believes in his loyalty to her. Pffft.
After she fills Miles in, she walks over to sign off on a bunged up Bierko's transfer to another holding facility. Bierko stares daggers at her as he waddles off in chains, even spitting on the ground in contempt as he passes her. When he's loaded into the van, there are a couple of meaningful glances between Bierko and the driver and well, I guess he's going to escape. I see that one coming.
At the retreat, Novick tells Logan that Bauer slipped through the net. Logan doesn't take it well. His phone rings - Graham calling for an update - and Logan does not answer. He's scared.
Jack arrives back at CTU, and entrusts the recording to his geekgirl Chloe. Now that his mission is complete all he can think to do is get to Audrey. They have a lovely reunion. he thanks her for helping him find the people responsible for David Palmer's death. Jack asks to just sit with her for a moment and settles at the foot of her bed as she relaxes. He kisses her knee and a million Jack lovers sigh a dreamy sigh as they watch Jack lovingly stroke her shin. *sigh*
Finally, Logan picks up his phone and calls Graham. Logan has the "I'm telling you I'm going to kill myself and make sure you're not implicated but I know what we did was good for the country" speech without really being quite so blatant about it. He hangs up and picks up a handgun and checks the cartridge and I jump to the edge of my seat simultaneously feeling guilty for condoning suicide and sheer joy at the thought of someone like Logan taking such a cowardly way out of his situation and not having to deal with him anymore.
A few minutes later we see Martha staring numbly at a TV screen watching mourners holding a vigil for Palmer and Logan comes in Nd tries to apologize for it all. Trying to illicit some sympathy. But she's so far gone, so betrayed that all she can say to him is, "You know what really gets me Charles? That you had me going for so long. I had no idea you were such a good liar. If I wasn't so horrified by the fact that I married you I might actually be impressed."
BURN.
Then she goes back to watching the vigil and Logan sort of slinks out of the room. That was hawesome.
He leaves her and goes back to his office. Opens the case with the gun, pulls out of bottle of, I don't know, whiskey I guess, and downs a shot. He builds whatever passes for courage in his heart and takes the gun and... the fucking phone rings.
And it's fucking Miles. ARGH!
And Miles basically rats out Karen and offers to get to the recording and destroy it in the hopes that Logan will "remember him" when all of this is over. The fucking little climber. Of course Logans approves of his plan to "intervene." He puts the gun away. Damnit.
After the call Miles walks into the room where Chloe's working on the recording and pesters her with inane questions. It's a distraction because as Chloe gets tetchy about his stupid questions, he's really holding a device by the recorder that is obviously mucking it up. And with one last shot of Chloe's eyes rolling, the show ends.
Damnit.
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