I agree with most of what rockstar said, I like that they are bring in more back-story on Jack. I like that the twist that Jack brother is part of the group that was controlling President Logan last seasons. Hopeful they make good use of this and not just something they threw in for the heck of it (the threat for the second half of the season may be?). Morris was dragging down the CTU part of the story with his annoying attitude it seemed he has toned down the attitude a bit and is now tolerable (and it only took a nuclear bombing going off in the city he supposed to be helping protect to do it!)
Lastly, I hope they keep showing the damage this is doing to Jack emotional especially now with his father and brother getting involved. I mean if were Jack the thought in my head at this point would be something like this: “You know what? I step in foot in LA and within 5 hours I’m surround by suicide bombers, suitcase nukes, terrorists, reformed terrorists, people wanting me to save them because in all these years I’m still apparently the only person who can do this job and who despite this don’t play attention too me until it already too late all while not even being an official officer which mean I probably won’t even get paid for this; people who want to torture me, people wanting to use me as a sacrificial lamb, I just killed a friend and I just found out my brother and father might be terrorists which means all of my family is either dead, a terrorists or fucking some shrink twice her age who thinks everything can be fixed via breathing exercises…I’m going back to China.”
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Fayed is definitely no Marwan. While Marwan seemed like he had his shit planned to a T, Fayed is just half-assing it, and almost making it up as he goes along.
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Strangely that is exactly why I hated Marwin. His plan was too perfectly planed out especially for something so convoluted. We are going to kidnap the secretary of defense and broadcast the execution on TV but not just on the news we are going to highjack the words computer grinds to broadcast it over the net; which is actually a distraction to let us hack in to certain computer so we can use an override devise we stole from a train we bombed this morning to make all the countries nuclear power plants blow up, which will make the president retreat to air force one which we will blow out of the sky with this jet we are going to steal, and then when the plan is down we are going to steal the nuclear football and use it to get our hands on a warhead and launch it at LA all in one day all with out a hitch. Come on I know 24 has some pretty ridiculous and convoluted plot lines but come on; the sear number of separate large scale attacks all crammed in too one day on all basically depending on the attack before it going off just right make Marwins plan so ridiculous that I can’t take him seriously as a true character hw was just another super intelligent generic super-villain. The half-assedness of Fayed at least make this story line more believable.
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It seemed like it was almost word for word like the scene in Season 2 about going to war with those countries that supposedly helped Sayed Ali.
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Agreed but to me this is a good sign after watching the premier my thought is that the seasons could become more like seasons 2 (a really good seasons) or it could become like season 4 (the worst season, started and ended strong but the middle was a mess). The fact that I being reminded of seasons 2 and not seasons 4 is a good sign for the seasons.
As I finally note from those of you afflicted from 24 withdrawal there are some 24 webisodes /degree deodorant commercials, centered around a rookie at CTU. Nothing real interesting except it prove my long standing suspicion that even doing something as simple as get a cup of coffee is a life and death experience if you happen to live in the 24 universe:
http://www.cturookie.com/men/cturookie/default.asp
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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