24 Season 5 Discussion

Originally Posted by xman25

Am I the only one who feels like we are not getting to know the bad guy(s) as well during this season than in past seasons? It just seems to me that by this point in the season we knew a lot about past bad guy(s), but not the current one(s). Has Bierko given any specifics on why he didn't want the treaty signed? I remember him saying something like "I've worked too hard for this to happen." How is the treaty going to affect him? Have I missed something? I know we still have 11 more episodes to go and we can learn something, but I think we should have more information by now.

xman25

Spoiler:

President Bush is the badguy.

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So you mean to say that the Russian Seperatists aren't just a mere catalyst for the writer's ham-fisted attempts at social commentary?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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Hollywood people can write all the social commentary, political commentary, and any other type of commentary they want into their products, I just can't take them seriously. Most of Hollywood is liberal and I'm NOT a liberal. And well, shot, never mind. I don't feel like getting into a political debate.

This isn't a political discussion, the facts are right in front of your face. Every disaster that has occurred so far in the show has been allowed to happen as a result of President Logan's terrible decision making and Impressionability. If that isn't a thinly disguised liberal view of President Bush, I don't know what is.

Think about it, he's receiving advice from his Vice President, supposedly which support said Vice President's personal agenda (Halliburton). He's a massive tool, while his wife is pretty solid (It's a very small amount of people that don't respect Laura Bush in at least some way). And he's currently willing to circumvent due process to "fight terror."

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.