Authentic Frontier Gibberish
I'll admit it, it was disappointing to me that Federal Agent Jack Bauer did not actually torture President Charles Logan (one of the pleasures of the episode was listening to characters refuse to call him by his title and spit out the names "Charles" and "Mr. Logan"). It would have been the ultimate in wish fulfillment to see Federal Agent Jack Bauer take the long knives to President Bush--I mean, Logan.
The President was arrested in an elaborate sting operation involving the first lady, Mike Novick, and an incredibly implausible group of Secret Service agents. There were touching nods to David Palmer and Edgar Stiles. Federal Agent Jack Bauer is on a slow boat to China and season 5 is history.
It's a cliffhanger on par with the failed assassination attempt on President Palmer in season 2. (This was three years, mind you, before the successful assassination attempt on ex-President Palmer.) It's leaps and bounds ahead of the faked death of season 4. Frankly, it's probably what last year should have ended with. Still, it leaves us with a few questions.
First, how cool would it be if season 6 was just Jack Bauer on a Chinese tanker killing everyone before crashing the ship into Hong Kong Harbor? I'll be very upset if--instead--we start as I expect we will, with some sort of prisoner exchange and a haggard Federal Agent Jack Bauer being welcomed back into the free world with a massive terrorist incident. I think Federal Agent Jack Bauer versus a billion Chinese is a fair fight. I'd like to see it.
Second, who was that in the cabal of mysterious, tidy terrorists pulling the strings of President Logan? There was a mysterious, tidy German terrorist who ordered the poisoning of President Palmer, too, and we never found out who he was, either. Sooner or later, all of these mysterious, tidy people will have to be taken down. Or is that the message the producers are trying to send--that despite foiling its plans day after day, even Federal Agent Jack Bauer is incapable of fighting the real evil in the world?
Finally, Chloe has an ex-husband?
It's a long time until season 6. I'll be gone East and back before it starts. Kick ass, Federal Agent Jack Bauer.
The President was arrested in an elaborate sting operation involving the first lady, Mike Novick, and an incredibly implausible group of Secret Service agents. There were touching nods to David Palmer and Edgar Stiles. Federal Agent Jack Bauer is on a slow boat to China and season 5 is history.
It's a cliffhanger on par with the failed assassination attempt on President Palmer in season 2. (This was three years, mind you, before the successful assassination attempt on ex-President Palmer.) It's leaps and bounds ahead of the faked death of season 4. Frankly, it's probably what last year should have ended with. Still, it leaves us with a few questions.
First, how cool would it be if season 6 was just Jack Bauer on a Chinese tanker killing everyone before crashing the ship into Hong Kong Harbor? I'll be very upset if--instead--we start as I expect we will, with some sort of prisoner exchange and a haggard Federal Agent Jack Bauer being welcomed back into the free world with a massive terrorist incident. I think Federal Agent Jack Bauer versus a billion Chinese is a fair fight. I'd like to see it.
Second, who was that in the cabal of mysterious, tidy terrorists pulling the strings of President Logan? There was a mysterious, tidy German terrorist who ordered the poisoning of President Palmer, too, and we never found out who he was, either. Sooner or later, all of these mysterious, tidy people will have to be taken down. Or is that the message the producers are trying to send--that despite foiling its plans day after day, even Federal Agent Jack Bauer is incapable of fighting the real evil in the world?
Finally, Chloe has an ex-husband?
It's a long time until season 6. I'll be gone East and back before it starts. Kick ass, Federal Agent Jack Bauer.
posted by Matthew at 11:12 PM
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