Moose watches 24

Season 1: 8pm - 9pm

Andre Drazen decided to attack the prison head on and it worked. They got Victor and took Jakc hostage. They were going to kill him but Jack told them they had arrested Alexei so they kept him alive.

Teri again just sat around at CTU. I'm still annoyed about the amnesia.

Meanwhile Kim got out of the police station. She had given them the number for CTU and told them who she was, and after they checked it out they drove her to CTU and she met back up with her mother and she was fine.

At least I think that's what happened. I have this nagging feeling that the police car was rammed and Kim was kidnapped AGAIN, but that would so fucking exasperating that it just can't be true.

Season 1: 9pm - 10pm

Ah, so Drazen wants to trade Jack for his son, and then when that's done they'll continue to screw with Jack because they have his daughter. Well the trade happened. CTU handed over Alexei, but then some mystery sniper helped Jack escape. CTU haven't been told where he is yet, but when they get there he'll be missing. That won't go down well.

I wasn't expecting a new mystery plot element this late in the game. I can't think of who the sniper might be or how they would know where Jack was... It has to be one of Drazen's men. Possibly Andre even, since Jack seemed to getting through to him. Or at least he seemed a little unsure of whether the plan would work. It's doubtful though.

Season 1: 10pm - 11pm

That was a packed episode. It was Drazen's men who let Jack go, but it was part of the plan. They wanted him to kill Palmer or they'll kill his daughter. Of course Jack didn't do that, but he managed to make it look like he had. He's heading back to Drazen to trade his life for Kim's to make sure she lives.

Little does he know that Kim once again proved that professional mercenaries are no match for the average suburban female, escaping using the oldest trick in the book.

"Oh hey can I have some coffee?"
"Why sure. I'll just leave my post that's a safe distance away and walk right over to you and stick my face right into your personal space because I'm quite interested in seeing you get some coffee."
"Haha, hot coffee in the face!"

Then she ran away and managed to succesfully hide from the group of trained killers.

But then Drazen gets a call and HOLY SHIT NINA'S A FUCKING SPY AND SHE TOLD DRAZEN PALMER WAS STILL ALIVE AND HOLY SHIT BOLLOCKS WHAT THE FUCK!

WHAT THE FUCK!?

Season 1: 11pm - 12am

NO.

No. No no no no no no no. That's not fair. I'm genuinely upset.

That was a great finale though. The moment when Jack had Nina was so intense, it was actually impossible to tell what he was going to do.

Final thoughts for season 1;

It was very good. The first half of the season, up to about episode 14, was consistently good and interesting. The stretch after that, up to episode 18 or so, where Teri had amnesia was really bad. Nothing but filler. Then the final few episodes become great again, and the finale is one of the best I've seen.

Few things bug me though. I'm not convinced that Nina was written as a double-agent from the start. Plus the original assassin that tried to kill Palmer just vanished. I don't think it was ever said if he was caught or not.

The creators never made a secret of the fact that they make everything up on the fly after roughly the first half of a season. Sometimes this works out fine, but there's a stinker of a season that has just a lot of mistakes.

Sadly, the filler plots never go away. Kim kidnapping plots and Palmer is trapped in a political plot are staples of the series.

I guess that explains why the room that apparently had no surveillance cameras in it later turned out to have surveillance cameras in it.

Season 2: 8am - 9am

Well this season certainly isn't wasting any time. There's a nuclear bomb somewhere in LA that's going to go off within 24 hours and Jack Bauer was dragged in because they think he can help. He's been "inactive" since the end of season 1, which I gather was over a year ago. Not even one hour later and he's already killed the only key witness in a murder trial to re-enter an undercover role he once had to get close to someone who's involved with the bomb plot. He also asked for a hacksaw. Didn't see what he did with it.

Meanwhile Kim has become au pair. Which of course means the husband of the family is going to try to fuck her at some point. I mean when the man's first line is "You know Kim you have a nice body" you know where it's going to end up. Oh and on top it off he's a wife beater too.

Christ this is ridiculous. It's only the first episode of season 2 and it's already like a pantomime version of season 1.

A_Nonny_Moose wrote:

Season 1: 11pm - 12am

NO.

No. No no no no no no no. That's not fair. I'm genuinely upset.

You're not supposed to have emotions, you're a machine. I hope this isn't the first step to you becoming self aware.

Also the first assassin IIRC became an angel.

How much of this have you seen?

first season only, i had things to do apparently for the last ten years.

Season 2: 9am - 10am

There's this other side story about some random dude who's getting married and whomay be involved with the terrorists. Hell, they're bothering to show all this, so of course he's involved. It's very dull at the moment.

Found out what Jack used the hacksaw for. He cut off the witness's head and took it to the people he's trying to get in with. A head in a bag is apparently very persuasive. The guys he's now hooked up with are plotting to blow up CTU.

Kim is already on the run from that dude. She took his daughter because he's a mental abusive spouse, so he's a bit pissed off. Kim had to phone the police but the little girl didn't want to move, so Kim left the little girl who's just been hit by her father alone and went to a payphone. Obviously, the girl was gone when she got back. This better eventually have something to do with the actual plot.

Also Mason ran away from CTU when he found out exactly how serious the threat was. What a bitch.

Season 2: 10am - 11am

Kim found Megan again pretty quickly, so... that was pointless. It was just a cheap way to have a cliffhanger for the previous episode. Kim phoned CTU and decided to go there. Which is great, except CTU is about to be blown up.

Jack managed to get a warning into CTU in time for them to start evacuating, but the bomb still went off with people inside. Kim and Megan are fine, don't worry about that. Don't know if Tony's fine, but I hope so. I'm not sure of anything now though. Mason got lethal radiation poisoning when he found the site where the nuclear bomb was made. Seems like anyone can die in this series.

Season 2: 11am - 12pm

Jack got to the main behind the CTU bombing and found out who had given him the plans and orders. The moment he said it was a woman I knew it would be Nina, and it was. This should be good. I assumed Nina would be in prison or something, but apparently not. Jack has no reason to go easy on her this time, so I'm looking forward to them meeting.

Megan, the little girl, had a seizure because of the head injury her dad gave her so Kim got her to the hospital. They found out she had a bunch of other injuries that were never treated. Kim phoned the mother but she couldn't leave the house because her husband showed up. Haven't seen her since.

I really hope this is somehow relevant to Jack's story. If it's not I will so damn annoyed. Jack also shot a dog in the face with a shotgun.

Season 2: 12pm - 1pm

I really don't give a shit about this wedding. This family has nothing to do with the plot and I couldn't care less about their domestic drama. I don't why so much time is being wasted on it. The writers really couldn't come up with something better?

They brought Nina in to CTU. She wants a full pardon before she gives them her info, and it looks like she's getting it. Jack still hasn't been into see her, but I guess that's all for the next episode.

Jack also told Kim about the nuclear bomb. Kim told what I assume is her boyfriend. I also assume the whole city is going to know within a few episodes. Kim's still trying to rescue the little girl as well. I doubt this will ever connect to the main plot.

So roughly half the plotlines in this season are totally irrelevent so far. It's getting frustrating.

Season 2: 1pm - 2pm

Well, Kim just kidnapped a sick child from a hospital to save her from an abusive father.

Meanwhile, on 24 (you know, the show about terrorist conspiracies), Jack interrogated the hell out of Nina. She's convinced he's going to kill her once she takes them to her source. I reckon it's pretty likely too to be honest. Jack's quite mental this season. He cut off a man's head not long ago. Plus he just knocked out the other officer who was escorting Nina with him.

Oh and the father in the wedding thing is maybe guilty of something, I dunno. I'm finding it really hard to care about anything other that Jack's storyline at the moment.

Season 2: 2pm - 3pm

Kim and her boyfriend stole what'shisface's car (the husband of the family she works for, can't remember his name). They got pulled over for speeding and the cop found the wife's body in the trunk. This is just stupid now. Although hopefully it means Kim can just tell the police what happened like she should have done hours ago. But I doubt it will be that simple. This really isn't going to connect to the main plot at all. It's going to be a long season.

On Jack's side of things Nina lead them to her source and tried to escape but failed. Jack hasn't killed her yet but I'm still betting he will.

Season 2: 3pm - 4pm

Nina found out where the bomb was from the guy they captured. Then she slit his throat with a piece of card. Weird. Then the plane she and Jack were on got hit by something.

The wedding story now involves, surprise surprise, a kidnapping. Except this some characters I don't care about at all have been kidnapped, so that should be a joy to watch.

Kim ended up telling a police officer about the bomb. Not long now before everybody knows.

This season hit the ground running, but it's really slowed down now. I hope this bomb gets dealth with soon.

Season 2: 4pm - 5pm

Now things are getting interesting. Jack's plane was shot down, but Jack managed to kill the team that was inspecting the wreckage. However, Nina got the drop on him and tookhim hostage. She asked for another pardon, this new one including a pardon for the murder of Jack Bauer. She told them how to stop the bomb and if it works Nina gets to kill Jack. Of course, she's not going to kill Jack, but it'll be good to see how this ends.

Season 2: 5pm - 6pm

Well that was resolved annoyingly quickly. I wish they wouldn't set up a dramatic situation just to be an exciting ending for an episode and then sort it out within 5 minutes in the next episode.

But things are coming together now. This is the point where the season hopefully kicks off. The whole wedding thing has finally connected itself to the bomb threat. The group behind the bomb is being funded by Warner Enterprises, and Marie Warner, the girl getting married, is involved. She just shot her fiance for helping CTU.

Kate Warner, her sister, was abducted and tortured, but she was in the house than Nina told CTU about, so Jack rescued her. Her family lived in Saudi Arabia in the past.

Oh, and Kim's situation just keeps getting dumber. She and her boyfriend were being taken back to LA by the police, so her boyfriend got the genius idea to start a fire in a moving vehicle. In a shocking twist, this caused the driver to lose his concentration somewhat, and crash the car. When the ambulance and police turned up Kim ran away.

Season 2: 6pm - 7pm

Kim's just running around in the woods now getting chased by mountain lions.

Jack's still trying to find the man who planted the bomb. Not a whole lot happened in this episode.

Palmer's been involved throughout the season, don't think I've mentioned him yet. Sherri came back and wanted to help but she's secretly working against him because she's a power-hungry evil bastard.

Season 2: 7pm - 8pm

So we reach the half way point. 12 hours in and they know the location of the bomb and how they plan to detonate it. Jack had to pretend to kill Sayed's son to get him to talk. I can't imagine it's going to take another 12 episodes to sort this bomb threat out, so once this is over I'm guessing Jack's going to become involved in the conspiracy plot against the president that's been going on.

Kim got stuck out in the wilderness at night. Some guy found her and he's taking her back to his house. I can only assume he's go try to kill her or rape her or eat her or something stupid like that, because hey, it's Kimberly Bauer.

Season 2: 8pm - 9pm

Well, they found the bomb, but it was a decoy. Some people in the government knew about the bomb all along. They never planned to let it go off but they allowed the terrorists to set this all up so they could convince the president to tighten his security policy. There was a special forces team tracking the bomb the whole way, but it seems like one of them has gone mental, killed the rest of his team, and stolen the bomb.

Meanwhile the man that found Kim of course turned out to be a nutter. Some conspiracy weirdo with a bomb shelter and supplies and all that. He became convince the nuke had gone off so he and Kim are now locked in his bomb shelter. I don't think it's possible but if he turns out to be the guy with the bomb it'll be hilarious.

Season 2: 9pm - 10pm

Kim managed to get out of the crazy man's house just by talking to him. What a massive waste of time her story has been.

Jack found the real bomb, but there's no way to tell when it'll go off.

Mason's radiation poisoning finally got too much for him and he gave Tony his job. I'll kind of miss him. He had a good scene with his son a few episodes ago, although the fact that it was Vaughn from Community made it a little hard to take seriously.