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While watching the first disc of Season 2 of "24", I thought I would jot down some notes while I watched. Herein represents what goes through my brain as I watched the first four episodes. Of course, these are spoilers if you haven't seen the season, yet.


Season Two, “24”
Episode 1
8am in the morning.
Seoul, Korea. Torture. Attractive Koreans. Man with feet in bags of…Orange Juice? It’s not just for breakfast anymore.

Cut to scene with Jack’s daughter looking grown up and…with a child! The scene starts out adorable and idyllic, and yet something is not ideal at all.

Cut to CTU, we meet the eager noobie computer nerd, proudly informing Mr. Mason of pending software upgrades. Yes, intelligence agents drool over such things.


Jack Bauer is inactive, but NSA is asking for Jack by name. Jack looks sexy in his “Loner attire” and scruffy beard. This is a man who is about to kick ass under sleep deprivation.

The President (of Allstate!) is being rushed to a secure bunker. There’s a nuclear bomb under terrorist control on U.S. soil. In Los Angeles. And it’s going to go off today. If only this intelligence team was on duty prior to 9/11…

It’s an unofficial terrorist organization unofficially supported by…oh, they won’t tell us the country.

Back to idyllic home life. Breakfast. Bacon. Orange juice. Hopefully it wasn’t a Korean import. Is Jack’s daughter a Nanny? She’s a guest? Oh, it’s not her kid. Clearly I wasn’t paying attention. And the dude is not her boyfriend, but he wants to make bacon with Jack’s daughter.

Would an Islamic terrorist organization name themselves “Second Wave”?

If Sting says love is the seventh wave, and terrorism is the second, what are waves three through six?

Back to the beautiful home. Daughter is not happy to see Jack. She resents him for her mother’s death.

We meet a hot looking middle eastern guy. He’s about to get married to some cute blond American chick. The older sister is suspicious of the Middle Eastern guy.

Jack returns home to his apartment. The set team does a great job of making the apartment look cheap. Check out the wood paneling.

The President pulls in a favor and begs Jack to report to the CTU on this bomb issue.

Kim is back at home with the all American family. But the mother is wrapping a package in wedding paper, but she doesn’t want Kim or her daughter to see what’s in it. Clearly it’s a steamer of a gift..

It looks like Tony Almeida has the hots for the new office that replaced Nena.

Paula the noob is getting way up into people’s business. She’s probably a mole.

CTU boss Mason calls a quick huddle and informs his team how screwed the Los Angeles area is, but “don’t panic”.

Oh, it looks like the terrorists are cooking up a nuclear bomb, in very nice facilities, full of safety equipment. No wonder NSA picked up on the plot.

Paula the noob doesn’t feel she can take the pressure, so she offers to dodge. What’s that all about. First she’s gung ho with the New Nena, and then she plays scared with Tony. She’s up to something.

Jack’s back in the office. The room goes silent. Tony does not appear to be traumatized by having slept with a German spy who killed people in the office.

Wow, CTU has really good intel and no prime suspect. Upon hearing this, Jack runs out of the room. He finds the nearest phone. He calls his daughter. He tells her something bad is going to happen and that they need to leave Los Angeles. She thinks it’s a ploy to spend more time with her.

I maintained that she was a dumbshit last season. A year has not improved her situation. Whatever Jack Bauer is, homey knows his terrorism. Listen to him on this one, Kimwit.

Tony begs for Jack’s help, Jack is not going to get involved. He’s given enough. Totally understandable. Oops…then he sees a cute child. You can’t not save all the cute children of LA. Forget the fact that they would only spend their days roaming outdoor malls and wheezing in the smogfest that is LA’s atmosphere. Jack returns to the office.

Jack gets briefed. He takes charge and starts trying to find leads.

Middle Eastern Guy, Raiza, has ties to terrorist organizations. Futuer sister-in-law ordered a background check on the guy.

President Palmer lost is pushy wife last season, and apparently he hired a man who is just like his wife. Good show, Palmer. Seek counseling if you want to stop your destructive tendency to surround yourself with at least one asshole that will try to ruin your life.

Jack is hard at work, creating a new cover. He refuses to tell Mason his plan.
Jack has the brilliant plan of excluding the very agents asking for his help. This will allow them to frame him for whatever they want because they probably don’t trust him as much as he doesn’t trust them.

Jack calls in the first witness and shoots him after a few questions, then he asks for a hacksaw. It’s a damn good thing I’m eating pizza right now.

Kim has the best luck EVAR. She moved into an abusive household. Score. It won’t be long before she ends up in the creepy husband’s sex dungeon.

Creepy guy needs a few minutes alone with his daughter. He hits Kim and hurts the daughter in two strokes. Nice. Send him to the special hell, stat.

Back to Jack. He showered and shaved. Hey, what did he do with the hacksaw? I guess I’ll have to wait for episode 2.

Episode 2
I just realized, one of President Palmer’s security advisors was on Battlestar Galactica.

Cut to creepy husband, Kim, and soon to be brain damaged cute little girl. Hey, Kim has a nice manicure. It’s good to see she takes care of her nails while her world around her lays in smoldering shambles. Kim and the cute daughter make a run for it. Let’s see, she’ll get arrested for kidnapping and end up in another prison fight like last season. Getting involved in an E drug bust is so picayune relative to kidnapping a child. Hopefully she’ll high-tail it to child protective services.

Jack shaved 10 minutes ago, and he’s already got a five o’ clock shadow.

Creepy daddy chases Kim down…with the second set of car keys to the car she stole. Oops. So begins a chase on foot. Wow, that little girl and Kim out-ran a lean, angry white male. Well done, ladies!

I missed a few scenes while chatting with other folks. Mason gets word that terrorist threat is 89-93 percent, and he appears to be leaving the office. Perhaps it’s time for a vacation, Mason? What, Mason? A quick business trip to Bakersfield? What a leader. Tony calls him on his plan before he gets out of the door. Mason’s response suggests that were he not running from peril like a cowardly little bitch, he would have written Tony up for insubordination and uh…not being a team player.

Back to Kim and her adventures in babysitting. She hides the little girl in a safe place, behind a bunch of flimsy cardboard boxes. Doesn’t she know that when little girls are hidden behind boxes, they suddenly have to go pee? Who is going to clean that up?

Kate is trying to find evidence on her soon to be terrorist-in-law. He’s rifling through his car. She gets caught. Time for them to share an awkward moment. Is that sporty car he’s driving a Chrysler? Do terrorists buy American? Do Chrysler’s normally look that cool? I drive a Prius. What the fuck to I know about cool cars?

Back to Jack. In a junk yard. He’s just twisted a guy’s ankle. Nay, broke it. Jack has anger issues.

Wow, what a coincidence. The bomb target for these junkyard terrorists is CTU. What luck.

Episode 3
Okay, the police are now about to be looking for Kim.

Jack is now embedded with the enemy. It’s at this time that Kim calls her dad to help her. Of course, he’s now involved in higher matters. He can’t talk to her because he’s with terrorists. Now, Kim, will you learn to listen to daddy the first time?

Palmer’s ASSisstant is at it again, failing to evacuating the CTU and going against the wishes of the president. Oh, NSA orders a rush order to transfer all data at CTU to the NSA. And he thinks no one in the CTU will be suspicious? Heh.

The noob gets into Mason’s office.

Mason goes to investigate a vehicle. Wow, they found the nuke building room. Another lucky break…until the gunfire starts.

Oops, radioactive materials have been unleashed. Mason takes a big whiff of nastiness.

Kim and little cute girl are taking a bus to the CTU because a)she refuses to listen to her father and b) she needs some place to go. Sadly, she’s going to a bomb site. Kim, I can’t say this enough, listen to your fucking father!

“Everything is going to be okay, Meghan, I’m taking you to a place where we’ll get turned into a fine pink mist.”

Meanwhile, the non-Islamic terrorists with Jack are pretending to be the phone company and are infiltrating the CTU. The security guard must be new, he didn’t recognize Jack.

The noob continues on her philosophical freak out about working in the job she’s tried to get into for two years. I don’t trust her, even though she was cute when she was on the Roseanne show.

Kim and Meghan arrive at CTU just in time to evacuate. Yay! Didn’t you just tell Meghan that you “…will be safe here.” Stupid ****!!!

Meghan gets exposed to viewing bloody bodies. Go Kim!

Mason gets instant karma. He took himself out of CTU only to inhale lethal qualitities of plutonium. He has 1-7 days to live. If he blogged, he could start a meme on what he would do with one day left to live.

Episode 4

Okay, so Jack has watched his old place of work go up in smoke. He has no idea his daughter was in the area, and Mason is going to die. Or so we think. Tony is pretty spry, for being in a bombing situation. Paula gets pretty roached in the bombing. Hmmm…maybe she’s not a plant, after all.

Oh, Meghan goes into seizures. The brain damage finally takes hold. Off to the ER she goes.

What’s the latest on Eric, Palmer’s ASSistant? Yup, still a bastard.

Mason is talking to a paramedic about radiation poisoning. This guy is really knowledgeable on the progression of radiation poisoning.

Tony calls Mason to inform him about the bombing, Mason gives him the brush off, without informing Tony that he’s dying of radiation poisoning. Nor is Mason the type of guy to spend his last days protecting his country.

Back to Jack. He manages to kill the three junkyard terrorists in exchange for one matchbook. Hopefully it’s a good lead.

Kim is in the hospital with her future cabbage patch kid, Meghan.

Tony just told new Nena to check the security logs to see if Kim was in the building. The building is in shambles. I think the security logs are down, Tony.

Back to Kim at the hospital. The doctor thinks Kim did that to Meghan. It’s official: Kim’s purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

Kate tells her father what she knows about Reza, and he dismisses it. Red herring, or is her dad involved in the plot?

Back to George Mason. His password is Hendrix. The head of CTU uses a lame password! Come on, use h3Ndr!x, even. Geez.

Holy shit! Joe, the big grease monkey bad guy is Lazlo from Real Genius!

Jack tells Joe about the plot to nuke LA. A dog attacks Jack, Joe gets away. I’m hoping he jumps into an RV full of Frito Lay contest prizes for old time sake, but I know I’m asking for too much.

Joe lives in a dive, but he’s wired his little compound with cameras.

We move to Carla, Meghan’s mom. Carla blames Kim for kidnapping Meghan. Kim takes time to hold a little intervention about child abuse.

Carla’s husband comes home just as Carla is trying to leave to get to the hospital. Kim will get in jail yet, me thinks. I’m rooting for one prison fight per season at least.

Back to Jack. He’s trying to woo Joe to give him the information about who hired him to bomb CTU. Joe, a man willing to blow up a state building, will suddenly see the light and not want other people to die?

For a moment, it looks like Joe considers cooperating. I dunno, though. He looks like a candidate for suicide.

Jack is imploding. He says we’re all running out of time, but we all know we’re on episode 4. We have 20 more hours.

Kate is in the car doing a lunch run with Reza. I don’t think Kate is going to get lunch. She may buy it, though. Reza is going to let her in on a little secret. Kate starts to freak out. Funny thing is, Kate thinks Reza is a terrorist, and he’s getting married, and he just bought his betrothed a house. Not common behavior for a terrorist. But it’s still likely he’s in a financial role. And I think Kate’s father is in on it.

Paula the noob makes it out still alive so far. If season 1 was any indication, all technical support experts are short-timers.

George Mason is suddenly in a suit and he’s now getting involved …in trying to prevent Paula from getting to the hospital so he can get information that only Paula knows right now.

Lynn is with President Palmer, getting dressed down for delaying informing him about CTU’s bomb warning that Jack made. Lynn is about to protect Eric the ASSistant. But Palmer is wise to that. At least Palmer is a seasoned bullshit detector.

New Nena and Tony are starting to bond. It looks like they want to kiss.

The secret service is fetching Eric the ASSistant. Time for some shitcannery, I hope.

Yay! He’s out effective immediately! Now he can go join his ex-wife. Regrettable collateral damage.

Jack is using his negotiation skills with Joe: “You’ll either be dead or spending your life in prison.” Jack, you sweet talker. Make him an offer he can refuse.

Did he just run out of ammo trying to shoot down the door to Joe’s compound? Phew, he has one little handgun.

A woman gave Joe plans for the CTU. He’s got pictures. Then he shoots himself. I called it! Suicide candidate!

Jack sees the pictures. Gosh, that woman looks kinda familiar. See, when you sleep with people you work with in the intelligence community, you have to deal with seeing surveillance footage of a spy that you had a relationship with before you knew she was a traitorous hose-beast. That sensation you feel in your spine is likely disgust mixed with guilty desire.

And that’s it for episode 4.

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