So I'm up to 2am on the new season of 24, and I've gotta say, I'm feeling let down. I mean, yes Keifer Sutherland is still awesome as Jack Bauer. Yes he's still taking down a terrorist threat. Yes he's still using questionable methods to do so. But it just feels, wierd. 24 always has a clear bad guy, one guy that you can really celebrate when Jack straps a car battery to his nipples but so far we've had nothing, a few generic villains but nothing to suggest that the plot has anyone behind it who's truly evil.
The only real enemy we have is a bunch of generic middle eastern terrorists. Which would usually be okay, apart from the fact that it's quite obvious that if they follow through with their plan to set off a dirty bomb in the centre of Manhattan that the US would decimate their entire country in a massive mushroom cloud.
So you see my predicament, the show is following a plot that I'm not so sure is working. Usually there's an interesting sub-plot in 24 as well but this time with CTU agent Dana Walsh's dispute with her exboyfriend just seems a bit, strapped on to me.
I hope that I'm just being overly cynical and the show is going to have some massive, awesome finale to this season. I really do.
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