With a 2 hour block of episodes coming up tonight, we've got to have some sort of big event coming up, right? Jesus I hope so, because the season is starting to sag a bit and that's just not what I expect from 24 - it's been made that much worse for me since Rome, airing just a night before, has been kicked up to high gear lately. Sure Jack occasionally (ok, all the time) needs to torture someone; but Atia just had a grown woman gang raped, whipped within an inch of her life, and had her scalp cut open so her face was masked in blood. And then almost cut off her entire face. Jack's had to rescue his daughter Kim a few times, right? Well Vorenus just had to go rescue his kids from a slave camp they were sold to, which included finding out his oldest daughter was forced into prostitution - and walking in just as some dude was going to pound her. Needless to say people were brutally murdered as a result. Oh, and Vorenus has also cut off his share of heads to parade around (although with a sword, not a hacksaw).
OK, enough of that, some wildly inaccurate predictions below:
- Phillip Bauer will somehow escape. Not quite sure how, since he's the last person to be alone with his son who is now dead, and there's a used syringe that he just placed down beside the body, and CTU probably has a perimeter set up - but somehow he's going to get away. I'm sure Graem's wife has some info that will be of use to Jack, but even more so the son will have seen or heard something that his "father" had been talking about, forcing Jack to apply pressure. Count on it.
- VP Powers Boothe (or as I will call him VP Tolliver) will snarl and be pissy because President Wayne won't man up and intern Muslims, so he and Tom will make some sort of plot to undermine Wayne because they are patriots and sometimes people need to do the hard thing and oh my God how many times can we use this plot in one show?
- Sandra Palmer will whine about civil liberties and be a generally useless addition to the show.
- Morris will make quips and either his brother is actually being used against him or Chloe will somehow be lured out. Either way he's going to be seeing Fayed pretty soon - and it's a safe bet he's not going to chew on anyone's throat.
- Karen will arrive at CTU LA halfway through the episode because she's on some sort of magic plane that can fly across the country in an hour.
With a 2 hour block of episodes coming up tonight, we've got to have some sort of big event coming up, right? Jesus I hope so, because the season is starting to sag a bit and that's just not what I expect from 24 - it's been made that much worse for me since Rome, airing just a night before, has been kicked up to high gear lately. Sure Jack occasionally (ok, all the time) needs to torture someone; but Atia just had a grown woman gang raped, whipped within an inch of her life, and had her scalp cut open so her face was masked in blood. And then almost cut off her entire face. Jack's had to rescue his daughter Kim a few times, right? Well Vorenus just had to go rescue his kids from a slave camp they were sold to, which included finding out his oldest daughter was forced into prostitution - and walking in just as some dude was going to pound her. Needless to say people were brutally murdered as a result. Oh, and Vorenus has also cut off his share of heads to parade around (although with a sword, not a hacksaw).
1 comment:
Hey, if you want to start a Rome blog, be my guest, but keep that off of this -- ha, just kidding. Great stuff. I really regret jumping ship on that show so early last year.
As for the predictions, nothing too groundbreaking here. We all know that the VP and Lennox will inevitably conspire against Wayne, that Sandra is an annoying sideshow, that Morris will be forced into detonating the nuke with Chloe in jeopardy, and that Karen will arrive at CTU within the hour (as predicted by me in last week's recap.)
However, a slight quibble on your prediction about Cromwell. I think he will return to CTU for the time being having already been cleared of any wrongdoing -- the whole point of killing his son. However, once Jack begins putting the pieces together (and CTU invests in some high-tech "fingerprint dusting" technology that even the Branson PD has), he will then escape Jack and allude CTU. Just as Jack's mentor, Christopher Henderson, did in Season 5. How terribly repetitive and disappointing ...
Post a Comment