Hour 17- Fumbleeeeeeeeeee!
Okay our next caller is from Don from New York. Don, you’re on the FAN, what do you got?
Don: Hey Chris, first time long time. I just wanted to call and ask: How the fuck did they fumble the football? Jesus Christ, the game was over. What is this – the 1987 Browns in the AFC Championship game? These feds just cannot put this game away and it is driving me crazy.
Chris: Hey Don, you a CTU fan?
Don: Yeah, diehard, but my faith is a bit shaken right now. It feels like they are about to break. They are stretched thin and it just seems like this guy Marwan is always a step ahead of the game. How do we go after a loose ball with one helicopter? Cmon guys – that is very passive.
Chris: Cmon Don, you can’t kill these guys after all they have done to save America both today and in seasons past.
Don: I beg to differ! Last season doesn’t matter. The freaking U.S. Nuclear arsenal is now in play. You can’t take chances with that. You got to go after that with every marine stationed down at Pendleton. We need to step it up a little. Full alert means every man woman a child ready to go. I’m out!
The future of this country is now at risk because the football is on the ground. How can that happen? But that is not the only question I have. A bigger question for me is how could the terrorists be so familiar with the football and its contents. Didn’t anyone think it was curious that the Arabs had great existing knowledge of what should be in the briefcase? Where did they learn that stuff – Nuclear Launch Protocol 101? Those guys knew everything. They knew about the playbook and all its contents. I’m sorry, that kind of stuff is not in the public domain. I also thought it was amusing that Jason Gerard knew exactly what he was looking at when he stumbled upon the football. How the hell did he know what that was? For all he knew, it was a briefcase containing the president’s most treasured porn.
Okay, this overall storyline is getting a bit tortured and it all starts with the Arabs original plan. How multi-tiered can a plan get? In case you forgot, this day started out with the kidnapping of the Secretary of Defense and the hijacking of the country’s nuclear power plants. Isn’t that ambitious enough? Why would you have a backup plan for such an attack? Hell, if that plan doesn’t succeed, you just gotta hand it to your opponent and move on. But not Marwan. His backup plan called for a guy to hijack a military plane and shoot down Air Force One. Once that was accomplished, he could then pull the football out of the wreckage and use its codes to launch a nuclear strike of some kind. That is some backup plan. In fact, it is almost as grandiose as the original plan itself. What’s next if this plan fails – a plan to hijack a big asteroid and crash it into CTU? It is either that or Marwan turns into Aquaman and uses his telepathic power to start an interspecies war in the Pacific.
Here are a couple random thoughts from this week:
Kelly Gerard was not too shabby in the looks department even though there was a bit of resemblance to former CTU director Erin Driscoll. At this point, with the stable virtually bare, Kelly has a shot to make my season ending top-5 best looking women list. She trails that woman who slept with the deceased Air Force pilot, but that is about it.
The move of the night goes to Jack and his concoction of that noisemaking decoy. In case you forgot, in the middle of a gunfight, Jack went MacGyver on us and put together a contraption that simulated the firing of shots. With the bad guys thinking he was still in place, Jack was able to change positions and get off a nice clean kill shot. I think Jack is now closing in on 100 kills today – a new 24 record.
How come there were no guards or workers at that power plant? That seemed like a fairly sophisticated plant or switching center, yet there was no one around whatsoever. Don’t you think after a day when the U.S. power industry came under attack, there would at least be some guys hanging out?
Edgar Stiles had only two lines this week and that really irks me. We haven’t seen this much talent go to waste since Len Bias snorted all that blow up his nose after the 1986 NBA draft. Edgar needs to step it up as we enter crunch time. Unfortunately, it looks like from here on out, the field guys will get most of the action. Sorry analysts – you had your shot.
Like wise – Tony is really not getting the opportunities he deserves. However, he did contribute an important analytical conclusion late in the show when he questioned whether Marwan would have exchanged the football for this life. Jack was a bit slow to catch that one, yet Tony was sharp as always. Nice one TA!
While Edgar only had two lines this week, that was two more then Curtis. I think someone over at Fox alerted the producers to the fact that Rupert Murdoch hates black people and didn’t want to see any more of them on his top-rated drama. Jesus, that guy is in “24” purgatory. He might as well be back in the clinic with Paul learning how to walk.
So what is going on with this new President? That is obviously being set up as a reversal of some kind. Is he going to be just a wet noodle in an empty suit or does he have some kind of link to Marwan. It seems like we will see some sort of government complicity in all of this.
Don: Hey Chris, first time long time. I just wanted to call and ask: How the fuck did they fumble the football? Jesus Christ, the game was over. What is this – the 1987 Browns in the AFC Championship game? These feds just cannot put this game away and it is driving me crazy.
Chris: Hey Don, you a CTU fan?
Don: Yeah, diehard, but my faith is a bit shaken right now. It feels like they are about to break. They are stretched thin and it just seems like this guy Marwan is always a step ahead of the game. How do we go after a loose ball with one helicopter? Cmon guys – that is very passive.
Chris: Cmon Don, you can’t kill these guys after all they have done to save America both today and in seasons past.
Don: I beg to differ! Last season doesn’t matter. The freaking U.S. Nuclear arsenal is now in play. You can’t take chances with that. You got to go after that with every marine stationed down at Pendleton. We need to step it up a little. Full alert means every man woman a child ready to go. I’m out!
The future of this country is now at risk because the football is on the ground. How can that happen? But that is not the only question I have. A bigger question for me is how could the terrorists be so familiar with the football and its contents. Didn’t anyone think it was curious that the Arabs had great existing knowledge of what should be in the briefcase? Where did they learn that stuff – Nuclear Launch Protocol 101? Those guys knew everything. They knew about the playbook and all its contents. I’m sorry, that kind of stuff is not in the public domain. I also thought it was amusing that Jason Gerard knew exactly what he was looking at when he stumbled upon the football. How the hell did he know what that was? For all he knew, it was a briefcase containing the president’s most treasured porn.
Okay, this overall storyline is getting a bit tortured and it all starts with the Arabs original plan. How multi-tiered can a plan get? In case you forgot, this day started out with the kidnapping of the Secretary of Defense and the hijacking of the country’s nuclear power plants. Isn’t that ambitious enough? Why would you have a backup plan for such an attack? Hell, if that plan doesn’t succeed, you just gotta hand it to your opponent and move on. But not Marwan. His backup plan called for a guy to hijack a military plane and shoot down Air Force One. Once that was accomplished, he could then pull the football out of the wreckage and use its codes to launch a nuclear strike of some kind. That is some backup plan. In fact, it is almost as grandiose as the original plan itself. What’s next if this plan fails – a plan to hijack a big asteroid and crash it into CTU? It is either that or Marwan turns into Aquaman and uses his telepathic power to start an interspecies war in the Pacific.
Here are a couple random thoughts from this week:
Kelly Gerard was not too shabby in the looks department even though there was a bit of resemblance to former CTU director Erin Driscoll. At this point, with the stable virtually bare, Kelly has a shot to make my season ending top-5 best looking women list. She trails that woman who slept with the deceased Air Force pilot, but that is about it.
The move of the night goes to Jack and his concoction of that noisemaking decoy. In case you forgot, in the middle of a gunfight, Jack went MacGyver on us and put together a contraption that simulated the firing of shots. With the bad guys thinking he was still in place, Jack was able to change positions and get off a nice clean kill shot. I think Jack is now closing in on 100 kills today – a new 24 record.
How come there were no guards or workers at that power plant? That seemed like a fairly sophisticated plant or switching center, yet there was no one around whatsoever. Don’t you think after a day when the U.S. power industry came under attack, there would at least be some guys hanging out?
Edgar Stiles had only two lines this week and that really irks me. We haven’t seen this much talent go to waste since Len Bias snorted all that blow up his nose after the 1986 NBA draft. Edgar needs to step it up as we enter crunch time. Unfortunately, it looks like from here on out, the field guys will get most of the action. Sorry analysts – you had your shot.
Like wise – Tony is really not getting the opportunities he deserves. However, he did contribute an important analytical conclusion late in the show when he questioned whether Marwan would have exchanged the football for this life. Jack was a bit slow to catch that one, yet Tony was sharp as always. Nice one TA!
While Edgar only had two lines this week, that was two more then Curtis. I think someone over at Fox alerted the producers to the fact that Rupert Murdoch hates black people and didn’t want to see any more of them on his top-rated drama. Jesus, that guy is in “24” purgatory. He might as well be back in the clinic with Paul learning how to walk.
So what is going on with this new President? That is obviously being set up as a reversal of some kind. Is he going to be just a wet noodle in an empty suit or does he have some kind of link to Marwan. It seems like we will see some sort of government complicity in all of this.
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