"24" Thoughts

1 - Is it just me or does anyone else watching Season 7 of "24" also want to see Janeane Garofalo's character take a .40 caliber slug to the head? Even as just an accidental friendly fire sort of thing? We are only two official episodes (four hours) in and I am already creating my Dead Pool.....

2 - At what point do we get to see Jack really torture someone? Sure, he almost broke Tony's neck and choked out FBI Renee Walker....but that is closer to foreplay for Jack.....c'mon.....

3 - Are you kidding me? Tony was injected with some sort of hyperthermal solution that saved his life so some guy could recruit him into a pseudo terrorist organization? What....Craigslist wasn't working for this guy's recruitment efforts?

4 - Apparently, forming a type of "shadow" intelligence/counter intelligence unit means one cannot really afford to either shave or get a haircut as Bill Buchanan's stubble was almost disturbing in it's distraction value during his close-up on the phone with Jack.......

5 - And getting back to the FBI: This Sean Hillinger character. He is too much of a self-serving asshole to survive. You ever get that feeling? You are watching a show or movie and you can almost instantly pick-out the asshole who will get killed in some sort of horrible fashion? Hopefully, that will happen to this one....but chances are people will start to like him like they did Chloe (which I STILL don't get) and he will end up in the next couple of seasons (hey, Kiefer signed on for three more seasons back in 2006, so it ain't ever going away, kids....).

6 - Stop re-iterating the general storyline dialogue from one episode to the next. We are not ALL fucking retards. Some of us can actually pay attention. The rest of those out there can catch the reruns or watch it on-line. Is this about where the writers went on strike, or something, and then forgot they had already written that dialogue when they came back? Give me a break and pick it up, kids.

Did you really think I was gonna sit here at work and write out 24 individual comments about "24"? Feel cheated? Well join the club, bunky, because that how I felt after seeing the hype of trailers for weeks and TiVoing/watching four hours (plus the prequel of "24: Redemption" back in November). Yeah yeah yeah....I know. It just started. All I can is they better pick up the pace and start laying waste and mass carnage for Jack to wade through and kick ass in pretty goddamn soon because so far I don't give a hot shit about ANY of these characters, except those coming back this season, including *SPOILER ALERT*: Aaron Pierce, Morris O'Brian, Charles Logan, and - yes! - Kim Bauer.