Alexander Siddig's premier on 24, episode run-down
So I have never seen 24 before, but I watched tonight's episode because Alexander Siddig, who played Dr.Julian Bashir in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, joins its regulars.
Who Appears To Be Who
Jack (Kiefer Sutherland)- a CTU operative who has spent the last 20 months in 'Chinese custody'
Assad (Alexander Siddig) - the head of an terrorist organization for the past 20 years, suspect of recent bombings
Fayed- the man who will turn over Assad to the Americans for the price of Jack, since his brother died after being 'interrogated' by Jack.
Ahmed - the teenager who is friends with the Idealist American Family
Scott - the son of the Idealist American Family
Chloe - the never smiling friend of Jack, who seem to be in charge of CTU communications.
Nadia - CTU, speaks Arabic, appears to be in charge of this operation at least.
What happened:
Rundown: Jack had been captured by the Chinese last season in retribution for the killing of a Chinese consulate , meanwhile, terror attacks continue in America, and Assad is of suspect, it was speculated by what passes as American Intelligence, that if they take out Assad, the attacks will stop.
6-7am
- President brokers a dealie with the Chinese, and Jack is brought back. The Chinese official, in a neutral tone, said simply that Jake didn't talk for two years. What the Chinese official meant was that Jake didn't betray his country even after a long period of torture, and I think the official in question respected that.
- The Idealist American Family: The parents worries about Scott going to school, while Scott worries about his friend Ahmed, whose father had just been arrested. The Torch and Pitchfork archtypes shows up and kicks down Ahmed's door. Scott's father goes for the rescue in the place of his son, and invites Ahmed to stay with them.
- It was explained to Jake that he was brought back to be the lamb, Jake's expression breaks my heart, and I add him to my growing list of men that needs to be held and fed soup. Especially when Jake told one of his co-workers that they didn't need the gun because of course he would go along with it, for the good of his country.
- Jack explains that he held onto life in the Chinese prison because he didn't want to die for nothing, so he's glad that he could die for something now. Jack is left cuffed to a sewage crate, and the CTU can't trace Fayed because they've given him access to their tracing system or whatever. Chloe got this Morris guy to redirect a non-government satellite, but was caught, and told to cease and desist by Nadia.
- Jack is beaten, then brought to a room where the instruments of torture are all laid out, he's hooked up to an EKG because Fayed doesn't want him to died too soon.
- Fayed explains that he was the one behind the attacks, that Assad is coming to America to stop them because he was giving up on this route after 20 years, and therefore Jack will die for nothing.
- Ahmed's father is innocent, but he's the terrorist, and interrupts Fayed with a phonecall just when Fayed is about to cut off Jack's index finger.
- While Fayed is in another room, Jack chews off his EKG and hangs his head as if he's dead, when the guard comes in to check on him, he chops down on the guard's jugular and escapes.
7-8am
Okay, screw summarizing.
- The first thing Jack does after he escapes is to call the Ivory Tower and request that they call of the air strike on Assad, they don't believe him, so he goes off to save Assad himself.
* In Syriana (2005), Alexander Siddigs plays Prince Nasir, who would have brought progressive reforms to Syriana, had he not been taken out by an air strike, shortly after he rolled down his window to speak to the deflector agent who came to warn him. That was what I was thinking when Jack was trying to convince Assad.
* Alexander Siddig have aged very well. He looks good with the beard, and his voice is lovely, and he has excellent chemistry with men.
* I love the thoughtful way Assad looked at Jack when Jack took off his shirt, revealing his scars.
* Assad gave Jack another thoughtful look, after Jack told Assad to follow the bomber's handler, while Jack gave himself the more dangerous task of confronting the bomber.
* Assad is interesting. When Jack couldn't finish his interrogation of the traitor who planted the transponder in Assad's house, Assad did, it seem that he knows the traitor. After the traitor fessed up to where Fayed's men are, Assad leaned in, and said sincerely that he admires the traitor's devotion, but that he has chose the wrong cause. Through out this, Jack looks on, distressed, no doubt wondering about who he has helped. In this scene, Assad reminds me of Damar in DS9, when he had to shoot one of his former buddies over their difference over Kira.
* Throughout this, Jack reminds me of Garak, the devoted patriot all the way through. Jack did torture Fayed's brother to death during interrogation eh?
* I don't feel much sympathy for the Americans, except for Jack. The Idealist Family was inspiring though, especially Scott, when Ahmed was pointing a gun at him, Scott still considers Ahmed his friend. For the most part, the Americans were pathetic cowards, being ruled by their fears, letting terrorists set their demands. Were they so pathetic too that they needed an air strike to take out Assad within their own borders? I feel like mocking the terrorists too, Fayed's fraction, for also being pathetic, so the streets are flowing with blood again, but what's your objective again? Long term plan, dear men? It's going to be Jack and Assad's show. The Americans in general are afraid to die so much they are forgetting how to live, the terrorists decide to skip right to death instead of rationally, actually try to see through, the problems that lead to its prematurity.
* Secretly, I've been waiting to hear more about what the women of the Middle East are doing to end The Current Problem, if they are going to start being both ruthless and rational since the men of their culture, for the most part, aren't. Terrorism doesn't work, what Middle East needs, to stand on their feet, is a secret service of their own that will rival the American CIA. Who better to start it then the women who have continue to live and teach and learn even beneath the brutal reigns of the likes of Taliban? They need to learn to be vicious, to strike first, to kill those who would kill them, had killed them. They need to do those with a long term vision and a series of plans in mind. As to where /this/ particular train of thought come from, as a child, a student of history, I was awed by both Elizabeth I of England and Empress Wu of China, both ruthlessly rational women who have pulled their respective countries out of ruins, both known for their uses of spies and secret police.
I look forward to the Jack and Assad fandom... I wonder what the terrorists would think, lol. Has there been inter-religion slash at bible_slash yet?
What the president's sister did was brave, but I wonder why she didn't see it coming, in her place I would have encrypted the client's files after the first FBI visit, and replaced them with dummy ones. ...and/or Go To The Media.
...and racial profiling really is a flawed method, in addition to that Timothy bomber guy being All-American, don't they realise that Serious Terrorists can a)Disguise their appearance, b)Change their documents, c)Not register their stay at all? The people of the Middle East does share similar feature with 'white people' after all, all it takes is a through application of the foundations available at every Shopper's Drug Mart. Come to think of it, I am very proud of my Chinese looks, but I think I'm going to try being white next Halloween and see how long it takes for people to figure out I'm Chinese. Hahaha. I need to look up spray on tan...and I can paint my eyebrows a lighter shade. I have to first cover my skin with white facepaint, and then go over it with normal foundation? ..and then a light layering of spray on tan?
Who Appears To Be Who
Jack (Kiefer Sutherland)- a CTU operative who has spent the last 20 months in 'Chinese custody'
Assad (Alexander Siddig) - the head of an terrorist organization for the past 20 years, suspect of recent bombings
Fayed- the man who will turn over Assad to the Americans for the price of Jack, since his brother died after being 'interrogated' by Jack.
Ahmed - the teenager who is friends with the Idealist American Family
Scott - the son of the Idealist American Family
Chloe - the never smiling friend of Jack, who seem to be in charge of CTU communications.
Nadia - CTU, speaks Arabic, appears to be in charge of this operation at least.
What happened:
Rundown: Jack had been captured by the Chinese last season in retribution for the killing of a Chinese consulate , meanwhile, terror attacks continue in America, and Assad is of suspect, it was speculated by what passes as American Intelligence, that if they take out Assad, the attacks will stop.
6-7am
- President brokers a dealie with the Chinese, and Jack is brought back. The Chinese official, in a neutral tone, said simply that Jake didn't talk for two years. What the Chinese official meant was that Jake didn't betray his country even after a long period of torture, and I think the official in question respected that.
- The Idealist American Family: The parents worries about Scott going to school, while Scott worries about his friend Ahmed, whose father had just been arrested. The Torch and Pitchfork archtypes shows up and kicks down Ahmed's door. Scott's father goes for the rescue in the place of his son, and invites Ahmed to stay with them.
- It was explained to Jake that he was brought back to be the lamb, Jake's expression breaks my heart, and I add him to my growing list of men that needs to be held and fed soup. Especially when Jake told one of his co-workers that they didn't need the gun because of course he would go along with it, for the good of his country.
- Jack explains that he held onto life in the Chinese prison because he didn't want to die for nothing, so he's glad that he could die for something now. Jack is left cuffed to a sewage crate, and the CTU can't trace Fayed because they've given him access to their tracing system or whatever. Chloe got this Morris guy to redirect a non-government satellite, but was caught, and told to cease and desist by Nadia.
- Jack is beaten, then brought to a room where the instruments of torture are all laid out, he's hooked up to an EKG because Fayed doesn't want him to died too soon.
- Fayed explains that he was the one behind the attacks, that Assad is coming to America to stop them because he was giving up on this route after 20 years, and therefore Jack will die for nothing.
- Ahmed's father is innocent, but he's the terrorist, and interrupts Fayed with a phonecall just when Fayed is about to cut off Jack's index finger.
- While Fayed is in another room, Jack chews off his EKG and hangs his head as if he's dead, when the guard comes in to check on him, he chops down on the guard's jugular and escapes.
7-8am
Okay, screw summarizing.
- The first thing Jack does after he escapes is to call the Ivory Tower and request that they call of the air strike on Assad, they don't believe him, so he goes off to save Assad himself.
* In Syriana (2005), Alexander Siddigs plays Prince Nasir, who would have brought progressive reforms to Syriana, had he not been taken out by an air strike, shortly after he rolled down his window to speak to the deflector agent who came to warn him. That was what I was thinking when Jack was trying to convince Assad.
* Alexander Siddig have aged very well. He looks good with the beard, and his voice is lovely, and he has excellent chemistry with men.
* I love the thoughtful way Assad looked at Jack when Jack took off his shirt, revealing his scars.
* Assad gave Jack another thoughtful look, after Jack told Assad to follow the bomber's handler, while Jack gave himself the more dangerous task of confronting the bomber.
* Assad is interesting. When Jack couldn't finish his interrogation of the traitor who planted the transponder in Assad's house, Assad did, it seem that he knows the traitor. After the traitor fessed up to where Fayed's men are, Assad leaned in, and said sincerely that he admires the traitor's devotion, but that he has chose the wrong cause. Through out this, Jack looks on, distressed, no doubt wondering about who he has helped. In this scene, Assad reminds me of Damar in DS9, when he had to shoot one of his former buddies over their difference over Kira.
* Throughout this, Jack reminds me of Garak, the devoted patriot all the way through. Jack did torture Fayed's brother to death during interrogation eh?
* I don't feel much sympathy for the Americans, except for Jack. The Idealist Family was inspiring though, especially Scott, when Ahmed was pointing a gun at him, Scott still considers Ahmed his friend. For the most part, the Americans were pathetic cowards, being ruled by their fears, letting terrorists set their demands. Were they so pathetic too that they needed an air strike to take out Assad within their own borders? I feel like mocking the terrorists too, Fayed's fraction, for also being pathetic, so the streets are flowing with blood again, but what's your objective again? Long term plan, dear men? It's going to be Jack and Assad's show. The Americans in general are afraid to die so much they are forgetting how to live, the terrorists decide to skip right to death instead of rationally, actually try to see through, the problems that lead to its prematurity.
* Secretly, I've been waiting to hear more about what the women of the Middle East are doing to end The Current Problem, if they are going to start being both ruthless and rational since the men of their culture, for the most part, aren't. Terrorism doesn't work, what Middle East needs, to stand on their feet, is a secret service of their own that will rival the American CIA. Who better to start it then the women who have continue to live and teach and learn even beneath the brutal reigns of the likes of Taliban? They need to learn to be vicious, to strike first, to kill those who would kill them, had killed them. They need to do those with a long term vision and a series of plans in mind. As to where /this/ particular train of thought come from, as a child, a student of history, I was awed by both Elizabeth I of England and Empress Wu of China, both ruthlessly rational women who have pulled their respective countries out of ruins, both known for their uses of spies and secret police.
I look forward to the Jack and Assad fandom... I wonder what the terrorists would think, lol. Has there been inter-religion slash at bible_slash yet?
What the president's sister did was brave, but I wonder why she didn't see it coming, in her place I would have encrypted the client's files after the first FBI visit, and replaced them with dummy ones. ...and/or Go To The Media.
...and racial profiling really is a flawed method, in addition to that Timothy bomber guy being All-American, don't they realise that Serious Terrorists can a)Disguise their appearance, b)Change their documents, c)Not register their stay at all? The people of the Middle East does share similar feature with 'white people' after all, all it takes is a through application of the foundations available at every Shopper's Drug Mart. Come to think of it, I am very proud of my Chinese looks, but I think I'm going to try being white next Halloween and see how long it takes for people to figure out I'm Chinese. Hahaha. I need to look up spray on tan...and I can paint my eyebrows a lighter shade. I have to first cover my skin with white facepaint, and then go over it with normal foundation? ..and then a light layering of spray on tan?