24 double-double: on tonight's episodes (#8/9, Day 6, 1-3pm)
There was much plot progression, good ones, but mostly I was distracted by the pretties:
- I like how soft-spoken Tom Lennox (Peter MacNicol) is in this episode, he sounds really attractive. Overall I do like him better, misguided as he might be.
- Marilyn Bauer (Rena Sofer) is really beautiful, at least when she was in CTU, the lights really bring out her cool tone colourings, her eyes are so blue and her hair so dark. Regarding the actress, Sofer, she also has a recurring role in Heroes as Heidi Petrelli, wife of aspiring politician Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar), Heroes is another show that's also shown on Mondays at 9pm EST...dang, wish I have time (cause I think they do replay it on Friday), but I have no time...
- Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is really, really, pretty. On first glance he would seem too much of the stocky type to be, but he is, I like the way his eyelashes look against his tanned skin. He looks so totally fuckable in that tight gray shirt and those jeans, mmmmmmnnn....
- Poor Morris (Carlo Rota), I actually like him a lot more in tonight's episodes, he is a sympathetic character. He is a tech after all, bravery is not expected of him, but he did try.
- Chloe (Mary Lynn Rajskub) is really awesome, I like seeing how professional she could be after all (I doubted because of the earlier thing with Jack), I really like the way she handled Morris. Also, nice skirt.
- I like how involved Nadia Yassir (Marisol Nichols) was, being right there over Chloe's shoulder, but not intrusive at all.
- Milo (Eric Balfour) was very good too, he's not as impressive as he was last time, signing in the terminal for Nadia and covering for her, but I like how he just 'goes along' and isn't jarred by nasty surprises. I couldn't see him in the preview, so they better not have killed him off.
- Pleased to see Al-Assad's quiet hotness grace the screen again, albeit in the background. Alexander Siddig is really, really, talented with the silent communication thing, and so much thoughtful looks! I really like how Assad warned The Palmer 2 (D.B. Woodside), that their cultures might be different, as Palmer pointed out, but 'human nature', the people The Palmer alienated will get him.
- I liked Wayne Palmer last week, less this one, when he didn't understand. I really don't think having Al-Assad speak on screen would help, it would do more harm than good in the long run too because it does make him look like an American puppet. Instead of asking a terrorist leader to appear on American TV, has he considered appearing himself, so that Muslim-Americans know for sure that he considers that they are on the same side? As for the religious fractions, get a religious authority to speak. ...and having Assad loose a tape detailing his reasonings of talking to the Americans onto the internet, will work better than having Assad directly ask for their help. If those in the know are convinced, they don't need to be told what to do with their new conviction.
- ...and was there chemistry between Wayne and Assad too?
- James Cromwell, who was the hippie dude in Star Trek: First Contact, and Jack's Dad in this show, have some really awesome acting going on. His character is so evil, but I'm still trying to figure out why.
- I feel so bad for Marilyn, she loves Jack, and she just wants to protect Josh, the only way she could.
- Zee Russians? I'm glad that the Arabs aren't the sole villains, but the way things are going so far, not only are the Russians being set up as teh uber villains, I think it's looking pretty insulting to the Arabs too, when GlassHouseInhabitant-Palmer was bringing up how many innocent people Assad has killed, why didn't Assad bring up how many innocents the American government has killed over the years (okay, it wouldn't have been in character for him to say it, the way he's being written so far, but where's that voice)? Remember Vietnam, the Americans just went in there, no permission, and started killing, razing, destroying their land with the spray of Agent Orange...then they just walked away, no international war crimes trial, no reparation, zero accountability (I don't know how much credibility Syria's Bashar al-Assad can have with the Lebanon thing, but he's still got more than America). I also have the impression that most of the protest about that war, was more about young Americans dying there, then the innocent coloured folks getting wholesale slaughtered. Just like, now, I did feel better when Ed the Sock was doing a commentary on Green Day's cheesy When September Ends video, with the fireworks, and what assholes they were being whining only about the deaths of their country's enlisted killers.
...and...going back:
Certainly religion is now a motivator of the terrorist attacks, but it's not the only thing, what brought them there first? People tend to follow extreme fractions of religion only when things get really desperate and hopeless, who got them that way? Why aren't the terrorists attacking the great godless state of China then if it's solely about religion? Why isn't New Zealand being attacked if it's democracy they hate?
ETA: My heart was pounding when Jack was working on the nuke. Initially I was like, okay, this one can't go off because Jack is there, but then I remember that Sutherland said that even Jack Bauer could die, and wouldn't that be a send off? I'm glad he didn't.
- I like how soft-spoken Tom Lennox (Peter MacNicol) is in this episode, he sounds really attractive. Overall I do like him better, misguided as he might be.
- Marilyn Bauer (Rena Sofer) is really beautiful, at least when she was in CTU, the lights really bring out her cool tone colourings, her eyes are so blue and her hair so dark. Regarding the actress, Sofer, she also has a recurring role in Heroes as Heidi Petrelli, wife of aspiring politician Nathan Petrelli (Adrian Pasdar), Heroes is another show that's also shown on Mondays at 9pm EST...dang, wish I have time (cause I think they do replay it on Friday), but I have no time...
- Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is really, really, pretty. On first glance he would seem too much of the stocky type to be, but he is, I like the way his eyelashes look against his tanned skin. He looks so totally fuckable in that tight gray shirt and those jeans, mmmmmmnnn....
- Poor Morris (Carlo Rota), I actually like him a lot more in tonight's episodes, he is a sympathetic character. He is a tech after all, bravery is not expected of him, but he did try.
- Chloe (Mary Lynn Rajskub) is really awesome, I like seeing how professional she could be after all (I doubted because of the earlier thing with Jack), I really like the way she handled Morris. Also, nice skirt.
- I like how involved Nadia Yassir (Marisol Nichols) was, being right there over Chloe's shoulder, but not intrusive at all.
- Milo (Eric Balfour) was very good too, he's not as impressive as he was last time, signing in the terminal for Nadia and covering for her, but I like how he just 'goes along' and isn't jarred by nasty surprises. I couldn't see him in the preview, so they better not have killed him off.
- Pleased to see Al-Assad's quiet hotness grace the screen again, albeit in the background. Alexander Siddig is really, really, talented with the silent communication thing, and so much thoughtful looks! I really like how Assad warned The Palmer 2 (D.B. Woodside), that their cultures might be different, as Palmer pointed out, but 'human nature', the people The Palmer alienated will get him.
- I liked Wayne Palmer last week, less this one, when he didn't understand. I really don't think having Al-Assad speak on screen would help, it would do more harm than good in the long run too because it does make him look like an American puppet. Instead of asking a terrorist leader to appear on American TV, has he considered appearing himself, so that Muslim-Americans know for sure that he considers that they are on the same side? As for the religious fractions, get a religious authority to speak. ...and having Assad loose a tape detailing his reasonings of talking to the Americans onto the internet, will work better than having Assad directly ask for their help. If those in the know are convinced, they don't need to be told what to do with their new conviction.
- ...and was there chemistry between Wayne and Assad too?
- James Cromwell, who was the hippie dude in Star Trek: First Contact, and Jack's Dad in this show, have some really awesome acting going on. His character is so evil, but I'm still trying to figure out why.
- I feel so bad for Marilyn, she loves Jack, and she just wants to protect Josh, the only way she could.
- Zee Russians? I'm glad that the Arabs aren't the sole villains, but the way things are going so far, not only are the Russians being set up as teh uber villains, I think it's looking pretty insulting to the Arabs too, when GlassHouseInhabitant-Palmer was bringing up how many innocent people Assad has killed, why didn't Assad bring up how many innocents the American government has killed over the years (okay, it wouldn't have been in character for him to say it, the way he's being written so far, but where's that voice)? Remember Vietnam, the Americans just went in there, no permission, and started killing, razing, destroying their land with the spray of Agent Orange...then they just walked away, no international war crimes trial, no reparation, zero accountability (I don't know how much credibility Syria's Bashar al-Assad can have with the Lebanon thing, but he's still got more than America). I also have the impression that most of the protest about that war, was more about young Americans dying there, then the innocent coloured folks getting wholesale slaughtered. Just like, now, I did feel better when Ed the Sock was doing a commentary on Green Day's cheesy When September Ends video, with the fireworks, and what assholes they were being whining only about the deaths of their country's enlisted killers.
...and...going back:
Certainly religion is now a motivator of the terrorist attacks, but it's not the only thing, what brought them there first? People tend to follow extreme fractions of religion only when things get really desperate and hopeless, who got them that way? Why aren't the terrorists attacking the great godless state of China then if it's solely about religion? Why isn't New Zealand being attacked if it's democracy they hate?
ETA: My heart was pounding when Jack was working on the nuke. Initially I was like, okay, this one can't go off because Jack is there, but then I remember that Sutherland said that even Jack Bauer could die, and wouldn't that be a send off? I'm glad he didn't.