A couple weeks ago, I started my series on "5 TV shows on my DVR Schedule" by suggesting that 24 had maybe run its logical course and maybe it should just go away. I wrote all that before the season had wrapped up so I did not know all the story. Now that I have seen the season finale, I have to say...Boy, was I right! Janeane Garofalo's character does not get killed in some horrible manner, but she actually makes nice with Chloe at the end. Kim Bauer makes a truly assinine decision to chase a hitman through a secured part of the airport in her high heels and without a weapon. FBI Agent Renee Walker turns to "the dark side" when it seems like she is going to try to torture information out of the lead bad guy. Tony Almeida was a good guy playing a bad guy who was actually a bad guy playing a good guy playing a bad guy while simultaneously playing a dead guy but we found out in the end that it was all about revenge because his wife and unborn child were collateral damage in somebody's conspiracy; so he was willing to sacrifice thousands of innocent lives for his revenge, making him an ultimate bad guy...playing a good guy...playing a bad guy...who thinks he's justified in....oh, just forget it! And, of course, Jack is undoubtedly saved after the end of the last tick of the clock as Kim comes to his rescue by volunteering for the risky and unproven stem cell therapy. How do we know he is going to be saved? Because some idiots leaked a month ago that Kiefer is coming back for another season! But wait, there's more...Jack Bauer turns to Islam for comfort when he thinks he is going to die.
For crying out loud...I had high hopes for this show when they said they were going to revamp the entire thing after the previous season and a year off courtesy of the greedy writers' strike. The 24: Redemption movie in November was excellent and provided a great jumping-off-place for the new season, which actually started off fairly enough. If the only stupid thing that happened was Tony Almeida's miraculous resurrection, I would have forgiven everything else. Honestly, though, this season should not have been made. In my mind, this show has now definitely jumped the shark and nuked the fridge. Unless there is some evidence that things are much, much better for next season, I will not watch...I don't want to waste another 24 hours of my life.
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