4:00 AM - 7:00 AM / Season Finale
Naked Mandy !!! i wasn't sure at first, i thought maybe it was the chick that was with the pilot earlier this season. happy to see Mandy back, and to have her involvement with Palmer's poisoning come out, but introducing her naked in bed once again is getting a bit lame and old. she's an assassin, she doesn't just sleep with her victims to get them. have more respect than that.
the season's finally over. i'm a bit sad, actually. a lot of it didn't gel, some of it was inspired. it was better than Season 3 but still well under par from what they started out with. bringing back the old players made it feel like they couldn't fly without them. a bit weak. fun, but still weak.
ending with Jack Bauer 'dead' was brilliant. i haven't read the forums this season so i don't know if that means Bauer's out or just his identity. will he come back next season? (hypothetical question - i don't wanna know anything.) i'm hoping he comes back as a black ops for Tony and Michelle or something. (before he escaped i thought they were setting up Season 5 with the Chinese and US Government hunting him down.) i thought we were gonna see Black Ops Jack this season given that the Government was after him at the end of last season (for helping Ramon escape?). hopefully they go with it full-on next season. it would be cool to get out of CTU. they've gotta do it. plus, how many times can the US be threatened on its soil? come on. they promised us a brand new start for Season 4, but they brought Jack back into familiar territory; even bringing back the old gang (hey, Kim didn't make an appearance after all! how weird, actually). hopefully this one's the right one. (saving the world from the confines of CTU is getting a bit old by now. i'd like to see them follow Jack but make it smaller this time around.)
oops, forgot about these two - 1. i was scratching my brain real hard when Secretary Heller was able to find out that, after 10 full minutes, his son Richard was either bi or homosexual. whew! great unnecessary reveal/digression, geniuses! but then, this was the only way to reveal Mandy - or was it? shit. they could've just posted her portrait like they did with the guy and we would've been as happy and excited about it than finding her in bed. anyway. 2. the missile takedown was the most anti-climactic thing i've ever seen in a 24 episode. thank god they had another half hour left for something else to happen and end the season with.
ps. i just read the Kansas City Star interview with Carlos Bernard and it reminded that nothing can take away from the fact that this is the season that brought us the electrifying moment of Tony's terrific return to 24. i will always remember my reaction when 1. i got all agitated and frenzied when they cut to commercial, leaving us with Jack's immortal words, 'the only person i can trust', and 2. got a mini orgasm when the garage door opened and Tony shot those baddies down, saving Jack and Audrey ...sigh... :P
12:47 am
damn. i've been getting lost in TheForce.Net's Jedi Council Forums ... and it's making me seriously itch for another veiwing of Revenge of the Sith! :D i'll probably give my friend/work partner a call tomorrow to see when he plans to go :)
btw, my Blogger Template got fucked tonight. i was able to recover most of it (after what feels like hours of searching and editing) but i can't get same-day posts to appear in separate boxes (instead of just being divided by a line). can anybody help me out? thanks.
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