Comments Posted By Jennie C.
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"24" SPECULATION FEST AND DEAD POOL
I have a real problem predicting death for characters I like, but it does seem to be Chloe's turn. She's the last, most-loyal-to-Jack character left.
Except for Bill Buchanan, come to think of it. He's even dropped his by-the-book attitude to a certain extent, at least as far as expecting Jack to follow it.
I do not think Jack will kill Phillip, unless Phillip forces him to (by threatening someome else who isn't a bad guy). Jack will let Phillip kill him first, but not someone else.
Finally, I found Little Ricky's absconding with Josh very suspicious. I'm wondering if he was a last-ditch sort of mole for Phillip: that is, go ahead and help CTU with whatever they want to do, but if the crunch comes (as it did with Josh), you help me out.
I don't think Jack would have any trouble killing Ricky. I thought perhaps Milo would do it for him, but that's moot now.
Comment Posted By Jennie C. On 21.05.2007 @ 12:27
First, Rick, no need to apologize for the delay (nice of you to explain, of course). None of us wants you and yours to go up in flames. That only happens to *real* enemies of Jack :).
My speculation is that I'm glad that Chloe isn't the "package" to be, presumably, done away with, and that I think Morris and she will get back together (she never wanted it to end, and now he says he ain't blaming her, so it only needs one more crying jag from her for him to take her into his arms).
I think (and this is probably obvious) that Josh is the currency for which Phillip will trade the repair to the Magnificent Circuit which shall Reveal All of the Russians' Defense (whateverthehell that is). But he could have an ulterior motive to only be disclosed on Day 7.
I predict a meltdown for Nadia, given Milo's sacrifice and her general i'm-in-over-my-head-and-everyone-is-picking-on-me situation through the whole season (not that she's totally wrong about the picking on). And she and Little Ricky really aren't the type for each other.
Milo's gone. He was in the 1st season and then mysteriously wasn't until this year. Did anyone NOT see this coming? Obviously expendable.
Regarding the disappearance and reappearance of Marilyn, Josh and Phillip, I heard something today that explains: James Cromwell had an acting commitment elsewhere, and so the whole thing had to be sorta sandwiched in. We'd like it to be neater, but I guess if they wanted Cromwell, they had to deal with it (and he's a really good actor).
Finally, for now, being all puffed-up over being First going to my head, Lisa's going to implode, blowing the Russian thing. Jack, will of course, get back the omnipotent component, and hopefully get to see Audrey again (she can't help the needle-nose, Rick).
But of course he can't ride into the sunset with her because next January "there will be another Day".
Comment Posted By Jennie C. On 8.05.2007 @ 20:52
Luv ya, Rick, but please, where's the latest dish of snark?? ;)
SecState is just wrong, wrong, wrong, but we all know that.
Comment Posted By Jennie C. On 1.05.2007 @ 19:39
Given the comments from Rick and in the talkbacks about the writing this season, I thought I'd pass this on that I heard from Rush today.
He knows Joel Surnow and oh...what's-his-name, the other creator. And he said when he talked/emailed with one of them a week or so ago, they mentioned that this season has been the hardest one to write.
No details, just a tidbit. Or as Paul Harvey would say, just what, not why.
Comment Posted By Jennie C. On 2.05.2007 @ 15:06
logprof - AHA, that's why when I looked for this post last night, I didn't find it! Humblest apologies, Rick, but I always just look under "24". If it's any consolation, I *always* read *everything* you write for the American Thinker :)
I didn't pick up on Chloe's disappearance. Oh no, I hope she doesn't get killed. But she and Aaron Pierce hold the record for being around and not being killed, don't they? Ah well, that part's been downhill since they axed Tony (the Hunk).
Maybe Little Ricky could die saving her? His letting Jack get to Audrey notwithstanding, he's a jerk.
Comment Posted By Jennie C. On 2.05.2007 @ 12:25
OF SHARK JUMPING AND THE DEATH OF KINGS
Okay, I'm going to be disagreeable this week :).
I would agree after seeing the endless episode about the 25th amendment on the shark episode, but I had hope. And I thought last week's episode ("Death Struggle" to Rick) showed great promise. It was fun, anyway.
But I don't think the shark has ducked. At least, I'm still enjoying. This isn't the first time the main threat has disappeared before the end of the season (#2, wasn't it, when the bomb blew up and Kimmy thought dear-old-Dad had bought it?), only to have another, lesser threat (in that case imminent war - less than an H-bomb) to be dealt with. Okay, Audrey's situation isn't a threat exactly, but c'mon, we know that Jack will do anything to save her. After all, Debbie from Season 5 and Marilyn are safe and healthy, she's his only woman at risk (i like debbie, by the way, but marilyn is an opportunist).
Jack's being willing to die to get Audrey out while not betraying the country (altho i agree that this one component's giving up a whole country's defense system is ludicrous - it's a suspension of disbelief thing)? Not unusual, he had been prepared to be killed by Fayed for the sake of the country in the first hour - after he'd been released by the Chinks, which must have been the shortest-lived feeling of relief on record. And seems logical he'd be perfectly happy to waste Cheng in the process.
Chloe and Jack and the non-Biblical's doing-anything-for? We've seen this before and it should be taken as a given. Chloe is absolutely loyal to (and possibly smitten by, but I think she knows it's hopeless) Jack. Rick commented that Jack's defied Presidents before. Well, so has Chloe, for Jack.
Maybe I'm a fan of understatement, but I liked her "I'll get back to you." Seemed like a usual worker-bee thing to say, but with greater implications.
Joel: I wouldn't call Jack's shooting of Curtis "willing." He was devastated, threw up, and threatened to quit at the time (i suspect not just from ctu).
Finally, the VP's resignation. For what it's worth, he wouldn't give the letter to the prexy. It goes to SecState. Haven't you folks read Clancy's Executive Orders? But of course, that was a plot device, so he wouldn't have to actually hand it over.
Okay, disagreeableness over for now. I'm still having fun with the show (except between 8-9pm in virtual time). And Rick, your Star Wars bit was priceless, I hadn't thought of that.
Comment Posted By Jennie C. On 17.04.2007 @ 16:41
Paul, the way I understand it, for a nuclear strike, there's a 2-man rule. Even the president can't do it alone. Someone else (who has had their appointment confirmed by the Senate) has to confirm. I would assume the VP can as well.
Now, maybe the SecDef or one of these Joint Chiefs (they are confirmed, right?) would have done it, but they should've showed it if so.
Anyone with acting experience, I meant to ask: Why do actors always cry out of the middle or outside of their eyes? Haven't they found some sort of fake tears that will actually come from the tear ducts, where tears really come from?
Comment Posted By Jennie C. On 27.03.2007 @ 20:09
25th amendment, Rick. The Veep isn't going to get a bunch of 18-year-olds to vote him into office :)
But I don't think the AG is enough for him (unless the prexy goes back into his coma, but he looks good to me). He needs a majority of the Cabinet or of either just the House or both houses of congress.
Somehow I doubt if HHS, Veterans Affairs, HUD, Interior, Commerce, Education, etc., are all in the room.
Comment Posted By Jennie C. On 27.03.2007 @ 10:37
I know someone (he's my pastor, in fact, his education was nuclear physics) who worked on the Manhatten Project. He would've been quite young at the time (in his 80's now), but he was involved somehow.
Okay, Tom Clancy is my source for this, but he usually does his homework: I thought there was a 2-man rule, that the President couldn't launch a nuke without someone else's concurrence. Lennox wouldn't do, he's only chief of staff. But Karen, as NSA, would. Of course, she wouldn't do it. Which leaves the other civilian, Senate-vetted people in the room, meaning SecState/SecDef. Does our little community think they'd agree with the order? I don't know, I don't think we know them well enough.
I really REALLY hope Morris isn't the mole. But wouldn't that make the ramifications of his providing the trigger (or even insisting on going to see his brother in the hoax hospital call) interesting?
Personally, I haven't ruled Milo out. He undermined Chloe at a crucial point (tho he came through on that), and he gave Nadia his access.
Comment Posted By Jennie C. On 20.03.2007 @ 11:27
Thoughts after second viewing: Why do TV characters always jiggle the phone hook when they lose a connection? It's been at least 40 years since you could get the operator that way.
Aaron's lost weight
But I've decided Nadia isn't a mole. I think.
Daniels is in on the assassination plot. Feel it in my bones.
And how is he really going to sell that Assad brought in the bomb? He was in CTU custody for crying out loud, is Daniels trying to convice folks they let him come into the WH with a bomb? Okay, they're hopeless at keeping moles out, but surely they're not that incompetent.
Comment Posted By Jennie C. On 14.03.2007 @ 07:24
