-- In 2010 (although in the 24-verse, it's probably more like 2015 or so), how does it take five hours to complete a money transfer? Even a shady one involving the Russian mob? At least Bazhaev is being a good host. "Then take both." You never saw Don Corleone be that accomodating. Russian mob > Italian mob.
-- Ziya's an idiot. $3 million for a thumb seems awfully cheap. I would have told Renee to fuck off, go to the emergency room, and get it sewn back on. This was a fairly dull episode, so I spent most of it thinking about how much it would cost for me to give up a thumb. I'd think at least $100 million. After all, you can't work an Xbox controller without both thumbs, which would really suck. But with that kind of money, you could hire swimsuit models to play Xbox for you. Which is probably more fun than actually playing it yourself.
-- I know we need the requisite stupidity-at-CTU subplot, but I'm not buying this bullshit about Dana being an ex-con who changed her identity. Considering how many times CTU has been infiltrated over the years, they should have the toughest, most brutally strict background check in the world. You shouldn't be able to get a parking ticket and be able to get CTU clearance.
-- I'm also not buying David Anders playing a nice guy. Well, a "nice" Russian mobster, anyway. This is the kind of feint 24 loves, so by the end of the season, I wouldn't be surprised to see him revealed as the primary villain.
-- This thing with Kevin and Dana is really just unspeakably dumb. Horrendously, mind-numbingly, borderline insulting to the viewers' intelligence, dumb. Couldn't we get one season where CTU pretends to be a crack government operation where this kind of stuff doesn't go down? Or if it absolutely has to, why can't Dana be smart enough to just call the cops and tell Hastings the truth? If Kevin (and Nick, his buddy on the couch) aren't dead a few episodes from now, I'm going to be pissed. I can't take 19 more episodes of this.
-- I would think you'd have to be pretty paranoid to be a Russian mobster. Yet Vladimir can't tell Renee's being fed the answers to his questions? The lengthy pauses and responses that sounded like she's just repeating what someone else was telling her, didn't give it away?
-- I guess that's one way to bring down health care costs: Send goons to your doctor's house and tell him his family is dead unless you or your loved ones get treatment. Might be worth trying if Congress doesn't get its act together.
-- Nine o'clock seems a bit early for a mob execution near a bridge that probably has a fair amount of traffic on it. But I guess they've done this sort of thing before, so who am I to second guess?
-- Try as I might, I couldn't find anything remotely interesting that Jack said this episode. So for the first time, he surrenders his weekly words of wisdom to a more quotable character. Do better next time, Jack.
Jack's confirmed kills: 0 (3 for the season)
Overall grade: D+
0 comments:
Post a Comment