Season Seven of 24 featured frogmen invading the White House by using a supersecret passage that somehow wasn’t on the White House tour. Jack Bauer (Keifer Sutherland), battered by the events of the day, contracted the dreaded Swine Flu bio-pathogen from a Bio-Weapon Canister of Doom. But that hasn’t stopped Jack from shooting terrorists and beating up his former friend, Tony. Tony was a Good Guy, become a Bad Guy, pretended to be a Good Guy, and then reverted back to a Bad Guy. Did you follow all of that? Don’t worry about it if you didn’t. In tonight’s two-hour finale, the nutty writers of 24 will attempt to wrap up all the ridiculous plot inconsistencies and set things up for Season Eight which is already in production. The DVD boxed set of Season Seven goes on sale Tuesday. My advice: skip it.
That sums up the season pretty well, even leaving out the moronic machinations of the President’s dumb@ss daughter Olivia, who arranged a hit using her own cell phone and laptop from inside the Chief of Staff’s office at the White House.
Will we have another President forced to leave office in disgrace?
The main question (well, one of the main questions) we have is this: why did Tony go out of his way to bring in Jack, Bill & Chloe when his dastardly plan would have had a chance to succeed otherwise?
The best part of Season Seven was Dave Barry’s blog. The plotlines of 24 stopped making any sort of sense long ago so I don’t try to figure out their pretzel logic. All will be revealed tonight! Expect a lot of loopiness…
Gave it up when he shot the wife of a suspect in the leg. Season Two?
Yes, I remember Jack shot the WIFE of a terror suspect in the thigh. Shows some anger issues towards women. Other than the flare-ups of violence, the plots are constantly ludicrous.
You say that like it’s a bad thing, George.
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Jo Beth Williams played the thigh shootee, by the way. She was married to Christopher Henderson (Peter Weller) in season 5.
Thanks, Jeff! I thought she looked familiar.