24 – Another one bites the dust

You know this season of 24 was seriously lacking when I enjoyed The Simpsons 24 spoof, 24 Minutes, more than the season finale of 24 itself. In fact, I watched the Jack Bauer parts twice.

I loved it when Bart and Jack’s lines got crossed and Jack said, “I’m Jack Bauer, who the hell are you?” and Bart replied “Ahmed A. Doodie”. So Jack tells Chloe to cross-reference the name and she comes back with all this intel causing Jack to reply, “really?” to which she says, “No, Jack, he’s messing with you” or something to that affect. Then at the end Jack tracks down Bart and since he pulled all CTU agents off their current assignments, a nuclear bomb explodes in the distance, but everyone shrugs it off when he says it was just Shelbyville.

So getting to the season finale. *Yawn* What an anti-climax. First off, how do we know Philip really died? There was a boat right there. And what about Chang/Cheng telling Bill his people won’t abandon him like they did for Jack? Didn’t you want to see Bill slap that guy? I think the writers intentionally neglect to wrap up certain plot lines in case they want to use them later.

Jack’s confrontation with Secretary Heller had to be the best ten minutes of the entire two hours. I loved the part where he said, “If you send someone after us, I’ll kill ’em. I’m pretty good at that too”. I had to replay that scene again, it was so good. I liked seeing Jack angry with how he’s been used and asked to sacrifice a normal life for a government who turns their back on him when he needs them most.

Even though in the end he did the right thing regardless by letting Audrey go, his confrontation with Heller was fantastic. I thought for sure he was going to hit Heller when he made that remark about Teri dying thanks to his job.

Also, I’m glad Audrey didn’t wake up or say Jack’s name because that would have been super daytime soap cheesy. Let’s just hope this doesn’t encourage a return of Marilyn Bauer because I seriously hate that woman and her freaky too-blue eyes and I will personally kick Jack’s ass if he hooks up with her.

So how about the predictable stuff? Who else knew Chloe was pregnant as soon as she passed out, or that Mike was going to get blown up by a fake circuit board? Lame! Time filler!

Oh well, here’s to hoping for a better seventh season. AE&E aired all the past seasons’ finales of 24 Saturday night, which I DVR’d and wanted to watch this week, but my DVR went crazy last night recording for hours on end and effectively erased everything else I had saved including those finales, SNL, and MadTV. I’d be madder but that’s the first major DVR screwup we’ve had in almost two years, so oh well. It’s not like I can’t watch the finales on DVD anyway.