TV rambling

It's late, I'm tired and I have an assignment to finish but at least I got through the last season of 24. I'm finally done with that show. All I can do now is wait for the movie to come out (if it ever does). Apart from that if I feel like I need a TV action fix I'll go back and watch Season 1 or 2 or one of the other good ones. 24 was that show where Keifer Sutherland tortured people and shot terrorists in real time. It just so happens that every terrorist and his dog had it in for L.A. because the first six seasons were all set there. It was only when Season 6 rolled around and the writers realised there was no way they could force out more excuses to keep their show set where their office was that they had to bite the bullet and move to Washington. Season 8 was set in New York, and that's the one I've just finished.

I brought my 24 checklist/drinking game with me and unsurprisingly I've checked off every recycled 24 plot cliche I could think of. At the beginning of the season, Jack Bauer doesn't work for the government anymore but some sort of tenuous motivation reels him back into SUVs and Kevlar. Check. Someone has a deadly weapon which they threaten to use unless the President does something. Check. The President sits around for four episodes debating whether to give in to these demands while Jack actually does something about it. Check. Someone plans to assassinate a world leader. Check. The Counter Terrorism Unit is run by a moron who, despite knowing who Jack is - the son of Chuck Norris and John McClane with some Jesus mixed in - still doesn't believe anything he has to say about a possible threat to national security and when the threat proves to be true still doesn't believe any subsequent knowledge Jack may claim to have. Fucking Check. All the analysts working for CTU are social misfits. Check. One of them is a mole. Check. Someone references the death of Jack's wife, even though it's been seven seasons since she died. Check. Nearly every non-Jack character from the previous season is missing for no apparent reason. Check. Except Chloe and she sucks. Check.

Anyway now that that's over I need a new show. I've got the first season of Breaking Bad lying around so if I get time I'll chuck it on and rant about how good or bad it is.