February 21, 2005

“24” Thoughts

We’re still working on the “’24’: Liberal Or Conservative?” thing, and still looking for answers, but a few observations on tonight’s episode:

- Suppose you work for a company, one of your co-workers commits a capital crime, and subsequently frames you for that crime. As a result, your superiors spend the better part of an hour torturing you in a failed attempt to get you to confess, after which they let you know it was all a big mistake and you’re off the hook.

If that happened, would you go back to work a few hours later, as if nothing had happened? As opposed to, say, running away, going home, calling a lawyer, and suing your employer for millions of dollars? If you answered the latter, you probably don’t work for CTU.

- If you were the boss of that same company, you committed treason, were fired, indicted, and subsequently pardoned by the president, how hard would it be to get your job back? If your name were Tony Almeida, the answer would be "not quite so hard."

- Wouldn’t it suck to work in human resources at CTU? Not only do half your employees turn out to be saboteurs and/or terrorists, but how would you like to have it on your conscience that you hired Kim Bauer as a computer hacker?

At any rate, “we’ll handle the kidnapping and train-bombing another day” has to be my favorite Jack Bauer line of the season.

Posted by Stephen Silver at February 21, 2005 10:59 PM
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We were more than a little frustrated with the ease that the current boss sent the aforementioned treasonous, blackmailing spy of an employee out on an essentially unescorted field trip. CTU seems way to willing to torture the children of political figures, and surprisingly not at all willing to cut off the thumbs of actual traitors.

Otherwise, great episode.

Posted by: Ryan at February 22, 2005 10:49 AM
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