24–Are you Kidding Me?
Ok. The rest of the show so far has me hooked in suspense, but I gotta say, there’s one part of the show that’s absolutely absurd. There’s this lawyer from the AG in the FBI building harassing the director of the field office over one of his agents using “illegal methods of interrogation.” It’s the middle of a national crisis and tens of thousands of lives are in the balance and he’s wanting to question an active field agent. Wouldn’t in any world outside of the 24 world the following conversation happen?
President: Why haven’t the terrorists that, you know, are threatening tens of thousands of lives been caught yet?
FBI Director: Oh, well, one of the agents that’s pursuing them is being harassed by a lawyer in the attorney general’s office.
President: Oh. I’ll call and have him fired.
FBI Director: Thanks. k. Bye.
Really, if 24 did things the way they do in the real world, it’d be called 12.