24 (spoiler alert)

To anyone who hasn't seen the most recent episode of 24 I am warning you of a spoiler alert.

What an episode. Still full of drama and over acting, but I loved it. Elisha Cuthbert is the best over actor on the show and glad to have her back. She will save Jack's life in an hour (ok maybe two) and I will be watching. I know I have to suspend reality to watch the show but that is the best part of it. I have enough reality in my life to enjoy some escapism from time to time.

This episode is one I have been waiting for. I had read somewhere that Tony Almeda was going to turn bad, in a big way. Worse than Nina in the beginning of the series. Well he did it and yes in a big way. He killed Larry (lead FBI agent) I liked Larry, misled sometimes, due to being misinformed and kept in the dark, but he usually meant well. I can be fairly certain of this since he is now dead that he won't be turning sides. Of course they could return him from the dead, won't be the first time it has happened to someone.

That is how the episode ended, Larry dead and Tony on the dark side. Can't wait for the next installment. My only other wish for the show, at the moment, is to kill off Janis Gold played by Janeane Garofalo. Her character has annoyed me from the very start of the season. (and nothing to do with her current foolish statements in the press about the TEA Parties) Sure a lot of the acting in the show is over the top but hers is just awful. Bad acting at its worse. Tech people on the show have a way of dying, Chloe being the exception. I just wish they would get on with it in Jeneanes case. I have never been a fan of hers and this is not helping.

Just a little back story, I had never watched 24 until this year. I got into by watching the two hour movie they did at the start of the season (Redemption). It stared Robert Carlyle and I am a fan of his so now I have been catching up with the series on dvd and currently on season 4 and it has been a thrill ride for no other reason than escapism as I said before. I have been able to buy the box sets at Newbury Comics for cheap by getting used copies. Worth the 20 bucks. I'll pass them on to some other 24 enthusiast at some point. They need to be shared.

It has been reported that there will be a season 8 which will take place in NYC. Should be fun if for nothing else than spotting familiar places and seeing them get blown up. I guess this means Jack Bauer will be cured from his most recent ailment of exposure to the disease agent in the current series. Or maybe he will get cloned, or maybe it will be his ghost..... kidding but anything is possible in the show.