Okay, I love the show ’24′. I’ll admit I got into it a bit late in the game but when I started watching it I got sucked in big time. I obsessively watched through the first 4 or 5 seasons in only a matter of weeks, and while I continue to enjoy the show to this day (and so far, through this current season), I’m certainly not one to say the series is perfect. It’s not. The main fault of ’24′ is that it’s becoming incredibly predictable. Every season follows the same basic formula and to be honest things are getting a bit stale. With the announcement that the current season, season 8, will be the last for ’24′, I thought it may be therapeutic for me to run down some of the overdone elements that comprise any season of the show, swearing a lot while doing so. So I did. And now you get to read it. Yay!
CTU Has a Mole!
Holy christ, just how flawed can one government agency’s employee screening process be?! Nearly every season of ’24′ features at least one mole working from inside CTU to completely dismantle their efforts to stop whatever terrorist plot may be going down in any particular episode. Fans know this is coming. We all instinctively take mental note of the new CTU employees and start guessing who the mole will be from the season premiere on. Who’s going to pick up the phone at the end of some random episode and start talking to the terrorist mastermind, telling him “everything is going as planned”? Who’s going to upload the system-crippling trojan backdoor worm virus? Who’s going to turn off the satellite tracking at the exact right moment? Who?! Oh, him? Yeah, figured.
CTU Gets Attacked!
Computer Virus? EMP?! C4?!! Mercenaries?!!! Poison gas?!!!! Holy hell, CTU is one of the most dangerous work environment for a computer tech imaginable. The guys on the Geek Squad don’t have to worry about being gassed to death or getting shot in the fucking forehead while installing Spybot, but it seems CTU techs don’t have that same peace of mind. With every season of ’24′, you can count on something going horribly wrong at CTU, usually resulting in the terrorists sneaking through our defenses with their weapon of mass destruction of choice in tow. But fear not loyal fan. As long as Chloe reformats the master server drives through an encrypted socket (wait, huh?), they’ll be back online and ready to feed Jack intel!
