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Fleet Admiral
This was the first episode I've enjoyed in a long, long time. Having Jack spend most of the hour locked in a fire-fight was a nice refreshing way to come back to the real-time formula. I'm sure they've done it before, but this is the first time in awhile I've actually thought it was done well.
Chloe was great as usual, and her standing up to Hastings was even better. Likewise, Hastings' finally becomes a likeable guy when *he* stands up for Chloe. Well done.
Loved seeing Renee again, especially with how she saved the day for Jack and Cole. Very cool.
The Dana thing ... ugh. I was tolerating the lame Kevin story plot and was glad it was all over, and while I'd like to think the writers have some kind of larger endgame in mind and have planned ahead the way some other shows do, history has proven to me time and again that the staff on 24 doesn't seem to do that very often, or if they do, they don't seem to do it very well. Still, there's at least what, eleven episodes left? Maybe there's some revelatory plot point that will make all this make sense ... but for now, I'm gonna have to go with the mob and just say that those last two minutes were pretty unbelievably dumb. Reminded me quite a bit of the end of "Zero Hour" - the third season finale of Enterprise. Just way out of left field, and not in a good way.
Luckily, Katee Sackoff is a great actress, so hopefully it will give her something interesting to do for the remainder of the season, but we're definitely heading down a heavily traveled road with the mole-inside-CTU schtick. Not my favorite plot point to be sure.
Chloe was great as usual, and her standing up to Hastings was even better. Likewise, Hastings' finally becomes a likeable guy when *he* stands up for Chloe. Well done.
Loved seeing Renee again, especially with how she saved the day for Jack and Cole. Very cool.
The Dana thing ... ugh. I was tolerating the lame Kevin story plot and was glad it was all over, and while I'd like to think the writers have some kind of larger endgame in mind and have planned ahead the way some other shows do, history has proven to me time and again that the staff on 24 doesn't seem to do that very often, or if they do, they don't seem to do it very well. Still, there's at least what, eleven episodes left? Maybe there's some revelatory plot point that will make all this make sense ... but for now, I'm gonna have to go with the mob and just say that those last two minutes were pretty unbelievably dumb. Reminded me quite a bit of the end of "Zero Hour" - the third season finale of Enterprise. Just way out of left field, and not in a good way.
Luckily, Katee Sackoff is a great actress, so hopefully it will give her something interesting to do for the remainder of the season, but we're definitely heading down a heavily traveled road with the mole-inside-CTU schtick. Not my favorite plot point to be sure.
). Still, it seems like 4 rifles each with a sight and 30 minutes worth of ammo would result in someone dying.
. I wonder if the 24 writers have ever considered revealing who the Mole® is in the first episode in a season, lending some actual tension to his/her scenes for the rest of the season. This "shock value" stuff lost its credibility when Nina was revealed to be the Bad Guy way back in the season 1 finale. It barely made sense then, and 8 years later it's waaaaaaaaaaaay stupider. If they really do go on to make a movie, I Sincerely Hope That This Is The Last Time I Find Myself Here 
moments the writers pull out of their nether regions. I especially liked tomalok301's reaction before he censored himself--it pretty much captured all of my views on the matter too.
moments because that's the number 1 cliche in the book. Thank you for coming up with a fine episode only to have it come crashing down in the final 30 seconds.
