My review of the first of the new 24 and their collection of the latest and greatest cliches. Or, a quick and dirty 24 plot generator.
- Jack is retired
- Jack is trying to get back to normal life
- Random un-named-but-brown-and-islamic country is on the verge of some great peace breakthrough with the USA [saluting]
- [bad guys] do [bad things] in something unrelated
- [random person] has information that he can only get to Jack
- Jack still has a hotline to the Prez and calls in a favour
- Jack has to get [random person] to a place far from where he is
- Jack and [random person] opt to walk down the street 12 blocks instead of just taking a Taxi
- At the last second more [bad things] from [bad guys] happen
- Jack still tries to get back to normal life
- Freddie Prince Jr.? WTF?
- Starbuck works at CTU!? Awesome. She’s hot too.
- Random interpersonal things happen at CTU to gie the illusion that there is character development
- Random un-named-but-brown-and-islamic president seems good and noble but [close person] and [other close person] seem creepy
- Cloe is still at CTU and all moody.
- Cloe is suddenly crippled by a new system. “Ha ha look at the geek who doesn’t know stuff!”. Oh what an original plot twist.
- Cloe says something ironic and 4th wall breaking… “didn’t this happen too fast?”
- Jack is brought back to CTU when he just wants to get back to normal life.
- Hey look, they may have solved it in the first 2 episodes! What are the chances there’ll be a [plot twist]
- Random [bad guys] still seem to have unlimited money and personnel to do [bad things] and [bad guy leaders] are all placed high up as [trusted figures]
- Technology!!
- [Bad guys] appear to have a line to [really high up person]
- [Good CTU agent] has a mysterious past and a work cell phone number available to [unsavoury people from the past]
- More random interpersonal stuff happens
- [Bad person suspect] is brought into CTU (I’ll bet Jack will get to interrogate [bad person suspect])
- They won’t listen to Jack!
- Jack is given the standard “I know you’ve been a good cop for [long time], but I’m just going to ignore your well thought out argument” response to a well thought out argument.
- I bet Jack will go rouge!
- Jack still tries to get back to normal life
- Jack ignores going back to normal life
- Cloe can’t pull up a user dossier, but hack hack into archives of [surveillance] and pull up imagery needed in a few seconds.
- Technology. ENHANCE!!
- Jack and Cloe get themselves into trouble with their own team (I’ll bet they have to go rouge!)
- Jack convinces a government agency he doesn’t work for to give him support, personnel, weapons from the armory to [follow a wild and crazy hunch]
- DRAMATIC PLOT TWIST!
Then repeat the last 3 steps for the rest of the season.