Chatter Of The Squirrel

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October 12, 2006 on 11:07 pm | In TV | No Comments

Why is this show so big?

It’s got a cool gimmick. And I can imagine how tricky the writing is, trying to keep something happening throughout every minute of every hour.

But still, watching it is torture!

It’s got a number of really implausible characters. A lot of really retarded dialogue and ridiculously stupid reactions.

The stupid teenage daughter that never seems to realise the gravity of the danger she’s in. Letting herself get captured. Developing Stockholm Syndrome for the boy who kidnapped her. Running ahead of safety to throw herself back into danger. Whining about stupid crap.

And an hour after a life harrowing event. She gets pissed at mommy cos mommy and daddy made a baby without telling her first. There are so many slow ‘hours’ in the day, that the writers have to desperately fill up with styrofoam peanuts. But thankfully she could now be dead in a fireball as a consequence of an over-played stereotype that women can’t park.
The wifey playing victim of ‘neglect’ even as hubbie is fighting for his life. Going “boo-hoo my husband slept with his colleague when we were separated” instead of helping out with investigations to uncover her kidnapping. And now she’s got amnesia. This is so soapy for a government conspiracy story.  LAME-O!
The presidential candidate’s son makes a 180 degrees turnaround about covering up his crime. One moment getting pissed at his father for wanting to expose what he has covered-up, and the next moment getting pissed at his father again when daddy turns around and goes along with the cover-up. “You’ld let me go to jail to protect your campaign!” Then a few hours later, “You care more about your campaign than you do about uncovering justice!”
So much of the drama and conflict had to be recycled ad nauseum. The stupidity of the characters is bottomless.  And you can see the plot stretching reality into a thin frayed thread to keep some tension on screen every episode.

Amnesia?!? Good grief.

Why not pull a Deus Ex Machina at the final episode, and let Jack Bauer wake up on a sweaty bed, gasping, “Phew! It’s just a dream!”