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 Posted:   Mar 25, 2003 - 12:42 PM   
 By:   dragon53   (Member)

After several weeks of hiatus, 24 returns tonight. I saw one commercial which featured very loud rock music---I hope this is restricted to the commercial and not the series. My guess on the new plot: the U.S. is so frustrated by its failure to eliminate Saddam by stealth fighters and smart bombs, that it decides to unleash it's most feared anti-terrorist weapon in its arsenal.....CTU's Jack Bauer. Jack is sent to Baghdad where he eliminates Saddam with prejudice. Before he left for Iraq, Jack realizes that his daughter, Kim, is a magnet for trouble and dangerous, perilous situations so he gives her a one-way plane ticket to the safest and dullest place in the U.S.-----Boise, Idaho. On board the Boise-bound airliner, Kim is shocked to find out it's being skyjacked by Saddam and his two psycho sons who have fled Iraq. They are aided in the skyjacking by a stewardess who's really Nina in disguise. It's revealed that the Saddam that Jack eliminated was really a double. On the airliner, Saddam randomly picks out one hostage from the 253 passengers and it's.....Kim (surprise, surprise). Saddam and his sons strap a container of nerve gas to Kim and decide to fly the jet to Los Angeles.....where Jack has just returned from Baghdad. Also on board is a hunky 21- year-old U.S. air marshall, just divorced, who is attracted to Kim. While trying to disarm the nerve gas bomb, the air marshall and Kim exchange telephone numbers. Then Kim tells the marshall the nerve gas bomb will detonate when the jet reaches LA.....in 24 hours. The marshall then asks Kim if she's involved with anyone. Then they overhear Saddam talking on his cell phone to someone named, "Sherry".....

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 26, 2003 - 12:24 PM   
 By:   dragon53   (Member)

Unfortunately, so is Kim "I'm in trouble again" Bauer.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 28, 2003 - 12:32 PM   
 By:   dragon53   (Member)

Jack's Back.....and so is the Non-Film Board. Thanks, Bill Smith. Now if you can just delete Kim from 24.....

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 29, 2003 - 7:04 PM   
 By:   betenoir   (Member)

A technical flaw in the special effects: the nuclear detonation was quite good, but when they showed the rising mushroom cloud from above, it cast a shadow as if illuminated from a higher source! The sun wasn't up yet, and the nuclear fireball generates its own light, so that shadow should not have existed as shown.

It's only a minor flaw in an excellent series (except for Kim of course). At the beginning last year, here role was OK, but now it is a distracting "Perils of Pauline" nuisance. Either rescue her once and for all, or kill her off, but get her out of the story!

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 29, 2003 - 8:41 PM   
 By:   dragon53   (Member)

BETENOIR: I love 24. I haven't looked forward to a tv drama like 24 in a long time.....but Kim's weekly Damsel-In-Distress episodes ruin the show. I hope you saw my previous FSM post about THE BOSTON GLOBE's article on the psycho, wacko women in 24---the writer shared our sentiments about Kim. Speaking of Air Force One and mushroom clouds, my local newspaper said the actress who played Jack's wife, Leslie Hope, starred in a recent lesbian movie on cable. Ironically, her love interest was Wendy Crewson who played the first lady in AIR FORCE ONE. I hope the movie didn't end with Crewson leaving Jack's wife for.....Kim.

 
 
 Posted:   Mar 29, 2003 - 9:11 PM   
 By:   dragon53   (Member)

PS, Speaking of AIR FORCE ONE, actress Liesel Matthews who played the daughter of Wendy Crewson and Harrison Ford, is the niece of Hyatt hotel founder, Jay Pritzker. Matthews sued her father recently, claiming he mismanaged the family fortune and cheated her out of $1 BILLION. The Hyatt fortune is estimated at $15 billion. When the Hyatt family fortune/misfortune is made into a tv movie, Liesel Matthews will be played by Elisha Cuthbert.....otherwise known as "Kim" on 24.

 
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