Jack Shit:"2:00am-3:00am"

(SPOILER SPACE: If you do not want any of Monday's episode of '24' spoiled for you do NOT scroll down past the picture of President Charles Logan)


Last Night was Oz hour as Alvarez and Officer Brass both had guest roles on the show. Alvarez as a US Marshall that Jack knocked out to help hijack the plane to get back the recording implicating President Logan. Brass played Ross a bar patron whom Chloe stun gunned TWICE because he was hitting on her while she was trying to connect to CTU through a dry wi-fi connection in a hotel bar. Apparently in L.A. during martial law even hotel bars are open til 3am, crazy place California is.

I imagine '24' is the hardest show on television to write for. The plot twists and real time format make it very difficult. That said, I'm sure a season is written and when it's separated into 24 episodes, some storylines may be stretched out in order to complete the format. This is what I think is happening here. Last night's episode was the slowest episode of 24, maybe ever. Everything was Jack on the Plane, Martha Logan at the retreat, and Chloe, Buchanan and Hayes with the meddling of Miles. Of course Jack got the recording and of course President Logan will try to have the plane shot down and of course Jack will escape that somehow. These events are pretty predictable. Right now I'm predicting a Bauer interrogation of Logan as the big payoff with that German Agent giving Bauer's location up to the Chinese as the end of season cliffhanger.

If you are wondering if the President Logan character is just another evil Republican on a show written by liberal Hollywood writers, you may want to read this New York Post Interview with Gregory Itzin the man who plays President Logan. The show is created by Joel Surnow who is a Republican and frequent guest on the Rush Limbaugh show and Howard Gordon a liberal. Logan doesn't believe his character is supposed to be like Nixon or Bush, he does pattern his mannerisms after JFK somewhat though. He claims it's never said what party Logan is from although many times political disagreements are referenced between him and known Democrat David Palmer and succeeded President Keeler (we still don't know how), who ran against Palmer in the election during Season 3.

Now you know Jack Shit.