…And, I have finally given up on 24. Man, oh man, I’ve finally gotten to where I don’t understand the reason these people do a damn thing that they do. There is ALWAYS a more sensible way to deal with things than anyone in the government takes.

Example: You’re a federal agent and you’re with the former Chief of Staff. You need to get into a bank in the middle of the night. You are at the bank manager’s house. Do you knock on the door, show some ID, and enlist the bank manager to help you, or do you break into his house, punch him in the throat, point a gun at him and his wife, kidnap him, and make it look like a robbery? Because in Jack Bauer-land, the latter makes a lot of sense.

Also, on 24, an analyst at a counter-terrorism unit can hack any system, anywhere; turn a walkee-talkee into a scanner; reprogram a Nokia cell phone to be a remote detonator for a bomb; re-route satellites from the other side of the world so that they can see what’s happening in Los Angeles; and create a secure cell phone in seconds by opening a socket for VPN.

But the worst part, the part that irritates me the most about that show, is that no matter where you are in Los Angeles, no matter what part of the day it is, there’s not a single place a CTU agent can’t get to, by car, in ten minutes. Ten damn minutes!