Season Six Prequel
Those of you who are die-hards have no doubt seen this already but I will post it here for your viewing pleasure (sorry about the subtitles). I had not yet seen it and my miscellaneous thoughts are below.
What can we take from this ten minute between-seasons clip? Well, a few things.
First, the head of security for the Chinese consulate is one mean son of a bitch. Previously, we were led to believe he was rather diplomatic and handled the consulate security within the United States. Evidently, he commutes in from Siberia since it appears he oversees each minute of Jack Bauer's torture. And why are they torturing him? Well, they want to learn which of two guys are actually betraying China and feeding info to the U.S. My question is this: If they're just going to kill the guy ruthlessly anyway, why not just cap both of the guys in question? They spent seven months torturing Bauer to figure out which guy is helping the U.S.? And then Cheng Zhi is the judge and jury and assassinates the guy (Hon) who Jack inadvertantly fingers. So I guess that makes Zhi the judge, jury and executioner. Oops, Jack, there goes seven months of resisting interrogation and tolerating torture. I guess they're still kind of pissed about their stupid consulate who ran in front of his firing troops and was hit.
We also learn that Jack is in no better shape at the end of the prequel than at the start. I feel like this would have been a good time to show the diplomatic negotiations that are ultimately going to be needed to free Jack from China. As we've seen in the promos for Season Six, China has agreed to turn Jack back over to the U.S. I don't know if President Wayne Palmer promised something or what (maybe he sold Chloe as a sex slave?) but we know Jack's getting back to the U.S. somehow. Why not explain it here? Unless, as per usual, the writing staff didn't know what direction they were going to take with enough advance notice to film something that actually moves the plot forward. Because make no mistake, people -- this was fluff. This Hon character is a nobody and it will mean nothing to the story.
We also learn that Toyota sponsored this prequel again. And even if we didn't see that in the opening credits, we would have been dumb not to see it when they pulled the camoflauge back on the escape vehicle and you half-expected Rod Roddy from the Price Is Right to shout "A new car!"
Yes, folks, that was a 2007 Toyota RAV4, which couldn't look more out of place in this prequel. The Toyota RAV4 -- for all your espionage needs.
So we're still back where Season Five ended in May. Hey, it's fine with me, I'm just surprised they didn't use this prequel to get Jack back to the United States somehow or at least lay the groundwork for that.
Two weeks to go, folks.
What can we take from this ten minute between-seasons clip? Well, a few things.
First, the head of security for the Chinese consulate is one mean son of a bitch. Previously, we were led to believe he was rather diplomatic and handled the consulate security within the United States. Evidently, he commutes in from Siberia since it appears he oversees each minute of Jack Bauer's torture. And why are they torturing him? Well, they want to learn which of two guys are actually betraying China and feeding info to the U.S. My question is this: If they're just going to kill the guy ruthlessly anyway, why not just cap both of the guys in question? They spent seven months torturing Bauer to figure out which guy is helping the U.S.? And then Cheng Zhi is the judge and jury and assassinates the guy (Hon) who Jack inadvertantly fingers. So I guess that makes Zhi the judge, jury and executioner. Oops, Jack, there goes seven months of resisting interrogation and tolerating torture. I guess they're still kind of pissed about their stupid consulate who ran in front of his firing troops and was hit.
We also learn that Jack is in no better shape at the end of the prequel than at the start. I feel like this would have been a good time to show the diplomatic negotiations that are ultimately going to be needed to free Jack from China. As we've seen in the promos for Season Six, China has agreed to turn Jack back over to the U.S. I don't know if President Wayne Palmer promised something or what (maybe he sold Chloe as a sex slave?) but we know Jack's getting back to the U.S. somehow. Why not explain it here? Unless, as per usual, the writing staff didn't know what direction they were going to take with enough advance notice to film something that actually moves the plot forward. Because make no mistake, people -- this was fluff. This Hon character is a nobody and it will mean nothing to the story.
We also learn that Toyota sponsored this prequel again. And even if we didn't see that in the opening credits, we would have been dumb not to see it when they pulled the camoflauge back on the escape vehicle and you half-expected Rod Roddy from the Price Is Right to shout "A new car!"
Yes, folks, that was a 2007 Toyota RAV4, which couldn't look more out of place in this prequel. The Toyota RAV4 -- for all your espionage needs.
So we're still back where Season Five ended in May. Hey, it's fine with me, I'm just surprised they didn't use this prequel to get Jack back to the United States somehow or at least lay the groundwork for that.
Two weeks to go, folks.
Labels: Season Six
posted by J Money at 10:48:00 AM
1 Comments:
ROTFL! I was enyoing it and in a good mood I might add,but when they uncamouflage the new shiny toyota that was too much,the thing's trash and farcical beyond limits... :''))
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