No episode thread yet, so here it goes. I've got a recap of the episode on my blog post but won't take up the space here.
Observations:
* Wow, I bet President Obama would love to get President Heller's secrets for how to pacify a hostile and antagonistic crowd! When we saw the start of this address, it was heading rapidly toward fiascoville, with multiple members of Parliament rudely interrupting Heller and mocking him. Yet, in this episode, they're sitting and listening respectfully, and even applaud him when he's done.
* It sure looks like Kate Morgan has crossed completely over to seeing and doing things the Jack Bauer-way. Things didn't work out so well for the last female agent who followed that path (Renee Walker), but I suppose this opens the door for Yvonne Strahovski to take over if there are any more mini-seasons of "24" in the future.
* For some reason, during the scenes with CIA agents Kate Morgan and Erik Ritter, I found myself comparing them to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The dynamic in the show is that Morgan is the more experienced agent but on her way out, while Ritter is hungry and eager to take her place. I think the comparison came to me because of Ann Althouse's blog post about Clinton/Obama and the New York Times' replacing Jill Abramson with the first African-American editor of the Times. It's not a perfect comparison because Gbenga Akinnagbe, who plays Ritter, is a few years old than Strahovski; and to be clear, I'm definitely not suggesting that this is what the writers were thinking.
* Marine Captain Cordero is going to be very sorry that he didn't watch season 8 of 24,
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* Interesting but not surprising that 24 continues its trend of casting actors who aren't of Arab or Middle-Eastern descent to play Middle Eastern bad guys. Here, Naveed is played by Sascha Dhawan, who (like many of the actors playing new characters, is British) is of Indian descent.
Observations:
* Wow, I bet President Obama would love to get President Heller's secrets for how to pacify a hostile and antagonistic crowd! When we saw the start of this address, it was heading rapidly toward fiascoville, with multiple members of Parliament rudely interrupting Heller and mocking him. Yet, in this episode, they're sitting and listening respectfully, and even applaud him when he's done.
* It sure looks like Kate Morgan has crossed completely over to seeing and doing things the Jack Bauer-way. Things didn't work out so well for the last female agent who followed that path (Renee Walker), but I suppose this opens the door for Yvonne Strahovski to take over if there are any more mini-seasons of "24" in the future.
* For some reason, during the scenes with CIA agents Kate Morgan and Erik Ritter, I found myself comparing them to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The dynamic in the show is that Morgan is the more experienced agent but on her way out, while Ritter is hungry and eager to take her place. I think the comparison came to me because of Ann Althouse's blog post about Clinton/Obama and the New York Times' replacing Jill Abramson with the first African-American editor of the Times. It's not a perfect comparison because Gbenga Akinnagbe, who plays Ritter, is a few years old than Strahovski; and to be clear, I'm definitely not suggesting that this is what the writers were thinking.
* Marine Captain Cordero is going to be very sorry that he didn't watch season 8 of 24,
Spoiler:
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* Interesting but not surprising that 24 continues its trend of casting actors who aren't of Arab or Middle-Eastern descent to play Middle Eastern bad guys. Here, Naveed is played by Sascha Dhawan, who (like many of the actors playing new characters, is British) is of Indian descent.
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