24 Recap: Day6, 9:00 – 10:00pm

Title: “Day 6, 9:00 – 10:00pm”
Original Airdate: 4/2/07
GMMR Recapper: LaLa

WHAT?!?!?!? Wha- wha- Is this some sort of April Fools joke, one day late?? Are they serious?!?! I cannot believe that after regaining his presidency and defeating Demon Daniels for good, Wayne STILL went ahead and re-ordered the nuclear strike that he himself called off only an hour ago!!!! Has he lost his mind with the whole, I-only-care-about-reasserting-my-authority-and-gaining-back-my-power speech?!?! Have all those adrenaline shots zapped his brain cells?!?! No… it’s all happening again! Head… spinning… 24 world… repeating itself…flashbacks of power-mad Logan… returning…. Nooooooooooo!

Seriously, though, if I thought that the past few episodes were stretching the credibility of this show… I mean, give me a break. It makes zero sense for Wayne to call off the nuclear attack on the Middle East from his hospital bed, and then once he firmly regained the presidency, reorder said attack because now it was HIS idea and not his VP’s. I mean, that reminds me of a zillion comedic movies where the assistant to the head villain makes a great suggestion, the villain then shoots down said suggestion as stupid and/or bad, and then moments later the villain makes the same suggestion and tries to pass it off as their own brilliant idea. It’s farce. It’s silly. It’s… sigh. I really hope Wayne is only changing his mind because he’s lost it… reaaaally really hoping that, 24.

In other news, very much like a wolf caught in a trap, Gredenko literally chopped off his own arm in order to escape CTU’s clutches. But of course, he didn’t exactly think it through very well, because by the end of the episode he had collapsed dead underneath the Santa Monica Pier. And as the ocean waves crashed violently against his lifeless and now blood-drained body, I kept thinking to myself…. Really, Wayne?? Really??

Of course, before Gredenko died, he still managed to get Fayed caught. Not sure why Gredenko waited until after he had cut off his own arm to rat out Fayed in a public place, when he could have just done it the CTU-wire-tapped way as originally planned. But again, obviously logic and the whole bleeding-to-death thing wasn’t in his brain power to foresee. Which begs the question: how did a man that stupid ever get so far in the evil terrorist world? But I digress. Anyway, Fayed is finally in custody (but of course, the nukes are still out there in the safe hands of his minions), Gredenko is dead, and yep, you guessed it, Wayne has gone bonkers.

One person who has surprisingly regained his power of reason, though, is formerly-weasel-in-Chief Tom Lennox, who seems to have done a complete 180 turn from what he was at the start of the season. That whole fruit bowl secret recording device in Demon Daniels’ office sure was a genius move on Tom’s part. And the fact that he is so completely against the crazy nuclear strike is also a major bonus for his character’s sanity. Weird how the 24 world has gone topsy-turvy from where it was at the beginning of this season. Now Tom and Sandra Palmer are the sane voices of reason, and Wayne has become an irrational fanatic. My head hurts.

Finally, I must mention Agent Doyle’s increasing coolness factor. Yes, he may be gruff and rather unreadable as a person, but the fact that he went ahead and erased the damning evidence about Milo’s major mistake in order to keep the CTU team running at full steam… well, that was very cool. Don’t know why he couldn’t have just told Nadia that he was going to do that, though, instead of making her think that she was going to have to betray Milo in order to keep Doyle from making a scene. Very odd and unnecessary, but I guess Doyle just has major people problems.

Kind of like Chloe, who was strangely absent from this episode – save for one random close-up, of course. Jack was also largely absent from this episode as well…. Hmmm…. maybe they finally took a little break to go to the bathroom – or better yet, actually eat some food. Personally, I’d like to see Jack and Chloe eat food. I bet Jack would gnaw on some meat really intensely, and Chloe would be all pouty and complain about her food not being cooked well enough. Come on people, this is a 24 parody skit just waiting to be made! (and speaking of, did you all see last week’s brilliant episode of “South Park”??? Best. 24 Parody. EVER.)

LaLa is a writer who currently resides in LaLa Land, aka Los Angeles. LaLa also likes to sing. LaLa also knows some lawyers in a law office. LaLa is also prone to making bad jokes, like this one. And of course, LaLa also loves her some quality television shows with quality actors on them, like House… and The Office… and 24… and, well, pretty much any smartly written show that doesn’t include a fat guy with a hot skinny wife or the words “two and a half men” in the title.

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