Definitely below the fold material. It's too dumb to be out in the open where everyone can see it... Yes, it's like a train wreck in slow motion, it gets sloooowwwwly worse and worse.

Okay let's start with the farce of a Cabinet Meeting where the Veep tries to grab the Presidency. Among the many, many, many things wrong with this whole takeover thing... let's just pick a couple and go at it. This is a look at the easy stuff - the stuff that makes so little sense, just from a story perspective, that the more complicated issues fade to insignificance.

How is it that the Veep and the President have such HUGELY divergent views on how to handle terrorists? If you stop to think about it - they are supposedly from the same party (that's how our system works) they should have nearly the same outlook as to how to run things... maybe differing in degree - not completely different philosophies! This is nearly like taking Jesse Jackson and Pat Robertson, putting them on the show and trying to convince us that they ran a campaign together AND managed to get elected... Sure - tell me another one.

During the idiotic (we won't even deign to talk about the legalities because we would then devolve into total head-banging mode) excuse for a hearing about the President's ability to lead the country... the Veep insists that the President isn't fit to lead because he wants to appease the enemy instead of lob bombs at them (the Prez called off the Veep's nuclear strike). He considers this to be absolute proof that the President isn't fit, that the injury has scrambled his thinking... The problem is, that's what the President was trying to do BEFORE he was nearly killed. So how can the Veep say that it's inconsistent behavior? On this basis alone... let's not even get into whether or not the laws are on his side or even how this would really be done... he has lost his argument. Period.

These are only a couple of the in your face moronic attempts to create tension that simply kill the entire show. I don't care if the Veep wants to throw bombs at the "country of Fayed"... I do care that the writers have so little regard for logic and for the basic laws that make the US what it is. I'd keep going, but there's no point...

For heaven sake, could one of the writers please go back to High School and take a class in government??? Please!

More intrigue at CTU... involving Nadia, Milo, and Doyle... (*** smothers yawn***) who the hell cares?

Back to the incredibly farce-like meeting. The voting is tied on retaining the President, then the Veep challenges the vote saying Karen Hayes wasn't officially reinstated. Hair tearing, eye bleeding, horridly annoying scenes of backstabbing and manipulation now occur... wake me when it's over. ... Oh we're back... the Prez wins. Ho-hum...

Meanwhile, Jack has been interrogating Gredenko. The Russian obviously knows American law better than the writers do... he wants a deal before he will turn in Fayed. Jack fakes a deal. They wire up Gredenko and inject his arm with some nuclear type stuff so he can be tracked.. We all see where this is going.

Well, of course, Gredenko has Fayed and his boys cut the arm off so they can slip out the back way. *sigh* This is where the only scene worth watching, comes into play...

Jack takes out Fayed's boys while Fayed and Gredenko slip out the back. Gredenko is bleeding all over the place (what a shock). They are at the Santa Monica Pier and it's totally empty (yeah, right) until they run into a bar. On the television they are showing a picture of Fayed. It's a bar full of blue collar good ol' boy types (I don't remember seeing any women). When they're half way across the room, Gredenko stops and yells out to the bar that "This is the man they are looking for, this is Fayed!"

It takes a few minutes but everyone jumps him at once. Fayed gets off a shot, taking out one guy, but that's all and the crowd starts beating the crap out of him (YAY!), Gredenko sneaks out another door (naturally). Just then Jack runs in and yells at everyone to get away from Fayed while firing shots into the ceiling. Fayed starts yelling something and Jack turns around and kicks him in the head telling him to "Shut up". (It was a thing of beauty).

We end up with the President actually launching missiles at Fayed's country. With the wimpy "little boy" excuse of - everyone thinks I'm weak... well I'll show them!

Only next week will tell how much worse this show can get. Sadly, we need WAY more Jack and WAY less CTU and President. Unfortunately I don't think we're going to get it.

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