Oh yeah - it's all below the fold... I want to know what the people who wrote this show are thinking? Are they smoking something? Drinking heavily? Frustrated soap opera writers? Good grief - what a bunch of slop!

We had yet another nearly entire episode of tense close encounters between various people. I begin to think someone brought in their teenage kids to model angst.

How many times does the word Russia have to be shouted into the Veep's ear for him to understand that it's not only the Arab terrorists, there are Russian terrorists too... Apparently that isn't concerning him at all, he is only awaiting his chance to turn the Middle East into a glass parking lot. It's an idea I've had on a few occasions, but then again I'm not sitting there with the keys to the bombs either.

Back at CTU we have some juvenile hand holding and Chloe muttering at Nadia and Milo that she knows they're breaking the rules and Nadia is using Milo's computer logon... Now if only she had caught them passing little football shaped notes to each other, the scenario of a very overgrown high school class would have been complete. Geeze!

The bad guys get one drone launched with one nuke. They load up the other 2 on a truck and haul out because they know they've been found. Gredenko and Fayed are having a pissing contest over who should blame who for everything that's going wrong. (they don't think about Jack)

CTU finds the drone - then naturally loses it again. (why not - they can't keep track of anything else). In the meantime, Jack finds out that Audrey is dead... oh goody even more angst. His SIL Marilyn tells him this. (I think she needs to stay away from Jack - he seems to kill off every woman who comes near him except Chloe) I know where all this is going - ho-hum... Jack wants to get the people who killed Audrey. Okay fine - go do it - but can we please get to some action?

Not likely. Now we're back at the White House bunker. The Veep holds a meeting of the Joint Chiefs... how come not a single one of them actually talks? Do they really expect us to believe that the Veep can order a nuke to be launched and NO ONE AT ALL has anything to say other than "Okay Mr. Vice President"??? Oh PLEASE! The only one they had speaking was Karen Hayes who was naturally fighting it. I foresee a scene with the President's sister next week about the President's condition... (let me just stick myself with needles - that one will be painful to watch)

Okay - let's cut to the end - cause this is just too irritating. Nadia has been arrested as a spy (apparently the only people CTU can arrest and actually hold in custody are their own people). We already know Nadia will turn out to be innocent. I guess we'll find the culprit - but by now I'm wondering... why bother? There are more moles in CTU than there are terrorists in the world.

They do manage to find the guy who is controlling the drone with the nuke - 3 blocks from CTU... laugh of the night - Buchanan orders a total lock down of the facility! Because the drone guide is 3 blocks away??? If the nuke going off that morning didn't cause them to be on the highest alert - why the hell are they worried about a guy driving a drone?

They get the guy, avert the explosion, but the Veep is still going to bomb the Middle East country that Fayed is from. Didn't see that one coming like for 5 miles away now did you?

Honestly, was this show written by 12 year olds - or is that insulting to 12 year olds? I'll finish this season - but I have serious doubts about expending time on it next year. All the good stuff - like Jack kicking ass - has been nearly completely dropped this year. It's all intense close-in muttering encounters of people acting like idiots.

Not to mention asking us to believe that the Vice President - no matter the circumstances - can have a meeting about starting a war... and not one of the JOINT CHIEFS has a thing to say???

They must be total idiots writing this tripe - it's the only explanation. Now it's become like a train wreck - how much worse can it get?

I think I'll go back and rent season one.

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