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*** I think you have to look at the show through two very specific lens. The first is that the attacks that move the plot forward don't happen one after the other, they happen over nearly 20 years between season one and Live Another Day. Within a ten-year time period, I can four or five terrorist attacks slipping the net and causing damage to the US. You can chalk that up to [[RealityIsUnrealistic reality being unrealistic]]. The other lens is that the show is an action-thriller and most shows and movies in that genre tend to have people and organizations seem more incompetent in order for the plot to move along.
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*** I think you have to look at the show through two very specific lens. The first is that the attacks that move the plot forward don't happen one after the other, they happen over nearly 20 years between season one and Live Another Day. Within a ten-year time period, I can think of four or five terrorist attacks slipping the net and causing damage to the US. You can chalk that up to [[RealityIsUnrealistic reality being unrealistic]]. The other lens is that the show is an action-thriller and most shows and movies in that genre tend to have people and organizations seem more incompetent in order for the plot to move along.
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*** I think you have to look at the show through two very specific lens. The first is that the attacks that move the plot forward don't happen one after the other, they happen over nearly 20 years between season one and Live Another Day. Within a ten-year time period, I can four or five terrorist attacks slipping the net and causing damage to the US. You can chalk that up to reality being unrealistic. The other lens is that the show is an action-thriller and most shows and movies in that genre tend to have
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*** I think you have to look at the show through two very specific lens. The first is that the attacks that move the plot forward don't happen one after the other, they happen over nearly 20 years between season one and Live Another Day. Within a ten-year time period, I can four or five terrorist attacks slipping the net and causing damage to the US. You can chalk that up to [[RealityIsUnrealistic reality being unrealistic. unrealistic]]. The other lens is that the show is an action-thriller and most shows and movies in that genre tend to havehave people and organizations seem more incompetent in order for the plot to move along.
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** Consider that it's just seven (eight) bad ''days'' out of (as of now) about ten ''years''. Yeah, I seriously doubt that the rest of the time is tea parties with Driscoll and Chloe, but considering that some people are still working at the same CTU Branch between seasons, it must be definitively not the same character-killing level of events the other 99.9% of the time.
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** Consider that it's just seven (eight) bad ''days'' out of (as of now) about ten ''years''. Yeah, I seriously doubt that the rest of the time is tea parties with Driscoll and Chloe, Chloe but considering that some people are still working at the same CTU Branch between seasons, it must be definitively not the same character-killing level of events the other 99.9% of the time.
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** He didn't ''stay'' loyal; up to Ep.4, he was on it only because when captured he learnt that there was something else going on than just him being traded fo safety (he recognized Fayed, after all). He escaped to have Fayed, but failed to catch him. Only after killing Black Jack and the Visalia bomb going off does he get "recharged". And he ''does'' call his (former) superiors on it, although he doesn't manage to call Palmer out on it. He also tells Heller he understands why they couldn't get him out and Heller did mention Audrey met some "specific" kind of blockades in her back dealing...
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** He didn't ''stay'' loyal; up to Ep.4, he was on it only because when captured he learnt that there was something else going on than just him being traded fo for safety (he recognized Fayed, after all). He escaped to have Fayed, Fayed but failed to catch him. Only after killing Black Jack and the Visalia bomb going off does he get "recharged". And he ''does'' call his (former) superiors on it, although he doesn't manage to call Palmer out on it. He also tells Heller he understands why they couldn't get him out and Heller did mention Audrey met some "specific" kind of blockades in her back dealing...
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**** I think you have to look at the show through two very specific lens. The first is that the attacks that move the plot forward don't happen one after the other, they happen over nearly 20 years between season one and Live Another Day. Within a ten-year time period, I can four or five terrorist attacks slipping the net and causing damage to the US. You can chalk that up to reality being unrealistic. The other lens is that the show is an action-thriller and most shows and movies in that genre tend to have
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* In Season 2, Episode 12, Jack interrogates Syed Ali and finally gets him to break and talk by showing him footage that's supposedly a live feed of his family being executed by security
forces in Ali's home country, which is later revealed to be fake doctored footage. This is all well and good... Except during the fake out, we get a scene of President Palmer being notified of this action and calling Jack because he isn't approving of it, and after the president gets off the call, Jack pretends out loud that the president approved to unnerve Ali. My question is, if Jack's plan was using doctored footage the whole time, then why was DOD or the president even notified in the first place since it was never going to be a real execution? There was no logical reason for the President to hear about it and call Jack over it other than for tension and drama.
forces in Ali's home country, which is later revealed to be fake doctored footage. This is all well and good... Except during the fake out, we get a scene of President Palmer being notified of this action and calling Jack because he isn't approving of it, and after the president gets off the call, Jack pretends out loud that the president approved to unnerve Ali. My question is, if Jack's plan was using doctored footage the whole time, then why was DOD or the president even notified in the first place since it was never going to be a real execution? There was no logical reason for the President to hear about it and call Jack over it other than for tension and drama.
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* In Season 2, Episode 12, Jack interrogates Syed Ali and finally gets him to break and talk by showing him footage that's supposedly a live feed of his family being executed by security
American security forces in Ali's home country, which is later revealed to be fake doctored footage. This is all well and good... Except during the fake out, we get a scene of President Palmer being notified of this action and calling Jack because he isn't approving of it, and after the president gets off the call, Jack pretends out loud that the president approved to unnerve Ali. My question is, if Jack's plan was using doctored footage the whole time, then why was DOD or the president even notified in the first place since it was never going to be a real execution? There was no logical reason for the President to hear about it and call Jack over it other than for tension and drama.
