Archive for February, 2007

Honestly, now

I think I’ve learned to stop worrying and love the soap opera that is this season of 24. I put aside my hesitation at Jack going full bore after 18, 22, however many months in a Chinese prison camp. Then I got annoyed at the first inclusion of the Bauer Family Line of Terrorists plot line. I almost gave up at the revelation that Dad was a scumbag who demonstrates where Jack gets the torture gene.

But instead? Fine, it’s a primetime soap opera. Through that lense, it’s tolerable. But it also means that it may well lose live-viewing status and instead exist only in my notTivo.

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