I am stupid. But Jack Bauer is not.

Day 3 1:00pm-5:00pm

So because Zachary Quinto was in Season 3 of 24 and because I am stupid I Netflixed the first disc of the season and have watched the first four episodes. Until yesterday I had never watched a single episode of the show. And now, of course, I understand its appeal. I quickly realized, mind you, that Zachary Quinto just plays some kind of tech/analyst guy or something and he doesn't do much other than look petulant and whine every once in a while at CTU, but I was already engaged in other aspects of the story before the end of the first episode so I didn't much care. Except that he does look really pretty-boy makeup-y while everyone else looks pretty much gritty-realistic, and I don't quite get what that's about.

Anyway, my thoughts so far:

I was instantly suspicious that someone that we were seeing must be some kind of traitor so I spent the whole first episode trying to guess who it was. They revealed it at the end of the second episode and I have to say, I never would have guessed that the terrorist doing the orchestrating was going to be a CTU person. So good job show.

I'm not really that interested in the storyline about the President and his brother and his doctor girlfriend (Ha! Doctor Girlfriend!), but I'm assuming that that will all become more important at some point.

I'm also not interested in Jack's daughter and her relationship with his protege/partner kid. I actually kind of like Chase, the pseudo partner kid, but I hate Jack's daughter, Kim, and I wish she would just go away. I'm pretty sure that I am just one in a long, long line of people to wish this. I'm also pretty sure that she's hasn't been on the show for at least a couple season's now.

But I like the whole virus thing, I like the CTU people in general, I'm tolerating the "Jack kicking smack" plot, I like the fact that this uber-powerful terrorist brother of Ramon Salazar appears to have only one employee, the CTU insider guy, managing this entire blackmailing the US government situation. That part I like because it's humorous. I like the show in general. Now I think I have to watch the whole season. And possibly then go back and watch the first two seasons. And maybe season 5, which I think was widely regarded as a really good one, as opposed to season 6 which I know for a fact was widely regarded as stupid and boring.

Hmmph. At least this wasn't a post about Heroes.