Kung Fu?

So I stayed up wicked late last night and caught the SF...well done guys. Very well done.

A few random thoughts on the final two hours of the day....

Thank God that Tony and Michelle ended up back together. I spent the first hour with my fingers crossed that Mandy wouldn't get some strange "urge" and shoot him. I wasn't really all that concerned when the car blew up since the geniuses at Fox showed us all a preview of her confrontation with Jack...nice effort building up the suspense. I did feel pretty badly for Michelle though....Of course when Tony turns up safe and alive, Bill Buchanon says Michelle has left the office and then they cut to a car in the parking lot in the rain...I look over at my wife and say - they damn well better not have her do something stupid like kill herself...then Tony has to go with the Secret Service assassin to try and find Jack and we all have to think - Is Tony going to get popped by the evil dude? Fortunately we were all left with a very touching moment between 24's favorite couple.

The whole Chinese Consulate storyline was a little annoying. Once they shot the missle down I looked at the clock and said - oh boy we still have 35 minutes left. We'd better not get stuck watching them drag out the Consulate story...thank heavens they didn't. One of the few real surprises of the night was the abduction of Agent Burns. How cool was that when the door of the SUV opened and Annoying Security Dude was sitting there. Whoa. Makes you wonder how many people have been put on a boat to China never to be seen again.

So Marwan commits suicide by jumping out of a parking garage?? They couldn't have come up with a better way for this guy to go out?? Better still - couldn't they have found a way to keep him alive and have him escape?? Mandy manages to show up every season to wreak havoc. I think we needed someone like Marwan to show up in the middle of the story when things are lagging - since we don't have Sherry Palmer to love to hate anymore. Oh well...RIP Mummy you will be missed.

As for Vice President Logan - he is a shmuck! Nothing new to report there but I have to say it out loud. What a spineless jellyfish. The real question is how the heck this guy got to be Vice President. Makes you question Keeler's decision making skills...but don't even get me started on those. Air Force One is in danger of being shot down by a missle. The President and his son are strapped in and bracing for the worst...Nah - they are hugging in a conference room so they can be tossed around like rag dolls if/when something actually does happen...whatever. Back to Logan...Best line of the night - "Hear no evil". Watching him try and stare Palmer down was classic. The little smirk on Palmer's face...like he's thinking "You want to go little man?? I didn't think so." I'll miss Palmer next season unless he shows up 10 eps in to run CTU or lead a covert ops team on a mission. The folks at Fox will come up with something.

What about our favorite Super Agent Jack Bauer?? I liked how things ended up with him. So a very large number of people think he is dead. Does this include the Chinese? Are they going to believe the Logan Adminstration if they try and tell them Jack was killed by the Secret Service trying to escape?? Annoying Security Dude seems a little smarter than that. Who knows...Now he gets to wander the world like Kung Fu...constantly on the move but only a phone call away should America need him. Jack and Audrey?? Wow - that sucked....and how'd you like to be Audrey? First your husband dies then the man you love dies (or so you are left to think...) Ouch. After finding her extremely annoying for the last several hours (but not Chloe annoying) - I actually felt bad for her at the end. Personally I was hoping Jack would give her a call before he skipped town but we'll never know. Nice conversation between Palmer and Jack. I liked how Palmer kept calling him "my friend". Don't know why but I did. Hopefully it won't be the last time the two of them speak....hey - we can hope right?

Oh yeah - I guess someone needs to tell Kim that her dad is dead. Where's Chloe?? She'll be able to be tactful right??