tweenyfore

I really liked the first series of 24. True I did miss a few, but after the first episode, I was hooked. I was really looking forward to the second series of 24. I have mixed feelings.

I remember the first episode of the first series. Kim sneaked out with a mate and joined some boys for a wild night out. That seems ok. In the new series, she has to fight off a violent child and wife beater on the first day of her new job. Hmm... First series, first few hours, Jack shoots George Mason in the leg with a tranquiliser. Second series, first episode, Jack shoots a key witness and saws his head off. I don't know if I'm being more cynical (I remember Jack cutting off a terrorist's thumb and IDing him with his fingerprint anaylser in his car in the first series) but I'm finding the suspension of my disbelief is hanging on a thin thread. In fact the whole nuclear bomb plot is a lame (witness the first Austin Powers movie. Dr Evil says "Lets do what we alway do and steal a nuclear bomb")

I also can't remember much the dialouge of the first series, but in this one it's sub Hollyoaks quality. It's just so perfunctory and flat and is gulity of only describing the plot. Everyone is so interchangable. Even the trademark direction, such as the split screens, are looking tired.

But, despite it, I'll keep watching. Mason getting radiation poisoning is interesting, and the return of Nina Myer deserves to get the pulse racing. There is just enough to suggest it will twist and turn and accelerate it's current plodding pace. There are still the cameos to come (last time we got Dennis Hopper and Lou Diamond Philps). And there is always Kim. Keep running Kim, keep running...