24 (4/4/05) Spoilers!!!

[fett527]

One of the things I really don't like about this and the past couple of seasons is that they put training wheels on. Story arcs get resolved within 8 episodes or so, making it possible for the casual viewer to keep up. One of the things I liked the most about season 1 is that if you missed episode 1, you were screwed. You were going to be lost from there on out. It was a refreshing change from "normal" TV.

I imagine lots of people prefer the training wheels, though.

I'd prefer monster truck tires personally. Yeah, you could start watching the new plots and be fine without watching the first plotline.

 

[Truth Seeker]

I'm no air force guru, but wouldn't the doors only need to be open long enough to launch the missile, which is a few seconds? Then they could close again? And once closed, it would disappear again? Or would a radar lock, once achieved, remain, even when it tried to go stealthy again?

It was pretty predictable that they were going to shoot down Air Force one...I wasn't sure whether the producers would actually let them succeed though. And what would the terrorists do with those keys if they got them? Aren't the nukes pointed only at other countries?

Unless it's a matter of assuring destruction by causing one or many to be fired, resulting in other countries retaliating, even though it's a terrorist act that caused the initial fire? Then it would be basically mutually assured destruction of everyone.

Seems like this season features a plot dependent upon a lot of factors happening exactly right. If one fails, the whole thing fails.

Banshee

DJ is correct...the open bay, will rev up the radar signature pretty quickly*breaking the shape of the plane*...*knowledge pool from the Commondore 128D game:MircoProse--Stealth Fighter*, but the response to turn around and attack a plane behind the AF1, with a missile doing Mach 3+, within a 5-mile radius...is pretty near impossible but could be done, if the defenders are quick on their toes. And radars are known to have blind spots...theory speaking.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

From what I've read on Stealth Tech in our planes is that they make the plane very difficult to detect until it gets right up on you, so if normal radar was picking up F-15's at 100 miles, it wasn't confirming the F117 until 10 miles out, giving it enough time to engage it's target before they can effectively respond and defend against it.

 

[Dark Jezter]

just who was the woman who was searching Anderson's apartment?

I don't know, but whoever she was, she was damn hot. I was a little disappointed when Jack shot her because we wouldn't be seeing her anymore.

 

[Remus Lupin]

I don't know, but whoever she was, she was damn hot. I was a little disappointed when Jack shot her because we wouldn't be seeing her anymore.

If I'm not mistaken, she was the one sleeping with the pilot when they kidnapped his family. (Footnote, wouldn't it really suck, to be fooling around on your wife, only to discover that she was kidnapped by the colleagues of the person you're sleeping with, and then find out that they've been killed, only seconds before being killed yourself? Right before the lights go out, I imagine the sense of guilt must be enormous, but maybe that's just my inner Calvinist).

Anyway, back to the topic: Yeah, so I don't think we've seen her before this season. It kind of makes me wonder: I know (sort of), why fanatics do what they do. They're not motivated primarily by greed but by ideology, and I can sort of understand being willing to kill and die for ideology. I don't understand though, a person who's willing to kill, either with a gun or a missel, numerous people, just for money, as she seemed to be. I understand even less someone who's willing to put themselves at risk of being killed just for money.

Interestingly, I would suggest that this makes Jack-the-adreniline-junkie more like the greedy mercenaries than like the fanatics. He might be motivated by ideology (protect the homeland!), but his real payoff is the thrill.

 

[Welverin]

If I'm not mistaken, she was the one sleeping with the pilot when they kidnapped his family.

This is what I thought as well, though she didn't seem to be quite so involved the first time she was shown.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

I've never even played a flight simulator game, but I have trouble believing it would simulate things *that* well. But, since that was the least unbelievable point, I'll let it go.

Oh, a real simulator game is no longer a game. It is hard work.
I guess it was more a flight simulator used for training pilots - they are physically very accurate, though they obviosuly lack most of the details of the physical feedback. (If you´re home at your computer, the best you can get is a force feedback joystick...)

 

[Silver Moon]

So after announcing at the onset that this season would only be aired once without any rebroadcasts Fox has decided to reair this week's episode tonight at 9.

 

[Asmo]

LOL!

It's more like pieces of the airplane crsh into a nearby zoo and an escaped lion threatens Kim and Chase's kid.

Hehe!

Asmo