David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. "24:" The clock needs winding
Apparently, they wanted to shoot some episodes in Africa, but Fox said nope, that’d be too expensive. (Well, and the whole Jack-flies-back-from-Africa-in-45-minutes thing just might stretch even this show’s credibility.) But isn’t a three-week delay pretty pricey, too?
Knowing these guys, however, they only had about three hours’ worth of plot cooked up at this point anyway. And since the show doesn’t return until January, this shouldn’t effect the production all that much. Still, it bodes ill for a show that was widely perceived to have gone completely off the rails this past season – patching together something urgent and, more importantly, coherent in a mere three weeks doesn’t really seem to be in this group’s skill set.
Hence, I’ll offer up a season shocker: Jack Bauer, sick and tired of being routinely underappreciated by the government for routinely saving the world, and sick and tired of being routinely ignored or disbelieved by his know-nothing superiors every single damn time he unearths a plot-twist in every single damn conspiracy, goes rogue in the ultimate fashion and assassinates everyone who ever gave him grief in his work. Then he discovers he suffers from multiple personality disorder, so when CTU calls him to help them hunt him down, he complies. But then it turns out that the Chinese had implanted a microchip in his brain that holds him in thrall to them, while Chloe had implanted a microchip in his brain that makes him her love slave, and the competing microchips are short-circuiting his brainwaves, and meanwhile actual terrorists surface, Chechnyan rebels who accidentally took the wrong plane and ended up in Los Angeles instead of Moscow plotting to blow up some airports, starting with Santa Monica’s and working their way up, but the guy holding the suitcase nukes sees this TV show that trucks in disparaging portraits of terrorists so he decides to try to blow up the Fox lot, which is being visited by Congress and the President of the United States on a fact-finding mission to see if torture as depicted on TV actually works.