[Thespis721]

That's all well and good but NOTHING MAKES SENSE! And I'm not talking about "Well why did they do that?" only to find out later "Oh! That's why!" but just the general lapses of logic that these characters have either in their own actions or the other characters being all right with the lapses of logic. And what's more the season highlights inconsistencies of previous seasons. I don't mean to be too literal about a show like 24, but being that it is a show that starts itself by saying "Events occur in real time", it demands it should be held under scrutiny. So here's a little rant:

The staple of the CTU director who doesn't listen to Jack is one thing, but the director isn't even not listening, but is just plain incompetent at his job. He makes poor decisions, mismanages his staff, advocates amoral practices in one regard but requires people being upfront in other regards. But it seems that 24 wouldn't be 24 without CTU having a poor human resources department. At least in the first season, the best season, while some of the characters may have been shady, they were damn good at their jobs. I mean, Jesus, you're understaffed and a veteran CTU agent, retired or not, walks into your office asking to follow up a lead that you have no manpower to do yourself and you disregard him?

And how many times did they have to tell the audience that Chloe can't keep up with the new ways? We got the first time. I don't need it repeated like I'm in a special ed class. Brevity is the soul of wit so STOP WASTING MY TIME! And how far in the future is this season that Chloe is so out of touch? Is this 20 years later and Jack and Chloe were trapped in ice in the Artic Ocean?

Then Jack is talking to Chloe, who just got off the phone with a TAXI DISPATCHER, and Jack, being the greatest CTU agent ever to exist asks Chloe if the TAX DISPATCHER knows what apartment bad cop Mikey went into. Why would a TAXI DISPATCHER know that? And why would Jack even ask that? That's like me asking the customer service line of American Airlines, how much a cup of coffee costs at the local coffee shop in San Jose.

And let's just take a second to think about CTU for a second. CTU, previously disbanded, now looks like something out of Star Trek, but Con Edison's bill is too expensive so they installed 1/4 the lighting a normal office would have. In the first season, CTU was an underfunded, low level, low budget government agency that was still getting its status. And you could tell by comparing it to the FBI office in season 7 which had the standard brightly lit flat office lighting. Now CTU is back and it would make sense for them to have low lights since they just started up and probably have little funding. But they aren't. Because every single thing in that place looks like it cost thousands to create including their iPhones and Palm Pres, which everyone owns. I didn't realize that Apple and Palm have the intense security for a government agency. I thought Blackberrys were the common smartphone for the government?

So what? Did they spend all their money on doors made of glass that open on their own and douchebag bluetooth headsets but the decided to only install one light over each desk? And is that light powered with a 30 watt bulb? I know Con Edison rapes us, but come on!

And this is a picky point that isn't this season specific, but it made the other seasons look inconsistent. Why is there a CTU based in NY all of a sudden? Wasn't it always in LA? I know what you're going to say. There are CTU offices everywhere. One in LA, one in DC, one in NY. Chase came from DC. Buchanan came from Seattle. But when Homeland Security had to shut down CTU, they went all the way to LA to do it. Why? If CTU is so widespread, wouldn't they just go to the DC office and shut it down? Wouldn't CTU DC be the biggest and most important office? Why would they travel to LA to slowly absorb it into Homeland if LA wasn't the ONLY major office? So wouldn't that mean that LA has the only main office and the rest are satilites? But this NY office doesn't seem like a satilite.

You know what that spells? LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZY!

That's my biggest issue with this season so far. Now I haven't seen episodes 3 and 4 yet but these are just SOME of the issues I'm seeing already in the lazy, logicless writing that is going into the season. I'm not saying the season is bad yet, I don't have all the facts, and I'm still enjoying it so far, but if things continue like this, then it's going to be another Season 6 again.