This week in 24 - Season 7, Episode 16

Mon, Mar 30th, 2009 | 10:54pm | TV - 24

This week's episode was exceedingly dull. Often that happens when there's action being setup for a future episode, but in this case it felt like nothing more than an effort to kill time. And to exacerbate the situation, there were still several ludicrous plot holes, mostly pertaining to security once more. Why has this whole season been full of horrible security on supposedly secure sites? We already saw the laughable security at the White House, but now at the Starkwood base, where there's supposedly 1500 mercenaries, they expect 12 to be in the warehouse with the weapon and 2 to be guarding that warehouse? And regardless of how many they thought there would be, they could only send in 3 helicopters of FBI forces? Has everyone forgotten there's a SWAT team? This is the best that can be done on the highest priority threat to the country? And I like how Larry just strolls up to the guys guarding the warehouse without wearing any kind of armor like the rest of the FBI guys. Also, if Greg was so key, why didn't they leave him in the helicopter? Also, I found it hilarious when Greg "saved" Tony and then gave him his gun, leaving him unarmed, while they left the guy Tony knocked out on the ground with the gun in his hand (and Tony had unarmed Greg go down the hallway first!).

Much of the storyline was also laughably predictable. They threw in some twists, but they made them so obvious ahead of time that none of them were really surprising. Tony didn't get killed (in fact, it looks like he was barely tortured), Greg switched sides (but you could tell from how obviously shady he was behaving that he hadn't really switched sides), the FBI went to the wrong building (this was obvious from Hodges face and the 2 guards outside), Jack turned out to be fine (they tried a new twist saying he's still infected, but he can't die so that can't be true...maybe they'll come back next week and say the test was wrong or something), Larry's team got trapped, etc. Allison is getting pretty annoying (I hate her overacting) and she forced Aaron to stay at the White House.

See spoiler note below.

I just hope next week is interesting and not more filler. I can already see I will be annoyed by Allison again as they have her make out with the press guy. This week's episode has me annoyed enough that I can't even be bothered to change the picture :P

This was a review of Season 7, Episode 16. Here's my previous 24 reviews. And here's the character countdown.

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