Tuesday Night Thud

Top Five Reasons Last Night's Season Finale of 24 Sucked Big Goat Balls:

5. The cast was too large.

The thing moved like an Eight is Enough reunion hour. Each little character had their one little scene, including some characters that we haven't seen in five or six episodes, which with breaks, is months ago. Thing just had no flow.

4. Who are those guys?

It's bad, when in the last 15 minutes of the season finale, there are three characters that leave me asking "Wait, who is that?". Two of them had small parts a couple weeks ago, one of them was brand new. Very lame.

3. Plot holes the size of Las Vegas.

Phone Booth Sniper kills one bad guy, and suddenly all is forgiven all around? Absolutely none of the other characters had anything to do with anything? Please... this is awful writing. Actually, the fact that there was so much left with only one hour to go is awful writing.

2. We had to watch the old man cry.

President HatsForBats axed the one guy who really helped him in the end. He cried. I don't blame him, I think we were all ready to cry, except that the rest of us were in pain over the writing.

1. Cliffhanger?

Seriously now... how? How could they screw this up so badly? There was a simple formula to this show. One season = one day. At the end of that day, all is resolved, and then the next season can be anything they want. It doesn't even have to have any of the same characters. All you do is lay out the new characters and dilemma in the first show of the new season, and off you go. But apparently they think America wants cliffhangers. So now we've got one here. Ensuring that next season will be about the very next day, and include all the same characters. Lame. Very lame.

So the moral of the story is, as always, TV sucks. So don't watch it. Except when Baseball Tonight is on. But even then only if it's Ravech, Reynolds, and Gammons.

One more thing before I go... saw an ad last night for Fox's new series, American Juniors. It's Star Search. Kids singing, dancing, etc. Except that it's Fox, so they have to make it controversial. The ad I saw led me to believe that they'd be more interested in giving air time to the irate parents of the kids who got booted.

Greaaaaat.

Listen, we're rapidly becoming a generation raised by television. And I'm ok with that. If your goal in life is to get on TV, and be on Springer, or Ricki Lake, hey that's your choice. I think you're an idiot, but it's a free country. If your goal in life is to get on TV by living your dream through your kid, and then showing an absolutely classless example of how to be completely ungracious in defeat... it's not ok. And a complete and utter Boo-urns to Fox for making it seem like it should be.

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