24's Body Count Update.

Only one more week and only two more hours! I am anticipating severe withdrawal symptoms.

From Right Wing Nuthouse:

BODY COUNT

7 of 8 CTU agents killed in Bierko escape. Agent Adams will now be protecting the Gates of Hell. And an untold number die on the sub but we’re sure of the American officer’s demise.

JACK: 30

SHOW: 193

MARTHA: 1

Why not? It’s her kill. Let’s give her credit where credit is due.

I am glad to see First Lady MacDeath finally lived up to her name. I'll bet she isn't done playing the Grim Reaper. Look out, President Hilter! (BTW, did you notice that the Vice President on Prison Break had her President poisoned?)

I do not REPEAT NOT want to see ol' Martha and the bleeding Secret Service agent consummate their forbidden love. That would just be icky. However, I am rooting for Chloe and CTU's Token Black Guy to hook up.

The Men With Phones In Their Ears will not only survive to conspire again next season, three of them will become reality tv stars. One of those three will be the next Iron Chef American.

I would like to see Miles shot at a checkpoint for acting uppity. Of course, it would be better if he got eaten by the sharks President Hilter keeps in a pool hidden under the Press Room at the Western White House, but that travail will be saved until the final hour as an opportunity to shine for Mr. Bauer...

Wait a minute. That might be Dr. No and James Bond..

Will the makers of 24 ever reveal how the world inside my idiot box really works as hinted at by the Ghost of Buckaroo Banzai:

"But what I did, I did in the interest of the destiny of this country and I’m not talking about the version you read about on the OpEd pages of the New York Times. I’m talking about the politics of survival, the way the world really works."

OH NO! Does this mean we are really living in a predestined* nasty, poor, brutish, and short Calvin and Hobbesian un-realpolitik dog-eat-dog gorefest where the winners are the ones willing to kill anyone and everyone who gets in their way (along with a goodly number of randomly chosen innocents to keep everybody in line) and what we perceive is a craftily constructed lie that only differs from The Matrix in its lack of cool special effects? (On the plus side, kiddies, hot Italian babes in tight clothes really do seem to exist.)

* BTW, kiddies, can someone explain to me how a guy who taught that God created condemned souls can be considered a Christian? Silly presbyterians. And don't any of you dare blame St. Augustine for this. Citizen Calvin bears sole responsibility for making this particular bed out of whole cloth.