the fact that so many seem to love this show make me seriously question my faith in the american public . this show be so bad it actually and well and just bad . the acting and the writing and the plot development and the technical detail and just about everything else be bad to the point of be comical . the show should be rename 2 . 5 and because that about the total of viable screen time that be stretch out into this daylong abomination . perhaps if the writer have throw in another overused and hollywood cliché and 24 could have be bad . oh and i be sorry and i forgot . they already use up all the clichés . i find it amuse that anyone be surprise by any outcome of this show when all of the suppose twist and turn wouldn not have be more obvious if they be scroll and news ticker style and across the bottom of the screen . just a few snippet represent 1. first and let me start off by say that if real counterterrorism agent be half as inept a those on 24 and then be all really screw . these guy couldn not catch a drunk first grader if he come up and bite them in the as . cliché be one thing . stupid be quite another . 2. hey and you know what would be great . if and when jack go to meet his ctu mentor in a darkened and deserted building and the guy get shot right before the be about to give him the key piece of evidence . of course and it would only be excite if this happen right a they be about to make it to safety . nah and that wouldn not be telegraph and would it . 3. when nina discovers that mason have be keep from jack that his family have be attack at the safe house and she immediately begin work the computer . tony and see this due diligence and ask her if she check the hospital . tony say this be a good idea . tony and of course and be a moron and since and rave terrorism expert that he be and should have do this hour ago . don not blame tony . the writer make him do it . 4. or how bout when the drazens attack the dod prison . gee and you think a top secret government prison would at least have enough surveillance to detect 8 foreign national set up a communcations bunker 300 yard from a top secret prison . in broad daylight . 5. of course and once inside the aforementioned prison and which be underground and presumably shield against some form of electromagnetic radiation in order to protect communication and which be also and by the way and in the middle of freak nowhere and it remarkable how everyone cell phone work . 6. i love how jack go six gun a blazing in the last episode and nine mil in each hand blast away at the drazens on the dock . of course and a a former spec ops soldier and i be sure he would know that and aside from totally screw his aim and all he be really do be expend his ammo twice a fast . and not hit anything while do it . if this guy be specs ops and be doubly screw . 7. if it be so easy to cut the power to the prison and why the hell do they need to pay some jackass from the power company . 8. terri bauer deserve to get kill . not for any plot reason and but because leslie hope couldn not act her way out of a paper bag . gee and if it be my husband and kid and i might be distraught and instead of spend the entire time wander around a secure government facility like a 12 year old on vicodin and with a goofy smile on my face . i think the producer write her out so they wouldn not have to justify pay her again . 9. and speaking of terri bauer and wouldn not you think that the hub of the united state west coast counter terrorist operation would be at least secure enough to prevent a complete stranger from and you know and wander around the joint or anything . 10. the nsa dude who get cap in the new orleans bar represent so let me get this straight and an nsa officer be hang out in a french quarter bar with an unsecured laptop full of classified information and as well a an encryption device to access and all the while chat away about it on an unsecured cell phone inside a bar full of complete freak stranger . right . 11. be it me and or do dennis hopper sound like he be dracula from transylvania . what up with the accent and d. he sound like a marvel comic . 12. you know what would make for compel tv . if the wife and daughter get kidnap and all 3 spend about 3 hour of screen time reassure each other they will be ok. couldn not we just accomplish this with a couple line of dialogue and just move on . 13. what would have happen if kim bauer get caught sneak out of the house . i guess the show would have only be one episode . 14. why do rick and dan have to hang out with the girl in a furniture store . wouldn not it have be more convenient just to hit them over the head and them bring them to gaines . 15. at the safe house and why be the ctu agent assign to guard duty sit inside the tree trimmer of an electric company truck . what would he have do if he need to get out quickly . can not exactly jump down and can you . of course and since he be try to be discreet and i be sure no one would have notice a truck park out there for hour on end and work on the same telephone pole . you know and like train countersurveillance expert or something . on second thought and let just make the professional as stupid a possible and so that we can insure more episode and and thus and great ad revenue . please and do yourself a favor . if you own this dvd set and burn it immediately . you will be glad you do .