24/The Sheild tonight

[AndyKaid]

Both shows were pretty great tonight.

It sucks that there are only two 24s left this season. I have no idea what angles they're going to run leading up to the finale (outside of the obvious stopping the virus and stealing the pill bottle from Sherry). It seems they've "finished" several programs, so unless they introduce ANOTHER uber-heel, I have no idea where it's going. And that's a good thing. It makes up for them being THIS close to jumping the shark on Michelle not getting the virus.

The Sheild was similarly great and did an awesome job of advancing three of the main storylines. Aceveda was FREAKING BADASS getting all cerebral with that Juan dude. Must-see show tonight.

BTW, on topic kinda, does anyone else not watch the 24 trailers? They give away WAY too much. I stopped watching them in Season 2. The Sheild trailers are infinitely better.

[Agent Kev]

I thought both shows were very strong last night. I was pretty pissed during "The Shield" when for no reason they cut to a bowflex commercial right in the middle of programming when Dutch was arresting the "cuddler rapist" and then when the commercial was over it cut back into the show. Did this happen to anyone else?

[archeng]

Didn't happen to me, Kev.

[Agent Kev]

archeng said:

Didn't happen to me, Kev.

Dammit. Well did the "rapist" say anything interesting to Dutch (or vice-versa)?

[archeng]

I don't really remember him saying anything, except telling his ranting wife to be quiet.

Dutch just told the rapist he was under arrest and listed all the charges (including specific names of victims).

[Agent Kev]

Interesting stuff from this week's show (I was out-of-town so I TIVO'd it) with Dutch showing a dark side. It could be interesting to see where that goes.

[AndyKaid]

Dutch going insane and killing that cat was AWESOME!! He was kinda de-pushed this week though.

The Sheild was pretty good tonight. I'm digging the slow build of the Strike Team starting to get a little heat on each other. Looks like it all blows up next week. Season finale in 4 weeks?! Already?!

24 was a bit of a letdown with the lack of swerve, but I guess you can't have one every season. I will say that a lot of characters died this year... so I guess killing off someone in the final scene wouldn't have had much of an effect. The ending they had was good though, with Jack having a nervous breakdown and then it's back to business as usual.