24 6.12: Day 6 - 5:00PM - 6:PM

"Dammit!"

Um... I do believe that this was the first time this season that Jack has uttered his now famous catchphrase. Oh, I remember when the catchphrase was something more creative, like "Today is the longest day of my life" or "Somebody get me a hacksaw!"

Um... I really don't remember much about this episode. That's how memorable it was. I do remember that Jack and Logan travel to the Russian Consulate because Logan is positive that the Consul is connected to the terrorist attacks. Logan has a private meeting with the Consul, who is completely stereotypically over-the-top, so I'll start calling him Boris. Boris is shifty-eyed, and verry verry eeeevil, so he's totally involved. Which he is - he calls Gredenko and is all, "They're heere!" Logan tells Jack that Boris is lying, so Jack breaks back into the Consulate (idiot!) and gets caught (idiot!) and the best part is that this has already happened to him (bigger idiot!). On the plus side of this, Jack tortures Boris and gets pertinent information out of him, and then is caught. Dammit!

Meanwhile, Wayne isn't dead (awww!) and Dr. Bashir is dead (AWWWW!!), so Evil Daniels takes over. Evil Daniels is notified by Logan that Boris knows where Gredenko is, so Evil Daniels has a kinda awkward phone conversation with President Suvarov, promising retalliation or something. I kinda forgot. All I do remember is that Logan realizes that Martha is the only person who can get the Suvarovs to cooperate... with... something. Oh! Giving the okay to barge in on the Consulate. Right. Oh, and all these hours that Karen Hayes has been MIA (supposedly on an airplane to LA), she's really been chilling in the airport, so she's all, "I think I'ma go back to work." Yes.

"Secret Lovers": Reed tells his ONE co-conspirator to let Lennox go, and Lennox agrees to remain silent. Then, he totally turns Reed in, and Reed has the shocked and betrayed look only one wronged lover can give another. But all is right (wrong) with the world when Evil Daniels gives Lennox a Faustian offer: say that Dr. Bashir was behind the assassination attempt, and then Evil Daniels will turn the US into a police state like Lennox wanted. So Lennox's all, "Okay."

Whatever. I was bored. This show is getting boring. Like, yeah, there were explosions and shit because nowadays there are always explosions and shit, but none of it meant anything to me and the story's getting ridiculous. In a bad way. Not even over-the-top melodrama, but just very very VERY sloppily written. Because it's just boring.

Oh! And Sean Callery (the composer) totally ripped off John Williams' JFK score for this episode, and no, that's not cool. Just because the original was a good score doesn't mean you can just take it and put it in your own project when it doesn't have the same context. If Callery had stolen the E.T. theme and put it in a scene with Chloe doing some computer stuff and talking technobabble, people would be making a shit fit. So, I am with this. While in JFK, said piece of music was used when Laurie Metcalfe describes the possibility that Lee Harvey Oswald was a US spy in Russia, here, it's Logan thinking and talking with Jack, very calmly, sans urgency. Whatever.

All in all: C-

Until next time, same bat time, same bat channel.