Flashbacks would violate the "real-time" aspect of the show.Ahh..we forget. Remember the closing minute if Season 1. There was a flashback there
Flashbacks would violate the "real-time" aspect of the show.Ahh..we forget. Remember the closing minute if Season 1. There was a flashback there
They have the most bizarre computer system. I don't see how anyone ever gets any work done. Michelle had to write her access code on a slip of paper so that Kim could do something; that's just nutsThis show has some of the worst computer gibberish. Oooh, they put all the data pertaining to Salazar on volume 1, how handy. All this directory talk that is still so vague, then people always "sending" something to someone's workstation. A lot of it doesn't make sense. That guy was so proud of "his" system, yet other users such as Kim, who obviously can't have much time in there, have permissions to remove his access? If he's the main sysadmin, as he seemed to be claiming, that wouldn't be happening. Even though he was going against Michelle's orders, Kim should be out of a job for violating the system security.
OK, so it's not really that important to the show, but still they use this stuff to heighten the drama at times, and it's just not believable. Plus the Kim aspect, three years from nanny to sysadmin with access to computer systems with top secret data, I just can't accept it. If they really felt the need to keep her in there they just should have made her a low-level clerk. That'd be more believable.
Methinks he could find a way to get a job for his underqualified daughter.Fine make her the office girl or a receptionist, don't let her run wild on the computer systems, that's just stupid. If their sysadmins are that incompetent, then the terrorists don't have much to worry about because it'll be way to easy for them to track everything CTU does and plant false info in their databases.
If they really felt the need to keep her in there they just should have made her a low-level clerk. That'd be more believable.I realize this is a complaint some viewers have and it seems that it is shared by her coworkers. Wasn't Kim told last night that everyone else earned their jobs but she got hers because of her daddy? As long as the plausability of Kim's working at CTU is questioned by the show itself, why should the audience get worked up over it? We're at home watching the TV, not a Senate investigating committee. Is it too much to give the writers a sliver of literary license and freedom? I'm willing to give the show a bit of slack to make things flow better.
BTW, I think Kim looked just fine last night - except when she was with Chase - and I liked the haircut.
As for tying up old plot points, I think it goes beyond the laws of physics for a 24-hour, real-time television show to conclude every single plot point within 24 hours. THAT would make the show horribly unrealistic. Don't worry, though, I'm sure the mountain lion got what was coming to him.
Wasn't Kim told last night that everyone else earned their jobs but she got hers because of her daddy?But she was told that by a guy that hates Chloe for no real reason. Michelle actually had her doing real work, so she doesn't have a problem with Kim being there in that capacity.
My main problem with Kim is that in season 2 she had nothing to do with the plot except to add more stress to Jack. She's stupid, her story was stupid, and I'd say almost all the fans hated her. So why do they keep bringing her back? It's a well known fact Kim is hated, yet they just couldn't wrap up her story last year, they dragged it out until the end. I like just about everything else about the show, even the dropped story lines and characters, but Kim is just a nuissance. It does appear that she is merely there for eye-candy, and IMHO she doesn't succeed much in that area and it cheapens the show. Who cares if she's got a contract, she hurts the show and will more likely drive away viewers than bring them in.
Then don't even get me started on the whole Kim issues working at CTU now. She goes from being one of the dumbest to having the brain cells of someone with at least a Masters degree in computer science, give me a break!!!Maybe she had a crayon removed from her brain.
lus I got the idea that Kim was just using a computer, not programming it. I didn't hear anyone describe her as any type of scientist.Well if the website says she has a degree in Computer Science, than that would make her a Computer Scientist. (Note the words in BOLD).
Flashbacks would violate the "real-time" aspect of the show.But FLASHBACK is related to 24, via Keifer Sutherland and Dennis Hopper!
I'm amazed how many people "know" that was heroin in the syringe. That's not the only thing that can be injected. I thought Jack had become a diabetic.I wondered about that, so I checked the website synopsis.
It's Heroin.
I'm amazed how many people "know" that was heroin in the syringe. That's not the only thing that can be injected. I thought Jack had become a diabetic.Jack's behavior was not that of a diabetic suffering from a lack of insulin. Also, there were numerous references (by Chase and Salazar) to "what you had to do" to remain undercover with drug dealers for an extended period of time.
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You can have a programming job with a computer science degreeThat's what most computer scientists do. But that's not what they were doing. Programming is writing programs using a computer language. It's not running a search, or opening ports, or running computers in general. In my school we learned how to use the computers just to the extent of writing and compiling our programs. We learned the theory of how computers operate at a low level, but we didn't learn much about operating computers. It's two completely different fields.
OK, so Kim's taken a handful of intro to programming courses and a couple of Calculus courses and she's an expert sysadmin/analyst? Right. It'd be a little more believable if she'd done MIS or CIS, not CS.Dude, you gotta lighten up. No where does it say she is an "expert" at anything.
And as far as your tirade about needing a PhD to work at an organization like that, you really don't have much of a clue, do you? I graduated HS and went straight into the military. After 16 months of training, with no college involved, I had my background check completed and was working on highly classified computer systems within the Department of Defense. So if she got an associates and a background check completed in 3 years, I have no doubt that would be able to make her a Level 1 analyst.
Staying with the vein of who worked there before her, I doubt that Paula (the girl killed in season 2) and Jamie (the mole who killed herself in season 1) had any more advanced education than what we are expected to believe Kim has. I would be surprised if Michelle, Tony or even those other two neurotic sys admins have much more than a 4 year degree, if that.