George Mason, District Director of the Good Guys, who always was a sleazy me-first kind of guy in the first season, outdoes himself in Hour 2 of this year. He decides to drive to Bakersfield to get out of range of the nuclear blast (sounds good to me, only why stop at Bakersfield? I'd make it Portland, Oregon). So he makes up an excuse, and nobody asks him about it, 'cause, like, he's the Deputy Director of the Good Guys! Only, on the way out, he gets a call, the Home Office wants him to stop by some place in LA (it's on his way to Bakersfield, so no big whoop) and check out something with the LAPD.

So this guy, who has been established as a selfish save-his-own-skin type, decides he can't wriggle out of a phone call. He stops (and gets doused with legal radiation). It seems to me that if he were an actual human being acting like an actual human being, he would have said on the cell phone "Stop by the mumble mumble Buzz Buzz Buzz I can't mumber You You're Breaking Up" and tossed the cell out the window and high-tailed it out of the blast range.

I could go on. Out of respect for leaving the past in the past, I won't mention 5 pm to 6 pm of last year (Jack, you've got to drive from Downtown LA to somewhere in Simi Valley in 15 minutes! And don't worry, it's only rush hour!)

My problem with the show is, it seems as if it's being written on a piece-by-piece basis. A project with aspirations this high should be plotted out in advance, with attention to details, set-ups and pay-offs, rather than the willy-nilly nature that 24 is giving us ("But why did that girl stay at the computer when the evacuation alarm was sounding off for 3 minutes?" "Silly, because she's the only one who knows the code, and the plot needs her to be incommunicado to create tension, Duh!")

But, like I said before, I'm going to give it one more chance this week. In fact, I bet this is the week where people start acting like real people and not plot devices! Yeah, I'm sure it'll be this week!