I’ve commented recently on the incredibly peripatetic energizer-grandpa, Jack Bauer, on Fox’s TV show “24.”
Tonight has gotten really ridiculous. After being stabbed and tortured with electrical shock, our later-middle-aged grandpa manages to grab the electric prod with his feet, hold it the chest of his torturer, rendering him unconscious, and then, with bound feet (!) and bound wrists (!) he does an incredible ab-toning move to get his feet above the pipe he’s hanging from, wriggles down the pipe, manages to break it loose, fall to the floor, and, still bound, hop-scotch over to the waking torturer and break his neck.
The show is turning into a caricature of itself. I mean, he’s Jack Bauer, not Batman… or the Shadow.
Maybe he has a secret stash of X-Kryptonite.
Temporary super-powers seems to be the only explanation.
