Matt, JB is right on the money. I'm saying it SHOULD have been the way I described to have it make more sense. The way it was done exposes what I consider to be a writing flaw for that character.

But regardless of these flaws, there's nothing that could put it down at the level of 24 where every single line of dialog and script is a flaw. It's truly horrible but I'll watch it till then end of the season just so I can be justified when backing up my opinion.

I can't get into shows like Buffy, Angel, Supernatural, etc. The closest I got was Dark Angel and that went to crap in the second season and was deservedly cancelled (without any kind of proper ending unfortunately). I find these shows to be far too much cheeze. For unrelated reasons, I also can't get into Veronica Mars. It's just way too much of a chick show. An early high school or junior-high level chick show to boot. It just seems a little too much Hardy Boys vs. 90210 remix.