By the time you finish reading this post, you're gonna wish you felt as good as you do now.

Or, Tuesday 24-blogging.

My, but that was a weak-ass cliffhanger this time. Jack's lost his lead on the terrorists...except that they're going to be calling in five minutes. And the preview shows how that works out. And the bad guys have absolutely no way, barring fantastic incompetence on CTU's part, of being able to activate the canisters.

I still say that these clowns are going to be mopped up before the halfway point, and then someone, probably the first lady, is going to leak Jack Bauer's name to the press in a Valerie Plame-esque moment, leading into a 'China and possibly CTU hunting Jack' second act.

Motif-Watch: the media/censorship angle is still alive, with the discussion of the Cummings cover-up feeding into it...