Fair is Fair

Okay, so I have taken a lot of shots at the TV show LOST because the writers have moved it along at a slow pace, dragged out the story, and opened five times as many strands as they will ever close. But fair is fair, so I cannot in good conscience not critique my favorite show of all time. I speak, of course, of 24.
There are three strands to this season of 24. There is the strand of Jack tracking the terrorists. This strand has been good. At times very good, and at times slow, but overall it has been good. There is the CTU strand, which has been at times interesting, and at many times boring. Then, there has been the White House strand. And I must say, the White House strand has been horrible. Perhaps the worst strand ever on 24. It is not as bad as the Kim strand in season 2 in that it actually relates to the main plot line, but in other ways it has been worse because it has actually been more impossible to believe than the Kim vs. Cougar moment. First of all, Wayne as the president has at no point really been believable. He is not presidential, and since when does a former chief of staff run for president? Then there was the plot to assassinate Wayne from his own staff. If this was not impossible to believe, it was certainly impossible to believe that the men who organized the assassination, and captured Tom Lennox in the process, would end up letting Lennox walk right out of the room, expecting that he would not tell of them (he did tell on them right away). The obsessive and pure power-hungry VP Daniels has been such a characature that it is laughable. And, perhaps worst of all, did anybody else think it was ridiculous that when the staff was voting on whether or not to invoke the 25th ammendment no one thought it ironic enough to mention that the exact same thing had happened to Wayne's brother during his presidency? Come on writers. You're better than this.
At least the Jack strand is strong enough to keep it going. Still, fair is fair, and I have to say that 24 has had some pretty disappointing elements to it this season. At least the plot is moving, with Fayed captured and all.
Soon to come: Pictures and post on the college Spring Break trip.