Hectic But No Passion

The 24 ordeal is over for (maybe) another year. I watched season four in two sessions. Most people, who know the show, can understand this. The idea to make a real-time show that spans over an entire day is brilliant. It's been realised in a cunningly manner - I have to admit & I had to watch it, which proof this. However, there are some parts of this show that I don't like apart from the fact that it's made by the evil Fox folks:

• Poor research
  Especially the techno lingo is sheer crap. Can't they use terms like real-time in the right manner? Take the viewers a bit more serious.
• Weak storyline
  It's difficult to create a storyline that offers a cliffhanger every 10 minutes over 24 hours and that makes sense. Unfortunately logic falls by the wayside far too often. Sometimes I feel like watching that fantasy filth Krull. All the time there is a suspect to be rounded up, which is the ultimately last change to get hold of the genuine evil... just to be followed by another suspect with the identical characteristics. Though, season four was a bit better than three, where the main thread seemed to have been made up on the spot.
• No irony & humour whatsoever
  Do Americans really take themselves so bloody serious? It just has no class.
• Ugly actors, awful sets & lighting
  The sets and their lighting look shiny but seldom real and never brilliant. However, far worse is the cast. It would be perfect for Frankenstein or Krull. The men are a disgrace, but the women are even worse. What would Pedro Almodóvar have made out of this?

I have to exclude Sherry Palmer and Nina Myers from the list above. They are the exception that proves the rule. Unfortunately, they did not make it to season four...