Audrey's better off if she's dead‏

My problem with commenting on 24 this season (at least compared to all the emails you got from me last year) is that I feel like every email would be me saying the same thing week after week, and I already said it to you in my last email: This season makes me miss Kim Bauer and her ridiculous hijinks. Because as stupid a character and as poor of an actress as Kim usually was, her storylines made even the poorest of storylines on 24 look better. Tony Almeida sacrificing the country to save his wife? Hey that makes sense because Kim is babysitting Chase's baby while she works combating terrorists! Terrorists infiltrating CTU and setting off nerve gas? Perfectly logical because Kim hates her dad and is dating a therapist played by C. Thomas Howell!! Without Kim, the show really shows itself as just mediocre. Especially when Kiefer is relegated to second fiddle behind Ricky Schroeder. And when they insist on bring back Sister in Law Bauer who REALLY wants to have sex with Kiefer RIGHT NOW! And when she is the one who tells him about Audrey (who obviously isn't dead anyway). Why would she have "read in the newspaper" about an American killed in China and remember that random American's name and then make the connection between her and Kiefer when she hadn't even heard from Kiefer in years? (I can't decide who is worse of an actor: Mrs. Horny Bauer or Milo the Mole) Other frustrations from last night: Why do the terrorists use an Atari gaming system to control the drones? What is Vice President Cy Tolliver's motivation? He seems like he's auditioning for a role in a remake of Dr. Strangelove. Is it so obvious that Nadia is a red herring that she will actually turn out to be the mole? (My money is still on Milo.) And after all these years of CTU Los Angeles having moles, don't you think they would do something about their screening process? Why did they almost kill President Logan last week if it wasn't even mentioned this week? Why did they even bring him back if all they were going to do is stab him in the neck? All this and I haven't even mentioned Karen Hayes wanting to take Pretty Boy Palmer out of his coma and the unwelcome return of whiny Sister Palmer. The only thing I have really enjoyed about the last two weeks (and last week was better than this week, because Mrs. Logan is still as crazy as ever and Jean Smart still plays crazy well) was Chloe's slight return to form. Last week it was her "ambivalence" toward Logan and this week, the best part of the episode was her kissing Morris.