So everyone’s favorite quasi-real-time-drama wrapped up season 2 last night, and I’ve had some time to chew everything over…
Major props to the writers for managing to tie up the loose ends that looked insurmountable a week ago. Granted, it took a little bit of faith leaping to get there, but it worked out. Everything was completed to a satisfactory level.
I was a little saddened by the way Palmer dealt with the turncoats – keep the Cabinet, but lose Mike? Mike was the best part of Season 1 – and most of Season 2! In any case, I understand the justification for this, I guess.
Carlos Bernard needs his own show, where he just crosses his arms, gives the camera that look, and acts smug towards someone I dislike for an hour. I would watch it every week, I swear. It’d be better than anything on NBC!
Unfortunately they lost me in the last five minutes of this episode. The assassin (although we won’t know till next season if it was a success or not), Mandy, was in the first three episodes or so of Season 1. No one who started watching the show this season – and hell, even some of us who watched Season 1 (on DVD) – is going to go “OH MY GOD IT’S MANDY”. Well, actually, Katie did.
But I digress. Lots of people on various boards have asked “If a handshake is all it takes to bring down Palmer, why didn’t the bad guys do it sooner?” – and I think that’s a pretty valid question. As for whether or not he’s dead – it’s not going to keep me up for all hours of the night. I’d like to see Dennis Haysbert return, as he’s a wonderful actor, but I can understand if he wants to move on to greener pastures and they had to kill him off.
In any case, out of my two “drama” shows (the other being Alias; Gilmore Girls is too low-conflict for me to consider it drama), this had the far less shark-jumping resolution, so thumbs up. I’ll be picking up the DVD set for this season, believe you me.
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