I finally got around to watching last week's episode of "24" last night. I'm not sure why we still watch the show - the pacing is good, but the plotlines are more absurd than the ones on "Alias" - and that's saying something. It became clear just how ridiculous the plot was when I had a mini-epiphany after watching "Revelation" and "24" back to back - so long as you could make (one extremely large) leap of faith, the plot of Revelation sort of held together. In fact, it held together better than the plot of "24", because that required so many leaps of faith that I ended up needing dramamine.