On 24, we have Chloe, Karen, ...
Question: On
24, we have Chloe, Karen, Jack's occasional romantic interests and CTU staffers who come and go, but I have not seen one female CTU field agent. Michelle doesn't really count because it was just one time. Nina was a traitor and actually only left to pretend to die in the first season. But how about a female Curtis or Tony who can back Jack up without it getting lovey-dovey? I would think that there are female agents who routinely do this sort of thing. I thought for a minute that the girlfriend earlier in the show this year might turn out to be an agent working undercover, until she went stupid and killed her boyfriend and turned in Morris.
Carla Gugino would be a great agent for
24. I just realized that this show is a little sexist (stop laughing) and that most of us would not mind seeing the women kick a little butt, too! Besides, a female agent probably wouldn't get killed as quickly as all of the male CTU agents sitting in their Ford Expeditions.
Answer: Show of hands: Who would object to Carla Gugino becoming Jack's new partner in the field? Nobody I know, that's for sure. With
Alias off the air, and
Painkiller Jane such a painful dud, and given the history of Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran (among others) with
La Femme Nikita, it is curious that, with the exception of Chloe's Rambo moment a while back, we haven't seen Jack's distaff action-figure equal. That would certainly be one way to shake the show out of its torpor.
