You were expecting significant drama out of television? Ha, ha, ha, ha! You're watching Jack Bauer snuff pr0n (a.k.a. "24") and complaining of bad theme in how the writers have treated one character? Okay, quit kidding like that; my ribs hurt. I don't watch any TV at all and I've heard all sorts of tales about the poisonous premises behind that show. The whole theme and concept of the show is a reflection of the old "ticking time-bomb scenario (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticking_time_bomb_scenario)," meant to illustrate how "normal" moral and philosophical rules "don't matter" in time-critical, high-stress, emergency scenarios. Half the right wing fascists in America masturbate to this soap opera of xenophobia, collectivism, and other bad premises and you're objecting to a little "non-consensual seduction" between a couple of the characters? This is like reading John Norman's Gor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gor) for its philosophical, sociological, and anthropological insights.