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24, Day 6
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I was considering the possibility that it might not really be Audrey, but Jack was pretty close to her in that abandoned hotel. I think he would have been able to tell. Unless she's some sort of fem-bot.
I was considering the possibility that it might not really be Audrey, but Jack was pretty close to her in that abandoned hotel. I think he would have been able to tell. Unless she's some sort of fem-bot.
She's probably just brainwashed and generally ****ed up from being tortured, etc. Remember that she was the senior advisor to the secretary of defense, so she definitely had a lot of national security secrets that they could have tried to get out of her.
You forgot one of my favorites: Jack yelling "I'll explain as soon as I get there!" into his cell phone.
Doesn't that blonde chick always play evil, sneaky characters?
Oldie but goodie: Jack Bauer CAN divide by zero.
If everybody followed Jack Bauer's orders the show would be called 12
Good episode... DAMN IT!!!! It seemsl ike everybody is gonna be written out or something.
Good episode... DAMN IT!!!! It seemsl ike everybody is gonna be written out or something.
heller just said jack is cursed, as it seems like anyone he gets close to ends up dead.
tragic hero i guess. i wonder if kim will show up dead or something.
tragic hero i guess. i wonder if kim will show up dead or something.
great episode. I wonder if the audrey will ever be "normal". I think Jack is going to loose it soon too. The secretary's comments was too much for him from the father who daughter he loves.
I wonder what will happen if their will be a war.
I wonder what will happen if their will be a war.
doubt it. the way heller sounded when talking to jack, i don't think he had any influence of audrey going to china. he called bauer a curse...and audrey was in china for six months.
That was another one of those episodes where it was relatively boring in terms of action, but we found out a lot of key information. Haha, when the Chinese guy said they needed to find someone with expertise to fix the circuit board, I thought they could just get Morris again. "Yes, that's a great idea, get the guy from CTU who armed the bombs for the terrorists!"
Changes May Be in Store for '24' Format
Last season they had 1 main plot and 2 sub plots, the President and Jack. This season they have 5 or 6 sub plots and they had no way to follow them all so they just forgot about most of them.
I also think last years cast had better actors.
I don't see how they can reformat the show and still keep the appeal. What they need is better writing. They added to many characters and had no way of using them so they just wrote them out with no explanation.
Last season they had 1 main plot and 2 sub plots, the President and Jack. This season they have 5 or 6 sub plots and they had no way to follow them all so they just forgot about most of them.
I also think last years cast had better actors.
That has been part of the problem, how much ass kicking did he do this season. I thought at the beginning of the season he was gonna become super Jack.
I think killing off Curtis really hurt the show.
I thought it added an interesting dimension to the show. Something, however, is missing- i care far less about this season then I have every other season past.
I think the changes they're talking about are breaking out of the ruts they've fallen into, like:
- a nuclear threat from a shadowy group of bad guys
- the president complicit in a terrorist attack
- Jack's family and/or lovers being threatened
- a mole in CTU undermining the good guys' plans
- political assassinations
- Jack having to go rogue to settle a personal grudge at the expense of national security
All of these themes have had their cool moments, but they've been done. I think what they mean is shaking things up so that it's not so repetitive. I doubt they're thinking of getting rid of Jack, or the 24-hour real-time format.
And yeah, part of the problem has been crappy acting. Morris, Karen Hayes, and especially Wayne Palmer are all portrayed by weak actors.
The writing has also been inconsistent and the plotlines are all over the place. What happened to Jack's dad? And his sister-in-law and nephew? We haven't even been checking up on them at all. Did Charles Logan die? What about the rest of Graeme's cabal from last season? I understand that some things need to be left hanging for next season, but this is way more dangling characters than usual.
I'm not so down on the show that I'm going to stop watching, but this season has been the weakest so far. 24 at 60% of its peak is still better than most shows out there. Maybe our expectations have just been raised too high?
- a nuclear threat from a shadowy group of bad guys
- the president complicit in a terrorist attack
- Jack's family and/or lovers being threatened
- a mole in CTU undermining the good guys' plans
- political assassinations
- Jack having to go rogue to settle a personal grudge at the expense of national security
All of these themes have had their cool moments, but they've been done. I think what they mean is shaking things up so that it's not so repetitive. I doubt they're thinking of getting rid of Jack, or the 24-hour real-time format.
And yeah, part of the problem has been crappy acting. Morris, Karen Hayes, and especially Wayne Palmer are all portrayed by weak actors.
The writing has also been inconsistent and the plotlines are all over the place. What happened to Jack's dad? And his sister-in-law and nephew? We haven't even been checking up on them at all. Did Charles Logan die? What about the rest of Graeme's cabal from last season? I understand that some things need to be left hanging for next season, but this is way more dangling characters than usual.
I'm not so down on the show that I'm going to stop watching, but this season has been the weakest so far. 24 at 60% of its peak is still better than most shows out there. Maybe our expectations have just been raised too high?
this season didn't really interest me as much as the previous few...if i was watching 24 for the first time this year, i wouldn't watch it again.
i think the show could be jumping the shark if this happens. especially if they have the movie. unless they do something fast, this show has 2-3 years left, and i think, with few exceptions, the show ends within 5 years (we don't see alot of shows running over a decade in this format).
and my thought of the final show of the series...jack fails to catch terrorist, and something big blows up (i.e. a whole city), and then the rest of his friends that are still alive alienate him, and he walks alone in a desert while he bleeds to death, and he falls down to his death at the very last seconds of the show. tragic hero, tragic death.
i think the show could be jumping the shark if this happens. especially if they have the movie. unless they do something fast, this show has 2-3 years left, and i think, with few exceptions, the show ends within 5 years (we don't see alot of shows running over a decade in this format).
and my thought of the final show of the series...jack fails to catch terrorist, and something big blows up (i.e. a whole city), and then the rest of his friends that are still alive alienate him, and he walks alone in a desert while he bleeds to death, and he falls down to his death at the very last seconds of the show. tragic hero, tragic death.
24 is notorious for its loose plot ends for its minor and underlying characters. It leaves them open to have an effect in later seasons. Its rather annoying- but look at the hot lesbian assassin, she didn't have her story thread snuffed till the third (or fourth?) season.
Oh, you mean Mandy, played by actress Mia Kirshner.
. I seem to remember she made a play for full immunity from prosecution, and walked. I suspect we have not seen the last of Mandy. Remember one of the most important rules of comic-book action: The best bad guys (or gals) always return. As last night's episode proved, you never know who might turn up. I was pleasantly surprised to see William Devane return for one scene. Personally, I am looking forward to the inevitable scene where Jack opens a can of whoopa$$ on that Chinese security agent. C'mon, you know it's coming, and that guy is lunch meat when Jack finally corners him. I agree that the show should stop while it's still good, not suffer the same fate as some other programs.
Would anyone else agree that these past episodes since they got rid of Fayed have been better than the rest of the season put together? It was decent writing (decent, not brilliant), and I just found it more interesting. There was so much potential with the China plotline and they just blew it out with another muslim terrorist plot.
Also, do we yet know what the "big price" was they paid to the Chinese to get Jack back in the first place? Could this be linked to Audrey?
And, diplomat/government rep or whatever, that boy Cheng has got to be got!
Also, do we yet know what the "big price" was they paid to the Chinese to get Jack back in the first place? Could this be linked to Audrey?
And, diplomat/government rep or whatever, that boy Cheng has got to be got!