General Discussions => Inner Glimpse => Topic started by: davepeck on January 09, 2007, 08:37:54 am
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Post by: davepeck on January 09, 2007, 08:37:54 am
well, maybe..
anyone else a fan of the show? been a huge fan since season 1, but i\'ve NEVER watched the show as it\'s aired throughout the season (i\'ve always watched on DVD).
been watching season 5 for the last couple weeks, and just have one episode to go.
season 6 starts with a 4-hour premiere next sunday/monday. these first 4 episodes have been leaked in DVD format already (some FOX preview DVD or something).. while i\'ve done a good job of staying away from spoilers from these episodes, from what i\'ve heard, episode 4 is completely mind-blowing, and possibly the best episode of 24 ever. apparently, the end has what is probably the biggest \'holy shit\' moment in the history of the show.
so i have a decision to make.. do i watch this season \'live\' on TV?? my interest is definitely peaked with what i\'ve heard about 6.04. i just don\'t know if i can handle going a week in between each episode of the show, since i\'m used to knocking off 3 or more in one sitting.. on the plus side, i\'d get to see it in HD, and commercials wouldn\'t be an issue since i would just be time-shifting with the DVR.. hmmm...
so... anyone else on board?
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Post by: obsession600 on January 09, 2007, 09:10:16 am
Dave, it is just a television show. Now maybe if you were talking about Armed and Famous (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/armed_and_famous/) I could understand.
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Post by: Me! on January 09, 2007, 09:12:30 am
one of the few show I haven\'t gotten into......
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Post by: booztravlr on January 09, 2007, 09:36:52 am
im with ya dave! ive been watching this show since the end of season 1. if you have a dvr you are in luck. i would just wait til it has recorded the entire episode then go watch it so you can skip through the commercials, as there are plenty during 24 (~18 minutes worth). when i bought the season 5 dvd i couldnt resist watching the long trailer for the new season but i wont spoil anything for you. in the 4th episode for season 6 do you think jack is finally going to be killed? in all honesty he has become more of a superhero than a normal agent so i woukdnt be surprised. his heart has stopped numerous times, he has taken severe beatings and he was addicted to heroin for a while. oh well, cant wait til sunday night. nothing like a weekend of playoff football and 24 to get me through the week.
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Post by: davepeck on January 09, 2007, 11:09:39 am
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im with ya dave! ive been watching this show since the end of season 1. if you have a dvr you are in luck. i would just wait til it has recorded the entire episode then go watch it so you can skip through the commercials, as there are plenty during 24 (~18 minutes worth). when i bought the season 5 dvd i couldnt resist watching the long trailer for the new season but i wont spoil anything for you. in the 4th episode for season 6 do you think jack is finally going to be killed? in all honesty he has become more of a superhero than a normal agent so i woukdnt be surprised. his heart has stopped numerous times, he has taken severe beatings and he was addicted to heroin for a while. oh well, cant wait til sunday night. nothing like a weekend of playoff football and 24 to get me through the week.
well, jack being killed would obviously be the ultimate \'holy shit\' moment, but i don\'t see it happening, especially only 4 episodes in. no jack = no 24. i haven\'t heard anything about this being the last season, and it would be damn hard for them to carry the show for 20 more episodes without him. and due to the format of the show, you know that there wouldn\'t be any sort of \'flashback\' thing going on, so who knows?
but yeah, i\'m really leaning towards watching it \'live\' this season. i\'ll just start watching it around 15-18 minutes after it starts, and i should be able to skip all the commercials. this sunday and monday, i\'ll just start aound 8:30-8:35, and my time-shifting should be good. i downloaded the DVD, and i *really* wanna watch it after i watch the last ep of season 5, but it\'s not in 5.1, and that\'s probably enough to get me to wait until sunday.
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Post by: YoMa on January 09, 2007, 11:14:10 am
can\'t wait for the new season so i can start getting back into the swing of things. i set aside an hour of prep time, an hour for the show, and an hour for analysis. yeah. big dork.
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Post by: FrankZappa on January 09, 2007, 11:15:21 am
I always thought this show was a great idea but since I never saw the first episode I never watched the second. and so on. I\'ve been meaning to rent the dvds, they have them at my library. I saw a preview for the new season the other day, looks pretty good.
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Post by: kindm's on January 09, 2007, 11:44:42 am
I have been watching since season 1. We all laugh about it here in the office. All the techno babble they say is hilarious. It makes no sense and is poorly researched but that is kind of what makes it 24.
My HOPE is they kill off Kim the daughter. She is just annoying and hasn\'t added anything to the show since season 1.
We tape the show and watch it after so we can fast forward thru the commercials as well.
I would say watch the show only because it is fairly popular and would be kind of difficult to not have it spoiled by a co-worker or internet thread etc. Although we managed to avoid spoilage on Lost. We watched season 1 and season 2 dvds to catch up to where they are now but no new eppys until like Feb or some BS like that
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Post by: Mark on January 09, 2007, 12:10:56 pm
One of only a handfull of shows that I watch. Someday I need to see Season 1. Haven\'t missed an episode from Season 2 on. Great Show!
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Post by: davepeck on January 09, 2007, 12:29:16 pm
well, since there\'s so many fans here, you guys should get a kick out of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxzovLECtGc).
kim is such a non-factor now, i don\'t really care if she gets killed off or not.. she was only in like 2 episodes last season, and only credited as a \'guest star\'.. though i think it sucks that she\'s still alive and tony, michelle, and edgar are dead..
maybe jack is forced to kill her for some reason and that\'s the big \'holy shit\' moment in 6.04. :lol:NOTE: this is strictly an \'out of my ass\' prediction, and NOT a spoiler. if for some reason this turns out to be true, it will actually kind of suck since i guessed it.
WE\'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME!!!!
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Post by: Gfunk on January 09, 2007, 02:21:59 pm
Kim is pretty bangin.
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Post by: booztravlr on January 09, 2007, 02:27:56 pm
yeah, though kim is some nice eye candy it would be great to kill her off. she is always getting into awful situations because of her own stupidity. maybe youre right, dave. jack may become a rogue agent because kim is killed. is it me or do the women on 24 create way too much controversy?!? palmers ex wife, waynes gf, season 5\'s first lady, michelle, curtis\' ex who worked in ctu, kim, etc. chloe is the only good one cause she doesnt leave ctu. maybe curtis will take on a bigger role this year.
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Post by: Todd on January 09, 2007, 02:35:52 pm
Watching party, complete with \'Damn it\' shots???
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Post by: kindm's on January 09, 2007, 04:05:42 pm
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yeah, though kim is some nice eye candy it would be great to kill her off. she is always getting into awful situations because of her own stupidity. maybe youre right, dave. jack may become a rogue agent because kim is killed. is it me or do the women on 24 create way too much controversy?!? palmers ex wife, waynes gf, season 5\'s first lady, michelle, curtis\' ex who worked in ctu, kim, etc. chloe is the only good one cause she doesnt leave ctu. maybe curtis will take on a bigger role this year.
Art imitating reality :)
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Post by: Mark on January 09, 2007, 04:46:48 pm
Die Kim Die!
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Post by: FrankZappa on January 10, 2007, 07:23:12 am
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Die Kim Die!
Lawyer: Robert, if released, would you pose any threat to one Bart Simpson? Bob: Bart Simpson? Ha! The spirited little scamp who twice foiled my evil schemes and sent me to this dank, urine-soaked hellhole? Officer: Uh, we object to the term "urine-soaked hellhole" when you could have said, "peepee-soaked heckhole". Bob: Cheerfully withdrawn. Lawyer: But what about that tattoo on your chest? Doesn\'t it say, "Die Bart, Die?" Bob: No, that\'s German for "The Bart, The." Officer: No one who speaks German could be an evil man.
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Post by: antbach on January 12, 2007, 07:14:50 pm
HOLY FUCKING SHIT. While I wouldn\'t consider it to be the BEST episode of 24 ever beginning to end, the ending of episode 4 is without a doubt the most HOLY FUCKING SHIT moment in 24 history, I seriously had to watch the last 5 minutes twice. A few non spoiling notes, Kumar from White Castle is in these episodes and is pretty good, and Chloe looks hot in business attire (in my opinion anyway). That\'s about all I can comment on without spoiling anything big. Again, WOW!!!
Oh, Dave, not sure if you know, but the "first act" of episode 5 is on the DVD as well, my guess is its ep5 up to the first commercial.
Okay, back into hiding. . .
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Post by: davepeck on January 14, 2007, 06:12:57 pm
well, i held off.. we finished season 5 on friday night, and i really wanted to watch the s6 dvd right after that, but the fact that it\'s not in 5.1 (or HD) made me wait. got the DVR set, and we\'ll be sitting down around 8:30 tonight for the first 2, and again tomorrow night.. can\'t wait!
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Post by: moebass on January 15, 2007, 12:02:35 pm
excellent show last night. it looks like jack is starting to break down. seriously, how much can one guy really take? he\'s starting to take on super human powers lately... what happened to his wounds after he was tortured? he escapes and all of a sudden he isn\'t bleeding anymore?! don\'t know what\'s up with that, but i do think that jack will never be killed until the show is ready to end for good. as pec said, no jack = no 24.
who cares if kim is still alive? her role is useless now. and she wants nothing to do with her daddy jack. what i want to know is what happened to audrey??
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Post by: davepeck on January 15, 2007, 03:02:46 pm
(http://tinypic.com/2i11qjd.jpg)
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Post by: kindm's on January 15, 2007, 03:31:05 pm
Eh,
The episodes were OK. So far so good I guess. we shall see what happens tonight
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Post by: Gordo on January 15, 2007, 03:38:39 pm
i dont watch 24 but i do have a story about the show. before my senior year of high school i spent a week with my uncle out in LA and he booked a small but hilarious role on one of the first episodes. he was a business man getting a blow job from a male prostitute when elisha cuthbert and her friend were running away from someone in an alley. he yelled at them to get away and they wouldnt so he pulled his pants up and hopped in his Benz to peel off. i mustve watched 90 takes of that scene whispering to the camera man how proud i was to see my uncle in such a position.
on a sidenote i was able to walk around and watch a lot of other filming all day. kiefer was pretty entertaining to watch in between takes, usually off in his own world singing or playing the air drums all over the set. elisha cuthbert was wandering around all day and caught me staring at her in the makeup trailer. in a really bitchy way she said, "hi im elisha, i saw you looking at me." i shook her hand, and said, "wow, nobody\'s ever made me feel so inferior." she turned her head and that was that. i love reading articles now where she says how much of a dork and how simple she is and "im really shy and dont know what to say when guys approach me" yada yada yada...
it was pretty cool though seeing 24 in the making before anyone knew about it, especially now with the show\'s success.
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Post by: booztravlr on January 15, 2007, 04:19:31 pm
^ haha, thats awesome! i know exactly what scene youre talking about too. sucks cuthbert was a bitch-a-rooni...damn canadians. thats great you were able to see the show unfold in its first season.
the episodes last night weren\'t supposed to be amazing. there needs to be some level of plot established before jack starts cracking skulls and taking names. i actually enjoyed watching the multiple story lines start to unfold. its been 2 hours and jack has already been stabbed, twice, cracked in the temple with a gun, tossed from a helicopter missle explosion and knocked back in the subway train. not quite the homecoming he was expecting. i did enjoy seeing him pull a vampire and bite into that guys jugular to escape. not sure whats going down at the end of the 4th episode but im sure itll live up to all the hype. no mention of kim yet so i think we can rule her out. maybe chloe messing something up or curtis being put in a bad situation? i always wondered if the girl curtis dated within ctu, who he had to capture from releasing info to terrorists, was ever going to come back for him. guess we will see!
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Post by: davepeck on January 15, 2007, 10:14:32 pm
:wah::wah::wah:
SPOILERS AHEAD -- DON\'T READ IF YOU HAVEN\'T WATCHED!!
wow.. well, i pretty much figured out the whole jack killing curtis thing around 24 (go figure) minutes into the first episode tonight.. it was when curtis first questioned the whole asad thing, and jack gave him a look and was like, \'what\'s that supposed to mean?\'.. that gave it away for me.. it was still tough to watch though, and i gotta admit i got a little teary-eyed in the moments that followed..
definitely did NOT see the nuke detonation coming though.. the show gets you so used to the near-misses, that you expect them to stop it from happening.. but i guess with no key players on the tact team, they just couldn\'t stop it from happening..
4 more, huh? wonder how that will play out as the season goes on.. will 3 more go off, and they end up stopping the last one?? also, i assume fayed is dead, though it\'s 24, so anything\'s possible.. if he is dead, i wonder who the key \'bad guys\' will be..
oh, and the nuke explosion in 5.1 made the whole thing worth the wait. the house was shaking, and the cats were going nuts.. :thumbsup:
now to get used to the one-week wait in between episodes.. :(
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Post by: booztravlr on January 16, 2007, 09:08:04 am
i think fayed is still alive. he left the warehouse a little while before everything went down. he said he was heading to a safehouse. i guess we wont know til next week.
def saw the curtis thing being built up as well. damn shame jack was the one who had to do it.
i have no idea how many of the 4 bombs will go off but itll be interesting to see how they find them all. you figure the terrorists would stay away from LA by now but everything always seems to go down in that city.
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Post by: Powerslave on January 16, 2007, 10:51:03 am
I\'ve only seen the first 2 episodes but this is what I have learned so far:
1. Torture always works - if you\'re not willing to jam a knife into a person\'s knee, law enforcement is not for you
2. Arabs are untrustworthy - possibly the most likeable Arab of all time, Kal Penn, betrays his friends and family for the terrorists
3. Warrantless wiretapping works - plot-revealing phone-call picked up by CTU
I guess we can anticipate the following lessons from 24:
1. Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden personally delivered the WMDs to the terrorists via a psychedelic bus driven by Nancy Pelosi
2. The terrorists will demand mandatory gay marriages, replete with feather boas and mesh shirts for all, priest must have a lisp
3. America will invade Iran and Syria and all terrorists will subsequently turn into puppy dogs and rainbows
Go FOX! USA! USA!
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Post by: kindm's on January 16, 2007, 01:10:18 pm
I don\'t know. maybe it is because I have seen all of the previous seasons but the show is soo silly now.
First they want us to believe that they needed to get the guy out of "prison" in order to arm the suitcase nuke. Then they tell us "sort of" that there are 3 or 4 more out there. But the guy who knows how to arm them and reprogram them is already dead, he blew up the first 1. So the only plausible next step will be finding another terrorist who knows how to arm and detonate the suitcase nukes. Which if there was another terrorist sympathetic to the cause who knows how to do it they wouldn\'t have busted the guy out of "prison" in the first place.
The whole Curtis thing was so silly as well. You could see it coming from a mile away. Curtis has never really acted so unprofessional in all the seasons combined but they want us to believe he all of a sudden is emotional, so emotional he will go against the president of the USA. He is emotional over his troops being beheaded but none of the Stuff Jack has done to him directly over several seasons.
They really ask for several leaps of faith all in the first 4 eppys.
And of course they wouldn\'t have a show w/o CTU. But come on. How many presidents have been undone by the continued leaks, unprofessional behavior and treason that has come out of CTU Los Angeles
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Post by: davepeck on January 17, 2007, 10:15:41 am
McFarlane just announced a 24 line of action figures. http://spawn.com/news/news2.aspx?id=13026
MCFARLANE TOYS ANNOUNCES \'24\' ACTION FIGURES Two Jack Bauer Boxed Sets to Be Released Mid-2007 January 11, 2007 Copyright 2007 TMP International, Inc. 20th Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising and McFarlane Toys announce a licensing agreement to produce action figures based on Fox\'s multiple Emmy®-and-Golden Globe Award-winning Drama -- 24.
Two figures of the show\'s hero, Jack Bauer (played by Emmy® Award and Golden Globe winner, Kiefer Sutherland) are currently in production. Both are packaged as boxed sets and re-create scenes taken directly from the action-packed drama on Fox.
"Without question, 24 is one of TV\'s biggest cliffhanger programs," says McFarlane Toys\' CEO Todd McFarlane. "Kiefer Sutherland does an amazing job as Jack Bauer, the biggest reason people tune in each season. I know a lot of our fans will be excited to hear about us making figures of one of TV\'s top action stars."
"All of us here at Fox are genuinely excited about the upcoming 24 product release from McFarlane Toys -- Todd and his team have built their reputation on bringing innovation, creativity and magnificent attention to detail across all their intellectual property offerings. says Michael Peikoff, vice-president of domestic licensing for 20th Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising. "The passionate fans of 24 will not be disappointed and are eagerly awaiting this product launch."
One of the most ground-breaking, thrilling and acclaimed television dramas, 24 follows twenty-four consecutive hours in the intense life of Jack Bauer, a maverick anti-terrorist agent from the state-of-the-art Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU). Each episode covers one hour of real time and each season\'s unique storyline unfolds in one heart-stopping day.
McFarlane Toys\' first 24 action figure is expected to hit store shelves in August, with the second scheduled for holiday season 2007 release. Check back on Spawn.com for more information as it becomes available
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Post by: davepeck on January 23, 2007, 09:30:53 am
people are probably either gonna love it or hate it, but personally, i loved the reveal in last night\'s episode of bluetooth guy being jack\'s brother. great tie-in from last season. that said..
WHAT\'S UP WITH JACK\'S "NEPHEW" LOOKING EXACTLY LIKE KIM?!?
wtf?! kind of scary, really.. i\'m hoping it doesn\'t end up being jack\'s kid, cause i think that would be a little to cliché, but.. we\'ll see.
the remaining palmers are really making me miss david. sandra is a pain in the ass, and wayne is just a horrible prez. his speech at the end of the ep last night was cringeworthy.
tom is probably my most hated on the show right now though. i just want to jump through the screen and choke him whenever he\'s on.. i don\'t like his face.
nadia, on the other hand = :drool:
this season\'s off to a great start!
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Post by: booztravlr on January 23, 2007, 10:53:39 am
^ crazy how the \'bluetooth\' guy is jack\'s brother. he was so high up last season no one found out about him. i also thought that jack\'s nephew might actually be his kid too. sandra is probably going to fuck everything up like all women do in 24. i didnt realize that abu fiyad (spelling) left the special piece of equipment behind which then ended up being destroyed with the nuke went off. that gives CTU more time they dont even know they have. i like the new approach to the season and its shaping up to be a solid one.
i wish they would just incorporate more sponsors into the show so i didnt have to watch 20 minutes of commercials every episode. i have DirecTV so in order to get a dvr box i need to have a landline phone. im not paying an extra $25 a month for something ill never use. bastards.
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Post by: davepeck on January 30, 2007, 10:50:33 am
six feet under all over the place...
thought last night\'s episode was sort of a filler episode.. the lack of jack (i don\'t think he had any screen time in the middle half hour) really took the air out, IMO..
for once on this show, can someone just tell the president that they\'re resigning because they\'re being blackmailed?! :sigh:
also, what would have been the difficulty in saying "when you stopped to help me when i stumbled, your phone fell out of your pocket. i have it right here"? :rolleyes:
ah well..
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Post by: booztravlr on January 30, 2007, 11:30:00 am
you are right with those last two statements. palmer\'s sister (brain fart on her name right now) is getting on my nerves and its only going to get worse now that her bf/husband got beaten up.
i think karen (bill\'s wife who was blackmailed) will come in contact with the old president\'s wife from last season in an attempt to blackmail tom (the troll working for the president) in his efforts to corrupt the presidents plans.
also, the british sounding guy who is trying to find another \'mechanic\' to make the triggers for the four remaining nukes has to be mccarthy. i dont think that has been revealed yet. i wonder if his woman is going to blow up his spot or not.
jack is in a tight situation but he will prob get out of it like usual...his brother will tell his goons to kill him while he leaves to take care of business. jack and his dad will work together to escape the goons and most likely jacks dad is going to die by taking a bullet for jack or something along those lines. he will give jack some information as he is dying in jacks arms and that will finally give jack the rage he has been looking for.
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Post by: davepeck on January 30, 2007, 11:41:28 am
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also, the british sounding guy who is trying to find another \'mechanic\' to make the triggers for the four remaining nukes has to be mccarthy. i dont think that has been revealed yet. i wonder if his woman is going to blow up his spot or not.
that\'s him.. they definitely mentioned his name last night..
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Post by: moebass on January 30, 2007, 11:56:58 am
I think all Bauers have nine lives. Graem Bauer?? He shoulda been killed a long time ago. Why does jack get so soft when it comes time to ruin his brother? Didn\'t graem have something to do with jack getting sent off to the chinese prison? So then why would jack have any remorse about sending Graem off to jail for dealing nukes around? Now he\'s the head honcho of this whole operation it seems...
Mccarthy seems like a complete idiot, and doesn\'t really fit into the situation all that well. I think his girl is gonna take a hit... get kidnapped or something- maybe get killed in the next nuke attack. How ironic would that be? Her hunny didn\'t want to get out of town when she asked...
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Post by: antbach on January 30, 2007, 04:44:39 pm
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i think karen (bill\'s wife who was blackmailed) will come in contact with the old president\'s wife from last season
jack and his dad will work together to escape the goons and most likely jacks dad is going to die by taking a bullet for jack or something along those lines. he will give jack some information as he is dying in jacks arms and that will finally give jack the rage he has been looking for.
president logan and wife will be returning this season according to a yahoo article i read before the season started.
not sure about the dad bullet thing but working together, guess ya didn\'t \'stay tuned for scenes from next weeks all new hour of 24\' ;)
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Post by: davepeck on February 12, 2007, 07:47:46 am
we get 2 hours tonight! hoping it picks up a bit this week. last week was good, but i found it to be a little too predictable..
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Post by: booztravlr on February 12, 2007, 09:05:29 am
yeah, during the episode you could tell it was morris who was going to be kidnapped. im just surprised he wasnt smart and kept his phone on while it was going down. would have made it a lot easier to track him. jacks dad never convinced me he was on the good side, so that was easy to spot. they escaped too easily. im not sure whats going to happen tonight but making it 2 hours leads me to believe it is going to be action packed.
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Post by: antbach on February 12, 2007, 09:35:15 am
two hours of 24, fantastic, but I still would rather watch Prison Break> 24 :shrug:
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Post by: booztravlr on February 13, 2007, 04:56:19 pm
im surprised morris actually went through and helped out the terrorists when he knew ctu was on their way to rescue him. he only had to hold out another couple minutes and its not like they were going to let him live after he completed the task anyways.
also, the terrorists left an armed suitcase nuke behind when they were forced to escape the apartment building. it seemed like the timer was fairly short (10 minutes or so). therefore its odd that they left in a helicopter. if the nuke actually went off, it would have set shockwaves out which would have knocked out the helicopter and killed them all. i cant imagine they would have had enough time to escape the apartment, get to their helicopter and get out of the impact zone in time to not be affected. the terrorists also didnt seem to be too upset and didnt even mention the fact to the russian that the nuke didnt go off, since jack disabled it in time.
the fact that jack\'s dad was able to freely enter and leave ctu without even being questioned (besides a quick conversation with jack) bothered me. they have kept people in there plenty of times before for questioning when they were only slightly suspicious of their involvement. but this time they just let the owner of the company responsible for the attacks leave ctu...with his nephew, none the less.
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Post by: davepeck on February 13, 2007, 08:36:52 pm
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the fact that jack\'s dad was able to freely enter and leave ctu without even being questioned (besides a quick conversation with jack) bothered me. they have kept people in there plenty of times before for questioning when they were only slightly suspicious of their involvement. but this time they just let the owner of the company responsible for the attacks leave ctu...with his nephew, none the less.
yeah, and how about a KEY piece of evidence (Graem\'s cell phone) just sitting out in the open in the morgue?! puh-lease.
i still love the show, but it\'s become WAY too predictable for those of us who have been watching since day 1. it would have been nice to see something different for a change, like maybe have Marilyn actually tell Jack who called, or i dunno, maybe have Tom stick to his guns for more than 5 minutes and NOT give into Reed\'s plan...
oh, and how bout the fact that Jack could look his brother in the eye and tell that he\'s lying to him, but Marilyn gets a phone call, starts acting all suspicious, and starts crying, and he can\'t tell something\'s up?!? UGH.
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Post by: davepeck on February 14, 2007, 10:10:09 am
i was really negative in that post, so let me just throw this out there -- it\'s really nice to have the old Chloe back! she hasn\'t really been herself this season, and the other night she was back to business - bitchy, snotty, and funny.
Chloe: "I\'m glad Abu Fayed did not kill you this morning." Jack: "Me too."
:D
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Post by: kindm's on February 14, 2007, 12:17:18 pm
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i was really negative in that post, so let me just throw this out there -- it\'s really nice to have the old Chloe back! she hasn\'t really been herself this season, and the other night she was back to business - bitchy, snotty, and funny.
Chloe: "I\'m glad Abu Fayed did not kill you this morning." Jack: "Me too."
:D
I especially liked the line when Jack was defusing the bomb.
Jack: Are you sure about this. Chole: As sure as I am gonna be before that bomb goes off.
Or something like that.
I actually thought these 2 eppys were the best of the season. Lots of action and It was fun.
The setting the fire alarm off was so stupid. Did they really think the terrorists would fall for it ? Not to mention why would you tip them off if you even had a suspicion that they had nukes. I mean if they had been able to detonate it everyone would be dead and you just told them you are there. Something tells me that if that situation were to really happen they would have had fighter jets drop bombs on the building and called it a day. Sure some innocent lives would be lost but it would have saved potentially thousands of lives.
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Post by: davepeck on February 20, 2007, 09:30:12 am
"no, bill, i\'m not going to tell you what\'s going on. i\'d rather take the risk that i get killed and then you\'ll have no clue what\'s happening or what i was doing."
:lol:
i also found it funny that jack couldn\'t hear his father walking away.. yeesh..
i\'m glad they had lenox \'do the right thing\'.. he is waaaaaay too annoying to be a villan.
decent episode.. a step in the right direction, i think.
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Post by: booztravlr on February 20, 2007, 09:51:04 am
Quote from: davepeck;135846
"no, bill, i\'m not going to tell you what\'s going on. i\'d rather take the risk that i get killed and then you\'ll have no clue what\'s happening or what i was doing."
well put. sometimes its unfortunate that 24 follows a straight line plot in these types of scenarios. just once id like to see someone actually state the problem over a cellphone instead of planning face to face meetings that never end up happening.
ex president logan looks like a nut job. it seems like he is still in the game but most likely under house arrest/presidential jail or some sorts. he wants revenge on his ex wife and im sure thats what he will tell jack he wants in exchange for his help. i dont see this situation working out at all for jack. logan was the one who gave jack up as the rogue agent who kidnapped the nuke scientist from the chinese compound. he is also the one who prob gave jack up to the chinese the following season. im curious to know his relationship with jacks dad. i have a feeling jacks dad was involved with the airforce one attack on the president from the 4th season, which then gave logan his chance at president. when graham said he had a hand in the assassination of david palmer, i think he was refering to both the plot in the first season (where jack was going to take the fall for trying to kill palmer) as well as the actual assassination of palmer to start last season. jacks family didnt want him around early on and thats why he was the one who was told to assassinate palmer in the first season. everything is finally coming full circle this season and its very interesting to see it all develop and tie in with the previous seasons.
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Post by: davepeck on February 28, 2007, 07:13:26 pm
24 was pretty *meh* this week.. again, the show really lacks when jack isn\'t the primary focus. the whole chloe/morris thing is just god-awful.
that said, THIS is fucking fantastic!!!!!
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Post by: antbach on February 28, 2007, 07:27:52 pm
:lol: that was pretty good. who comes up with this stuff? if it was a project for some kid\'s film class, he had better gotten an A
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Post by: kindm's on February 28, 2007, 07:30:07 pm
That was pretty good.
:biggrin:
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Post by: Spacey on February 28, 2007, 08:04:42 pm
stupid work, couldn\'t watch this whole clip, but the little I did see was humorous.
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Post by: booztravlr on March 06, 2007, 03:23:48 pm
i know it has been said but this season is just reusing story lines from past seasons. either the past couple episodes have been too predictable or just not exciting enough but i dont think ill be watching this show after this season. its just not as interesting as it once was.
anyways, sorry for the rant. last night jack didnt seem on top of his game. im surprised he didnt stay in close proximity of the russian embasy hostage while he placed his phone call to CTU with all the information he just extracted from him. he had to of known there were cameras in there and he already knew people were waiting outside the door. when he was held captive in a side room, it seemed too easy for jack to convince the russian guard about the plot going on around them. then for some reason the guard decided to leave jacks room to make a phone call. i didnt see a camera anywhere on the walls so he should have just stayed in there. as soon as he left the room it was obvious he would be shot before he could talk to bill.
not sure how theyll get jack out of the russian embasy but at least it looks like some action will finally take place. i think logan will play a role in jacks release.
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Post by: davepeck on March 06, 2007, 03:39:34 pm
horrible writing last night. why would jack even go NEAR the door?? it makes no sense. same with the russian leaving the room to call CTU. awful.
good to have Powers Booth at the helm now though.. he\'s got about a gajillion times more screen presence than DB Woodside..
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Post by: kindm's on March 06, 2007, 03:49:39 pm
Last night was lame.
Even funnier how Buchanan decided to have tactical around to give the President the option.
Are you serious. This is the Soviet Union. What jack did is grounds for War. Hell wars have been ignited over less.
And if they were monitoring the communications in and out of the ebassy like they said they were. How did they miss the call from Russian Guy to Gerdanko ?
24 was lame But Heroes was off the chain last night!!!
ya I said off the chain
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Post by: booztravlr on March 20, 2007, 12:33:39 pm
so audrey is dead...apparently she was trying to look for jack in china. wonder if she was kinapped/murdered. its unnecessary plot in my mind. the VP really wants to bomb this country but i cant really see why. they adverted the nuke (with minimal leakage) but i guess that wasnt enough for him. i still love how everything is set to happen \'within the hour\'. just once have something crazy happen halfway through an episode. i think doyle is actually the mole within ctu and framed the middle eastern girl (cant remember her name right now).
for anyone that misses episodes, there is a 24 myspace page with no commercials. its usually posted on tuesdays. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=548565
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Post by: leith on March 29, 2007, 03:05:52 pm
South Park parody last night was truly a classic.
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Post by: booztravlr on March 29, 2007, 03:33:25 pm
it sure was. i especially liked the \'within the hour\' reference. and the time flashing 12:00:00 on the screen...brilliant!
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Post by: Todd on March 29, 2007, 06:37:17 pm
I loved it when the power went out! Classic!
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Post by: leith on March 29, 2007, 06:40:03 pm
and reset the clock. hilarious
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Post by: davepeck on April 03, 2007, 02:54:10 pm
i can\'t defend this show anymore. :rolleyes::sigh::no::shrug:
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Post by: kindm's on April 04, 2007, 11:08:07 am
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i can\'t defend this show anymore. :rolleyes::sigh::no::shrug:
I have no idea what they were thinking Monday night or last week set the tone for total suckitude.
24 the mentally challenged factor and then this week was totally lame.
Cannot wait for Heroes to come back
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Post by: derickw on April 04, 2007, 11:23:20 am
Quote from: kindm\'s;141155
Quote from: davepeck;141098
i can\'t defend this show anymore. :rolleyes::sigh::no::shrug:
I have no idea what they were thinking Monday night or last week set the tone for total suckitude.
24 the mentally challenged factor and then this week was totally lame.
Cannot wait for Heroes to come back
:that:
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Post by: davepeck on April 09, 2007, 11:54:58 am
Facts about Jack Bauer (http://www.notrly.com/jackbauer/index.php?tophundred)
(mostly more entertaining than the current season of the show itself)
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Post by: Jim Cobb on April 09, 2007, 12:04:17 pm
i\'ve never watched this show. i\'d like to take a day and watch an entire season. which do you all recommend?
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Post by: davepeck on April 09, 2007, 12:06:10 pm
season 1
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Post by: Jim Cobb on April 09, 2007, 12:07:14 pm
i\'m sold.
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Post by: davepeck on April 09, 2007, 10:06:15 pm
now THAT was 24!!!
:thumbsup:
welcome back!
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Post by: wiredchicken on April 09, 2007, 10:34:20 pm
i guess since the nine was cancelled, audrey needed work.....lol
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Post by: kindm's on April 10, 2007, 11:02:41 am
Quote from: davepeck;141564
now THAT was 24!!!
:thumbsup:
welcome back!
Really ? I am rather surprised.
I don\'t care about Audrey, never really liked her in the first place. And now the remainder of the season is potentially going to be Chinese AGAIN and Audrey AGAIN.
Fonzi is just about to nail his landing on those water skis
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Post by: wiredchicken on April 10, 2007, 12:24:33 pm
while i kinda had a feeling this was gonna happen, it can only get better. but the struggle lastnight between jack and fayed? was fuckin awesome. jack is a murderin sunbitch
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Post by: davepeck on April 10, 2007, 01:26:09 pm
i don\'t care about audrey either, but if there\'s one thing the first half of this season has showed me, it\'s that this show needs to get the hell away from the president, the white house, bombs, etc, because they\'re just doing the same shit over and over again and it\'s OLD.
i also had a feeling the whole audrey thing wasn\'t just going to go away, but i am welcoming this season\'s PART 2 with open arms!
and jack & fayed going at it (and the RESULT) was the best thing that has happened on this show in a long, long time. finally some damn action!
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Post by: booztravlr on May 01, 2007, 10:40:08 am
i feel like this entire season has been a bullet wound to the stomach and im dying a slow death. so glad there are only 3 episodes left so i can stop anticipating something good to happen that will never materialize.
on a side note, audrey should have stolen jacks gun last night and blasted him. that would have been the biggest curveball this show ever threw and it would have redeemed the season. jacks death is long overdue.
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Post by: davepeck on May 01, 2007, 11:01:08 am
this show is such a shadow of its former self it\'s not even funny. rehashed storyline after rehashed storyline.. UGH. really, really shitty season. last night was cringeworthy. can\'t even take it anymore.
i definitely *will not* be watching next season on a week-to-week basis. they really need to shake things up a bit.
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Post by: Mark on May 01, 2007, 12:13:06 pm
I agree 100% the show has finally gone stale, it was bound to happen. Jack\'s screaming at people is getting old, as well as his agent one minute, fugitive the next minute bit.
I never saw Season 1, but have heard good things about it and will rent it sometime. I have seen almost every episode since, and for me my ratings would be Season 2>3>4>5.
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Post by: davepeck on May 01, 2007, 12:41:59 pm
from tvguide:
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Let\'s face it — 24 simply ain\'t what it used to be. Granted, living up to last season\'s benchmark was a near-impossible feat, but still... this season has been lambasted by many for being highly derivative of "days" gone by and even harder-to-believe than expected. Addressing the backlash, executive producer Howard Gordon tells the Los Angeles Times, "It hurts to hear the criticism," then goes on to say that such words which haven\'t killed Jack Bauer will only make him stronger next timer around. "It\'s been a challenging season to write... but it\'s reinvigorated our determination to reinvent the show," says Gordon. "This year could be... the last iteration of its current state."
What sort of "reinvention" does Gordon have in mind? "I\'ve got a couple of ideas, none of which I could even begin to share responsibly," he says. "[But] it won\'t be a musical." So much for ever hearing "It Had to be CTU (Bauer\'s Ballad)."
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Post by: kindm's on May 01, 2007, 12:43:56 pm
Laughable is all I can say about last night. Thank god for Heroes. It is kind of fun to watch 1 show coming down the mountain while the other climbs it.
The whole intrigue at the white house has been silly to say the least.
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Post by: booztravlr on May 01, 2007, 12:45:23 pm
season 3 and 2 are def the best. i lean a little more towards season 3 because of the jail breakout sequence, salazar vs salazar plot and the fact that it takes place across different cities instead of just the greater L.A. area. i would put season 1 ahead of 4.
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Post by: davepeck on May 08, 2007, 11:16:05 am
3 more hours to go. thank god.
remember when this show used to keep you on the edge of your seat? this season is such a heaping pile of steaming shit, it\'s not even funny.
CTU is invaded (again). unfortunately, this was not even CLOSE to being a surprise, as the billion radio spots i heard for the show yesterday completely spoiled it. at that point, i decided i *really* don\'t care about this season anymore, and i decided to read what i\'m going to spoilerize below...
i certainly wouldn\'t feel safe if 24\'s CTU was protecting me.. i mean, how many times have they been infiltrated/compromised now?? you would think they\'d know about empty warehouses 600 meters away from their facility, no?? :sigh:
because i read what\'s below, i knew milo was going to die at some point. not that i care. he\'s pretty much been a twit since they brought him back this year, and he won\'t be missed.
OMG!! DADDY BAUER IS BACK!!! but rather than finding out in the last 5 minutes of the episode like we should have, it was spoiled by the opening credits (thanks, guys!).. fuckin a..
hmm.. a bauer in a ventilation shaft while a terrorist points a gun at a loved one while they count down to the execution unless he shows himself... UMMMMMMMMMM....... SEASON 4, ANYONE?!?
they\'re not even fucking trying anymore.
tom lenox and the VP have been listening to that chick getting nailed for a good half hour now, with no sign of stopping...
jack doesn\'t take the dead guys\' weapons and give them to marilyn and the kid?! really??!
not to mention that they have a ton of loose ends to tie up in the last 3 hours.. the bauer family drama, the CTU soap opera nonsense, audrey and her dad, wayne palmer\'s condition, logan\'s fate (remember him?), the situation with the chinese and russians, the unsigned resignation in the VP\'s pocket. jesus..
well, anyways, spoiler time. like i said, i don\'t usually do the spoiler thing, but i\'ve really lost it for this show this year, so i went ahead and read it.
below is a summary of the first draft of the script for the season finale. so i guess it is subject to change, though the end sounds interesting.
[spoiler]spoilertalk.com
Act 1
This is a summary of the first act...
Keep in mind. This is summarized from a first draft version of the script. It is unknown what will change in the final airing.
At the white house, Admiral Smith is telling Daniels that Russians are in final stages of preparing for the attack. Jack is on the phone with Nadia and Chloe. They are trying to find the Jet Ski and what it is trying to reach. Finnaly, it hits Jack. Phillip owns oil leases. He tells Chloe to check for drilling platforms. She finds an abandoned platform 24 miles to the southwest.
At the platform, Phillip is talking to Josh about how everything he owns, like that platform, will be his one day. Josh doesn\'t want anything and wants to go to Marilyn. Cheng buts in and also tells Josh that it would be smart to join them in going to China. Cheng and Phillip talk about the sub-circuit board being validated and that in 12 hours, Phillip will be in Beijing.
Back at CTU, Chloe find the platform on Satellite. After using infared, she sees several people. They dispatch Tac Teams to the target. Nadia tells the white house that they found Phillip and are sending in Tac Teams. Admiral Smith suggests sending in an air strike and obliterate the platform, the people, and the circuit board. Karen brings up there Josh in there. And he has a better chance surviving if the Tac Team goes in. Daniels doesn\'t care and orders for the airstrike.
Bill is being attended to by a medic. Jack tells him the situation and tells him to go back to CTU. Doyle tells Jack that they got orders to stand down from the white house because of the airstrike. Doyle and Jack realize that would kill Josh. Jack convinced Doyle to use the chopper themselves and go in. Doyle aggress and they take off with some guns and grenades. Hurray Doyle. (commercial)
Act 2
Daniels and Co. get Suvarov on video conference. Daniels tells him to hold off on military action because they have found the Chinese agents and that he ordered a strike to destroy their location. Suvarov thinks Daniels and lying to stall because he did that before. Daniels says they have the chip being sent to their embassy so they can see that its really recovered. Daniels says he\'s not lying, but that they were able to duplicate the chip and have another copy. After some more chit chat, Suvarov agrees to wait 30 minutes for them to take the Chinese out, or he will have to proceed with his military action.
Jack is called by Chloe and Nadia. They are mad, but agree to help them out and tell them where men are stationed and tell them they have only 18 minutes before the jets attack the rig. Chloe gets up and walks away, but then collapses. Morris helps her up and she says she got dizzy all the sudden. Nadia tells her to go to medical. Jack tells Doyle his plan and setting down the helicopter and taking out the guards.
Cheng gets word that the submarine is 15 minutes away. Cheng tells Phillip. Phillip tells Josh that they are going to China on the sub, but it seems Josh doesn\'t care anymore. He says he isn\'t going to fight anymore. Then he asks to talk to Marilyn. Phillip calls her on speaker. Josh tells her that he understands now, how Phillip is right and stuff. She starts to cry. Cheng says they hear a helicopter. Phillip hangs up.
Doyle says there are 13 minutes left until the jets are in range. They start shooting and land the helicopter. They are pinned down. Jack blows this thing up blowing up a few of the shooters. (You know, like at the Airport in season 5, jack is pinned down under a airplane. He shoots a white canister and it blows up the shooters) Some more gunfights. They find Cheng, bleeding from a gunshot wound. They corner him. Jack tells him that they know he has the chip still and they sent jets to take out the place. Jack says he would like nothing more then to kill him, but he will let him go if he tells him where Phillip and Josh are. Cheng doesn\'t believe Jack, and jumps off the oil rig into the ocean 150 feet below.
I know, I know, horrible death scene for such a character you want to see get manhandled by Jack.
Jack is stunned. Doyle reminds Jack that there is less then 10 minutes left. Commercial.
Act 3
6 minutes left until jets reach oil rig. Jack finds a building with communication satellites and electricity on. Doyle sees 2 guards hiding to surprise attack them. Jack and Doyle sneak around. Phillip is watching on camera. Someone Chinese speaks on the walkie. They are asking for a "Dragonfly". Phillip responds and says "Dragonfly" is dead, and that 2 Americans attacked them, but are now neutralized. The Chinese sub commander asks for the package. Phillip says he has it. They agree to keep the rendezvous the same.
Phillip and Josh leave the building to another place. Jack and Doyle are trailing nearby, and Jack sees Phillip cross his path behind a weakened fence. Josh follows shortly after. Jack calls out to him and says he will get him out of there. Josh looks at him as Jack is trying to break the fence, but then Josh just keeps going and following Phillip. Jack is like wtf Josh. Phillip hears Jack and shoots over at him and leaves. Jack and Doyle break the fence.
Phillip is trying to lower a boat into the water and asks for help. With his back turned, Josh grabs a pipe and hits Phillip with it and takes his gun. Josh lets him know that he was never going to go with him to China. Phillip is trying to talk sense into Josh, but then Josh shoots Phillip in the shoulder. Josh takes a step forward and before he shoots again, Jack arrives and talks sense into Josh.
While they hug, Phillip climbs/falls down to the deck below. Jack tells Doyle to take Josh to the chopper. Jack quickly catches up to Phillip. Phillip tells Jack to shoot him, but Jack doesn\'t want to. Jack tells Phillip about a strike being minutes away. Phillip reveals being Josh\'s father. Phillip tells Jack not to die here, and tells him to go. Jack leaves to the chopper.
Phillip sees the submarine arrives, but also sees two jets coming. Daniels is told the jets are in range and he gives the order to shoot. Doyle is yelling at Jack in the headset asking where he is. The jets shoot the missiles. Jack reaches the platform and dives into the chopper and the missiles hit the oil platform. Doyle takes off just as explosions are going off right behind the chopper and they get away. Then we see the submarine slide back into the water.
Act 4
This act and the last act seem to be the shortest.
Daniels and Suvarov are coming to an agreement that the chip and everyone on the rig has been destroyed. Daniels and Suvarov are sending in divers to find remains of the component (um, yeah right, find a chip in an ocean at night). They end their video conversation, and Karen asks to speak to Daniels and Lennox alone.
Karen wants to resign and wants Daniels to tell the attorney general to exculpate Bill from the Abu Fayed matter so she can take the fall. At first, they both don\'t want to her doing any of that, but she convinces them to help her sign off on it.
Bill is at CTU medical. Karen calls him. They do some more lovin\' talk. Nothing important. Then Karen tells him that he wont need to deal with the Fayed thing, but doesn\'t tell him that it is because she resigned. She tells him she\'ll be coming to LA soon to see him.
Chloe and Morris are in another medical room waiting for the doctor to come in and let them know why she fainted. To her and Morris\' surprise, the doctor tells her that she in pregnant. They hug, and we go to the final commercial of the season.
Act 5
Doyle, Jack, and Josh arrive at CTU. Nadia tells them that divers found fragments of the circuit board. Josh and Jack go to see Marilyn. Josh and his mom talk. Jack tells Josh to be checked out in medical.
Marilyn says it its possible, she would like to pick up where they left off in the past. She is about to tell Jack who Josh\'s real father is, but Jack tells her he already knows. It wasn\'t exactly rape. She says she can\'t explain it, but he didn\'t force himself on her. Jack says no need to explain and that it will take a long time before he can try again with anyone. She says except with Audrey? Jack looks away. She says however long it takes, she\'ll be waiting. (I don\'t know Audrey\'s fate, that\'s all I have on her)
Doyle and Nadia are talking. Doyle says he\'s interested in going out with her, and she agrees. Nadia says "There\'s something I have to do, first. Milo left a mother and a younger sister... They haven\'t been told yet. I thought I\'d do it in person. It\'s the least I can do..." Milo...Dies? Then text says that "Milo\'s ghost prevents a kiss for now, but their eyes affirm their growing attraction."
Morris and Chloe are talking about the baby and see Jack walk by and tell him the good news. Morris asks for advice on parenthood, and Jack replies with "Don\'t be afraid to let it change you." Jack walks over to the next medical room and talks to Bill.
Bill asks Jack what he\'s going to do from here. Jack says he\'s not sure, but whatever it is, it wont be at CTU. Karen calls Bill and Jack gives him his privacy.
Now Jack is walking through CTU. The show wants to point out Jack seeing everyone being together. Chloe is with Morris. Doyle is with Nadia. Buchanan is on the phone with Karen. But Jack is all alone. Jack walks outside. We watch him walk down the street and down an alleyway.
Jack hears a gun being chambered and freezes. Then someone says "Step into the alley. Slowly. Keep your hands behind your head. Turn around, very slowly." Jack turns around, and registers pure shock as the script says. The person lowers HIS gun and smiles a little. There is a car parked next to him. The person says "Get in, Jack. There\'s a lot I have to tell you." Jack gets in and the car peels out.
End of season.
Some potential changes in the finale:
In episode 23, when Bill rescues Jack from the 2 CTU agents, he wont be getting shot.
Instead, it is Doyle who gets injured (possibly to write him off). It seems to happen around the time of the exchange of Josh and the fake chip. Something terrible happens to his eyes, I\'m not sure what, but later in the episode Jack tells CTU that he may be blind in one or both eyes for the rest of his life. Perhaps the man on the jetski throws acid into his eyes or maybe the chip is designed to explode into his face? Anyways, it was nice knowing you Mike.
Another big change is Cheng. Most of us were dissapointed that he kills himself when Jack corners him. This time, they capture Cheng and put him in custody and take him back to CTU.
Another change, not too important, is that Chloe finds out shes pregnant without Morris, and the doctor says he can\'t tell him whats wrong with Chloe because he is her Ex husband. But Chloe eventually tells him herself. Previously, the doctor told them both.
Jared Hastings (the man who comes to take over CTU) is now named Ben Kram.
And I noticed something interesting in the shooting schedule. It calls for a stunt double for James Heller. Hmm? what could that be about?
I will have one more post after this. I\'m not exactly sure how it fits into the show. It may just be a DVD extra, but its an interesting debriefing between Jack and 2 agents which takes place after the 24 episode. I never bought any season dvds, have they done something like this before?[/spoiler]
if the end is true, i\'m guessing that somehow, it will be [spoiler]david palmer[/spoiler] but who knows??
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Post by: Mark on May 08, 2007, 12:40:30 pm
:yack2:
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Post by: kindm's on May 08, 2007, 01:14:09 pm
I didnt read the spoilers dave posted but last nights episode was a direct ripoff of Die Hard.
using the gun to stop the fan to get in the shaft ?
I was waiting for jack to say
"Come out to the coast, we\'ll get together, have a few laughs..."
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Post by: davepeck on May 15, 2007, 12:36:37 pm
it\'s like a bad train wreck you just can\'t turn away from...
loved the russian prez\'s deadline of........ 2 hours. GO FIGURE!
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Post by: kindm's on May 15, 2007, 12:44:54 pm
Quote from: davepeck;145351
it\'s like a bad train wreck you just can\'t turn away from...
loved the russian prez\'s deadline of........ 2 hours. GO FIGURE!
And you would think that the Russina prez admitting to having a spy would be grounds for war as well but I guess not
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Post by: davepeck on May 15, 2007, 12:48:57 pm
and why is josh running up the stairs, in front of cheng, when he knows cheng needs him and isn\'t gonna kill him? why not have a seat on the stairs and let jack come get cheng??
not to mention that if all of your defensive strategies are about to be compromised because this \'component\' fell into the wrong hands, is it really the smartest thing to RUSH INTO A WAR as a result?
those must be some great, necessary strategies if you can come up with a solid battle plan as soon as your old plans are compromised!
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Post by: booztravlr on May 15, 2007, 12:51:14 pm
Quote from: davepeck;145351
it\'s like a bad train wreck you just can\'t turn away from...
loved the russian prez\'s deadline of........ 2 hours. GO FIGURE!
i was laughing so hard when he said 2 hours. just knew that was coming. the only thing that gets me through this show anymore is a couple glasses of scotch. its much more entertaining when youre filling in all the dialogue yourself.
might have to up my dosage of red label next week for the super terrific awesome-a 2 hour season finale! i cant wait to watch over 30 minutes of truck commercials. not to mention the last 20 minutes will probably be bullshit drama with no action that no one is going to care about. leave it to fox to run another great show into the ground.
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Post by: kindm's on May 15, 2007, 04:39:07 pm
Quote from: davepeck;145357
and why is josh running up the stairs, in front of cheng, when he knows cheng needs him and isn\'t gonna kill him? why not have a seat on the stairs and let jack come get cheng??
not to mention that if all of your defensive strategies are about to be compromised because this \'component\' fell into the wrong hands, is it really the smartest thing to RUSH INTO A WAR as a result?
those must be some great, necessary strategies if you can come up with a solid battle plan as soon as your old plans are compromised!
The other thing thats odd. is if the component was so sensitive then why didnt the Russians ask to help search for it ?
They basically said you find it or else. Well wouldn\'t the device being held by the US pose the same issues for the russians ie. we have their codes and could do what WE want ?
You would think they would say we want to be in on the search for the device we will respond with special ops etc to "assist" CTU.
The best line was from MacNichol " Well she is right, he is a sociopath" hilarious
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Post by: antbach on May 15, 2007, 05:25:51 pm
the only thing that keeps me tuned in until the end is to see how right dave\'s spoiler\'s were from last week, and if it is right I definitely wanna see the end of the season, maybe it will make me want to watch next season, but at this rate, probably not. bring back prison break! actually, fuck that, that show went down too, put new episodes of HOUSE on 5 nights a week!
Title: .info really needs a 24 thread...
Post by: kindm's on May 16, 2007, 11:32:15 am
Quote from: antbach;145402
the only thing that keeps me tuned in until the end is to see how right dave\'s spoiler\'s were from last week, and if it is right I definitely wanna see the end of the season, maybe it will make me want to watch next season, but at this rate, probably not. bring back prison break! actually, fuck that, that show went down too, put new episodes of HOUSE on 5 nights a week!
Last nights HOUSE was pretty good. That kid was such an asshole :)
Title: .info really needs a 24 thread...
Post by: booztravlr on May 16, 2007, 02:41:17 pm
HR reports that Fox has renewed the Jack Bauer Power Hour for another two years; whether this is good news remains to be seen.
The producers recently promised that the next season will completely different from any season to come before it, and that next week\'s season finale will adequately set up this unconventional day in Jack\'s life.
But if they\'re wrong, and Days 7 and 8 turn out to be just like every other day in Jack Bauer\'s life, the show will almost definitely fail to see a 9th.
Besides which: how\'s that movie coming, guys? Still planning on it? You know, that 24 movie? The one you\'ve been talking about for the last couple of years? Got a...got a big stack of script pages? Hunh? Got an obstacle for Jack to overcome? Yeah? Been talking about that since three years ago.
nice family guy (stewie) reference at the end there.
Title: .info really needs a 24 thread...
Post by: antbach on May 21, 2007, 10:02:17 pm
terrible ending. really wished the ending was what was in the spoiler. either that or he coulda have gotten ready to shoot himself or jump off the ledge, seeing as that was how it was playing out with the cinematics (i\'m not a director, but the setting, acting, dialogue and music suggested he was about to kill himself). oh well, good thing a new season doesn\'t start until January, gives me plenty of time to completely forget about how good this show USED to be and how AWFUL this season was.
Title: .info really needs a 24 thread...
Post by: davepeck on May 21, 2007, 10:07:39 pm
umm... yeah. the ending in my spoiler was MUCH better. too bad we\'ll never know who that mystery man was. that ending blew.
weird, cause a lot of other things in the spoiler were spot on. i\'m guessing maybe they had multiple endings, and decided to go with this craptastic one. shitty way to end a shitty season.
Title: .info really needs a 24 thread...
Post by: booztravlr on May 22, 2007, 09:39:17 am
craptastic indeed.
good riddance 24.
Title: .info really needs a 24 thread...
Post by: booztravlr on August 21, 2007, 11:25:28 am
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/33727
if season 6 wasn\'t enough of a reason, this one will def keep me away from bauer hour 7.
Title: .info really needs a 24 thread...
Post by: davepeck on August 21, 2007, 12:03:40 pm
with the supposed lack of CTU, i\'m still optimistic that the show can make a comeback. hope i\'m right.