24: Day 7

[JS22]

Definitely the best season since 1-2 IMO. And last night was possibly the best episode that I've seen since the early seasons.

 

[Darth Llama]

And Jaqueline Bauer (agent freckles) is coming into her own as a badass.

And it helps that she's hot as hell.

 

[D-Dogg]

True.. I was bummed when that happened. But...

Spoiler

I'm just glad they didn't kill Aaron Pierce. A little bit of 24 trivia for those that watch the show regularly, Agent Pierce is the only character in 24 other then Jack Bauer to appear in and live through all 7 seasons of 24 to date. I thought when he got shot that they were going to kill him, glad they didn't. I'll really miss Bill though, that character rocked.

Nice trivia!

 

[D-Dogg]

So Donald, we are already on episode nine. When do you think Bauer and Freckles start swapping spit?

For those that want to watch 24 online, here is the link.

I'm still shocked it hasn't happened yet.

My wife and I throw jokes about how much she wants to do him, and how mad it makes the other FBI guy, for pretty much the whole show.

We've also taken to saying "Bauer!!!" like Darth Sidius says "power!!!" when he's shooting lightning at people. This usually happens when Jack is "intorturgating" someone.

 

[coyoteshockeyfan]

True.. I was bummed when that happened. But...

Spoiler

I'm just glad they didn't kill Aaron Pierce. A little bit of 24 trivia for those that watch the show regularly, Agent Pierce is the only character in 24 other then Jack Bauer to appear in and live through all 7 seasons of 24 to date. I thought when he got shot that they were going to kill him, glad they didn't. I'll really miss Bill though, that character rocked.

Spoiler

Yeah, that was the only reason why I was confident that he'd be ok from the bullet. Aaron's gonna outlive everybody.

 

[Skkorpion]

My roommate had recorded all of this year's shows. Glad he did. I had given up on the series. Spent the last week catching up. Can't watch more than two back to back. Frenetic. Just like it used to be.

 

[coyoteshockeyfan]

24 is at its best when Jack is on the run with nobody to help him

 

[Darth Llama]

Man, the hour just goes by so fast. I already can't wait for next weeks episode.

I hope they use Tony Almeda more the rest of the season, he's been underused to date. That's my only real complaint.

 

[Darth Llama]

Once again, another week of twists and turns and another great episode. Even though it's once again Jack saving the world from this insane conspiracy that just couldn't possibly happen for too many reasons to list, it's still great TV. Maybe it's the acting, the dialogue, the characters, I don't know, but this show is fantastic.

I already can't wait for next week.

 

[D-Dogg]

Still loving this season.

Our new favorite during show joke....Tony Almeda is a vampire. Dude only comes out at night. He was in during the twilight hours, hid out during the day, and came back after dark.

Makes sense as to why he is still alive. VAMPIRE!

He was feeding on terrorists, bit them IN THE NECK! (where most 24 characters get shot/grazed and where Chloe famously called out where tony first got shot..IN THE NECK). The clues are there, man.

 

[Darth Llama]

Still loving this season.

Our new favorite during show joke....Tony Almeda is a vampire. Dude only comes out at night. He was in during the twilight hours, hid out during the day, and came back after dark.

Makes sense as to why he is still alive. VAMPIRE!

He was feeding on terrorists, bit them IN THE NECK! (where most 24 characters get shot/grazed and where Chloe famously called out where tony first got shot..IN THE NECK). The clues are there, man.

I think you might be on to something here.

 

[LVG]

Still loving this season.

Our new favorite during show joke....Tony Almeda is a vampire. Dude only comes out at night. He was in during the twilight hours, hid out during the day, and came back after dark.

Makes sense as to why he is still alive. VAMPIRE!

He was feeding on terrorists, bit them IN THE NECK! (where most 24 characters get shot/grazed and where Chloe famously called out where tony first got shot..IN THE NECK). The clues are there, man.

Random plot generator at it's best.

Kill count up to 25.

Oh, BTW, if you don't read Dave Barry's account of this show, you're missing out...

Here is where we stand:

Last week Jack managed to steal the Deadly Fatal Bioweapon of Death from henchpersons working for evil puppetmaster Jon Voight. Unfortunately, the henchpersons got it back by shooting 153,000 rounds of ammunition at Jack from a helicopter. Fortunately, all of these rounds missed because Jack was crouching next to a pile of rocks. Unfortunately, Jack was exposed to the bioweapon, which means he might die, in which case the season would be over and we would have to spend future Monday nights reading the works of Marcel Proust instead of letting this show slowly turn our brains to risotto.

Fortunately there's a good chance that Jack will survive, because he is contractually obligated to do an eighth season. Unfortunately we cannot be so certain about Tony, who was captured by the henchpersons and could be killed for the second time in his 24 career. Meanwhile President Woman President's hideously unlikeable daughter Olivia -- who is getting WAY too much screen time that should be devoted to Renee the highly competent FBI agent -- got poor old Ethan fired and is now basically running the country. In other bad news, Henry the First Dip has emerged from his coma and is delivering lines of dialog.

Edgar is still dead.

Be advised that analysis from me may be on the light side tonight, because Mrs. Blog is covering a tennis tournament, which means I am responsible for childcare, which means humanity is doomed I may be tuning in a little late.

Stay tuned after tonight's episode for the wrapup by The Amazing Steve.

 

[Darth Llama]

That recap is great!

Seriously though, is Keifer really committed to do an 8th season? Because after this plot line, I was thinking that if they were going to end the show this would be how they would do it (Jack gets exposed to a chemical weapon then in the end does something heroic to save everyone because he's dead anyway.) Kinda like George Mason in season 4 when he flew that chopper with the nuke into the desert because he was dying of radiation poisoning.

In all likelyhood though, since Starkwood manufactured this strand of the weapon, they probably have an antidote and Jack will take it with 10 minutes left in the 24th episode. Meanwhile, we get to watch him toil in agony and play "will this be the week Jack dies" for the rest of the season.

Don't get me wrong, I am totally enjoying the show, but the whole "having Jack get exposed to the hopelessly fatal weapon of doom even though we all know he's not going to die thing".. is kinda weak.

 

[sundevilscott]

Kinda like George Mason in season 4 when he flew that chopper with the nuke into the desert because he was dying of radiation poisoning.

I believe that was season 2 and it was a plane.

 

[Darth Llama]

I believe that was season 2 and it was a plane.

It was season 2.. you're right..

I don't know why I remembered it being a helicopter, as soon as you said it was a plane, I remembered Jack jumping out of said plane over the desert.

I must be getting old.

 

[TBaslim]

Great season, but man - the Olivia character and President Taylor are awful. Not the actresses - the writing and the plot for their characters.

There is no way a President (esp the first female prez) would EVER appoint their own child as Chief of Staff, even in an emergency like the ones on the show. The political fallout about conflicts of interest and nepotism re: official positions of power would be overwhelming. Even if the kid were some genius, they would be an informal adviser or something.

AND, there is no way a seasoned pol who made it to the Presidency would buy what the daughter is selling. She looks guilty and pouts the whole time, and is so clearly in over her head.

An attempt at some additional family drama, but no go. Besides, the show rocks and has enough drama as it is.

It's funny - the show is full of unbelievable contrivances for the sake of excitement and drama, but this one sticks out as the most unrealistic.

 

[Skkorpion]

Great season, but man - the Olivia character and President Taylor are awful. Not the actresses - the writing and the plot for their characters.

There is no way a President (esp the first female prez) would EVER appoint their own child as Chief of Staff, even in an emergency like the ones on the show. The political fallout about conflicts of interest and nepotism re: official positions of power would be overwhelming. Even if the kid were some genius, they would be an informal adviser or something.

AND, there is no way a seasoned pol who made it to the Presidency would buy what the daughter is selling. She looks guilty and pouts the whole time, and is so clearly in over her head.

An attempt at some additional family drama, but no go. Besides, the show rocks and has enough drama as it is.

It's funny - the show is full of unbelievable contrivances for the sake of excitement and drama, but this one sticks out as the most unrealistic.

Huh? What world do you live in? John Kennedy appointed his brother Bobby Kennedy his Attorney General and Bobby was JFK's most trusted advisor for the Bay of Pigs disaster.

 

[Darth Llama]

I'm not huge on the whole Olivia/Taylor thing either. It's just a sub plot that I could take or leave in an otherwise brilliant show. I don't hate it or anything, I just think it's not as interesting as the main plot with Starkwood and the Bio Weapons.

Personally, I think it's cool that they're going to bring Kim back, I personally like the dynamic between Jack and his daughter. Should be interesting, as usual, I'm looking forward to the next episode.

 

[Cardinals.Ken]

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This last episode seemed to be a bit mailed in to me. Good action, but they're setting up some rather implausible scenarios.

Spoiler

They're going to bring back Kim to save Jack's life with some experimental procedure for an incurable disease that I'm sure only has a 0.1% chance of success, and the President calls off an airstrike that is 3 minutes (or less) from taking out the pathogen warehouse because of some over-the-phone pic of a bunch of missiles that would probably take 5 minutes to prep to launch?

Ugh!

 

[Darth Llama]

I agree with a couple of the issues Ken pointed out, but it's a little premature to say it jumped the shark IMO.

 

[LVG]

This last episode seemed to be a bit mailed in to me. Good action, but they're setting up some rather implausible scenarios.

24? Implausible scenarios? NEVER!

 

[coyoteshockeyfan]

Ugh... dumbest plot twist ever.

 

[Skkorpion]

How many episodes left this season?

 

[coyoteshockeyfan]

How many episodes left this season?

Six

 

[Darth Llama]

Ugh... dumbest plot twist ever.

Well, I don't know about that. I'm going to see how it plays out before I make that decision.

On another note, the amount of commercials played during this show drives me absolutely insane. At one point, they had 7 minutes of commercials, came back to the show for 6 min, then did 8 more minutes of commercials.

Unreal, I'm thinking of just DVR'ing this show and watching it at 9.