Yeah, I could always torrent it, but I tend to download stuff and then never watch it. I’m defintely going to get around to it soon.
WHAT?!!? :xeye:
But it won’t be the same without the legendary preachings of the SRK recaps…those I feel made the first 4 seasons of 24 GREATNESS!!!
Internetz my negro, you on it, use it.
i have to admit, i came into the game late (after s4 just ended). i only knew about the srk recaps later on…
Agent Walker gave me a hard on when she was torturing Tanner.
No lie.
Yea, these SRK recaps are awesome, too bad I gotta do it alone for the first 4/5 seasons now :sad:
Honestly, S4 and S5 are by design the best-written seasons of 24. Before S4, 24 seasons were written as two ‘12-hour’ segments, with the expectation that Fox might cancel the show mid-season. After S3, I remember Fox said 24 is worth the investment, and isn’t in danger of getting canceled anytime soon. Since then, the pacing of the show improved, and the main villains stuck around until the end of the season. I don’t know what the hell happened with S6,* but I’m expecting one of the best seasons with S7, since they supposedly wrote everything out after filming the first 2-3 episodes.
S5 had some of the best White House/executive subplots of the series, ALMOST dethroning S2’s. And Peter Weller was incredibly good… has he been in any shows/movies since then? Other than that, I felt it was a mixed bag (especially when Jack confronted Logan, the CTU bickering got worse, and of course they went overboard with the shock-killing that the series is still feeling the effects of). Either you like S4’s breakneck pace or you don’t, but I haven’t seen any other TV show succeed at nonstop suspense as well as S4.
- What an incredibly fail season S6 was. If any season of 24 demanded a TV movie prequel like Redemption, it was definitely last season.
Makes you wonder if they called it “Redemption” for a reason, huh?
- James
I’m pleasantly surprised to see someone agree with me on the excellent writing in season 4. S4 is still my favorite season for multiple reasons.
One Billion Chinese story arc still hasn’t reached a satisfactory conclusion, I hope the writers haven’t forgot that.
Season 5 had everything it needed to be amazing. Everything. I still wonder what went wrong. Logan was great. His wife was great. The threat was great. Henderson is probably one of the most intriguing villains I have seen in years.
Yet, it lost me. Ironically, it was only because of how Tony was dispsed of, but the truth is 24 is a farfetched show especially since season 4, and the mass killings of 5 are what kind of snapped me out of my haze.
You’re not the only one. 
make that 3.
I have to agree. I also in retrospect and rewatching episodes from S5 think its Politician Backdrop was pretty damn good. Not much of a fan of the Jack and CTU’s stories because at some point in the season it all went ‘meh’ to me. Better then S6 but I felt it was like S3 in that it lacked a consistent threat by throwing Jack into one crazy crisis after the next ending with the Chinese taking him.
Season 6 was more of the same of that sort of stuff but the whole Jack’s family went off the rails. Never the mind the fact that they wasted a perfectly good villain in his brother after maybe three episodes. I can only hope that this season lives up to the promise it has shown in these early episodes.
From what I’m getting from this thread
God Tier:
S1/S2
Top Tier:
S3/S4
Makato Tier(getting a lot of conflicted messages here)
S5
Redemption
Shit Tier
S6
So far S7 looks pretty top tier to me. Too bad the only season I watched was the shitty one
The acting made S5 the best in my opinion. Henderson was a great villain. There were a couple of stupid episodes mid-season. Like Jack controlling a plane by yanking on a couple of wires or landing it on a freeway. I didn’t like the Logan twist at first but the show ended up explaining it pretty well. I remember in an interview with Gregory Itzin he said the writers didn’t tell him his character was going to be evil until after 10-11 episodes had been filmed. I think this added more shock to viewer reactions after the Logan twist; the actor genuinely thought his character was good and portrayed him in such a way early on.
I didn’t like how the Chinese just appears and abducts Jack at the end of the season. At least it proved Jack was still a beast to be able to handle 20 months of torture and not break.
I agree that S6 was the worst, too many jumps from one story to another. I still laugh at how Gredenko cuts off his arm to remove the CTU tracking bug only to die later under a pier and be forgotten. S6 also aired the same time as Heroes S1, and since Heroes was a new show at the time it made S6 look even worse in comparison. I did hear that Donald Sutherland was considered to play Philip Bauer but it conflicted with his schedule at the time. Plus I think Donald said he didn’t want to overshadow his son’s screen presence when they were both in the same scene or something along those lines.
I think S7 is going to turn out to be one of the best seasons. During my history of watching TV, whenever a season has disappointed me or felt like it was one of the worse seasons the following season has always turned out to be good. (I only watched Hercules/Xena and Buffy/Angel).
I rank the series 421536…
To like the current state of 24, you have to accept that S4 established the series as terrorist doomsday fantasy. Think about what’s happened, for all the public to witness and/or the media to disclose, between seasons 4-6… it should have sent shockwaves throughout the government, the economy and society. S7 is finally accounting for CTU’s torture stance in response to critics and even politicians, but they haven’t addressed the aftermath of the past few seasons that would have compromised USA’s stature on the world stage.
Having said all that, 24 never really suggested that it was realistic, and most of what happened in S1 and 2 isn’t exactly plausible. The show committed bigger sins by killing off key characters and ruining developing plotlines (1B Chinese, Zee Germans, Meet The Bauers etc.)… I consider those unforgivable, more than the series dropping any pretense that it’s an over-the-top political thriller.
I also liked Season 5 because of the acting. Gregory Itzin played President Logan very well. He was actually one of the few bright spots in Season 6 when he was on and Mrs. Logan flipped out and stabbed him heh.
Well, I was like the only person saying since the very beginning of S5 that no matter what happens throughout, ONE BILLION CHINESE were coming for Jack in the end.
So for me it was welcome surprise.
i [pp[ed wehen I found out tony was undercover I CALLE D THAT SHIT TO MY DAD.