I know, but her awesomeness in Galactica does not make up for her terrible part so far in 24. Do these side stories ever turn out good?
Knowing Red was absolutely telling the truth when she said she had nowhere to go and seeing how much of her soul has already been lost really broke my heart. Wow. :sad:
I’m scared. I hope things turn out well for her this season. She and Jack need to take solace in each other!! And that will make sure the way is paved for super human Jack Bauer Jr.!!
- James
“the car we’re following must have been a decoy”
“DAMNIT!!!”
White trash guy’s name is Kevin? He a candidate to be a K-Fed?
If Dana is smart she will just cap K-Fed and the other guy right now. Lord knows they will die eventually.
Red was hot in this episode.
The writers won’t allow her to be that smart. She must cause drama, and be a nuisance to the show. This is always how it works, and I still don’t know why. :mad:
The side drama is included to account for travel/non action scenes. That’'s why people in conversations in 24 speak particularly slowly compared to other tv shows. Notice they always enunciate everything clearly, and dramatic pauses are longer than usual.
That’s the drawback to running a show in ‘real time’.
Screw that. I am liking the new red. I am liking this seasons political drama. I am liking the russian pimp and his handling of his dying son. I am even liking the random side story (Texas rednecks REPRESENT! ) with White trash Kev. I like the restraint they have not putting a “star” like Freddie Prinze Jr. all the time.
This show is great.:rock: I wish I had the patience to just wait a year and watch every episode back to back.
It’s a shame though. No matter how good this season is, this show will be forever marred by season 6. I love how they refer to every season BUT that one in the show. Seriously, WTH happened to Bill Buchanons wife, Wayne Palmer, and President Logan. Theyve all been Behroozed.
I’m not even going to put a spoiler tag for a response here because that would be worse… I know how us 24 addicts are. "I’m not gonna click it…I’m not gonna click it…click FUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKK!!! :mad: "
So I’ll just say this: Russians, again? Hmmmm interesting.
Anyway, it’s hilarious how in S7 when Tony told Jack about Alan Wilson yet never mentioned a peep about BIG BOSS BAUER or THE [NOT SO] BOSS Graem - the latter of which confessed the hit on PPP to his bro Jack like the other six million people - so yeah, S6 is forever the bastard child. Everybody killed PPP fuck it. CBS too. Jack and Kim wants to return to nuked California sure why not.
I vouch that Hastings get the moniker HUNCHBLACK OF CTU. And I’ve been watching the part where Renee silently went “WAT” towards Vladimir after he asked for a name (the first time in the warehouse) over and over again. Even when she’s buying time with nothing to lose it’s HAWT :lovin: Someone make a gif of it.
Haha. I’ll vote for hunchback of CTU.
No debate about how horrible S6 was, but I still haven’t decided if S5 was more damaging to 24. S5 really went too far with the kills, and there was a two seaosn drought of relevant character development for the series. Renee is the only interesting new character that’s had a recurring role between seasons. Everyone else who’s been introduced since Season 5 is stupid or got fukken shot.
“Do you have a preference?”
“No.”
“Then take both of them.” 
Yeah, but season 5 had an AWESOME start. They introduced the first lady, and Henderson who had sooooo much potential until they wasted it. The gas angle was a decent terrorist threat, and they could have done some really bad ass things if they kept Logan as the true “boss.” Season 5 (and 24 as a whole really started spiralling out of control the second Henderson put the syringe into Tony) If they changed a few aspects from the last 12 episodes of that season it could have been great. Unfortunately they wrote themselves into a corner with the season ender and that left us with season 6.
Season 6 had almost no redeeming qualities, besides introducing Jack’s dad, which pretty much fell flat on its face anyway.
speaking of season 6, anyone hoping Nadia comes back? she’s too hot to be left out
Yeah, there’s a lot of characters they’ve decided to omit the past few seasons.
Counsel Han was captured, and he clearly said his government would not betray him and leave him to rot like the U.S. did when Jack was captured. So why have they totally forgotten this angle? Could it be that Jack vs 1 billion Chinese is so epic, they can’t even wrap a good story around it?
Where the fuck did Montell go?
They totally fucked up the potential of the Bluetooth Illuminati.
There are villains that have slipped through the cracks, and haven’t been seen since… which is a shame.
Yeah the writers made really poor decisions in S5, which was otherwise a season with a great plot (I have a problem with the nerve gas since that’s not how nerve gas works… but fuck it, it’s a TV show) and some of the best villains of the series.
I think the right way to handle S5 would be… PPP dies (AND HIS MURDER IS THE #1 FOCUS OF THE SEASON… I mean it’s only a President of the US, and the second greatest character of the entire series), Michelle dies but Tony barely survives, Jack gets caught by Han (that’s important because if Jack was free, he’d obviously help Tony out while he was in mourning). Then we get the Jack vs One Billion Chinese epic us 24 fans deserve (in place of S6). When Jack comes back to the US in S7, he hooks up with the FBI to find out Tony went batshit. If only we could turn the clock back.
Season 5 was definitely frustrating mostly because they took out so many good characters. Frankly, the death of PPP has still been the biggest blight on 24, IMO. What a great character. Killing him off for the sake of shock and plot was a HUGE mistake. I agree with Dennis Haysbert that is was wrong to kill off such a respectable, honorable, and GDLK African American character, which can be rare on TV.
Season 6 was just… bad. The only Season I did not buy on DVD. The fact that Jack’s Dad turned out to be such a crazy evil and powerful person was just… horrible. Especially when he killed his own son. It just made Jack seem less… special, I guess. It’s like one of those Final Fantasy games where Golbez turns out to be your brother and you happen to be half Lunarian. At first you just thought you were some good solider-turned-captain, but it turns out you were pivotal in the plot of the whole fate of the world from the get go. I’ve never been a fan of that type of thing.
- James
HunchBLACK.
And lol Rush Hour’s Counsel Han name is Cheng Zhi on 24. I will not allow you all to forget such a badass character’s name. :mad:
Hopefully for the rest of S8 the Patriots will be uncovered. You all just know they are the final bosses. Farhan/Fake Iran, Russians, and them. This needs to be the final season tho. Save the Chinese - or ze Germans - for the movie.
The glorious WALKER POWER HOUR has returned! …What? Wait, it’s BAUER POWER HOUR isn’t it? What’s going on?
When we last left our heroes, PSYCHO SCARLETT had DE-THUMBED SOVIET BORAT. OLD JACK was thoroughly bothered - not by the DE-THUMBING, of course, but by the signs that SCARLETT is obtaining the MARK OF THE PSYCHO.
MARK OF THE PSYCHO Chaos 1: If you need a criminal to co-operate with you to get undercover, start hacking off body parts!
If OLD JACK were forced to flip into PSYCHO MODE, and with SCARLETT already there, surely the universe would explode from the imbalance of power! I’m a little afraid myself, honestly!
SOVIET BORAT agrees to take PSYCHO SCARLETT to see VLAD. On the way, they have a talk about the history…and OLD JACK’s PSYCHO SENSE starts blaring! Computer assist to THE CHLOE, who finds out that VLAD THE IMPALER was trying to pull a little CHRIS BROWN ACTION on SCARLETT! OLD JACK is thoroughly freaked as he feels the POWER OF THE PSYCHO growing stronger!
Meanwhile, PRESIDENT SLUMDOG is bumming out after having his brother EVIL MIKE try to kill him! And having to break up with WHITE KRYPTONITE as well! To make himself feel better, he orders up some good 'ol fashioned EXECUTIONS FOR THE INFIDELS, but unfortunately PRESIDENT SKIRT gets her panties in a bunch about this and asks him to consider the KINDLER, GENTLER approach. PRESIDENT SLUMDOG tries to re-establish his groove with his wife PERSIAN COUNSELOR TROI, but she’s just not FEELING it. Meanwhile, EVIL MIKE is getting to play MY LORD with two EVONY SLUTS! Is there no justice in the world?!
Meanwhile still, STARBUCK…BLONDIE…?! Whatever, she’s WOMAN-AT-ARMS! Have you seen the GUNS on this chick? If Brett Favre had her on his offensive line the Vikings would be in the Super Bowl! WOMAN-AT-ARMS goes home to find her HILLBILLY POPULATION has DOUBLED! VIOLENT K-FED starts ordering WOMAN-AT-ARMS around, blackmailing her to use her CTU access to steal from bank accounts so he can buy a lifetime supply of HOOCH. If WOMAN-AT-ARMS were smart, she’d shoot them both, then use her CTU powers to make them vanish forever! Unfortunately, that’s never how it goes in the 24 Universe, so expect some COUGAR-SLAPPING WACKYNESS to come soon!
And meanwhile still, KENSEI, having left the mess of a show called HEROES, decides to go start a meaningless sub-plot that will later tie back into the story in some randomly unexpected yet gloriously violent way.
Back to the action, SOVIET BORAT takes PSYCHO SCARLETT to VLAD THE IMPALER. VLAD gives PSYCHO SCARLETT the 20 QUESTIONS TEST, which PSYCHO SCARLETT passes thanks to C-OLD JACK and H-CHLOE assist! Despite that, VLAD puts them in the trunk to go be executed! OLD JACK freaks, and in a rare miss he ends up tailing the wrong car! At least we get the classic Bauer DAMNIT!
VLAD shoots BORAT (mainly because BRUNO wasn’t as good of a movie) and goes to finish off PSYCHO SCARLETT. SCARLETT gets RAW with him, challenging him to shoot and saying she has nothing else to live for. VLAD buys it and accepts her, partly for the money, and party because he figures IMPALING her will be a lot more fun if she’s warmer and less bloody! But we all know she wasn’t lying about the nothing to live for part!
Meanwhile, OLD JACK continues to be disturbed…not just by SCARLETT’s speech, but by yet another MARK OF THE PSYCHO.
MARK OF THE PSYCHO Chaos 2: Any minor characters who agree to help you out will be dead within 3 episodes tops!
How far will SCARLETT’s descent into the PSYCHO POWER go? Did KIM somehow magically transfer her TEE-HEE CURSE onto WOMAN-AT-ARMS? …Are there even any COUGARS in NY? We’ll find out next week!
Hahah, Evony reference was pure quality.