The One and Only "24" Thread.....

[Guest areacode212]

Does ANYONE buy Jack as being "dead" at this point?

Nope. And I barely buy the idea of people all over the country waking up at 2:30 AM and rioting.

[Guest packwingfn]

Im still wondering who is this guy on the phone that wants Jack to confess

[Guest areacode212]

Probably the head of an oil company or something.

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

Does ANYONE buy Jack as being "dead" at this point?

Nope. And I barely buy the idea of people all over the country waking up at 2:30 AM and rioting.

That is sort of iffy. The bomb went off around midnight, which is 3 am in east. The Rioting was starting around 1:30 show time which would be 4:30 in the east (Where marietta is). The whole deal behind rioting in Marietta is because thats where theres a large population of people from the middle east (storyline wise anyway, Im not sure about it in real life), so theres at least a good reason even if it doesnt really make that much sense. The people rioting in California at 2 am is probably possible, especially since they were closer to the explosion and its earlier in the night.

 

I was trying to figure out who the man was in the hellicopter/office building on the phone trying to bribe Jack. I looked at all the special guest stars but no names jumped out at me and there are a ton of em. Someone will eventually figure it out though. Its kind of obvious that its not the Germans from the end of last year though, so that kinda sucks.

 

I didnt see the preview for next week. My guess is that they are able to revive Jack, but I suppose having Jack be dead at the end of an episode is a good enough cliffhanger for next week.

 

And I guess it was just me that thought this was a really awesome episode.

[Guest MaxPower27]

It was a good episode, but I think that the 1st and 3rd episodes of this season are far better.

 

Hopefully next week will be better.

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

BUMP

 

I wasn't too fond of tonight's episode, but it was paced fast enough to still be enjoyable.

[Guest MaxPower27]

All I saw so far was the "Warning: Graphic Violence" thing at the beginning.

[Guest El Satanico]

Tonights episode was good. Some decent suspense and did a good job of moving the story along.

 

Those redneck fuckers don't know who they're fucking with.

[Guest Edwin MacPhisto]

YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSEF!

 

That is all. Excellent ep, though. Lynn looked seriously fucked up. Palmer is going to tear Mike's head off when he eventually finds out...

[Guest fazzle]

Yikes. Asstastic episode tonight. Very strong contender for worst 24 hour ever.

 

Chappelle is boring as hell, but, ye gods he didn't even make an impression when compared to the rednecks. They actually make one long for the days of Kim, something previously thought to be impossible.

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSEF!

 

That is all. Excellent ep, though. Lynn looked seriously fucked up. Palmer is going to tear Mike's head off when he eventually finds out...

Lynne should be dead. That being said, the part where she tried to point at Mike and he realized it was funny, just because of his facial expression.

 

and for the record, and Its spelled Yusuf (or at least thats the closed caption spelling).

 

Also, on the subject of the Rednecks, I found it funny that they wouldn't take the Euros..20,000 Euros = 20,000 dollars (roughly) and ended up settling for $1,500.

 

Its also hard to believe that Kim hasn't been on for 2 straight episodes...

[Guest MaxPower27]

I liked it. I thought Jack was going to try some Nude Kung-Fu on goon #2, but that was a good sequence with the doc.

 

The rednecks are pretty funny, but then again, that's INTENTIONAL.

 

I like Chappelle. He's a good bad guy, a good foil for Tony and Michelle.

 

The teaser for the next few weeks leads me to believe that Evil Dad Gary is behind at least some of it.

[Guest areacode212]

Yikes. Asstastic episode tonight. Very strong contender for worst 24 hour ever.

 

Chappelle is boring as hell, but, ye gods he didn't even make an impression when compared to the rednecks. They actually make one long for the days of Kim, something previously thought to be impossible.

Ignoring the implausibility of the whole "Prescott overthrowing the President" (don't these people realize that trying to usurp the presidency...at 4 in the morning, only a few hours after the bomb exploded...is political suicide?? Not everybody in that room can possibly be in the pocket of those oil guys or whatever they are), this was a great episode, and it more than made up for last week's mediocre one. Naked, vengeful Jack shooting all those guys was an awesome markout moment.

 

The teaser for the next few weeks leads me to believe that Evil Dad Gary is behind at least some of it.

I finally worked up the willpower to turn off the TV before the preview came on. Woohoo! I'm completely unspoiled. Seeing Lynne fall off the staircase in last week's preview really pissed me off.

[Guest areacode212]

That Secret Service guy Aaron...is this the first time we're seeing him this season? Wasn't he at the breakfast from the first day--the guy who let Jack through the metal detector?

[Guest MaxPower27]

Yeah, it's the same guy. It kind of came out of nowhere, but it was interesting.

 

 

::can't wait to see Palmer flip out::

[Guest Evolution]

I thought Lynne was dead from the preview, and I also thought it would be the cliffhanger, two things I struck out on completely.

 

Lynne might as well be dead, though.

 

This hour wasn't anything spectacular, but it sets up the final 4 hours.

 

I think the guilty-conscience having "redneck" is going to bring 24's equivalent of Bubba Ray Dudley to his death.

[Guest The Tino Standard]

Could somebody post a recap of what was shown in the preview for next week? Use the spoiler tags if necessary.

 

My VCR went to shit with about 20 mins to go in the episode last night. I got what happened in that time from the Fox website, but I was also wondering what they showed in the preview for next week.

[Guest MaxPower27]

Spoiler (Highlight to Read):

It was a synopsis of the next four weeks. All I remember off the top of my head was Jack walking into a building and saying "What are you doing here?!", Jack screaming "Kim, shoot him NOW!!!!" and Kim firing a gun at someone. That's all I remember off the top of my head.

[Guest MaxPower27]

Also:

 

Spoiler (Highlight to Read):

Jack tells Kate that there are things beyond everyone's control. CTU gets locked down. Palmer gets arrested. We got a quick clip of Evil Dad Gary as well, so he might be behind this thing pretty deeply

[Guest The Tino Standard]

Sounds like it is gonna be a fun final 4 weeks this season. Thanks for the info

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

Funny Article on MSNBC.com

 

Run, Kim, run!

 

On Fox’s ‘24,’ a ludicrous but alluring string of perils

 

By Hank Stuever

THE WASHINGTON POST

       April 21 —  Lord love her, it’s not easy being Kim Bauer. The writers of television’s “24” would tie her to train tracks if they could, because there’s nothing like a barely legal blonde in a tight shirt getting herself in all kinds of trouble, is there, America? In an action-adventure series consisting almost entirely of complicated, nail-biting, may-I-have-an-Ativan-please subplots of global terrorism, the Tuesday night Fox show has fixed on our love of the Pauline caricature in constant peril.

 

       KIM, THE DANGER-PRONE teenage daughter of Counter Terrorism Unit special agent Jack Bauer, fits a certain niche in these frantic times. Without meaning to, she has come to represent the vapidity and naive innocence of a Britney Nation caught up in something deadly serious, with only her wits and the occasional visibility of her nipples to save her.

       As much as viewers love to hate Stupid, Stupid Kim (rabid online fans at Television Without Pity have simply and scornfully nicknamed her “Spawn”), it now seems, in the 20th hour of “24’s” minute-by-minute saga, that fans are rallying around her.

       Kim is us. We are Kim. Every time your cell phone doesn’t work, every time you get kidnapped, every time you lose your car keys or, say, can’t get away from trained assassins, or every time you’re stuck in traffic (or causing a jam, like the time you set that deputy’s vehicle on fire, or the time the cops found your boss’s dead wife in the trunk of the car, which, technically, you stole from him), every time your boyfriend loses his leg trying to help you thwart disaster, just think of Kim and know you’re not alone.

      

NEW LOW OF RIDICULOUS PERIL

       Maybe it was the mountain lion that did it.         

      Hours ago (since “24” unfolds in “real time”), Kim was running from Ventura County sheriff’s deputies who just didn’t understand. They didn’t understand that her father was trying to stop terrorists from detonating a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles, and they didn’t understand that the man who employed her as a nanny had beaten and murdered his wife and was now intent on killing his small child and Kim; didn’t understand how she’d narrowly escaped the bombing of the CTU headquarters in downtown L.A. Nobody understands when you’re Kim. They chased her into the woods at nightfall.

       Kim being Kim, she stepped into an animal trap, which clamped tight around her ankle.

       A mountain lion soon growled nearby.

       A Kim Bauer nadir was reached that night, a new low of ridiculous peril, and her place was forever sealed in television’s trivial history. Fortunately, Spawn was rescued by a nice enough man who lived in a cabin nearby. Unfortunately, he turned out to be one of those paranoid, loner, militia types, and he locked her in his tricked-out underground bomb shelter. He wanted a post-apocalypse love slave.

      

SHE GETS AWAY, AGAIN  

     Though violent enough to warrant a network disclaimer for viewer discretion, the show uncannily mirrors and overstates the true-life, time’s-a-ticking anxieties of a world maxed out on worry.

         Fortunately, she got away and took one of his guns. She made it through the dark woods to the highway, and some guy offered her a ride.

       Unfortunately, he also wanted to rape her. Fortunately, she shot out the car window of the new creep and he sped off. After hitching another ride (and believing her father to now be dead, by the way), she wound up in a liquor store asking to use the bathroom. (Kim is the only character on “24” with bodily needs. Back at the Counter Terrorism Unit, the women’s bathroom is useful only as a place for “dirty” mole spies to make surreptitious cell phone calls. And they never flush the toilet.)

       It seemed as if the store owner was going to be yet another guy who wanted to rape Kim, but no. He was shot dead instead by a desperate, looney-tunes Latino stereotype trying to stock up on supplies for the impending world war. He held Kim hostage, but the cops shot him and she escaped.

 

       Spawn is now loose in the world again.

 

PURE TRAGICOMIC RELIEF

       It’s only a matter of time before she is kidnapped by the men behind an evil coup to overthrow the president and wage war on three countries in the Middle East. Kim, so marginal, so meandering, so imperiled, will somehow find her way back into the main plotline before the season finale next month. (Where, hopefully, nobody will ask her, “How was your day?”)  

      Overblown and melodramatic as the show must sound to non-addicts, the pop-culture landscape happens to need “24” right now. Though violent enough to warrant a network disclaimer for viewer discretion, the show uncannily mirrors and overstates the true-life, time’s-a-ticking anxieties of a world maxed out on worry.

       Many a Tuesday night you can segue from the plot of “24” (terrorist mastermind Syed Ali captured and interrogated!; Jack rushes to defuse nuke!) to the panic of “Fox 5 News at 10” (terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammad nabbed!; nation remains on Code Orange alert!), and perhaps this is one reason why “24’s” ratings have gone continually up this season, adding viewers even as the show lurches toward a convoluted home stretch.

       And the further we go, the stupider Kim gets. Yelling at her is like a national release valve; she is pure tragicomic relief.

 

KIDNAPPED, AGAIN  

       Sexual violence is to the modern TV drama what being tied to train tracks was to the silent-movie era.

       The character — gamely played by 20-year-old Canadian actress Elisha Cuthbert — is delicious, bratty, hot bait. Last year Kim was kidnapped three times in the span of 24 hours, once by thugs in a custom van, who ran over her best friend, and then by Slavic mobster-assassins. She was almost raped at least once, and then she was in a car wreck, and also in a car that plunged down one of those Mulholland ravines you see all the time in cop shows.

       That car exploded, but Kim was thrown to the side, and was later arrested in a violent drug raid at a meth house. She fell in love with one of her kidnappers. The Slavs captured her again and she escaped by leaping into a murky marina, as they fired guns at her.

       Her mother, Teri Bauer, was also kidnapped a few times last season, and raped once. (The women of “24” are in serious need of a Take Back the Night march. Sexual violence is to the modern TV drama what being tied to train tracks was to the silent-movie era. The metaphor is almost too simple.) Eventually Teri was shot and killed by the counterspy who’d had an affair with her husband.

       This season, it seemed for a time that Kim had smartened up, and even taken a self-defense class or two. Fleeing her psychotic wife-beating boss, she grabbed her big purse. (She even had a working cell phone for an entire episode.) Fans hoped the purse would stay with her all season, containing any number of helpful gadgets and items that would help her escape the many perils that surely awaited her — much like the Harlem Globetrotter who, in the cartoon series of the early 1970s, could pull useful appliances out of his giant afro.

       Kim lost her purse many episodes ago; maybe when the office building was bombed, maybe at the hospital, or maybe when her boss tried to beat her to death.

      

Of course she lost her purse.

      

Stupid, stupid wonderful Kim

 

Funny article, although Im hoping that FOX misses the article. Im guessing Kim plays a role in the final 4 eps. but I would hope that they give her character a little more thought next season (if she makes it muhahaha) instead of this.."What kind of stupid situation can we get Kim into this week?"

[Guest starvenger]

Great article. For some reason though, when I saw "Stupid, Stupid Kim" I thought of the "Bone" comic book where the main character often says "Stupid, stupid Rat Creatures!"...

[Guest areacode212]

Just a little bump since tonight is 24 night.

 

I have been awake for 30 hours straight (except for a few minutes of shut-eye on the subway). How ironic would it be if I didn't make it for tonight's episode because I was fucked-up from pulling my own Jack Bauer?

[The Dames 0]

What the hell have you been doing for the past 30 hours?

 

AC: "Nothing much. Came out of retirement, hunted a nuclear weapon, killed an federal witness, cut off his head, went undercover, was tortured, killed tons of guys, got held hostage, escaped, talked with the President and made sure the nuke went off properly. Oh and I ate an Egg Mcmuffin earlier this morning. You get might hungry doing all that, you know."

 

Dames

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

Its funny cause the mole is apparently revealed in tonights episode, and its funny because I was accusing that person of being a mole in the later episodes of last season.

 

No reason to SPoil it with only half an hour to go though.

[Guest The Tino Standard]

Well, you can chalk up yet another week of the heels going over BIG TIME. Things better really come together for Bauer, Palmer, Almeda et. al. in the next 3 weeks or I think you are going to have a lot of pissed off viewers.

 

There's only so many times you can have your protagonists getting the shit kicked out of them before people turn on things. Just look at Raw if you need an example.

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

Well, you can chalk up yet another week of the heels going over BIG TIME.  Things better really come together for Bauer, Palmer, Almeda et. al. in the next 3 weeks or I think you are going to have a lot of pissed off viewers.

 

There's only so many times you can have your protagonists getting the shit kicked out of them before people turn on things.  Just look at Raw if you need an example.

The whole "Bad Guys running wild" is a staple of the 24 series. Admitedly its a bit annoying, but it works for the series.

 

How Kim managed to have nothing stupid happen to her for another whole hour is beyond comprehension, although from the previews we know that comes to an end at some point..

 

I think the fact that Palmer has to appear before Congress in 4 days to appeal the decision makes it a lock that Season 3 will take place 4 days from the end of this season's day. I have a feeling that everything will get ironed out over the Cyprus recordings being fake and that Palmer was doing the right thing not going forward with the attack. However he still won't be President, and if there is/was a huge conspiracy to get him out of office, then in 4 days something tells me that there will end up being another assassination attempt on his life to stop him from appealing. Jack Bauer gets sent to D.C. and gets to work with some kick ass new CTU personel to try and stop the assassination attempt and maybe a more evil underlying problem.. That is probably what the series needs (change of scenery from LA to Washington DC and some new characters)..and Kim gets left back in LA and only calls once every 6 hours or so..

[Guest MaxPower27]

SHERRI?!?!?!

 

A good show, made a bit boring by all the Vice-Presidential mumbo-jumbo. That, and my VCR cable is all fucked up so the picture was fuzzy and barely watchable.

 

One thing I picked up on:

 

Teri's last words to Jack: "I'll see you soon"

 

Jack's words to Kim: "I'll see you soon"

 

OMG!!

[Guest packwingfn]

Good Tense Episode

Watched it today on the internet, missed it last night so I wasn't able to catch any of the previews for next week

 

Could people tell me what the previews looked like for next week?

[Guest areacode212]

I liked it last night. We get a bit of thematic closure, with Jack telling Kate that she can't blame herself for everything. I enjoyed the VP/Prez showdown (I found it fun, despite a huge spoiler in a headline in yesterday's NY Post, though I still don't buy that plot twist). I was wondering when all of Palmer's little antics from earlier were going to catch up to him. Aaand....the return of LadyMac. Oh yeah! I'm still not sure what to think of her motives.