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Some dastardly bastards have put it out there somewhere.

Let's hope for a reasonable explanation as to how Jack got out of China.

Begins on the 14th. The rolling of eyes begins now.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Sunday, 7 January 2007 05:29 (eighteen years ago)

There's a DVD of the first four episodes. I'm downloading it now.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Sunday, 7 January 2007 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

Let's hope for a reasonable explanation as to how Jack got out of China.

I thought this season was going to involve him getting out of China.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 January 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

Me too, would've been a nice change of emphasis. Instead it looks like we'll be getting boring old bombs/nerve gas in LA again (not that this'll stop me becoming utterly addicted to it once more).

― chap (chap), Sunday, 7 January 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

I wish this torrent would hurry up.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 7 January 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

He was still in China in the ludicrously unbelievable prequel. Though, like the last one, it was pretty much a car commercial rather than providing any actual plot development. And I imagine, like the last one, it'll jump to several months after prequel action with brief explanation of what's happened since the end of the last series, and the action of the prequel will have no relevance at all.

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 7 January 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/Chloe_ILX.jpg

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Sunday, 7 January 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

I heart Chloe. Her ridiculous plot-device husband is coming back this year too, isn't he?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 7 January 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

I am scared that Chloe will die one day.

― chap (chap), Sunday, 7 January 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

i am so hyped.

prequel and 1st 2 eps on download now...

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

Is this going to get all spoilery shortly? Cos I plan to wait and watch it the old fashioned way.

― chap (chap), Sunday, 7 January 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm going Sky One with it because it's only going to be a couple of days behind the States. Though getting this four episode thingie early is tempting, it'll just leave a longer gap until episode five. And the gap in Lost is killing me right now. I can't do that again to myself. But I might read spoilers in this thread! Oh noes! What to do?

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 7 January 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

pls label spoilers!

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 7 January 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

haha ok this show.

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 7 January 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

hey what's the prequel, is that web-only?

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 7 January 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

They showed it recently on TV here in the UK. It's kinda lame. It's on YouTube though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVnRN-TJNaM

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 7 January 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

thanks!

― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 7 January 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER KINDA

SPOILER

So freedom-loving NSA will turn out to be a villain, right?

SPOILER

SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER etc.

(will we get 'white text' on nuILX?)

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 8 January 2007 02:24 (eighteen years ago)

first episode: is the dialogue always this stilted? Does Chloe always look like she just smelled a pile of bum vomit?

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 8 January 2007 03:03 (eighteen years ago)

Time Warner and my local Fox affiliate have gotten into some sort of idiotic pissing match which has led to me NO LONGER HAVING ANY FOX STATION. Fuckers. No matter who's actually right, I'm going to blame this on the cable company cause they're always huge dicks.

Anyway, thank you internet and bittorrent for probably solving this problem for me.

― joygoat (joygoat), Monday, 8 January 2007 04:20 (eighteen years ago)

WITH ONE BOUND! well a good couple of bounds and a bit of torture

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 8 January 2007 05:44 (eighteen years ago)

i love how their need to out-do themselves each season by getting bigger and bigger has now reached such ridiculous proportions.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Monday, 8 January 2007 09:14 (eighteen years ago)

Milo, yes and yes.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

**SPOILERS** look away now

i was unwell today so watched all 4 eps. I was actually surprised by the ending to ep4. my instinct was: all american dad will charge over and save the day. good to see a more emo jack

**END** you can keep reading now

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

Did you watch the "first act" of episode 5? "NOT AFTER THIS!!"

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:53 (eighteen years ago)

ANYONE WHO CAN GET ME A PIC OF BEARDO JACK WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED KTHXBY!!

― c('°c) (Leee), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:24 (eighteen years ago)

Hi I found it myself carry on I appreciate myself!!1

― c('°c) (Leee), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:34 (eighteen years ago)

I think show is pure right-wing masturbation fantasy, but at least Principal Wood is now president!

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:51 (eighteen years ago)

The 10 minute prequel is up here, via the Sky One site:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid291708786

There's also the absurd 24 Xmas video...

― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 10:57 (eighteen years ago)

"at least Principal Wood is now president"

and is being adviced by the camp leader from Addams Family Values

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

(adviced?)

― Britain's Obtusest Shepherd (Alan), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

advised, I think

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 12:07 (eighteen years ago)

I watched Seasons 1 & 2 when they first aired and am frankly astounded that it's into its sixth season - it seemed like they were scraping the bottom of the barrel in season 2. Is it really still good?

― franny (frannyglass), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

I remember season 2 being great! They are increasingly "more of the same", but still entertaining. The last season was the best since 2, I think.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

"Mr. President, the terrorists have captured every cute six-year-old girl in the United States and are holding them in a gigantic net sack suspended from the George Washington Bridge."

"Good god"

"They say that you have to endure a six-hour tattooing ordeal to be broadcast live on national TV."

"WHAT?"

"The tattoos..."

"The tattoos spell the launch codes for a system of nuclear weapons aimed at every Wal-Mart in the world"

"Get me Jack Bauer"

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

there was a slavoj zizek article when guantanamo bay happened (i five years ago) saying the thing with torture is, yeah, we can imagine using it if it was a simple 'torture this guy or five million people die' choice -- but only because we didn't elevate it into a normal operating principle, that even while doing it we acknowledged it was wrong. '24' makes this a permanent reality.

i'm going to toerrent, i think.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

i watched 5 seasons of 24 in 2 months and now when I watch other shows I get pissed off about how they didn't secure the perimeter first, or how they apprehend people without following them first.

― ian johnson's mom + jack bauer 2gether 4evah (Carey), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

When I watch 24 I get pissed off when they don't follow the same logic that they used just two hours ago. "Sir, I am convinced that if we follow this man he will lead us to the terrorists!" vs. "Sir we absolutely cannot let this man escape, we have to take him in for interrogation NOW!" derrr

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

Zizek wrote a Guardian thing about 24 and torture last year, no?

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

zizek repeats himself now and then.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 09:08 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I didn't realise the "'24' makes this a permanent reality." was him, not you.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 09:21 (eighteen years ago)

oh right it was me but maybe he said it too.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 09:22 (eighteen years ago)

spookily enough, my colleague slavoj said it exactly one times years ago:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1682760,00.html

he inserts a typically insane flourish whereby it's better if we do things without talking about them. lapsed catholics amirite.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 09:28 (eighteen years ago)

Chloe is such a hideous little tree frog.

― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:44 (eighteen years ago)

pure right-wing masturbation fantasy

Putting it mildly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 January 2007 01:47 (eighteen years ago)

Ned, is the line referred to in that story between civic responsibility and commerce or are those two linked? What ever does the "senior Bush official" mean?

― Guymauve (Guymauve), Monday, 15 January 2007 02:15 (eighteen years ago)

Part of the mystery. (The leaning of the series the way it does is no surprise; its creators are open Bush fan(atic)s and all -- if that quote from one of them is legit, and I don't doubt it, I see this as symptomatic of the kind of reflexive 'why don't you people GET it?' whining from the right now that their star is waning.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 January 2007 02:23 (eighteen years ago)

am I the only one who loves this show but hate jack bauer? I can't stand the guy. do we really need him to be a superhero-ish person? it's gone too far imo.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Monday, 15 January 2007 03:54 (eighteen years ago)

Not having ridden the subway in LA, I gotta ask - do they actually have people who collect tickets? This seems preposterously old-timey and inefficient.

― joygoat (joygoat), Monday, 15 January 2007 07:08 (eighteen years ago)

it's probably like they have here, you buy a ticket, pass it through a machine that timestamps it, and employees randomly check to make sure you didn't board without a ticket. Sounds inefficient but lots of rail systems do it so I guess it works out.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

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I'm with Johnny - the last season was something of a return to form. Logan was awesome!

― Alba, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

(as was Martha)

― Alba, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

i think the need to have white house intrigue is killing the show this year. less is more with that sort of story angle.

― félix pié, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

God, this is all making me realise how superlame Wayne Palmer is as a character, let alone president.

― Alba, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

Don't be surprised if, in Season 7, the staff at CTU works in pitch black darkness while wearing nightvision goggles. This low-lighting is getting completely out of hand.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

they need to have an office without shadowy hallways, for sure. also, if i worked in counter terrorism and they wanted to transfer me to the l.a. office, i'd be all like, "oh right the place which has been bombed, nerve-gassed, and where if you work there longer than three years you're either wrongly accused and tortured by your superiors, killed by terrorists or traitorous colleagues, and every day have to negotiate a minefield of office politics and surreptitious sex? no thanks."

― félix pié, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

I'm doing a forced march through this season just so I can say I've done it (I gave up after five or six eps last season), but seriously, this show is the worst shit ever. And Chloe is still an ugly little lemon-sucking monkeyfaced thing.

― Rock Hardy, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

Trying to do that with this season is hard enough on people who like the show anyway, so you must be in anguish.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

i do it for the hilarity. i was going to try a drinking game revolving around dumb shit/24 cliches for each episode, but i realized by the time the show was over i'd be in a coma.

― félix pié, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, and I thought this season couldn't get any lower.

The part where Daniels just started bluntly blabbering "ugh, I slept with her too! um...why did i do it? Uh...that was stupid!" could be the worst scene they've ever done. The surprised look on Lenox's face was amazing and apt, as if Powers Booth had suddenly decided to do a live improv and the producers decided to keep it.

I have to repeat what I've said upthread, the characters just stink this year, and everytime I'm finding someone interesting or empathetic they've ditched them.

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:13 (eighteen years ago)

I really think if the actors/characters are good, it can override most of the lame plot recycling and eyerolling twists.

This season started so auspiciously, so much potential with Assad, Kumar, Jack's brother and Father, Logans, and even Curtis, but they've all been ditched. Even Buchanan's gone now and we're left with such bores like Nadia (Michelle redux), Milo (all my lovers are rejecting me!), and zombie Audrey (your mother died when you were *NINE*). I never expected Doyle to grow on me but he's the only one stepping up/getting good lines at the moment.

And Mary Lynn Rajskub (one of people magazine's most beautiful people, just edging out the singer from Fall Out Boy) has been hilarious on talk shows and doing stand up, but she's has been given anything to do really and has been 90% non-snarky. Maybe she'll be heading off soon.

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:28 (eighteen years ago)

And the transitioning from the Nuclear bombs plot to the Chinese plot was so random. As if Cheng was on the phone saying "put me through to CTU the moment the suitcase nukes are secured!"

I was actually cheering when James Heller came back at the end of tonight's show, it reminded me of the glory days of season 4 (the second worst season!)

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

Also, anyone think Veep's enemy combatant girlfriend looks like Angela from the Office?

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 02:59 (eighteen years ago)

Not really, but only because I recognize her from that miserable Invasion show (well, actually just the miserable Invasion commercials).

I'm committed now, though. Only 3 hours left.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 04:07 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously, Tom Lennox's crazyfaces are the best thing about this show. When the Veep told him he slept with Lisa, he did a full gamut from "What the hell?" to "I am going to vomit all over my shoes" to "Maybe sucking on this file folder will calm my stomach." I don't even remember what the Veep said, I was so entertained.

Also, Heller's "you make everyone die, Jack!" was slightly undermined by the whole "I drove my car off a cliff and lived" thing.

― reddening, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 05:37 (eighteen years ago)

When the Veep told him he slept with Lisa, he did a full gamut from "What the hell?" to "I am going to vomit all over my shoes" to "Maybe sucking on this file folder will calm my stomach."

i referred to this as his 'why am i dripping with goo' moment

― maura, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 12:12 (eighteen years ago)

If Jack promised Heller that he'd live, Heller would be spread across the rocks @ the bottom of that cliff.

Peter McNichol & Chad Lowe (& Dr. Bashir) (& the Buchanan / Hayes Power Hour) (WHEN THEY'RE NOT PITCHING WOO FFS SAVE IT FOR PEACE TIME ASSHOLES) have been the saving graces of this season. But there ain't much to save.

FYI: they're punishing the Veep's Chief of Staff because she guest-starred on an episode of Studio 60 earlier this year (where she actually had more than the 5 lines of dialogue she's had all 20+ hours on this show so far).

― David R., Tuesday, 1 May 2007 13:12 (eighteen years ago)

That was the most useless episode of 24 I've seen.

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

marisol nichols aka nadia yassir:

She became a member of Church of Scientology when she was introduced to it by her chiropractor.

man, chiropractors are a gateway drug for all kinds of dumb shit

― félix pié, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 01:04 (eighteen years ago)

NO! Nadia's a Scientologist?!!!

My heart just broke in two.

― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 01:17 (eighteen years ago)

Just when you thought this season couldn't get any worse...

― David R., Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:23 (eighteen years ago)

This is beyond a joke!

― Alba, Monday, 7 May 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha Milo is so emo.

Milo: I saw the way you were looking at Doyle.
Nadia: Milo, we're in the middle of a terrorist crisis, and about to be ambushed by Chinese thugs. I don't have to time to talk about my feelings.
Milo: But my devotion to you runs deeper than Doyle! Let me prove it! [martyrs himself]

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 02:11 (eighteen years ago)

milo, she's kind of a bitch, o why did you do it??

wtf at CTU--again, for the 10th time--being the most porous, assaultable, least effective workplace in history? they have, what, three guards?

also: the chinese are dumb in this show. and i think the show's attempts to turn cheng into a supervillain aren't working, because tbh he doesn't seem that evil. and wtf, "we've used them before!" where?? on u.s. soil? or did you just fly them in from china in the last hour?? what is happening here?

― félix pié, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

I won't watch 24 next year unless it takes place ON THE MOON. Apparently every story idea pertaining to the earth has been utilized.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

I liked super muscle-y Stallone-y Chinese guy

― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

This episode was quite exciting. I like it when aircon ducts are employed. And Bad Dad is back.

― Alba, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

in nyc '24' was followed up by a 'it's 10pm, do you know where your children are?' that was narrated by james cromwell. i was like NO WHERE ARE THEY, KIDNAPPED BY GRANDPA PERHAPS

― maura, Tuesday, 8 May 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

OMG if I see anymore horseshit "emotional" moments between anyone on this assberry of a show, I will set up a perimeter of motherfucking PAIN.

― David R., Wednesday, 9 May 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

First ten minutes of last night's episode were awesome. Then it was back to the s.o.s.

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

I laughed at Lenox's "Finally they are done"

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 05:11 (eighteen years ago)

...and "Well, he IS a sociopath."

― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

The best thing about this episode was that it wrapped up everyone's storyline neatly so that Season 7 can start with a COMPLETELY new cast (aside from Jack). Seasons 1-3 seemed like a trilogy, and so does 4-6.

― Michael F Gill, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 02:03 (eighteen years ago)

Did anyone else want Jack to dive off the cliff and die, or was that just me?

― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 04:08 (eighteen years ago)

There was almost half the show left to run and I thought "No, that can't be it - there must be at least some crumby twist - they can't just spin the next 20 mins out with useless emo shit." But they did!

― Alba, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 23:22 (eighteen years ago)

i skipped this whole season. i don't regret it. I think I'm finally done.

― akm, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 23:27 (eighteen years ago)

I made it through a whole season, and now I'm done with this sac o' crap.

― Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

I am forced to believe everyone involved in the making of this season was literally waving their dick in the air during every stage of production.

― teeny, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

except for the actors I guess.

― teeny, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

but only while they were on camera, otherwise it was dicks ahoy.

― teeny, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

Awful.

― bnw, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

TONY ALMEIDA IS 'ALAN RICKMAN' IN 'DIE HARD 24.0':

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PvLpSDwKCqQ

― James Mitchell, Thursday, 25 October 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago)

sorry but that was a fake. this is the real deal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12kUmQx4WJo&NR=1

― omar little, Thursday, 25 October 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago)

clarence boddicker!! xpost

― ☪, Thursday, 25 October 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.mikeantonucci.com/2006/05/24-and-three-degrees-of-robocop.htm

― ☪, Thursday, 25 October 2007 17:30 (seventeen years ago)

Trailer is at www.skyone.co.uk/24 to avoid broken YouTube links and sundry hijinks.

― Ben Boyerrr, Thursday, 25 October 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago)

Well, fuck me, that hyperlink doesn't work. But cut and paste the thing. Trailer is preposterous but awesome.

― Ben Boyerrr, Thursday, 25 October 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago)

Such a good call on the Robocoppery.

― Ben Boyerrr, Thursday, 25 October 2007 17:33 (seventeen years ago)

honestly miguel ferrer has gotta show up at some point, right, he seems like a logical actor for 24

― omar little, Thursday, 25 October 2007 17:36 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

powers fuckin' boothe, man

― j., Tuesday, 12 June 2012 04:43 (thirteen years ago)

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