24, Day 6, Sky One (spoiler-free UK version)

Unless you want this to be a UK friendly spoiler-free thread or something...

Urrrggghhh.

(I think you're on Day 5, Nathalie)

Revive for brits to use as a spoiler free day 7 thread, seeing as I think the yanks are a bit ahead of us now. Doesn't seem worth starting a whole new thread.

That's a good idea. I'm with you. We'll try and keep it going past the first episode this time.

I had forgotten about Stephen Merchant's random cameo appearnance.

Do not like new president too much, she seems very hard and calculating, even about dead son, which is probably 24 subtle signposting to her Being A Bad Person And Involved In A Conspiracy. Actually I don't like any fictional presidents that aren't written by Aaron Sorkin, so that's hardly surprising.

However, Janeane Garofalo as nu-Chloe is good casting, and new FBI potential will-he-won't-he-no-he-won't-because-Jack-is-too-badass-for-romance "love interest" seems non-annoying. As opposed to Look At Me I Am Bad Man Tony Almeida.

I'm enjoying how the FBI are just really fucking useless. I hope they come up with a genuine good reason for Tony to have gone to the dark side, at least better than 'boo hoo, my wife is dead'.

I'd forgotten the Merchant thing too. I never actually got to see all of Day 6 because of the whole Murdoch/Branson thing.

I don't think Tony has properly gone to the dark side, you know.

well look in the last episode when he tortures and finally kills that chick i think we know he's gone over pretty proper, guys

I was starting to write off this season as luckluster, but the last ten minutes of that episode got the pulse going in vintage 24 style. Bah, looks like I'm hooked again.

OMG THEY BURIED RENEE!

I spent most of the episode being cross at Hillinger's wife for calling him ON A SECURE FBI LINE to go "oh, did you break every rule in the world to get my plane down, oh and btw, top FBI intel dude, there are still planes in a holding pattern and being grounded one by one all over the US due to a major security alert which I know all about since I was just caught up in it, can't you just leave work early and nip home so we can have a quiet dinner?"

I can't stop laughing at how the ex CTU members are now the Impossible Missions Force.

I love how Jack's voice always goes two hundred percent gruffer when he's pretending to be evil.

It's getting to that time of day when Jack starts carjacking random members of the public...

I love how important people implicitly trust Jack with 5 seconds of him explaining why he's just done random bad-ass things just because he calls them "sir" while he's doing it.

"With all due respect..."

So they've gone for the double bluff with shifty looking obvious traitor actually being the traitor. What's happened to Tony? I can't remember.

I'm enjoying it well enough this year, it's certainly more no-nonsense than day 6. But there've been few truly startling or exciting moments so far.

Just caught up on the last couple of weeks. Aaron Pierce! Morris! Chloe + Janice vortex of cynical superiority complexes and disdainful sneering!

I'm still WTFing at the death of 200+ people in a mid-air plane crash caused by terrorists a couple of hours previous not causing any sort of disruption in DC.

Love how this series is turning into 'Grand Theft Auto: 24'. Good stuff between Jack and Renee in this ep too.

This was the most ludicrous, and thus the most enjoyable, episode so far. Tony showing up the end with OH NO MORE TERRORISTS was hilarious. It was a nice touch that Dubaku seemed to genuinely love his girlfriend (can't blame him, she was gorgeous).

Hell yeah, this is more like it. Chuckled at Juma's men having a large and very helpful picture of the White House amongst their evil terrorist documents.

Prez Taylor is annoying me. She's rubbish at being both a liberal and a conservative.

The White House plans looked like they were printed from google image search.

Loved how Bill tried as diplomatically as possible to say,'I'm your friend Jack but you're a crazy motherfucker'.

: /

This has been consistently good fun since the White House siege, and at the moment I'm really intrigued as to how Jack will escape being killed by mad cow disease. I like that there's a proper Bond style villain's base, though Voight could do with notching down the ham just a wee bit.

I really don't like the president. I'm maybe being a bit unfair to her though, as I'm working my way through the final BSG series and can't help but compare her to the magnificent Laura Roslin.

So did anyone watch this till the end? I went on holiday for three weeks during it (probably just after my last post), and couldn't be bothered to catch up at all when I got back. Unless someone tells me this series ended amazingly, I've probably lost interest in the doings of Jack Bauer.

I did. It wasn't great. Ending = meh set up for the next series. And Kim came back.

Mountain lion in tow?

Baby! And husband! She did manage to get herself in mild peril at an airport when it turned out her assigned bodyguard was a right bad 'un.

(note, at an airport, with all flights fully operational despite two planes being crashed in mid-air sometime within the previous 24 hours. Continuity right out the window this series.)