24 (Do not read if you hate spoilers)

Story-wise it started to rehash itself IMO probably has something to do with its falling into disfavor with me.

I force myself to sit through that wackness that is The 5th Wheel just to watch her titties bounce when she talks......dime is something special

I loved the ending of "24", BTW. It's nice to see a show that's willing to sacrifice major characters for the storyline.

Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) discovered a while ago that the threat on Senator Palmer and the kidnaping of his family were linked because of a wet-ops mission he led several years earlier that had been authorized by Senator Palmer. The operation was supposed to take out a Serbian general named Victor Drazen who was doing some ugly, genocidal things in Serbia. Jack was led to believe that the mission was successful, but in reality Drazen's wife and daughter were killed in an explosion meant for him. Drazen as taken into custody by the US and was being shuffled from secret prison to secret prison while Drazen's two sons schemed to bust him out of prison and assassinate the people the felt were responsible for their family members' deaths (Palmer and Jack). They were being aided by a couple of people inside of Jack's department, including Jack's former fling, Nina, who was a rogue agent for a seperate group. Things went badly for the Drazens and they ended up getting killed. Nina knew her time was up, so she attempted to escape CTU (Counter-Terrorism Unit) headquarters, clandestinely shooting a significant number of people in the process including Jack's wife Teri, who had only recently been brought to safety after being held, menaced, and raped. Meanwhile, Senator Palmer finally decided that his nightmarish shrew of a wife was the worst human being on the face of the Earth and told her to get to steppin'. (The woman had helped conceal the fact that their son had accidentally killed someone, had attempted to sabotage Palmer and his son's attempts to clear up the issue, had sent a speechwriter in to sleep with Palmer in order to spy on him, and had directly countermanded Palmer's order to allow the press to think that one of the attempts on Palmer's life was successful, jeopardizing the life of Jack's daughter Kim in the process.)

So, at the end of everything, Palmer is the Democratic candidate and is preparing to divorce his wife, his son has given himself up to the police for accidentally killing his sister's rapist, Jack's wife Teri caught a bullet to the gut and died in Jack's arms, and Kim is on her way to safety but doesn't know her mom is dead. On top of this, Jack has to deal with the fact that he and Nina slept together during a brief seperation from Teri AND there is an unkown party out there that was collaborating with the Drazens who want him and Palmer dead AND had the resources to get a double-agent into CTU. Plus, he hasn't slept in two days and doesn't look like he's going to be getting any rest anytime soon now that he has all of this on his mind.

Next season is going to ROCK.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.....

I have a theory that the next series has to up the ante on the "this is the longest day of my life" thing, so they are relocating Jack to the arctic, the show will be called 12, and each episode will be a month long. this is a rubbish theory it should be noted. however the third series will relocate to the planet mercury.

surely longest for her, too? she was alive until about 2350 after all...

(sorry)

I was glad to see Eastenders has got good again. Now that 24 has gone, I was worrying that there was nothing left to watch on TV.

wanna know what i think?

IT'S AS BAD AS THE FIRST SERIES... ALREADY!! THIS IS A TERRIBLE TERRIBLE HOKEY SHOW. IF YOU LIKE IT YOU SUCK

now I've missed the start of this one [and I hadn't seen the first one], I will just have to wait until the series is done and the lending friend buys its DVD thing too.

always reminds me of our starry

andy

Be careful what you wish for, Dan Perry!

Runs from 1PM - 1PM.
Jack's chasing south American drug dealers.
Kim *might* have turned gay and *might* have a girlfriend (though it's more likely she's crushing on Jack's spanky new side-kick).
First episode ends with Jack using a paper-weight in much the same way he used a hacksaw in the last season opener.

I'm not sure it needed to end on a cliffhanger (ie distinguishing the episode from any of the others). However I am looking forward to Jack being fitted with a pacemaker and therefore unable to use a mobile phone. He'll be virtually crippled.

was the girl who shook Palmer's hand the same girl who blew up the plane in the first episode of the first series?

if this continues i expect that in series three he will have to overcome stones in his shoes, having to scrape the ice off his windscreen, untied shoelaces etc

pah

andy

http://www.portcharlesexplosion.com/24/kim.jpg

Marvellous stuff, though seeing all the episodes back to back did kind of ram home the over-reliance on certain plot devices. The whole Kim subplot was hilarious. (She's OK. NO, THERE'S A CREEPY MAN. She's OK. NO, THERE'S ANOTHER CREEPY MAN. She's OK. NO, THERE'S A... COUGAR.)

I liked it best when Tony and whatshername kissed.

They've got drugs runners carrying lethal viruses!!

I watched the whole of season one this week and was very surprised by just how much I enjoyed it. it was terrific. v. disappointed, in the end, that it was nina because it just didn't quite make sense w/ the past even though it was her that killed jamey and because I liked her. hated the senator's wife. kind of hated his son. hated rick. hated tony. but then kind of liked tony. despite his only having two expressions and a stupid beardy bit that made him look funny. liked mason most of the time. haha, lou diamond phillips! and then dennis hopper in the same episode!! with a fucking awful serbian accent. sounded mexican sometimes and just american at others. hated milo for a while until jack switched the keycards and he was at the screen saying "not true. also not true." what was w/ kim's booby shirts all the time?? kind of hated terri. dan's bro, frank, was really weird!!! I really liked this and am looking forward to season two. I do think it was quite a compromise for it to not actually be twenty-four hours long.

are there spoilers for season two throughout this thread?

haha, and, yeah, did anyone else notice cameras in shots at times? when nina was supposed to have been shot and got to some empty place and called tony, you could totally see one and an arm at the side and when the lady they brought in to take jack's place that everyone said was a 'hardass' was asking jack questions and recording it, you could see a wheel and stuff sticking in the side of the shot!!! hahaha.

It's enough of a spoiler, I guess, to not post to the other thread, but this made me laugh hard enough that I coughed up lukecold Diet Dr Pepper.

we can only dream

See, this is not what I envision for Kim. I'm thinking more of a wacky death-by-Rube-Goldberg-cum-deux-ex-machina. Kim's death as random comic relief, just as she's reached her whiniest, most helpless, most absurd point ever. Like, she trapped in a cellar with the midget from Twin Peaks who is threatening to use a knitting needle to abort her love child with a disfigured-but-loveable test pilot from earlier in the series, when the midget pees himself laughing, slips on it, falling on a board which is levered on a spray paint can, sending a bucket of mud high into the air and landing on a cat, which runs away and trips over a string which pulls a heavy old typewriter onto Kim's head from a high shelf. And then we won't have to watch her stupid subplots anymore.

If you don't understand Kim, you don't GET 24. Certainly having Kim on a massive revenge fest against Nina would be exceptionally good fun.

and then they all lezz up?

I'm sure I just saw a banner ad that said "NO ONE POKES JACK BAUER AND LIVES - Get season six of 24 on DVD".

Does "poke" mean something different in America or is this just awesome?

The daughter has the FAT ASS......I caught the episode where she's in the barn and you see her laying down from the back and that badoonk is just ripe, rotund, and ralph.fucking.rugged.......I want to shrink myself and hide up in her ass crack and wait till she goes to the mall one day and gets sweatbutt, then I will finally be able to moonwalk

― Ramosi, Thursday, May 23, 2002 8:00 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

And now she has AMNESIA? This show is stupid

Season 2 has a mountain lion.

yeah whiney, you have a long road ahead of you

you must embrace the lols, it's very freeing

I don't see a thread for it but is anyone watching the new 24 with Dr. Dre?

lots of hot button issues touched on:

Mental illness in veterans
Brown people being terrorists
White ISIS sleeper cells
Teacher/student romance in high school
Chechens wanting to bomb shit
Racist white police officers
Black people dealing drugs
Women being jealous
Presidential candidates having Muslim aides
Government agencies being way easy for terrorists to infiltrate
Jimmy Smitts running for President again

I heard that all of Ed Lover's scenes wound up on the cutting room floor so I've chosen to boycott.

Yo! CTU Raps

But actually more seriously maybe we don't need more 'brown people being terrorists' entertainment at this particular point in time.

also lol at the new 20 year analyst saying she learned everything from her uncle Edgar who died on the show in like 2005.

Favorite moment so far was the terrorist head honcho settling an internal power struggle by *nonviolence and forgiveness*

Is this as batshit enjoyable as the Bauer years?

Not by a long shot.

lol this one is pretty batshit. Dr. Dre not only kidnapped cops and attempted an evidence locker heist but he puled off an assualt and escape from CTU, and handed off his wife to her drug lord ex-boyfriend. She almost immediately got into a gun battle with the guy's current girlfriend. Plus, the fucking white ISIS lovebirds who keep killing the same teenage boy.

Dr. Dre isn't bad as an action hero.

Dr. Dre not only kidnapped cops and attempted an evidence locker heist but he puled off an assualt and escape from CTU

I'm sure this is an NWA song.

Tony Almeida, the low-budget rendering of the missile strike and the Solid Snake-esque nu-bad guy were fun but I wish they'd spend more time on the hacker and his ex-bfs.