Man Hnads and Jack Bauer will come to blows. again.
Posted on 04/19/2010 8:46:48 PM PDT by Mountain Mary
Jack has escaped in a helicopter. Chloe is trying to talk him down. President Taylor has gone postal. 24 fans: we need to talk!
Are you the one who said “If the Government would let Jack do things his way, the show would be called ‘12’?”
;) :)
LOl...
24 has such brilliant writers. When things start to slow down a little bit, you KNOW this is coming but it still takes you by surprise. I love it!
MM
yes, MM.
Tonight there was such a short time left to have Jack escape..but leave up to our guy to find a way to do it before the show ended.
He sure made things rough on the blonde amazon tonight. Whoa!
Jack so much reminds me of myself. Guess that’s why I like it...
Man Hnads and Jack Bauer will come to blows. again.
Dana in another life?
I think she and Cole will have a showdown before the “day” is over.
At least she got to change her clothes...
just sayin'...
Hey, SD. Weigh in, will ya?
If '24' starred Chuck Norris, it would be called '1'.
I hadn’t heard this. But it’s right.
Outstanding show tonight, and right on time after the “78% of Americans don’t trust government” poll. President Taylor, held by Jack to be beyond reproach—sells him and the truth out for the sake of her own vanity, at the desperate urgings of a disgraced ex-Prez. This is not going to end well, nor should it. I hope Jack turns the world upside down in the final 6 episodes. Great season. (Still pissed at them killing Renee though. Fantastic character)
We watch Jack on TIVO tuesday nights, no ads.
We always run last weeks show to remind ourselves how tonight will shape up.
So sad that Jack finally got involved with his beautiful partner - name escapes me - only to see her blasted away in the window of his apartment! What a beauty!
I had always thought that 24 of a few years ago was setting us up to accept a first black President, (aka Colin Powell) then a female President (aka Hillary), but their march has moved on.
What will 24 fans do next year??? Sure hope that there’s a replacement!
IT is a great parallel, particularly with the Russians stocking, seasoning and stirring the pot.
There will be no 24 next year.
I was very, very annoyed with the writers for killing off Renee. Obviously they felt Jack had to have sufficient motivation for whatever mayhem he may inflict in these final few episodes ... but I was thinking fondly of Renee and Jack retiring from the biz and opening up a deli together or something. Just a couple of old spooks running a little store somewhere. (You could do a sitcom about that!)
Rene Walker, belovedly known as "Freckles" by Freeper fans of 24. Jack and Freckles would have been so happy together . . . Freckles will be missed :_o(
It's a great season; might wanna avoid more spoiler threads!
I know: Renee was a complicated, beautiful character and she shouldn’t have been killed off. Stupid move.
But I think they are offing some of the actors who don’t want to be in the movie.
Do you think that Pres. T. is going to get it?
And will Jack definitely survive or will it be a cliffhanger without knowing and then he will reappear in the movie?
I’m verklempt that this show is ending too. It’s the best viewing on TV...
>> If ‘24’ starred Chuck Norris, it would be called ‘1’.
Aww ... give Chuck SOME credit. I don’t think he’d have died in the FIRST hour.
SnakeDoc
>> What will 24 fans do next year??? Sure hope that there’s a replacement!
Season 8 will be the final season. They’re moving on to the big screen after 8.
SnakeDoc
Kinda nice to see 24 back to the Jack-against-the-world routine. Its the way the show started, and it is a fitting way for the show to go out.
It is actually kind of impressive that they found such an organic and clever way to get EVERYONE against him ... including longtime allies. Putting Chloe in charge of CTU (and thus personally responsible for the outcome) was a stroke of brilliance. No matter how much she likes Jack, it isn’t quite as easy to disobey the President when she’s looked you in the eye and given you a direct order.
Its also nice to see Jack back to his rebellious roots — i.e. instead of chastizing the commando team leader (that helped save NY by turning over Hassan) for disobeying his President, now he’s disobeying her himself.
There appears to be a very conservative message building for the final 6 hours ... peace treaties are just pieces of paper. The bad guys are still the bad guys.
SnakeDoc
Oh SD, I’m glad you are here...I reread your former thread on 24!
How is Jack going to get out of this one? Next week, it shows the planes flying next to him and threatening to shoot him down. Jack can do alot a things...but this one could be a tuffie. Do we have to ask for a miracle here or is Jack in control?
I abhor Allison T. now and her frikkin’ “Peace Agreement”. WTH?
And Jack Logan(from a town near me in Wisconsin) is as diabolical as ever, isn’t he?
How about Ethan’s miraculous recovery from heart failure? A couple of hours ago, he was near death.
and Jack doesn’t seem the worse for wear either, after being tortured.
>> How is Jack going to get out of this one? Next week, it shows the planes flying next to him and threatening to shoot him down. Jack can do alot a things...but this one could be a tuffie. Do we have to ask for a miracle here or is Jack in control?
I think he had a similar situation with the drug dealer prison escape a few years back. He flew directly over a populated area and landed in the middle of a busy street just before they shot him out of the sky.
>> And [...] Logan(from a town near me in Wisconsin) is as diabolical as ever, isn’t he?
I’d say we’re 4-to-1 on the season ending with Jack putting a bullet in Charles Logan’s head.
>> How about Ethan’s miraculous recovery from heart failure? A couple of hours ago, he was near death.
and Jack doesn’t seem the worse for wear either, after being tortured.
So long as they aren’t dead, 24 characters are resilient. Tony took control of CTU for 4 hours after being shot in the jugular and gushing blood all over the floor of a mall.
SnakeDoc
Wow. What a cliffhanger ;~)) I don't watch '24' but it sounds about like these old films from back in the 30's. You had to go back to the theather the next week to see how the hero got out of the jam he was in. 
24 pretty much reinvented the cliffhanger. The whole season is one 24-hour plot line with several sub-plots ... so every episode is a cliffhanger.
Some of them are traditional Flash Gordon style cliffhangers (where it stops just before the climax to make sure you come back next week). Some are less conventional ... i.e. you see the big climactic event at the end of the episode, but you don’t see the reaction to the big event until next week rolls around.
If you like cliffhangers ... I’d highly recommend 24.
SnakeDoc
But as my wife so astutely observed, Chloe could never betray Jack, so when she called him on the radio as he was taking off in the helicopter, she slyly let him know what to be watching out for when she told him she'd have to send the air interceptor jets after him, so now he knows what to expect and can plan for his escape from them. Chloe is such a loyal babe! - OB1
Didn’t Jack have to kill Tony? and then he came back in the next season with the explanation that he was revived by an injection of something and he wasn’t really dead.
Can you refresh my bad memory here, SD?
Oh, and yes, I would agree that Logan is going to get “justice” from Jack.
I just hope the writers, including Kiefer, don’t go green, soft or politically correct on us in the final hours.
Your wife is very observant, OB1. But we already saw that the interceptor planes are going to be surrounding Jack in the helicopter. Hmmm. Maybe he’ll push his eject button?
Jack against the entire USAF? well, I’ll bet on Jack any day. :-) But I don’t think ejecting is gonna work.
Maybe he’s gonna have to take a few planes out himself. What does he have to lose? He’s got stuff to blow up and people to kill and they are annoying him.
Oh, and what about the body in the vent(the probation officer)? when do bodies start to smell?
Christopher Henderson “killed” Tony by injection, and he was revived after being taken away (apparently).
Since they already know that Dana is a mole ... the hidden body won’t make much difference (and probably won’t come up again). She killed a few guards on her escape attempt anyway — so they know she’s killed people. Since she was captured, she may have already told them about the body, and Cole did a full debriefing on the Dana/Jenny/redneck boyfriend robbery mess after Dana was caught.
SnakeDoc
SD: Are you sure about Tony “dying” by lethal injection? I thought Jack had to kill him.
I missed the part about Cole doing a full debriefing.
I wish they would let his character be more prominent. FP Jr. is a good actor. Dana is not, IMO.
I would also guess that Dana fully disclosed the murder of whats-his-name so it could be included in the proposed immunity agreements. If she left out that information and it wasn’t included in the immunity deal, she could get pardoned on all the terrorist/spying stuff ... and imprisoned for life for mudering a parole officer.
SnakeDoc
http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Tony_Almeida
SnakeDoc
Seems like you can do anything you want and as long as you know something else that they want to know you ask for an immunity deal. The president OKs it every time.
Having the lives of 10 million innocent American people as a bargaining chip tends to help your situation ... unless it runs into the President’s peace agreement — then you’re SOL.
SnakeDoc
Okay, now I remember. I knew Jack was there when Tony went postal and then “died”,. Dumbest ever idea to bring Tony back to life. Couldn’t they have just put him in a coma?
I heard that the writers can be impulsive about deciding who is going and who stays.
I’ll bet after they offed Tony, they got alot of viewer complaints.
It’s the same with Renee...but fans don’t have enough time(or power!) to make an effect.
But then, I am not one to criticize the BEST SHOW ON TV..
What are we going to do when it’s gone? Maybe we can start a 24 grief support group.
Okay, SD, what’s wrong with Chloe? And will she redeem herself or have to be taken out for her stupidity/betrayal of her friend Jack? I think Allison T. is going to get it...and Logan, of course. Who else?
What did Jack mean that he “knows” Chloe: that she would be loyal to presidential orders or that she was capable of betrayal?
I think he meant that he know Chloe well enough to know that she would try to carry out her orders to bring him in, and thus would know that the laundry place was a set-up.
One can also recognize Chloe’s quick thinking in “knowing Jack” as she does, and that he would realize it was a set-up and neutralize the CTU agents, while enlisting the assistance of Cole (who she sent there knowing Jack trusted him). She was able to follow orders and help Jack at the same time, and no one the wiser.
Beat of all, we got to see Chloe do that thing with her facial muscles that she does when under stress and that’s worth the entire episode right there!
(I still wonder when someone is going to find the dead probation officer stuffed behind that wall...)
Hi bb,
Sometimes 24 writers “forget” about minor happenings like the dead probation officer in the vent. They’ve got bigger fish to fry.
Good analysis of why Chloe did what she did. But it could have been a disaster for Jack and she should have warned him privately. Very risky for her.
But that’s our Jack: prepared for any emergency!
Okay, let’s start predicting who’s going to make it to the big screen and who isn’t.
And if that frikkin peace agreement wins out, I’m no longer a fan. Also, I want to see some serious torture of Dana next week: no wussy waterboarding. Let’s get to the zapper!
Tonight’s episode(May 3): Rate on a scale of 1-10.
I give it an 8.
Did you think that our Jack was gonna have the nerve to “off” Dana?
What is his mental state right now?
Not the first time he’s killed an unarmed bad guy. He offed Nina Myers (Ssn 3) and the sniper that hit David Palmer (Ssn 5) in pretty much the same way.
“You have no further information to offer.” Bang. Bang.
He’s been known to blast people that piss him off.
SnakeDoc
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that Katee Sackoff won’t be in the movie.
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