Posted on 05/22/2005 9:49:08 PM PDT by bitt
Twenty-two hours down, two to go. "24" (search) plans to end its fourth heart-stopping season with a bang Monday night — a two-hour finale filled with suspense and surprises. "It's my favorite season ender — it's just been the most fun and I think the most surprising end. I'm not gonna tell you who dies, or if someone dies. But I will say it's a surprise," Howard Gordon, the executive producer of "24," told FOX News.
Aside from the finale (8 p.m. EDT on FOX), one of the biggest mysteries about the show is whether its star, Kiefer Sutherland (search), will be back. "I'm actually not gonna answer that. That's how — it's actually a very relevant question and it's one that I think people will be surprised at," Gordon said.
So how does "24" remain one of TV's hottest shows, four seasons later? Keeping fans on the edge of their seats, one hour at a time. "If you're not a little rattled at the end of the hour, it's not been a good show," Gordon said. And some of the threats confronting Jack Bauer (Sutherland) and the rest of L.A.'s Counterterrorism Unit are eerily realistic. "I long for the day when it goes back to being a fantastical work of fiction, as opposed to something that is actually mirroring events that are taking place in the world," Sutherland told FOX News.
For example, Bauer and his colleagues at the Counterterrorism Unit (known on the show as CTU) are currently in hot pursuit of Islamic terrorists who have launched a nuclear missile. CTU agents are trying to determine where exactly the missile may land and to round up the terrorists within the United States who are behind the plot.
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Your first post? I'm confused, you are not a newbie. I've obviously missed something.
Feel welcome to add me to your 24 ping list. I've not seen it yet.
But you said if follows Tom Clancy's ideas. I'm up to date there!
And if you are being harassed by a freeper, ping me. I will be honored to add my fly swatter to the thread!
The missle splits in midair with the other half of the warhead going into the newsweek building and sending large bits of shrapnel into al franken's radio studio at err America.
Then the gov takes Rush off the air just to be fair so Rush joins the terrorists to get on al-jazeera and reveals the last half hour of the show and is called un-American for ruining millions of American's monday night and making the world wait another year to find out if Jack asks Kim to have a coffee with him at his studio apt in Studio City and they get there in two minutes during morning rush hour where Jack is in the bathroom for two hours.
That's not the way Sutherland wants it. He wants to get back to fiction not based on real life perspective situations.:)
Since when do we keep airliners at secure bases with armed guards?
The crew chief owns the plane and allows the pilot to fly his plane and under no cirmstances would let a stranger with no stealth experience walk in with the pilots thumb and fly out fully armed.
It ain't like renting a car where you get to go in the lot and pick an F-117 with missles.
A lot of the radar is tied into gps and there is no way the US would keep the channel open to the stolen fighter to target a Dairy Queen let alone AF 1.
Ping oxeninflorida to get on the ping list for 24, I got involved in a bad click last night, but unlike others, never resorted for backup. Damn, I was called a bastard last night and when I called all of them twat wads I got a reprimand from JR. But thats ok, his house , his rules.
Horribly predictable plot.
I guess you forgot that someone had the top secret codes to the Air Force One on 9-11. They said it was all a "mistake" later one, but that's one of the reasons they kept President Bush flying around and stuck him in a bunker, instead of allowing him to return to Washington DC.
You are also forgetting that we keep hearing about Muslims in the military -- how do we know one of them couldn't be a high level official, with accesses to information we would rather not even imagine.
The world is full of true stories of deep cover spies and saboteurs, and I am sure the stories that we actualy hear are merely the tip of the iceberg.
Some things may have sufficient safeguards to make it very unlikely, but not necessarily impossible for terrorists to get hold of information and weapons.
I've had a similar situation. I had an absolute sweetheart (darksheare) come to my aid. But I couldn't understand why I was left out to the vultures an I was slapped by the mods. and freep mailed by them too as 'behave'.
I don't get all the posting rules at times. I'm very confused as too who gets a pass and who doesn't get ban.
I'll assume I don't know everything. I'll assume there are reasons.
Have a good night! I'm off to bed.
Not at all. The operative word is SOME.
We would all probably die of a heart attack if we knew everything that does not get reported.
No way there would be infiltrators "throughout" the military and in super sensitive areas. It would take an air base full of them to allow the stealth to be stolen. The story did not imply that the whole base was compromised.
Do you think they kept the same codes after knowing they were compromised?
'24' is Tom Clancy filtered through the writers of 'Days of Our Lives'.
And Rocky and Bullwinkle.
You're so going to just love tomorrow night.
TV Land copout endings.
Could you do me a favor and transfer that to my screen?
My husband thinks they ought to figure out a way to "turn" Marwan and get him to work for the US since he's so much more effective with his plans than CTU or anybody else in our gov't, LOL! He's figured out how to be one step ahead of Jack and our guys, so if we could get him to work for us, then we might be able to stay one step ahead of the terrorists.
Why is it that Marwan is the smartest guy on the show, LOL?
Thanks for the heads up.
I'm preparing myself to try to suspend reality and enjoy the cartoon.
I write so it is good to see flaws and be sure I don't make them in my stories.
Young writers.
Don't know how to write a good plausible story.
It's a common mistake. They figure that if they wrote it must be true.
Besides if Marwan was captured early on the the series would be over as the writers don't seem to be able to compensate for reality.
Like James Bond movies where he is captured and given some elaborate slow death machine treatment where he always gets out.
It's a cartoon.
The only realistic aspect is that the terorists operate in closed cells and could continue without Marwan.
Or perhaps you just hit on the surprise ending.
They turn Marwan, save the US and Marwan becomes the next head of the DNC.
He already knows how to lie.
I've watched every single episode of this season as well despite the astonishingly stupid plot twists and utter insane behavior of the so-called CTU experts.
It never ceases to amaze me at how CTU can be the top anti-terrorist organization but at the same time be constantly undermanned despite having several million military and law enforcement personnel at their beck and call.
Oh no, it's always send several CTU agents to secure a location or fly to intercept the bad guys from getting the nuclear football in a slow chopper instead of commanding a supersonic fighter to blast the bad guys into smithereens.
Now we have a "Stealth" cruise missile that can't be seen by radar (how convenient), the threat of the Chicoms going to war against the US (as if that won't be suicide on their part) and a Marwan that is slipperier than a greased pig during an annual fair.
I mean, COME ON! If America is so spineless that it can't beat China on the head in a time of supreme national emergency by storming the Chinese consulate or throwing a civil rights lawyer on his ass out of CTU or allow the torture of terrorists who know the whereabouts of a stolen nuclear weapon that's about to be launched against an American city; then it probably deserves everything that happens to it.
No kidding. A real, "Top Gun" moment. He's a guaranteed goner.
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