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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The show isn't realistic?
You mean to tell me that you can't talk to pilots of a stealth jet on a cell phone? I'm so disappointed. (end/sarcasm)
We subscribe to Glenn Beck's online audio, and every Monday night after the show, they have a live webcast to talk about the show.
It's a riot, people call in with what they liked and disliked about a particular episode.
The funniest one was from a lady who lived in the state (can't remember which one) where they lost the missile, and couldn't locate it because of the mountains. Evidently that particular state is flat and there's not a mountain in the entire state.
Still it's a fun show, we watch it every week, you just have to suspend your sense of logic while you're watching it.
What about their utter inability to avoid professing their undying love towards each other numerous times within a single day period? Not even honeymooners say it so often within a single day.
Geez, the stupidities of the show nearly killed my desire to see the ending...
Good points.
Why did they let the aclu lawyer and terrorist suspect into the main operating room of CTU?
That seem incredibly dumb.
They should have kept them in some waiting room away from the super sensitive equipment and computer screens.
When the spy was found out and the enemy bombed her car wouldn't that have been a signal not to use her to go into the heart of the enemy's operation and try to access anything?
It just boggles my mind that Jack didn't order the helo to destroy both jeeps while they were sitting outside the power plant.
See post 22 for the ending.
My sons know I watch the show every Monday night and they've come to expect my outbursts of how stupid the show is in every episode (I think it's now a game with them of how long into the show before my first negative comment). They've asked me more than once why I even watch the show if I find it so stupid - I tell them it's entertaining despite being asinine.
I aks myself the same and can only think that with all the other junk out there it is the most entertaining.
A mental exercise to pick it apart.
"With all of Jack's superhero skills, the one I want the most, is being able to get to someplace in down town LA, and back to CTU... in a black SUV... and then back into the field, some place else in DT LA...in less than an hour."
LOL that's what hubby said about last season.
Don't go here unless you really want to know the ending:
Warning! Season Finale Spoiler Link:
I'm with you on that. But it only takes a day to watch the whole series. So far I've only bought the first season, it's a "must have" collection, the first time I have ever bought a dvd series. I'll probably regret wasting the money because the tech. will change.
Tonites show, (missle launched), and they are trying to find that girl who has Tony hostage, contained a good jab at a leftist idiots (senators son) who through his stupidity, drug taking and imoral lifestyle have put the nation in jepordy.
I think the missle is heading for China.
I thought the missile only had a range of a thousand miles.
It's 5 am. Everyone's been working nonstop since 8am yesterday, on the most emotionally draining workday in their lives (or at least since last year). SOMEONE should have fallen asleep at their workstation by now!
How do they manage to get a speeding ICBM to land nicely so they can defuse it? Nukes explode above the ground, disarming it on the ground is imposible. maybe Kim will jump onto it while it's in flight, have her clothing blown off by the wind, and disarm it, but die in the crash anyway.
No, they said it has a range of 1800 miles.
but you are right, still not enough range. Oh well, I just watch the show. Maybe it will hit Ottawa. That would add a twist to the ending.
Radioactive spiders don't give you the ability to climb walls when they bite you.
An intergalactic police force would not use jedi swords made of light to catch the bad guys.
NY Cops like John McClane rarely stumble upon terrorist plans while visiting their estranged wife.
You don't go to OZ by riding a tornado.
Hobbits actually eat babies when no one is looking.
I'm really looking forward to the final episode of 24. The series is over the top but a ship load of fun.
24 always makes my Mondays more exciting; something to look forward to at the end of the day. I'm already scrambling to figure out how to replace that "excitement" once tonight has passed. Now, if the script runs true to liberal ideology... The Secty of Defense' son, the "victim" of a one-night stand, will be covered up. Marwan will turn out to be working for some US interest (filthy capitalist) or paid by such. Jack's girlfriend will decide politics is dirty and leave her position to join Amnesty International. The "CTU" couple in "rejoining" will runaway to the Oregon coastline for a protracted reunion. Jack will head CTU. Edgar will wed his computer, Chloe will tell everyone to just "stuff it" if they aren't going to promote her.. The missile will be shot down while in mid-air. Those on the ground below the missile shooting, will declare witness to UFOs and aliens about to land, forcing a massive exodus out of the town... But then, this is not quite a "liberal" show, so nix my speculations, except the one about the missile being shot down while in mid-air, pls..
The only program better is 'Deadwood', which ended last night...
What's going to happen with the acting President and the ex-President? Looks like the new President just grew a couple, and might be coming around...
Jack and his chick are so over...I think she's the dead one for the series...and altho I saw the spoiler link, I am NOT going to click it..not going to click it..not going to...
Okay, this is how it ends…HEY WAIT!!! PUT THAT GUN DOWN!!!! NO! NO! AUUUURGGGG!!!! YOU’RE CHOKING ME!!!! NO!!! AUURGGGG..
Gatún will never be able to reveal the ending now…
The Choker.
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