Posted on 05/11/2010 6:14:09 PM PDT by Nachum
**If you TiVo there are Spoilers**
Who are you and what have you done with Jack Bauer? That’s what I wanted to scream at the pod person who starred on “24” last Monday. When the conservative creators of the show left and liberals took over, I was apprehensive. But by and large, the quality of the program kept up. I snorted, of course, when a bad character was threatened with torture by other bad guys. She was hauled into a medieval chamber filled with pincers, hot pokers and iron maidens. Then she was strapped down, a washcloth was draped over her mouth… and she was water boarded. Oy. Then, a week ago, Jack murdered her in cold blood, not to get information… she’d already been terrified into offering up the info… but just because he felt like it.
What?!
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Saudi partial ownership of Fox killed Jack Bauer and the other networks are even worse.
I haven’t been watching the show but I suspect the fat guy did something very very naughty to earn that gutting.
exactly right.
The lefties destroyed the show.
I haven’t watched in a couple of years.
Whatever you do, don’t swallow a SIMs card.
And Don’t Screw with Jack
It was necessary to kill her for the story to progress.
Screw Jack Bauer . . . I want to know his cell phone provider.
Can’t wait to see what happens to Logan when Bauer gets to him next week. “All due respect Mr. President but.....”
The author (Orson Bean, something of an American institution if you ask me) is pointing out that once the Left got their hands on Jack Bauer, they turned him into this cartoon character who tortures and kills for fun; he has become the Left’s caricature of conservatives and the military.
Now, genius, what exactly is idiotic about that?
Right after the conservative, right-wing producer of the show left 24, I left as well.
Same thing with NCIS. Belissario has been ousted and replaced by anti-Palin lib writers on the show. I’ve never watched again..
This has turned into the best season yet. My son and I stood up with our fists in the air and applauded when Jack killed the murderous Dana/Jenny. And this week we cheered when Jack got out the pliers and blowtorch on that Russian assassin who killed Renee Walker.
This season has become “Jack unleashed”, and it’s about time.
Cartoon character? Fun?
He's pixxed and TCB'en.
Atta boy, Jack.
Was this the Lib writer’s own fantasy of what they want to do to all of America? Bizarre!
;o) That was pretty brutal.
Jack loves his country. Jack regrets. Jack loathes, Jack acts on vengence, Jack questions himself, Jack kills. Jack (gasp) cries. All this "lib vs. conservative" crap is nothing but he-man b.s. The writers, no matter their political persuasion, do a masterful job of showing all the angles. Neither side likes that, of course. We're so used to everyone being pigeon-holed, we've forgotten there can be actually be "two sides to the coin." Necessary evils, as it were.
Jack Bauer is still the man I want between me & the commie crapola, TYVM. Unless anyone has a better alternative...?
Excuse me but I am am a relative recent viewer but who was that and when did they leave?
Orson may have watched every 24 episode, but he must never have seen the Ivan episode of Magnum. If he had, he’d have understood Jack.
Orson Bean is a dick..........Jack is da man! And Frantzie, in post #3 is a complete moron........
You and Frantzie need to hook up! You can share your TV with her since she claims to have disconnected her TV a long time ago.........Maybe she's watching "24" from her therapist's office......
Total fantasy ~ not at all locked into a high moral code like "24".
You’ll notice that Chuck Norris has never dared to cross Jack Bauer.
First time I saw that “split-screen” crap I shut it off.
Next week Jack puts panties on Logan’s head.
The sniper, Yaakov, cold bloodedly shot Jack’s girlfriend. The sniper also swallowed the SIMM card containing the information needed to prove who ordered not only her murder but also who was behind the goings on the past day. In addition, the psycho-expletive killed in cold blood and was clearly an enemy of the country. Traitors truly should die. Justified, both of them. Not that such things don’t happen in real life, from time to time in covert ops here and around the globe.
But really, it’s just a TV show.
My guess is that the show will end with the writers having Chloe kill Jack. The only person he trusts.
He either is dying, but not yet dead-
In prison-
Or in hiding...
>>Excuse me but I am am a relative recent viewer but who was that and when did they leave?
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Joel Surnow. Also interviewed by NY Magazine and professed to be pals with Rush Limbaugh and Andy Breitbart. Left in 2007 due to Fox’s lib management..
“I want to know his cell phone provider.”
Me, too!!! I always marvel that their calls always go thru, no dead zones. Ever.
>>Still, there are those who watch Survivor, NCIS and “plane wreck on island” or whatever the heck it’s called
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That would be LOST. The best part was in season 3 when a character named Ford actually said..
‘I’ve never voted Democrat..”
She’ll shoot him and he falls into the river, but the body will never be found.
Chloe will be shooting blanks, Jack will stage his own "death" and he and Chloe will eventually hook up in the upcoming movie, staging a realistic and tawdry love scene to earn an NC-17 rating.
In prison-
Or in hiding...
You got that right. (Sound of beep..counting down to release date.)
(P.S. Is it just me, or do Jack's legs look a bit thin in this pick?)
I like your ending better.
When they whacked Edgar, it was over for me.
They used to do a masterful job, etc., etc. The last season that aired, the one where death-bed-bound Jack confides in a Muslim cleric, had lost it LONG before that scene, and it didn't lose it because its politics were sympathetic to Muslim immigrants and antagonistic to American defense contractors. It lost it because the show's creators didn't know how to control the roller coaster ride they were dishing out.
Earlier shows, I always felt like the writers knew where they were going in that headlong roller coaster plot rush, that I was in competent hands and could hardly wait until next Monday. But that last season felt like every week, the creators wrote themselves into a corner. It felt to me like amateur hour. It got stoopid. Still, to give them the benefit of the doubt, I stuck with it to the end, only to get more and more disappointed with each episode's lack of skill.
I don't like crappy writing, and I recognize it when I see it; I think you don't because you're still hung up on what used to be, not what is NOW.
These new crappy writers, who happen to be politically liberal, are riding on the coattails and success of the masterful writers, who happened to be, at least in part, politically conservative.
Just like what happened in California -- the conservatives who pioneered and built this state made it cool, then the liberals moved in and screwed it up. Same thing with 24.
LOL! Hot Tabasco the Tiger Woods fan boy. How is that golf game going for Tiger slugger?
Everyone is outdriving him now and he could not hit a fairway if his life depended on it. I hit more fairways on the back nine last Sunday than Tiger hit at Quail Hollow *AND* TPC.
Jack just had to give up on this one.
Wasn’t that a great shootout in the petites section in Macy’s? Clean up in ladies wear lol..... 4 dead Russkies right away!
I don't have cable and haven't for about 30 years, so I may be wrong ... but wouldn't that qualify as a "Pay Per View Event"?
OH man!!!!! What a great picture!!! Thanks!
"Ivan, did you see the sunrise?"
"Jack, what can I do?"
"Nothing."
What's the difference? This is why I don't get the ballyhoo over Jack and how he "degenerated" into a lib's idea of conservatives. He hasn't and he isn't. He's still the only one doing the American thing.
Jack Bauer doesn’t do Pay Per View.
EDGAR!! Oh thank you, 444Flyer, for resurrecting my fave character...
I agree with whoever said that Chloe and Jack will stage his death. But I don’t know about the romance part....they are just BFF’s. She has to redeem herself for turning on him temporarily this season though WAIT: and this question is just for hardcore 24 fans: Did Chloe ever really betray him or did it just seem that way?
They know each other very well...they understand how each other’s minds work. That will be very key to the ending of the show.
Sprint.
yes....you haven’t been watching.....
The guy that was gutted was pencil thin......
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