24: Live Another Day
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I agree with this guy ^^..
Nah, I put that up after staying up for the 1am airing of the first episode 9 weeks ago or whenever it was.
Now, I wish I had changed my opinion, but it's still a bit rubbish. This confuses me as it's 24 and 24 should be awesome!
The cgi is the most painful thing. Followed closely by some oddities like using a plaster on a heavily bleeding sliced open arm
Jack is still jack, but it's like he's been dropped in a low budget parallel dimension
One of the best episodes ever I thought! I shouted and punched the air at "that bit"
That was pretty amazing, I'd had a moan about the current season on Twitter just before that bit (the prolonged firefight attracting no police whatsoever? Riiiight...) but as soon as that happened I was stunned and took it all back.
I took it as Jack simply being at the point where he's sick of dealing with these sorts of people and decided to dish out some of his own justice instead of leaving it to the authorities as usual.
That was pretty amazing, I'd had a moan about the current season on Twitter just before that bit (the prolonged firefight attracting no police whatsoever? Riiiight...) but as soon as that happened I was stunned and took it all back.
I took it as Jack simply being at the point where he's sick of dealing with these sorts of people and decided to dish out some of his own justice instead of leaving it to the authorities as usual.
Totally agree, Jack said in a previous episode that hes doing it for himself.
He had enough and is dealing his own justice, i like this Jack, like this season or not the bottom line is you dont f with Jack Bauer.
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Yeah.. well he would probably think if I leave her to the authorities she'll just get 1) freed on the trip back to CTU/CIA 2) get freed by some mole 3) escape with the help of another over-boss we haven't seen yet... so may as well just throw her through t'window
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The GF and I quite a few years back got to about a quarter way through season 7 I think. We were well and truly done with 24 and had lots of other shows to watch.
Now I am quite interested in watching this new season.
Do I actually need to watch 2 seasons to catch up? Or will I have just as much fun starting a fresh from Season 9?
The GF and I quite a few years back got to about a quarter way through season 7 I think. We were well and truly done with 24 and had lots of other shows to watch.
Now I am quite interested in watching this new season.
Do I actually need to watch 2 seasons to catch up? Or will I have just as much fun starting a fresh from Season 9?
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Season 7 was indeed dreadful (wasnt that during the writters strike?). It did improve (somewhat) in the second half but it is a bit of a grind. Season 8 is significantly better imo, but still not great. S7 and 8 are the poorest two for me (especially 7).
In the run up to live another day, I think it was IGN who did 10 min summaries of each season of 24. Cant link to it in work, but search for them on youtube and you will be caught up.
I would recommend do the summary of S7, and try to watch S8 (failing that do the summary).
I'm watching this season but I'm not sure 24 needed to come back as every recent season is a retread.
1) Introduce initial bad guy with a valid grudge but mild psychosis
2) Some civilians die - dammit!
3) Jack, helped by Chloe, impeded by incompetent officials catches bad guy 1
4) Reveal that there is a bigger bad guy - dammit!
5) Uncover the mole/s in CTU/White House (spotted in episode 2 by their shifty eyebrows)
6) Some civilians die - dammit!
7) Jack saves the day just in time, usually killing bigger bad guy
8) Something bad happens to Jack - goddammit!
1) Introduce initial bad guy with a valid grudge but mild psychosis
2) Some civilians die - dammit!
3) Jack, helped by Chloe, impeded by incompetent officials catches bad guy 1
4) Reveal that there is a bigger bad guy - dammit!
5) Uncover the mole/s in CTU/White House (spotted in episode 2 by their shifty eyebrows)
6) Some civilians die - dammit!
7) Jack saves the day just in time, usually killing bigger bad guy
8) Something bad happens to Jack - goddammit!
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I actually thought the last episode was pretty good. Tense and nothing that ridiculous happened. Then the end kind of ruined it a bit.
If the US knew that the device could be used to access any aspect of the military, then why not send some kind of warning instead of doing nothing. Then when the US sub get orders to sink a Chinese carrier, they may think twice. Also why didn't Chloe just smash the device on the floor?
Thats pretty much how every season goes. I'm half way through season 6 and they are all fairly similar. S1 - S3 were OK but started to get tedious in as much as why couldn't his daughter have a conversation with anyone without then trying to kill or kidnap her, S4 was terrible, plain and simple. S5 was really good and probably the best so far and S6 isn't too bad either.
I'm just hauling a55 through them so I can get onto Breaking Bad
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Well i am sure they didn't have time. It was less than an hour from the device being identified as being a weapons system master key till it was used.
I would have thought that as brave as Chloe is, she isn't stupid. Smashing it on the floor would have almost certainly resulted in her death.
I would have thought that as brave as Chloe is, she isn't stupid. Smashing it on the floor would have almost certainly resulted in her death.
indeed..