24: Live Another Day
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Like in August 2011?
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That's a fair point. '24' should stick some police on a horse in the background to add realism
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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
Haha
I think my favourite was season 2, season 1 was obviously fantastic and the start of it all but I think season 2 topped it. I'll sit and watch any of the seasons quite happily but I can see how some people might not enjoy it as the plot and the unfolding of events is pretty similar in every season. Kiefer makes it for me, if the lead wasn't as good at it as he is then I'd probably not be interested.
For many, many reasons I'd call this the worst series of 24 I've seen. Chloe has to be the worst character on TV, both in scripting and portrayal. The emo thing doesn't hold at all (she's like mid-forties?) and she just sneers at everything - as usual.
Jack is now a huge parody of himself - totally eschewing any logic and gung-hoing about London with his manbag while whispering all the time and looking super-super-super-intense. His pained, draining relationship with Audrey is boring as hell too.
The guns make that silly Hollywood clicking sound every time someone touches one - you'd have thought Americans would know they don't do that.
Stephen Fry, who I love in everything else he's ever done in his entire career, somehow doesn't work as the PM - his unconvincing acting breaks the immersion, and I can't figure out why such a fabulous talent fails here.
There are so many inconsistencies - the drone can destroy entire hospitals with one strike, yet can only deliver small, inaccurate explosions when it's chasing a slow car, and it certainly can't penetrate a small old bridge when the car stops under it. The drones can calmly mess about in London (and British) airspace without any kind of detection at all.
All in all, it's a rinse-repeat plot: the first half is about stopping a terrorist plot, the second half is about the CTU mole. BORING.
Jack is now a huge parody of himself - totally eschewing any logic and gung-hoing about London with his manbag while whispering all the time and looking super-super-super-intense. His pained, draining relationship with Audrey is boring as hell too.
The guns make that silly Hollywood clicking sound every time someone touches one - you'd have thought Americans would know they don't do that.
Stephen Fry, who I love in everything else he's ever done in his entire career, somehow doesn't work as the PM - his unconvincing acting breaks the immersion, and I can't figure out why such a fabulous talent fails here.
There are so many inconsistencies - the drone can destroy entire hospitals with one strike, yet can only deliver small, inaccurate explosions when it's chasing a slow car, and it certainly can't penetrate a small old bridge when the car stops under it. The drones can calmly mess about in London (and British) airspace without any kind of detection at all.
All in all, it's a rinse-repeat plot: the first half is about stopping a terrorist plot, the second half is about the CTU mole. BORING.
Not sure what that has to do with 24...
Beyond ridiculous and the sooner it ends the better but even though its following the same formulaic structure as usual, I have to watch it to the end.
Also I'm not one for wanting unarmed and defenseless women to be killed but ffs, someone kill Chloe please. I watch TV to be entertained not forced into depression by the most miserable character in TV history. She makes Marvin The Paranoid Android seem positively jocular.
Also I'm not one for wanting unarmed and defenseless women to be killed but ffs, someone kill Chloe please. I watch TV to be entertained not forced into depression by the most miserable character in TV history. She makes Marvin The Paranoid Android seem positively jocular.
Your point was the authorities weren't showing up to the disturbances caused around London by Jack, yet in August 2011 there was widespread rioting with little to no response. It's more realistic than you give credit for
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Your point was the authorities weren't showing up to the disturbances caused around London by Jack, yet in August 2011 there was widespread rioting with little to no response. It's more realistic than you give credit for
I don't think you can really compare full scale rioting to a few people running around London shooting at each other.
Instead it all feels a bit rushed and things are being resolved ridiculously quickly.
Your point was the authorities weren't showing up to the disturbances caused around London by Jack, yet in August 2011 there was widespread rioting with little to no response. It's more realistic than you give credit for
Presumably you're just being facetious, but how does widespread rioting compare to a few isolated incidents of gunfights happening on secluded estates? My point about the entire series so far has been that it's been America, America, America. That isn't realistic at all (not that I expect 24 to be).
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I'm really enjoying the last episodes. Only having 12 means everything is moving much quicker, which is fine by me.
I didn't really think there was any need for the Russian and Chinese guys to be working together though. I was hoping their stories would remain separate, which would be much more interesting given their conflicting agendas regarding Bauer. I suppose with only one (is it one?) episode left they only have time to defeat one side so had to combine the two.
Also the chinese lady getting shot was so brutal. Wasn't expecting it at all and the noise, oh the noise.
Also the chinese lady getting shot was so brutal. Wasn't expecting it at all and the noise, oh the noise.
Yeah it's stretching the realm of believability. I know it's 24 but some things are just too far.
Umm how long did it take them to respond to a solder getting his head hacked off in broad daylight in the middle of street after been run over and plenty of time to walk about talking to people filming them.
Its not because its not the "Chinese" its two rogue agents trying to set things off between them, not official govs doing, its pretty obvious as how the Chinese Minister is reacting to events and not the whole situation.