24 - Awesome

I really like 24, but I can only watch it when I have a few free days. I think I've watched every season pretty much 12 episodes at a time and then forced myself to go to bed.
We were talking about it last night, actually. My boyfriend watched season one and then got bored half way through season two, so I've decided we'll have to watch them all together at some point :).
 
Having just finished series 4, I'm going to have to agree with you. I get a bit too addicted to it, I watched series 3 in a day (bout 23 hours it took me i think), for the next 2 days I kept thinking everyone was really a spy, i dreamt an entire new series in my sleep that night i think :p Bring on series 5!!
 
Vixen said:
I really like 24, but I can only watch it when I have a few free days. I think I've watched every season pretty much 12 episodes at a time and then forced myself to go to bed.
We were talking about it last night, actually. My boyfriend watched season one and then got bored half way through season two, so I've decided we'll have to watch them all together at some point :).

I did that with season 3, but I got back into it (about a year later) then watched 3 and 4 within about a week :D
 
I have been watching 24 since it first dawned, it's the most adictive television show i have ever watched. Season 5 was amazing and now season 6 is back on the 14th of january! bring it on, make sure to see www.24trailer.com on the 24th of october!
 
Raymond Lin said:
David Caruso is like the worst actor ever.

As seen on Slashdot a while ago...

Some dude on slashdot said:
It's not so much that they wrap everything up, it's just that the entire Miami police department apparently consists of the angsty guy from NYPD Blue driving around in a Hummer. The ****ing FBI doesn't even dare challenge this guy's jurisdiction. State laws, federal laws, doesn't matter, Judge Dredd will terminate those responsible. I've seen him run kidnapping investigations, direct SWAT teams, they'll track down some suspect and they'll have like 40 guys in body armor and machine guns standing around outside, but then the big ****ing glow-in-the-dark Hummer shows up and they're all "whoa, back up guys" and he kicks down the ****ing door and takes out like 15 monster-trucking KGB ninjas with flamethrowers or some ****.

****, you hire some guy to keep track of which blood spatters belong to who, and all of a sudden he's taken over the entire Florida legal system. You ever see any trials in this show? For all we know he just takes these ****ers out back and buries them in the monster-trucking parking lot. It's not like he couldn't get away with it, he apparently got some kind of extra-legal status where he immediately just takes over command in any situation he wanders into.

In other news, yes - 24 is awesome. Have seen seasons 1 to 3 on DVD, and am 7 hours into season 4. I think 1 and 2 were the best. So far 4 is a bit weak - it seems a bit too similar to the previous stuff. I hear 5 is a masterpiece though, so I look forward to that.
 
24 is superb. Series 1, 2 and 3 certainly kept me going in Iraq last year - I think we managed 8 episodes back to back on one particularly quiet night shift!
 
One thing I don't quite understand is how "Lost" gained the uber-cool popularity it has, it's kinda like the 'new 24' if you know what I mean.

I watched the first 8 episodes, and another couple later on - a fair crack of the whip - and it isn't even in remotely the same league as 24.

24 is unique in that it is the only show in recent years that I have been compelled to watch ahead of doing stuff on the internet etc. I'd wait around looking forward to the next week when a new episode would be aired.

I'm still gutted that the guy who played Steven Saunders (S3?) wasn't offered the role of Bond. He would have been perfection personified.
 
Gave up on 24 towards the end of season 1 I'm afraid. It was going along fine and then it hit that episode where his wife loses her memory and it was almost laughable.....like a bad soap. Tried to keep watching but felt it had gone past its peak by then. Shame.

I'm of the total opposite opinion to the post above - "Lost" is in a different league for me. Especially season 1 which is maybe my favorite season of anything....ever :)
 
Curio said:
Gave up on 24 towards the end of season 1 I'm afraid. It was going along fine and then it hit that episode where his wife loses her memory and it was almost laughable.....like a bad soap. Tried to keep watching but felt it had gone past its peak by then. Shame.

I'm of the total opposite opinion to the post above - "Lost" is in a different league for me. Especially season 1 which is maybe my favorite season of anything....ever :)


24 originally was planned for only for 12 episodes, like most American shows, it's life lies in the mercy of ratings. So for 90% of shows, the network will just make season 1 for 12/13 episodes and see how the ratings go. Like Buffy (13 episodes), what happen with 24 is that with the 12 episodes it was proven they got the ratings. Then they had to practically do some patch up work and write storyline up as they went along from episode 13-14. Since before the show started they only had materials for the first 12, hence the first 12 episodes was so neat and it feels it's complete on its own.

After season 1, the network knows 24 can pull in the ratings and greenlight it for 24 episodes, and it shows in the storyline, each twist is planned. The entire story arc is planned for the season.

Lost on the other hand, i think they already have an idea about the ending and what the whole island is about but the bits in the middle they just make up as they go along. I mean the stuff with the polar bear wasn't solved and all forgotten, the black smoke that dragged and killed a few people is now TOTALLY forgotten, that French women comes and goes as she pleases, LOST is full of holes and while you find LOST season 1 the best season ever. This is what i thought at the end when i watched it all in the space of 3 days last summer. I wrote this in another forum.

"I am feeling fustrated, annoyed and a little pee off that after spening the last 4 hours watching the last 4/5 episodes and realised i have found out nothing. So there is someone else at the island, there are mysteries, but i thought we knew that right from the start? I am angry at the fact that I didn't get to see what was the security system, i am angry not to find out who were these people who took that french woman's baby (if that turned out to be her gone nuts and made it all up, i am going to throw my arm at the telly), i am angry not to find out about what is inside that hatch (apart from the obvious ladder), and never found out what those numbers mean ?(if this goes into some twist about Aliens then i am going to thorw myself at the telly !) and really angry about them spring another question on why they just taken that Boy Walter.

I am so annoyed at the moment i don't think i can be bother with season 2 if they keep going in the same vein, because it is totally unsatisfactory when you have devoted so much time watching something when it doesn't give anything back, so i've found out about stuff about the characters, that may be good one 1 level but unless they start to explain (pretty soon) why they are on the island and what brought them there, i am going to stop watching it. As you can probably tell, i wish i never wasted my time on this, it's not that it isn't good, it is because it gives me no satisfaction. The satisfaction comes from finding out something after it's been set up, there is none of that, and it is totally off putting. They set up so many questions, couldn't they answer at least one?

We know Locke thinks that he is there because of destiny, and that Hurley thinks they are there because of numbers, what which is it? And how are they going to explain how they can mulipulated the Lottery system so that Hurley won it? How are they going to explain that one, what is this special gift that Walter has? and what is so god damn special about this baby? If each episode is a month then how on earth is the baby important? it's not like we will see him grown up. I really hope it isn't some aliens story, or worst, some crazy scientist/Doctor took over the island as an experiment or something.

My personal equation of (Time/Efford = Satisfactory Reward) Does not balance, the program doesn't make me laugh, it doesn't give me that feeling like when Jack Bauer Saved someone on 24, like a relieve and joy. All i get is tension, more tension, and then more tension, and then get string along somemore. I ended up feeling like a dog/sheep, I followed it because it was all done in 1 go and it was just there for me to watch.

However, I have to say i was not bored at all watching it, at no point was i bored of it,
Spoiler:

It is the non-story (practically) that **** me off. I still can't get over how they can do an entire season without an ending to anything after 20 odd epiosdes of Questions. If there was just one, any one, even if it's false, i'll be much happier. If i am going to stop watching it, it won't be because it is rubbish, it would be because it is fustrating, far too fustrating, and i hate feeling of getting string along with no obvious answer and in a way, i feel cheated and betrayed. I might as well skip it all and watch the final episode, we probably all know that is where the answer will be.

p.s. and how can that fat guy still be that big after so long? A month on Fish and Fruit he should have lost at least some weight, he looked bigger at the end than he did at the beginning."

I found season 2 easiler to get on with, there were more answers, much better show. But compare to 24, LOST is 2nd rate.
 
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Raymond Lin said:
I found season 2 easiler to get on with, there were more answers, much better show. But compare to 24, LOST is 2nd rate.

Well that's where you and I differ, obviously. I love the fact Lost throws up questions and leaves you wondering. For me the 2nd series wasn't quite as good because it answered a lot of the questions and thereby eroded the mystery which made the first season so compelling. Also because Lost is more "fantasy" I can forgive it a lot in the plot and realism stakes just so long as the ideas are strong, which they are. 24 tries to be gritty and real and so it really annoys me when it suddenly gets silly.

They're two very different styles of show and, of course, it all comes down to personal taste. But the fact remains Lost is vastly superior in all areas :p
 
hardc0re_tid said:
could never get into 24, CSI's are much better, especially Miami
I agree, though CSI Miami is not, in my view, anything like as good as Vegas. But CSI is just a bit of light entertainment, and I can't take it too seriously.

24 is, in my view, vastly over-rated. I struggled through the tedium of series 1, attempted series 2 (and gave up after two or three episodes). I haven't bothered since. It's badly over-written, corny as hell and cliche-ridden. Not only that, but the multi-screen effects drive me up the wall. It's a cheap trick apparently designed to keep the audience on track with the plot, not crediting us with being able to follow it, and typifies a writing style that requires that sort of stunt to paper over either poor plot structure, or the strains imposed by breaking it down into so many chunks for TV. Maybe it's better on DVD, but the TV versions left me stone cold.

CSI isn't exactly high art, but at least it's watchable and doesn't take itself too seriously.
 
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