24 (A.K.A. The Jack Bauer Power Hour!)

And that is why 24 needs a new showrunner and Howard Gordon needs to die a slow and painful death.

Lunchtime at CTU

Yeah, now just think how much time they've had to come up and write a good script.

Last one so far. I think a lot of the crew want to stop, but Fox keep ordering more seasons.

"You're either dead or you're not dead. There's no such thing as "sorta dead". Here, let me show you. *Bang*

You've just been promoted. Congratulations"

Best line ever.

Great

Yes I know, he might be good, but I´ve never liked the guy and don´t want him to ruin what is supposed to be the last season of the show. I hope I have to eat my own words once the season has started though.

And Tim, you posting in the "24" thread?? This deserves a special celebration.

I've never seen him in anything. Does it really matter if you don't like him though? He's blatantly going to be a douche character.

*cough* David Palmer *cough*



Lost steals Michelle, and 24 steals Horace. Payback at its best. Although I miss his 70s hair.

(Spoilers.)
I just watched the season finale last night (watching the last eight episodes over two nights), and I must say it was pretty decent. It has indeed several minor plot and story issues, but the best seasons had those as well - just rewatch them and you'll see. It's part of 24. Overall Season 7 was pretty consistent again, actually quite exciting, and it got back the original excitement quite often. I also didn't mind the lack of a kick-ass action scene and more drama (besides the annoying president scenes in the finale).

So it's just too bad that they had to screw this up with one and a half large issues:

- Olivia's lousy subplot. Normally the 24 lousy subplots appear in the first third of the season; not so here, so that screwed things up somewhat.

- Tony's change of character. I can believe he wants to take revenge for Michelle, and he's always been a slightly darker version of Jack - and hence my favorite character, but his total neglect of human lives in the last few episodes is just unbelievable. That alone has made me not care for the last quarter of the season - no, let me rephrase - it numbed me for the last episodes. I've never had much trouble with the suspension of disbelief of the larger plot holes and plot developments, but this one was a couple of bridges too far.
(Even more frustrating is how easily they could have avoided this; just let him destroy all the canisters at a certain point and then kidnap Jack - preferably with his approval. In that way they would have been able to work together, he would have gone another step to redeem himself, and he wouldn't have to tie a stupid bomb to Jack. And you could easily write in something in the last episode then where he would knock Jack unconscious, for instance, and then try to kill Wilson after all. In this way they could also have built more on the theme that he saved more lives than Jack, and that he also 'did what it took', only crossing the line further than Jack always does - thus in two ways undermining the standard 24 formula; that Jack's crossing of boundaries should be questioned indeed, and that he is not always right...)

Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff to join season eight of 24.

Maybe, I don´t know whether her character was a loved one by BSG´s fans? I have to watch this one after I finish Fringe btw.

I want Jon Voight back!

Pf.

Sutherland´s voice is impossible to dub properly. That said, his spanish voice is great.