Jack is back! Let's do this!!!
Hollywood needs to officially retire the "camera looking out the car side window as an oncoming vehicle slams into us" gimmick.
Senator Red Forman tells Jack that he's a "dumbass" for not retaining council.
Jack is of course used to having people question him under much more threatening circumstances.
The FBI needs Jack. "We'll resume at this time tomorrow," says the senator. So... season eight, then?
Janeane Garofalo is the new Chloe. We'll see how she measures up.
And now the "bombshell" that no one has made any effort to hide for the last seventeen months -- this year's bad guy is Zombie Tony!!!! (Who is just as dead as Headless Sara over on Prison Break.) Perhaps he'll later be revealed to be in league with Nina Myers and David Palmer.
Cut back to the captive tech guy, who is now beaten and bloody. This may be the only time 24 has ever passed the chance to show us torture in graphic detail.
The White House elevator is painted like a hospital ward.
Half an hour in and Jack is staring at a computer screen while other people sit in dark rooms and talk. Safe to say the writers are banking on the knowledge they'll be airing a two-hour premiere.
Looks like the First Gentleman's bodyguard is going to be the season's "Aaron Pierce." We'll see how he measures up.
Agent Walker's going to keep Jack on a short leash? She don't know him very well.
The fighters are hidden in three camps: Alpha, Beta, and Delta. They do know Gamma is the third letter of the Greek alphabet, right?
Aldridge has agreed to delay his broadcast for 24 hours. More material for "season eight," then.
Agent Walker suddenly busts out with some kung fu! Then she tells Jack to "do whatever it takes." We might just have to start calling her "She-Jack" before the day is through.
Gabriel's gonna get a ball point eyeball if he doesn't start talking.
Four minutes ago, on 24...
Jack thinks there's a mole in the FBI. Because there's always a mole every damn season.
The incredibly inattentive FBI agents fail to notice the guy lurking in the stairwell.
The Sangala prime minister's "field day ribbon" is sticking up out of his suit pocket.
If air traffic control just reported a "near miss" to the White House, then they go their facts wrong. The airplanes did miss. What happened was a near collision.
The guy in the car with Jack thinks Jack's okay. Apparently he owns past seasons of 24 on DVD.
The sniper and his FBI "pursuer" have a little Return of the Jedi, hide behind pillars kind of moment.
Jack knows it's gotta be the shoes.
Looking none the worse for wear after his encounter with a land mine back in Redemption, Juma's thug appears to join the ranks of the not-really-dead villains this season.
Re-enter the girfriend of the late "First Son." Wearing quite a few more clothes than when we were first introduced to her in Redemption.
Time to blast our way on to the boat. And left and right, henchman you might have thought you'd be spending a few episodes with are dropping like flies.
Just like that, we've caught Tony! They do know this show is called "24" and not "3," right?
For the moment, my opinion is mixed. I think I'm already starting to like a few of the new characters they're introducing, particularly Agent Renee Walker. On the other hand, the story hasn't totally grabbed me yet. We'll see what tomorrow night brings.
2 comments:
I think they are grooming Walker to be Jack-caliber whoopass. on the boat when that guy came around the corner and they both tagged him at the same time I thought "are they trying to tell us she's just as lethal as Jack?"
despite the now-cliche' "mole" thing, I thought it was quite a clever way to keep him in the action.
and poor Doctor Phlox he's been beat up a few times like that on Enterprise, too. I think it might have been a bit more interesting if they had kidnapped the kid to coerce him but that would make the bad guys too bad?
I loved how Walker one-lined away Tony's resurrection in a "let's accept it and move on" 5 second sentence.
I can't wait to see Jack torture Tony (if they let him of course!)
the mole
"If air traffic control just reported a "near miss" to the White House, then they go their facts wrong. The airplanes did miss. What happened was a near collision."
If you use the phrase "near miss" as opposed to a "far-away miss" then it works fine. In other words, use the Grover near-far definition and not the near death definition. :o)
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