The President holds a briefing in front of a "24 season re-cap" screen saver.
Jack almost shoots someone in the thigh again!
The TSA employees that let these two in with the gun and the shank are SO fired.
Kim's long history with jeopardy finally pays off as she gets the best of her captor.
Do we drink when a Bauer that's not Jack says "dammit"?
Seven years, and a cell phone battery dies on 24 for the first time now?
Why are these evil doctors wearing masks? If they're so good, don't they know Jack's not contagious?
Aren't spinal taps usually done at the base of the spine? Are evil pathogens carried in the neck?
A significant portion of America is rooting for that car to explode on Kim.
Doesn't Kim know to "stop, drop, and roll?"
Jack finally gets to sleep.
Why is Ethan starting his car to play this recording? Is this okay because he drives a Prius?
So I guess the doctor from Stargate Atlantis won't be having a multi-episode arc.
Not even Jack Bauer can get a cab in DC.
Tony tries to fork Jack.
Ethan's plan regarding Olivia seems to be, "I'm gonna tell Mommy on you."
"Dammit, Tony, look at me!" (Drink!)
Evil drives two Hummers and a limo.
Renee rides handgun on the FBI vehicle. (Outside, shooting.)
Alan Wilson is "on the way to the perimeter." (Drink!)
Tony says the only thing that kept him alive was the thirst for revenge. That, and the miracle zombification chemicals they gave him.
Tony would have had his revenge, but he had to get all Goldfinger on the guy.
Renee asks WWJD? (What Would Jack Do?)
Chloe and Janis hug it out.
Aaron has got to be looking to re-retire at this point.
Good, Agent Walker. Your training is now complete.
No cell phones in the hospital!!
The end.
Well, I have to say that even though this season of 24 got stupid at times, it was overall the best year they've managed to put together in a long, long while. The show hasn't been this good since season three, in my opinion. (And even back then, things got pretty lousy during the middle chunk.)
It helped to have some more personal stakes this year, to cut the problem of 24 always having to top itself with disaster after disaster. It also helped to have a villain with a personal connection to Jack in Tony -- the show hasn't had that since they offed Nina. Unfortunately, it turned out that Tony wasn't really quite evil, but they did get good play out of it all the same.
Here's hoping they can craft a season next time that maintains the connection to personal elements that scored this year, while eliminating the "Russian nesting doll" of villains that they've relied on... well, basically every season.
5 comments:
all sorts of nods to the fans included in the finale. Chloe almost breaks the fourth wall with her departing smile after a trademark snide comment. Wilson's "oh crap" expression when he realizes he's dealing with Darth Walker instead of Renee. and the very end when Priest Guy basically said "Keifer's good with this one, he's at peace with ending the show this way" and Kim replies "The audience is not ready to let you go yet."
I laughed when I saw Stargate Atlantis Doctor Beckett playing an evil guy. he was like the most-good good guy on that show! needle-in-Jack's-neck was one of the best "torture Jack" moments ever. super painful scream cut to commercial. great stuff.
I cheered when Kim took off after that guy. it's about time she took the initiative to put herself in danger, instead of waiting around for it to find her.
on the surface it looks like it sucked, but Pres. Taylor made the right call not to cover up the murder. a cover up would have validated the Evil Council's goal of overthrowing a corrupt inept government. it was cool how Mr. Taylor put up such a good argument on behalf of corruption.
I gotta say on the whole, this season was technically great. it's obvious that they took the time to carefully plan out every hit they wanted to get. and most of them were delivered very well. they certainly set up a lot for next season. I don't recall any season ending with as much curiosity as to what will happen next. the only thing I'm fairly sure of, is that they will not kill Jack off-screen so the experimental treatment somehow works of course.
the mole
Hmm. Russian nesting dolls.
Of EVIL. ;)
I'm willing to bet now that the experimental treatment does not work entirely. Jack will be forced to have to take some kind of medicine or shot every so often or the virus will still propagate...and this will be a plot point.
I'm just sayin. :P
This is the first season of 24 I've watched "naturally," as opposed to the five seasons I shotgunned on DVD over the span of about a month while working on the TCG.
And I say: meh.
This is pretty much why I didn't watch the show in the first place. The whole "24-hour" concept just strains credibility past the breaking point for me, both in terms of what can be accomplished (You can arrange for a hit man to blow up a Federally protected witness in about 20 minutes?) and how people "hurry up" their schedules just so they'll fit within the time span of a single day (The Justice Department launches an investigation at 6:30 a.m.? Alan Wilson has to meet Tony *now*? He can't, say, have him over for lunch in a few hours?)
I know, as Trevor told me, "It's about as realistic as Star Trek," but I can believe in FTL travel and aliens better than I can believe in some of the things on 24, especially when they're executed simply for the contrivance of the show's gimmick. I don't find the show compelling enough for just the gimmick, which is about all it has going for it at this point. The first season -- where the Drazens wanted to kill Jack on the anniversary of their father's death -- was the only one that needed to happen over a single 24-hour span. The rest have just been square pegs stuck into round holes.
And yes, the Russian nesting doll of evil always annoys me. "You've foiled my carefully laid out plan? That's OK, we planned for you to foil our plans and we now have another sinister plan! Muahahaha!" It makes me wonder how villains would proceed if they actually could carry out their plans. It would really screw things up to not have Jack interfere.
That said, I'll watch the final season (which will feature a nuke, as every even-numbered season must) just to be done with it, but if there wasn't that sense of closure, I wouldn't bother.
I kept thinking we'd have a "battle of the readheads," but no, we ended up with Tony shooting his sweetheart in the gut.
Didn't I say about a month ago that Tony was a quintuple agent? Even I didn't know I was right (much like the writers, most probably).
FKL
I think it would be good if the surgery didn't go as planned and Kim dies. Heaping even more misery on Jack. I'm not sure he's had enough pain yet.
Post a Comment