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‘I’m Going To Finish This!!’ Dr. Hume’s Got All The Spoilers On 24 6.14!!
SPOILER ALERT !!
I am – Hercules!!
“I’m going to track down the people responsible, and I’m going to finish this!!”
“Terrorists have launched a single drone!!”
“We will retaliate with our own nuclear strike!!”
“You better pray that CTU can stop that drone!!”
“We have a leak!! Our satellite data is being relayed to the drone pilot!!”
“The drone will detonate in 30 seconds!!”
“We could start another world war!!”
“20 seconds!!”
“We have to find out who’s subverting our systems!!”
“10 seconds!!”
“The order’s given!! Launch the missile!!”
TV Guide says:
Jack deals with devastating news, and acting president Noah Daniels (Powers Boothe) mulls enacting controversial measures. Mike Doyle: Ricky Schroder. Dmitri Gredenko: Rade Sherbedgia.
What is TV Guide not telling us? “Dr. Robert Hume” believes he knows what happens. Beware!! Gigantic enjoyment-squelching spoilers lurk in the invisotext!
-Gredenko and Fayed launch one of the drones with a nuke. Where is it headed?
-CTU tries to track it but, thanks to that tried-and-true CTU security, of course someone has hacked into the system and figured out a way to get the drones to evade their satellites.
-Who could the mole be? A quick check of the computers confirms Ricky Schroeder's suspicions--It's Nadja! Get the foreigner! They lock her up right quick. But Milo still believes in her innocence.
-Meanwhile, Jack's not-at-all-bereaved sister-in-law tries to put the moves on him. Jack tells her he was involved with Audrey before his incarceration. Then, sis-in-law drops the bomb--Audrey was killed in a suspicious car accident in China while trying to free Jack! Jack is speechless but still manages to bitch out Chloe for not telling him earlier.
-CTU figures out that the drone is being piloted from a house basically across the street from their offices (note to future terrorists--not a good plan). So Ricky and Jack go next door and kick the guy's ass.
-In a pretty effective scene, Jack figures out that the drone is headed for San Francisco and if it gets to a certain range of coordinates, the nuke will automatically go off. So he must try to swerve the drone off course at the last minute without stalling it. It's very tense and all, but he's Jack Bauer, so he pulls it off. However, the drone does end up stalling out and Jack crash-lands it on an industrial loading dock. The bomb doesn't go off, but the early responders do get a healthy dose of radiation and probably won't make it.
-Everybody breathes a sigh of relief. The bomb didn't go off, so the crazy VP won't nuke Iran. "Screw it" says the VP (figuratively) and gives the strike order anyway. Suck it, Iran! Dink-dank-dink-dank...
Next week?
* Two members of CTU start making out, and at least one of them isn’t named O’Brien.
* Mike Doyle hides something.
* Palmer’s sister is recruited to risk the president’s life.
* A strange new character enters the fray.
What other devastating news might Jack have to contend with down the road? A reader, “TMM,” writes:
I'm watching Day 4 Hour 1 and Jack just told Chloe "Kim and Chase are fine they got a house in Valencia."
Of course we learned last season that Kim and Chase split – but who got the house that was just vaporized?
9 p.m. Monday. Fox.
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Someone needs to remind Ricky Schroder that he's not tough.
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Both these bedwetters who want to call 1st and this tired story line.
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...an actual mole this time. As in a small rodent, running around CTU & chewing on wires & causing short circuits & rerouted data & stuff. Count on it!
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another great episode! finally got to see a glimpse of Gaia's dirty pillow's... omg she is so hot, i want to see more of this actress. i wanna think her arc has some sort of subtle meaning that i have not noticed yet... something about loyalty and betrayal and serving self interests. when the season is over i am gonna watch it all back to back over a few days, and then rewatch I, Cladius. Octavian and Livia's soft core porn scene was beyond weird... a real tangent, but then most of this season has been, imo. i really thought Atia was going to be killed... then end of this episode is just drenched in drama like no other show, ever. 24... ahh who gives a shit about the Republican's answer to the X-Files. another trendy show AICN must get paid by to cover.
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damn, Jack can't catch a break. When will he commit suicide? Shall we get a pool going?
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The writing has been horrible this year...
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Thank God TCU is a fictional agency. They have to be the most bumbling law enforcement agency since the Keystone Kops. We have stricter hiring practices and tighter security at the shithole I work in. Still, I can't stop watching for some reason. Maybe it's because I love to "Oh, c'mon! That's total fucking bullshit!" at my TV.
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last I remember in Season 4 Jack was working for the Department of Defense, then all of the crazy shit with Marwan's Evil Scheme happens, and he faked his own death. So, then he comes back in Season 5, runs around alot, gets promoted, demoted, released on provisional basis, captured, comes back in Season 6, continues to run around alot. The question remains: who in The Fuck Does Jack Bauer Work For?
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Ten years ago, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire...The A-Team.
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Yes.
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Really...
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whilst flick between 100 greatest stand ups on Channel, which was won comprehesively by actor, comic and one time folk singer, billy connolly. Connolly was great untill he made that joke about iraqi captvie Ken Bigley....
We now what jack is like when he gets into a rage."where is Gredenko". Markov:"i dont Know",
Jack(who looks like he is going to explode): tell me where he is or I will cut off your fingers". Sutherland would be a great choice for dangerman should that be remade. Dont get jack into a rage kids. Jack is getting a bit like Steve Staunton. You can warn him, like logan but jack wont listen. So now jack will end in Usbeckistan. I can hear em boiling water the water already. You should have listened to Logan, jack. -
Jack works for ctu. Untill a fews he was out and then terrorists nuked California and now he is in again and it allowed him to go after his terrorist family which lead to him to logan and the CTU gredenko.
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...on Ricky Schroeder. Seriously, he's got a little girl's frame.And there better not be a frickin' mole this season. Seriously. Let them think Nadja's a mole for a while and then find out the baddies got the intel some other way (a member of VP Noah's Shadow Cabinet, perhaps). But if there's another mole in CTU, I've got to quit the show. It's just one step too far over the line of plausibility for me.
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another fracking CTU mole, really, they just dont pay these people enough. i wonder how much jack actually makes. does he get overtime?
seconded on Vicky schroder, he's such a girlie, what is it with that hairstyle? that bloke from csi has it as weel as a moustache. when did it all go wrong folks?
sistapalmer is back? who cares? the guy who gave a damm was the president and he's in a coma. please dontuse that hackneyed, i have friends on the inside plot, as its been doen to death.
powers booth continuers to prove how really manical US presidents can be. he's impressive, as is bill buchan. See fox, he is the man. and damm you for cancelling space above and beyond.
rome i couldnt care less about, stop whining about it biatches. And prision break is offically off my must see tv list. -
I'd say it's jumped the shark, but all the moles in CTU beat me to it.
How can ANYONE take this show seriously anymore? On a related note, I hope they turn Iran into a radioactive parking lot, and save some for Syria, Venezuela and N. Korea...God bless Powers Boothe. -
Is there a reason why you still watch it. Are you masochists or something?
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edit.
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DanceMan your right!! WOW! .... now the whole business of them just showing up out of nowhere makes perfect fucking sense ... holy crap ... me like ...
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I love the show but this is getting out of hand. You would think that after the third mole, they would monitor the workstations from that big office.
But anyway, what if it's Chole? Morris is too much of a fuck-up and he already betrayed CTU. They can't make the Arab chick the mole. Maybe it's Ricky Shroder. Every season has a douchebag who gets killed, I think he qualifies. -
...featuring Christopher Walken as the host of a "Punked" style reality TV show called "Pranked"where he says: "I hate Stiffly McStiffersons. I like to prank them in my basement for days."Morris sure got pranked this season. I suspect he's exhausted and, seing as how booze is the only thing he's consumed since returning to duty, famished.Hey! Maybe we're just misreading the spoilers?Is it possible that CTU is going to order out for Mexican food. Maybe Morris would like some molè with his frijoles?
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Good lord, last night was the 2nd to last episode of the series....and no talkback?!?!?!? Between Rome and Battlestar, it's obvious what the solution to good television is......Pagans!
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Jack will try to trick the mole by calling himself Jack Melanoma, AKA Moley Russels Wart or Ole Melanoma head. That's the ONLY way to save the show.
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It was all that fuggin Prince Philip anyway.
24 is silly, but try to stop watching it, it's impossible. -
The stage is now set for the megabrawl between Vorenus on Marc Antony's side and Pullo on Octavian's side. My God, it will be glorious...
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I love that show! Also like the Dresden Files, but there's no TB for that either. I'm not even a cool enough geek...that's sad.
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This will be my first night without watching. Wish me luck you guys!
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True story:
Morris and I were hanging out trading shots of Patron behind the Kum N Go watching the mushroom cloud dissipate. He told me that Chloe was kind of a difficult personality to work with, but she compensated with her tech know-how. He also said that Nadja was a mole, and that pretty much everybody at CTU was mole at this point. Then, he sighed and said he thought a better question was, "who isn't a mole, these days?" So true, MoMan, so true.
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Seriously, next season should be Jack and Ricky torturing everyone in CTU to solve that pesky mole problem once and for all.
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Seriously, do they have mole-recruitment day and not tell anyone?
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24 is boring me to tears this season. Every plot point feels like been there done that. There were some hints earlier this season that things might be different with Jack being all messed up from China, but that's been forgotten. I haven't read these spoilers, but I hope something, anything interesting and different happens. I also hope they redefine this show next season, otherwise I'm probably out.
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...now Audrey. It's been a bad year for horseys.
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I've read spoilers all the way to the end of the season. So far they've been on the mark. All I'll say is that soon they will be a major digression in the storyline and turn into a stupid conspiracy about stealing computer chips.
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"I am."
"Me too."
"Right here, the Italians."
"Russian mafia."
"Well this is awkward."
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Two Bedroom, 1.5 Bath. High Speed internet access with direct access into CTU mainframe. Untraceable Phone Line, Secret back way out of the place. Ceiling Fans, Patio, Jacuzzi Tub, DirecTV Ready. first/last/$500 Security. $700/Month. Perfect for the Bachelor/Bachlorette Mole working at CTU. Must see to appreciate. Background check required. Call (800) 555-DAMMIT And ask for Sayed.
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like....urm...a dvd I watched two weeks ago, starring Di caprio, nicholson, whalberg, Damon and Baldwin. Hell they might as well give jack the Frank Costello Line if you have gun pointed in your face by a cop or a criminal...whats the difference. Graham King should sue the ass off. for story Plagirism. After seeing the departed, I have to that it is Martys best bloody film in age. Superb, from the acting, the way it was shot, the editing.utter brilliance.the music etc.
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...lives in the small of Nadja's back and tastes remotely of mocha latte. Or so I hear.She's very exotic looking. I wonder if her dad was a G.I.
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I feel lub'd, actually. All in good fun.
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The chinese took it and will use it to RULE THE WORLD MUAHAHAHAHAHA!
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We need a video game spinoff with Jack searching for his beloved sack!
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The fact that there is even the possibility of another mole at CTU is actually a sign that the show has run out of gas. Time for it to go. The first few episodes with the focus on Jack's stability, and Curtis showing some emotion, were actually intriguing. Not now. Time for it to go
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as much as I love the JackSack I'm gonna have to give the edge to Felix!
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Did Antony and K-razy Cleopatra get it on again in front of a bunch of people?
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surplus; what do they need a knapsack for? ;)
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So, Desmond is effectivly not "saving" Rose and Damning her to a cancerous death? So to help out his fellow islandmate, he is going back and making sure Rose won't be healed by the island and suffers out the next 6-9 months of her life? What's he doing next, make sure that Ethan's Rope is on Charlie is another few feet away from where somebody can jump from so he won't be saved too? Maybe he will make sure that Hurly sees some Pork Rinds after noticing the numbers on the hatch to make sure he doesn't run away when the dynamite makes it blow it's top? While going out of his way to save Charlie, Desmond is now making sure Rose dies. This is a stupid theory.
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On that crappy In Case Of Emergency. Poor Edgar. Loved that weeble since the new "Fantasy Island". "24: The Afterlife" would be beloved right about now. It would be like Passions meets Stigmata. Forget everything I just said. Edgar on that "Single Guy" spin-off was kinda funny though. His teeth looked like Gollum! I wanted him to take a big bite into a two fisted fishy.
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DAMMIT Fox! Stop doing previews a few seconds before the show, when it's almost impossible to avoid, that all but give away the major revelation of the night. They did the same thing with Logan's stabbing last week.
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Stan's Sister from South Park.
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Jack's uber-pissed now.
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looking for Audrey, A personal story line up next folks
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I remember mentioning that Audrey wouldn't be on "24" because of her starring in the less than avery "The Nine." Herc said that Audrey would be making two appearences. What is going on?
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What would they want w/ a knapsack? you diminish the power of the JackSack my good friend! It's like the Ark.. it transports Jack's soul and anyone who wields will have UNLIMITED POWER!!!!!!!
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Than my backyard.
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Someone made the point (and a correct one) in here once that 24 has only had 1 actual mole (Nina in first season). They've had a lot of drama and red herrings but only one actual mole.
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Jamey Farrell, Nina Myers, Marianne Taylor, Spenser Wolff
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Or will his fate be just as much as mystery as that of Behrooz from Season 4? And is it just me..........or is Kiefer Sutherland getting far less screen time lately?
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Can you blame Sutherland? Really sucky season.
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This show is so repetive.
Correct me if I am wrong but did the vp who replaced David Palmer in season 2 have a hard on for attacking a middle eastern country? Guess we have to retreat that plot line now. I guess the Family Guy writing staff if leasing out their mantitees. -
they just sort of took her word for it that it was the arab girl's desk.
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24 has seriously gone off the deep end. This show is just getting silly. Powers Booth's eeeeevil VP is ridiculous. The dude plays the same over the top bad guy here as he did in Sin City. Just terrible. Then Logan comes back and it gets interesting and they kill him immediately. And the notion that the secret service would let unbalanced Martha near Logan with a knife was preposterous. ANOTHER female CTU staffer interrogated and wrongly accused. Now Audrey apparently murdered in China after she "figured out" what happened to Jack? WTF?! No one mentioned the complete failure of the embassy attack since they KILLED the target without hesitating. I love 24, but plausibility and logic has been stretched beyond the breaking point this season. Come on Jack, save the day and the season.
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is once they get through this less than satisfactory season, have Jack go off on his own and fulfill his promise of wiping out whomever was responsible for Audrey's death. This is what we want anyway: Jack balls to the wall angry and focused. None of this drone and evil VP crap.
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GJ, Jack!
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Dave Matthews guest stars again, and is revealed to be a Mole inside the hospital. On American Idol, Paula Abdul is revealed to be a Mole for "Dancing With The Stars"...Moley moley moley. Dammit.
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But something feels off this season. I just don't feel the excitement about the show like I have in the past. Has the show run it's course, and nothing surprises me anymore because I'm used to it. Or are they really just not up to par this season.
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but i don't know why the Chinese would want Audrey...hmmmmm
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seriously, Iran does not have an ambassador for the president to cajole and threaten. What do you think the phrase 'cut all diplomatic ties' means. I think it would be more likely that the country is jordan or saudia arabia: someone with a sympathetic government but terrorist elements operating outside the government's control.
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"I thought we had an understanding with your president" says the weasle ambassador. That understanding was, "help us or I unleash our carrier group." Now big bad swegin killer's runnin' the show, meets said ambassador, and remarks "help us or I unleash our carrier group." What do the writers of 24 think their audiences attention span is?
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WTF? The producers of 24 think so lowly of their viewership that they think that they can pass off an Indian actor for an Arab. My family always get a chuckle when the VP threatens to nuke the ambassador's country. My question is what did India or Pakistan ever do to the US? Oh well, if they can lock up a Mexican posing as a Muslim Arab I guess anything is possible....
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Did you see the resistance that Jack was encountering with that stick. Next up House M.D. performs neurosurgery with a sixaxis control, with rumble function.
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That would be a good movie. Jack in China with minimal support getting to the bottom of the whole Chinese involvement thing. I kind of want him to die at the end of this season though, so he can finally rest dammit! Either way 24's still my favorite show.
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She must have really pissed off the procuders when she left to go do The Nine or whatever that show was. Stil who knows, maybe she's really alive and next season will be all about Jack trying to rescue her.
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remember the days when 24 used to have hundreds upon hundreds of talk back posts? Even I am starting to get bored with it and I've been with the show from the start. I know too many people who gave uphalfway through this season
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...Was because he was playing some Twisted Sister on a tape deck strapped onto his leg a la Doug Masters in Iron Eagle.....Chappieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
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as jack and Ricky Skywalker walked up to the relay station, a guy walked out the back door carrying no weapon smf Jack just shot the dude. Immediately I assumed they were going to be walking into a fake relay station that was only relaying the signal somewhere else and Jack just shot Otis the night manager as he was sneaking out for a smoke break. Thankfully this was the one time where the terrorists were not *smart* enough to have ghosted their relay position
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Or will he come back from the afterlife with telekinetic powers beyond belief?
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...and then signs an Executive Order (in CRAYON) which denies Daniels the nuclear strike, and then he goes to watch cartoons and fingerpaint, since he'll probably have brain damage after Sandra decided to lift his coma state too early.
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One where every other intelligence agency in the US doesn't exist, save for one which in 5 1/2 seasons has yet to "counter" any terrorism, where the country hasn't been on full lockdown since season 2 when the *FIRST* nuclear device went off on American soil (on a Palmer's watch, too), where a VP (yes I know, acting president) can, in one day, attack not one, but 2 sovereign states (I don't care if Subarov said ok, the rest of those Ruskies were just doing their jobs) without so much as a text message to any member of Congress, you know, the people who can actually declare war (yeah, yeah, hasn't happened since FDR, but still), where both the current president and the former one are gravely injured, where the only person who objects to a nuclear attack is the head of the NSA, NOT any of the secretaries (Defense, State) who, presumably, were handpicked by the president and would reflect his ideals, like in every other administration since Washington, where it doesn't occur to anyone that blaming poor Dr. Bashir on the president's attack actually makes him look good to the nutters he was trying to nullify and makes White House security look like Wal-Mart security since, supposedly, he managed to get a bomb into not just the White House, but the White House bunker. I could go on and on, and I already have, but come on. The worst part is I love this show. That's what makes it so infuriating. I stopped watching soap operas because of stuff like this. I don't know what it is, but this season feels like it's in some sort of House of M alternate universe. Maybe Jack's dreaming all this while still being tortured. "That's it, Daddy. No more terrorists!" I'm sure someone will explain to you non-comic readers. I have to go to bed now that that's off my chest.
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And yet another great show. The best show on TV vascillates between this show and BSG. This week I call it a tie. Great, great stuff.
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The shot of Jack wearing a leather skullcap, goggles and white scarf around his neck while he controlled the drone. I'll get those Krauts! Oh wait....sorry, wrong era.
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Jack walks into CTU. Graems wife is there, just pacing around. Jack walks up to her.Jack: Hi. How are you?Graems wife: Oh. Jack baby! I regret the way things ended between us & I know you do too! (begins to remove clothing & grind on Jack. Goes in for a kiss.)Jeez! No small talk for her. She gets right to the point. And how obvious was it that San Francisco was the nuke target? I'll bet that was a personal request from right wing nut job Surnow. Given Fox's politics I'm actually surprised the thing didn't go off.People are giving Shroeder some grief here but except for his hair I think the dude is pretty scary in this. It's unfortunate that he has essentially the same hairstyle Jacks nephew/son has. I think the 24 hairstylist has some sort of... fixation.Screw Palmers sister WHAT HAPPENED TO LOGAN ??!
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Wow. Talk about bad acting. That's really all I have to say.
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The producers of 24 just continued the trend of killing off every single interesting character that they started last season, although this season they took it to the ultimate extreme and killed off the whole show. What's left is like this pale Ghost of 24's Past that still shows up every Monday but just drifts around, pretending to still be alive. 24 has had sucky parts in past seasons, but its always managed to come back. This time, though, I just don't see how it's gonna do it because the writers have gotten so lazy they make coma patients look like Olympic athletes by comparison. This season is a disaster, and tonight's episode was probably the worst in the show's history. They finally found something with a slight pulse last episode-- Martha, Aaron, and Charles Logan--and what do these geniuses do? Drop that storyline and give us more of Chloe sniffing Morris' breath and the eight thousandth potential mole at CTU. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I'm done with this corpse of a show. 24 is dead and the only hope we have is that it can be reincarnated in some kind of different form next year.
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Here a mole, there a mole, everywhere a mole mole...Writers tried to pitch it as a "leak" this time--lame.And they signaled the plotline for next season (or a movie): Jack hunting down Audrey's killers. Anybody wanna bet against this twist: he finds out she's still alive, in a Chinese Prison!! Oh, the surprise, the irony, the nauseu, the boredom.They have demonstrated that Jack was a uniquely obsessive agent, willing to do anything to accomplish the mission. They SHOWED us this, did not just tell us. They are just Telling us that Ricky S. is supposed to be this similar sort of heavyweight guy, but he just doesn't have the gravitas to be believable. Almost none of the new cast is credible. And the story line is less credible this season.
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Each Moment Was Better Than The Next.
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Jack vs. Mike Bay in a celeb deathmatch. Mmmm... crunchy.
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Gets nuked. They made it very clear with the clunky "your country" dialog that they're avoiding referring to any specific arab country. They did the same thing in season 2. So relax and get back to figuring out what state Springfield is in.
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Yes, they are avoiding mentioning any specific ARAB country, yet the ambassador for this ARAB country is.....Indian! This is not figuring what state Springfield is in. This is more akin to us saying that Springfield is NOT in China.
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No, don't google it to prove me wrong. But there aren't a lot and most of them have already been on the show. And movies and TV use different race actors all the time. I don't think it means anything.
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I really thought last night's episode was pretty good. All you have to do is ignore everything that led up to that episode, and look at it as a stand-alone episode. I loved when Jack said he would go after whomever killed Audrey. Single best moment this season.Nadia is sooooo hot. I don't think she's a mole though. God she's hot though. Sweaty indeed...Ricky walks like a girl.Darfur, I wouldn't get too worked up since they are actors. Most Americans wouldn't know the difference between Indian or Arabian descent. Springfield isn't in China? Since when?
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Red Herring.
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Remember how we were relentlessly hammered over the head about "the President paid an extraordinary price" bladiblablah? Anyone else think Audrey was part of that deal?
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Watching Arab TV, you'll be surprised how many Arab are actors... But as a person of Indian descent, my family kept on cracking up each time we saw this Indian actor posing as an Arab. It was more funny than anything. But I still think that there is a sensible way to cast, such as the hot Nadia, who is Mexican playing an Arab, which is plausible. Anyways you chaps are right, it is not taking away from the show that started off a little slow but is picking up nicely.
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You see, both died in tragic circumstances.
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Salma Hayek playing Anna Nicole Smith is a biographic movie: plausibleEva Green being my wife for a week: plausibleHotness transcends reality.
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Eva Green can do the biopic on Grace Jones.
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Yeah, they should get up and coming Kal Penn -- Oh wait, they wasted him in the opener. That sucks. Wasn't Milo a Mid-Easterner in Secondhand Lions. Guess they blew that one.
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Does he have to have the same hair helmet from 25 years ago?
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..and I still do, but this episode was just ok. I found it totaly unbelievable and unexciting that they stopped the bomb from crossing the perimeter. It should have gone off.
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At least they didn't show his scarred hand for the 25th time last night.Evil Hobbit, do you have something against San Francisco? How about if Bonds was just taken out?
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This season is a freakin' turd. It doesn't even feel like 24 at this point. Last night while watching the scene with Tom & Karen I was thinking to myself "this sure feels like a male soap opera". There's too much soap opera, not enough tension. I swear that the CTU bickering is killing me, and they still try to push it. Here's how I rank the seasons from best to worse:
5th, 2nd, 1st, 4th, 3rd, and 6th. In my opinion, they should have let the nuke go off within the first 30 minutes of the first hour. The whole thing with the bald terrorist having all that access to security satellites and also being granted the luxury of killing one of his personal enemies was absurd and ludicrous to begin with. Last night's episode was bearable, but that's it. Even the 3rd season had a better first half, and if it hadn't been for the second half, I would have classified that one as the worst season. This is really bad, and worse, implausible. The bad guys are hiding 3 blocks away? Another freakin' mole? The widow is putting the moves on Jack just hours after her husband's death? What the fuck? Fire the soap opera writers and bring in more imaginative scenarios with a PROFESSIONAL CTU STAFF PLEASE!!! -
Seriously, we've already had two presidential assasination attempts, now we've had two more in one season within a couple hours? Is logan just dead? I'm surprised there was no mention of him in the last episode. And I was tired of the Token Annoying Characters about three seasons ago.
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...have Jack programmed all Manchurian Candidate style to go absolutely bonkers at the mention of a secret code word or the first five notes of some Frankie Goes to Hollywood tune?"You will kill the East Indian Arabic ambassador! You will use kung fu! Or they will kill this puppy...er...this horsefaced woman."Seriously, at the rate things are going, if 24 doesn't just cross the line into self satire there will be absolutely no reason to keep watching. Well...except for the mocking of it.
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I wouldn't be surprised at this point.
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The Veep is beyond plausibility at this point. Next week is looking stupider: hey, if we wake up Wayne, he can countermand the attack ... but the second he goes under again, Veep Ridiculous takes command again! We already know he's not working with the assassins (if Reed is to be believed), so he's just born this way? Why would Wayne even put him on the ticket?
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Burn, bitch!
And for the last time, Hume, it isn't Iran. Iran isn't an Arab country. -
...who was played by a Native American!
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for this not to surpass Season 3 as the worst season, and Season 3 had some classic 24 moments - Chapelle, the hotel etc - Season 6 had a strong opening and erm, nothing else but the sense the entire season is a copy and paste job from the previous 5 seasons...
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Uh, not a single mention of last week's cliffhanger? That's very odd. I'm close to being done with this show. There's only so many times you can watch the same situation being rehashed before it gets stale, and this show isn't offering anything new anymore. At least get out of Los Angeles for christ sakes!!!
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I know this is 24 talkback but that Lost spolier from danceman...Fuck. If that shit is true that kicks so much ass. Best show on fucking TV either way. I'm breathless.
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Good catch. I wonder if that was intentional by the writers. You'd think Jack would have wanted to verify that Kim was o.k. if he had any doubts about her location.
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She had already established her willingness to protect Milo and Nadia earlier in the episode. Nadia's computer was about to receive scrutiny and would have revealed Milo's felony. Chloe thought fast and did the only thing she could do to buy them time. Just a theory.
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Did they have any doubts that Wayne was "incapacitated?" So, I didn't watch the preview for next week's episode, but obviously they are going to try to get to Wayne to issue an order that overrides Curly Bill. I just don't get why they wouldn't have sworn in Curly Bill immediately, and why everyone would call him the "Vice-President" but allow him to be the acting President. It doesn't make much sense.
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Chloe summed this season up perfectly last week. I am so disappointed this season. I have always loved this show... Now I find myself HOPING this is the last season. Otherwise, we will have a long build up next season to the Amazingly Foreseeable "Shocker" that Audrey is not dead.I miss Jack Effin Bauer, and CTeffinU. Mostly, it has just become ClusTerEffinUp
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Chloe summed this season up perfectly last week. I am so disappointed this season. I have always loved this show... Now I find myself HOPING this is the last season. Otherwise, we will have a long build up next season to the Amazingly Foreseeable "Shocker" that Audrey is not dead.I miss Jack Effin Bauer, and CTeffinU. Mostly, it has just become ClusTerEffinUp
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dramatizing situations that might conceivably happen vs contorting reality in ridiculous ways in a vain attempt to produce cheap thrills. Season One worked as a drama/thriller because at some level we could associate the threats that Jack faced with a (hypothetical) real-world situation. It's the intellectual and emotional connections that we made with the real world, combined with the effective use of the real-time 24 hr clock, some fine supporting characters and "real" antagonists that didn't seem like they were created for a cartoon that kept the show fresh and interesting. Subsequent seasons have gradually taken away everything that made Season One great and the result has been a show that just feels hollow and at times even pathetic. TV shows and movies are about creating worlds where the audience lose themselves in a made up world for the duration of the program. The more the show sucks the audience in and prevents their attention from breaking out of the fantasy world, the better the show. While writers are free to write whatever stories they want, and science fiction and fantasy authors can break all the laws of science they want, there are just some things that can never be broken if the writers don't want to lose the audience. The first thing they can't mess with is human nature/behavior. We (the audience) expect people to behave in a certain way when they're in a familiar (to us) situation. So when the spouse of a character is killed and the father in law just threatens to kill the character's only son and there's been a nuke that went off nearby, you don't expect this character to try to physically rekindle an old romance at CTU, in the middle of a major crisis (not to mention that it's only an hour or two after all of it happened.). That's just incredibly silly. Second, if it's a story based in the real world, then common policy and procedures of the real world need to be maintained. So you can't have a tiny office like CTU/LA suddenly become the pentagon, CIA, FBI and NSA all rolled into one and have Jack controlling everything and expect us to believe any of it... that's the sort of thing that might work in a superhero movie or MI:2 but not a TV show about terrorism. Third is consistent lapses in common sense/logic. The audience is typically willing to take a few "leaps of faith" in logic but consistent and overt lapses just aren't forgivable. And while there are MANY other things wrong with the show, the other big mistake they've made over the years is they've turned all the drama into a farce and they stopped creating good characters and relationships and replaced it with cheap/artificial action.scenes. Actions scenes play an important role in the setup and in the resolution/climax. Typically all the action in between is to produce cheap, short term thrills and aren't usually necessary (though there are exceptions) Good drama is much less about cheap action and much more about characters, the situations that they face and how they react to it. The deeper they go into character development, the bigger the effect it has on the whole story, the more the audience is going to connect emotionally and therefore the better the drama. A 10 minute sequence where Jack and crew infiltrate a house that's 3 blocks away so that Jack could show his lousy flight simulator skills establishes nothing and does nothing for the story. It also goes without saying that killing off so many good characters and not replacing them with equally strong characters was a huge mistake. The last Bond film is a good example of how they created a successful, character driven movie from a franchise that had plenty of high budget, high concept, outrageous action and stories but was still dying because the characters were all shallow/hollow. And before people start yelling how haters shouldn't watch the show, I say this because I love what 24 used to be and still believe in the potential of what this show could be. I hope "someone" from the show is watching/listening/reading everyone's comments and fixes all the problems so that 24 becomes a show that we can all feel excited about again. We, who criticize but love the show, want to see the show live on for a long time but fear if it keeps going down this creative path that it will be canceled in short order.
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that was more than adequately set up, but my best guess on the timing is that jack must have been cheating on his wife with marilyn before she settled for the bald guy who couldn't hold his shit, um, i mean, mud.
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Count on it. Jack is now a Chinese super-agent and Audrey is waiting for him back in China.
I'm with you, dawg. The way to end this is to have Jack flip. He's prime for it. He's risked his life day in and day out for this country and everyone he loves hates him or dies.
The last season should be Jack taking the US down, with the various members of the Cult Of Jack (COJ) making ridiculously self deceptive exceptions to help him. It ends with Jack settng off a nuke on the white house lawn. Roll Credits.
/not joking. It would be bad ass.
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It would also be nearly as plausible as everything else so far this season....
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...Jack and the ever lovingly inept folks at CTU fight to prevent their cancellation...in real time!Jack! The talkbackers aren't buying that you would be at all concerned about Chloe's ex's alcoholic relapse following his kidnapping and subsequent ass raping by Tibetian extremists!""Dammit! I need more time to come up with a plausible segue out of this stupid subplot!""But we're running out of time!" Dink...dank...dink...dank.
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Have Jack become the hunted for season 7. Why the fuck not? He finally broke. After all, how much can a man take before the darkness consumes him? Jack becomes too venomy.Fireclown!, I think you should have added the exclamation point to your name like chromedome used.
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We still don't know what the US Government gave up for Jack. It's not Audrey, since Audrey has been 'dead' for a few months.
I think a more reasonable (and realistic) reaction would've been for Jack to say "Really? Oh thank the gods. Can you come back to Medical with me?" -
Yeah, that's a good idea. Kill the (Former) Secretary of Defense's daughter. Sure, that won't earn any reprisals. RIIIIIGHT.
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7.0/10, the lowest this show has been in a long time. How many years are they planning to go with this? I can't imagine this show is cheap to make.
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I think the trade-off is a fair one.I think the U.S. probably gave up Roger Clemens (still pitching, but only for 2 months) and Julio Franco (still playing even though closing in on 60 at that point) plus a warm six pack of Bud Ice for Jack. China was looking for some real experience to add to their team.
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Instead of the world being at stake, how about another political assassination attempt like Day 1? Or something else low-key where the enire western-world is at risk for being annhilated?
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A rice brau? WHat the happy flip would the Chinese want with a rice beer? You know they'd hold out for some MGD lite or a twelver of PBR that'd been locked in the trunk of a black car on a hot day.
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it would be Bud Ice.
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I'm thinking when Keifer signed on for another 3 years of 24, one of his stipulations was that he get LESS screen time. That's the only explanation I can come up with for why there has been so little of him this season. I know he has been busting his ass on this show for 5 years and is probably tired emotionally & physically with it & it's intense shooting schedule at this point, but the show is really suffering from his absence.
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I had to laugh about your comment about Nadia's exotic look. I actually think there's a slight resemblence between Marisol Nichols and Rashida Jones. Am I the only one who thought the interrogation scene with Nadia was somewhat erotic?
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>>Am I the only one who thought the interrogation scene with Nadia was somewhat erotic?<<
No. And it wasn't long before my thoughts were drifting to the fantasy of Karen (much improved look this year, by the way) teaching young Nadia in the art of love. -
Sorry about that. No you weren't the only one. And from there it wasn't long before my thoughts started drifting toward the fantasy of Karen (much improved look this year) teaching young Nadia in the art of love.
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and even if she WAS the mole, if I were Milo I'd definitely still console her and re-assure her that I thought she was innocent, because she is SO FREAKING HOT!!! (Besides, this is 24, the obvious culprit is NEVER the guilty party)
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...and you're Chloe. Jack wants a file on some chic that's been dead for months. Do you stop everything to get it for him or do you say, "sure Jack, I'll get it for you tomorrow." I know they've been through a lot together but there's a nuke ... in the air ... and she doesn't put it off for even a few minutes? That's absurd, even for this show.
Also after finding out that no one bothered to mention Audrey, shouldn't Jack's next question be, "ok, so what's happened to my daughter?" I never got the sense that Jack was all that into Audrey to begin with. If he's gonna go all ape-shit over her, then they need to have him start breaking down in other ways. He should be dealing with serious mental issues at this point. He's too one-dimensional. I actually like the idea others have put forth to make Jack the villain next year. It would be a great way to wrap up the show and it is time. But then this is Fox, the Simpsons is almost in its 20th year , they are the kings of beating dead horses.
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the Z-List "stars". And how many of those fuckers watched just to see if Heather Mills' artificial leg went flying off?
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And yes, the interrogation scene made me feel really bad for liking it.
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Donald Sutherland is screaming and pointing his finger at you!!
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...I remember "____ gotta eat," and other amazingly forgettable talkback moments...but where did the whole "Michael Bay" thing start?
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...that nobody's made the "Is Ricky Schroeder going to have to choke a bitch?" joke.I mean, that interrogation scene was begging for it.
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I didn't even know Ricky was in that scene. I just remember Nadia all hot and sweaty and bothered...oh my. Excuse me, I need a moment alone...
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...but I just can't take your word for it. I'm gonna have to bury my face in your crotch and sniff things out 'till I get some answers...
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I made that joke last week when he choked Morris. Seemed more appropriate. KILL MORRIS!!!
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...only thing i liked from this latest episode. His look after Chloe breathalyzed him and then told him what was up was pretty priceless. So he can live another week.I'm concerned that they're trying to turn Milo and Nadja into the new Soul Patch and Hotness combo. While Nadja might be able to hold up her end of that deal, the kid from Six Feet Under is no Tony.
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since Tony is six feet under! Wowzers! Morris' comment too afterwards was pretty funny...basically that CTU is one fucked up place to work at.
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and I'm too lazy to look at any other 24 TB's...
Milo will be the mole, he's gonna be on another show next season according to IMDb and I figured if he didn't die in the shootout protecting Jack's sister-in-law then he'll end up being a mole. Since he gave Nadia his password it'd make sense because he can hide his actions and make it look like Nadia did it.
Either that or maybe they'll just do the simple thing and say "oh shit, we gave them access to our satellites in the season opener and never revoked access, that's how they did it."
I'll also jump on the Audrey-ain't-dead bandwagon. I'd also like to be added to the restraining order from Nadia, especially after the interrogation scene. -
if you look at Sutherland and Schroder together, they're about the same build so it's funny to hear some of you guys bitch about Ricky not being scary or having a girlish frame when he's built the same as Sutherland.
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....I assume you mean from the waist down? Because Jack's actually much bigger around than Ricky. Not taller by much, but a more substantial guy. Plus, he has a grown-up man face. That adds a few inches to a guy's shoulders.
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actors left, with the exception of Peter MacNicol. They've killed off all the good ones: Alexander Siddig's Al-Assad, Edgar, President Logan, Mrs Logan (who were both underused this season), Aaron Pierce (who sucked last episode), etc. Everybody left sucks ass, even Jack isn't as compelling.
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a lot of the people Billy got credit for, survived Dark City...what did Ricky do? Plus Jack has been getting his ass handed to him by the Chinese. Ricky was out picking up little boys in Denver or whatever the hell he did.Edgar was a waste and when he dropped, that was just hysterical.
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FUUUCKING HELL!!! you people stop moaning about the show (its as good as ever) a start being funny again, i want laugh out loud talkbacks like what we used to get and not moaning about the same things you were all moaning about two seasons ago.. Great episode tonight... Jack is gonna go all bad ass pretty soon and i cant wait.
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