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‘This Is One Big Trap!!’ 24 7.17!!
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Last week, in an episode penned by “Enterprise” vets Brannon Braga and Manny Coto, Jonas Hodges slapped Soul-Patch Tony Almeida, Seaton shot one of his own men in the back to foster a diversion, Olivia Taylor became the president’s chief of staff, Aaron Pierce was pressed back into service and we learned Jack Bauer was infected with a incurable weaponized Sengalan virus that takes only hours to bring on dementia, paralysis and death.
This week:
As the day stretches into the middle of the night, Jack and the FBI formulate a plan to prevent further terror attacks. Events take an unexpected turn when the politics surrounding the administration expand beyond the White House. Guest Cast: Jon Voight as Jonas Hodges; Michael Rodrick as Stokes; Sprague Grayden as Olivia Taylor; Kevin Fry-Bowers as Cooper; Connor Trinneer as Carl Gadsen; Glenn Morshower as Aaron Pierce; Cameron Daddo as Vice President Hayworth; Rory Cochrane as Greg Seaton and Stephen Jared as Greer.
9 p.m. Monday. Fox.
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FIRST! Wohooo!
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He can't... dammit!
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He's gonna shove a .45 up his ass and pull the trigger till it goes "click".
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THERE'S A FUCKING ANTIDOTE! THERE BETTER BE AN ANTIDOTE MOTHERFUCKERS! THERE BETTER!
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Because the writers are far too pussy to actually follow through with this...
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How the fuck will we know when that happens?
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Something was said to Renee from one of the doctors about Jack being 'patient zero'. Maybe that means that the drug is non-effective, or that Jacks time that he spent in Sangala made him somehow immune. I'm thinking that's how the writers will get themselves out of this one...
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Actually, I'm enjoying this season of 24 more than any others I've seen, that's only about 3 of them though.
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...I think the writers will shovel any imaginable load of bullshit they want to keep Jack alive despite the infection. When he was exposed, I was hoping for a George Mason-esque, nothing-to-lose Jack Bauer onslaught to end season seven that would culminate in his death, as that seems as good of a way as any to finish him. However, given the announcement of season eight (a day after the "cliffhanger" of the exposure episode, no less), I guess that's not going to happen. Perhaps it won't be fatal, and Jack will just be forced to deal with a debilitating illness the rest of his life.
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A casualty of the post writers' strike direction?And I'll say it again, if they wanted to pick a pathogen that is propagated thru inhalation and spread easily, they should have chosen something other than mad cow disease.
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That's a term used to refer to the first known infection, usually the source of the outbreak. It doesn't have anything to do with how the drug works or doesn't work.
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Wasn't mentioned yet in this talkback,
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It is going to be discovered that the only cure for Jack involves cougar blood. Kim returns as she knows where to find one. And the circle is complete.
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It has already happened.
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And not just one big one? Anyway, this season is better than S6 but worse than S5.
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Personally, I don't think so. I think it's just as good, if not better. In fact, the post strike episodes have pushed this season into greatness.
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There are still 8 episodes to go. So they still have time to screw things up. Fingers crossed that it doesn't happen.
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24 is still better than 90% of the crap that is on the box at the moment.
It may be time to bring back Victor Mackey and friends. God I fuckin miss The Shield... -
Apr 06, 2009 6:56:54 AM CDT
I watched the workprint of this episode on line already!
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
Fuck you Fox! Bwahahaha!
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te he he on that workprint reference, def made me giggle...
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Season 8 will take place six weeks after Season 7 (this has already been announced by the 24 producers). We already know Kiefer wants Jack to die in the series finale (and Season 8 is supposed to be the final one). It's possible Jack isn't cured......but his death is postponed by some sort of medical help......and he dies in Season 8 for real.
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There will likely be major House spoilers that come out during the 24 talkback. If you haven't watched House by 9pm, you might not want to be here because I'm sure here is where it'll be discussed. This is your only warning.
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Apr 06, 2009 7:50:49 AM CDT
He may want Jack to die, but don't they have a movie planned?
by v'shael
And he can't die before the movie, right?
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The spoilers already hit a previous talkback. (I saw them, and was spoiled.)
Annoyed me a little, because I normally avoid spoilers and I already had BAG's death on Terminator spoiled for me so it's a shitty week, spoiler-wise. -
Because let's face it, a 24 movie without David Palmer just isn't worth it.
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The fact that someone is dying, or who is actually taking the dirt nap? Shit, I better stay out of here until 9 then.
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Perhaps naked Mandy returns with a cure in exchange for certain favors.
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...they shoulda just had him contract AIDS after Lost Boying that dude's throat last season.
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the identity of the dirt-napper. (Plus, obviously, the fact that someone takes a dirt nap.)
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If they put Freckles in the lead.
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She's back in the mix!!!!!
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2 or 3 times before, and he's been brought back. I know Kiefer has mentioned Jack's death in passing before, in that the series could carry on without him. Hell, last weeks episode was practically Jack-free. Rack Bauer, maybe? But the question of a movie has always put that idea in limbo.
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So, have these guys improved at all since leaving phasers and starships behind?
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He's a fucking useless turd, always has been, always will be.
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And the threat will be ZOMBIES. This will allow a cross promotional event with the zombie season 7 of Lost. The boys from Supernatural will show up as well, as the 6th season of Supernatural will be the zombie season.
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DAMMIT, IT'S A TRAP! OUR BODY ARMOR CAN'T REPEL FIREPOWER OF THIS MAGNITUDE!
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Apr 06, 2009 10:21:30 AM CDT
nobunaga209 - The 24 workprint was a let down
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
Amongst the special effects they hadn't added were Jon Voight's hair which made all of his scenes really strange.
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Zombie season sounds great! I hope Sam W uses his demonic powers to exorcise Edgar's ghost from LA, and that Bruce Campbell shows up in an extended cameo with a chainsaw for an arm to take down zombie Mason.
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From what I'm hearing, Kiefer and the producers are having second thoughts about doing a movie. Kiefer is contracted to do a movie IF one is made. But Jack could still die in Season 8, and any movie might be a prequel......Kiefer has even suggested that Jack die at the end of the 24 movie.
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Apr 06, 2009 11:20:08 AM CDT
DARTHCORELONE...your wrong about season 8. its 6 weeks later not
by awkwardavenue
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almost single-handedly turned Enterprise around, but he came on too late to prevent that ship from sinking. Evidence can be found by watching Season 4, in which a series of story arcs actually serve to enrich the backstory of the Trek canon as opposed to the crew running around randomly, being boring and eroding the fanbase like in the first two seasons. And then Berman & Braga decided to take on the series finale and proved without a doubt that they had no idea what they were doing. /rant
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This season isnt as complicated,makes more sense and has better pacing then most of the previous years. season 5 drug out nerve gas for half of the season and then drug out Logan for the rest. stretched it thin unlike this year.
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You can just bet the writers will play Jack's illness as they did with his half-assed heroin addiction from season 3.
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End of discussion.
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Apr 06, 2009 11:33:41 AM CDT
season has been great. GIVE SARAH CONNOR her Talkback, though.
by altoandando
she deserves it folks. did anyone see last week's episode? the show is approaching real beauty. is Friday the series finale? am I the only one digging this so much?
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Gonna take more than Mad Cow Disease to kill Bauer. Remember when he held his breath in a room full of nerve gas? Or, um, died? What would be really great is if he somehow transmits it to Kim when she inevitably shows up.
Jack: Kim, I've missed you so much!
Kim: Moo. (blood sprays out her nose, she dies)
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I know they said it wasn't contagious, but...c'mon. The writers can figure out a way to make it happen.
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While he's distracted, Jack grabs the antidoe from Hodges' hand with a "Yoink!". Season over.
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Kim can have a Jack Burger.
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Look, the man has to go out in a blaze of glory. I love 24, but I could give a hoot about a 24 movie simply because I like the multi-episode real-time format. That's what makes the series unique. Just the constant clusterfuck of the whole day. and I think Jon Ceaser and Sutherland even said that Bauer has to die at the end (but they then re-neged on the idea after the thought of movies.) But, honestly, 24 is a serialized television show, not a movie series. Let Jack go out in a blaze of glory protecting his country or what have you.
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Apr 06, 2009 1:24:44 PM CDT
V'Shael, do you actually know what Barga has written on 24?
by tallboy66
So Coto is a great writer, Braga is shit, and therefore every single script they've written this season (they've co-written every single one they've penned) was only good because of Coto? And everything that was great in that episode was SOLELY Coto? I'm just really surprised that you have this much in-depth knowledge into the writing process these two share. You know EXACTLY what Coto wrote in every 24 episode, and EVERYTHING that Braga wrote was shit. Wow!!! That's fucking psychic!!!!! YOU ARE A GENIUS!!! REALLY!!!
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Yeah, their TNG scripts for All Good Things and First Contact are a blast BUT somehow ALL THE GOOD STUFF was ONLY written by Ron Moore and ALL THE BAD STUFF was ONLY written by Bannon Braga. Wow, that's amazing how you know this. Holy shit!!
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...and now it's rolled over for some rest before getting jacked off by the writers in time to get hard for the big climax. This happens every year...the 3-5 eps after the "mid-climax" are always pretty lame time-fillers. You'd think they could fix that by now, but I guess not. Oh well, I'm in for all of em.
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But the leaders of the Resistance will deam his loss as too detrimental to the cause. So they throw his skin on top of a T-800 endo-metal frame so as to keep the hope alive!
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As Kim returns for a tearful reunion with Jack, the cougar that has been tracking her for the last six seasons strikes and devours her. Jack shakes his fists towards the heavens and screams "Noooooooo!" as the camera pulls up and into black. Bleep, bleep, bloop.
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Freckles and Jack Bauer coordinating with Agent Olivia and a newly promoted Vic Mackey. That would be some quality TV.
And was it just me, or BELTRAN == SAYID ALI's TWIN BROTHER and CHRISTIAN SHEPERD's SON! And his sister worked at the Looking Glass!!! -
Apr 06, 2009 3:07:59 PM CDT
It's no stretch to say 24 is becoming a chick flick- look:
by yackbacker
http://tinyurl.com/dg6xb3
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Jack Bauer must hunt down a mole by the name of Roger Friedman for giving away valuable information
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they will kill Jack by the end of this season and have Moss and Freckles starring in Season 8!.. And maybe even Tony...
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Jack's not gonna die. He'll be ZOMBIE JACK next season! Duh.
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Shower. Scars and all.
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Why would you want to lose Jack? He's like Jesus, but he kills more people.
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Larry is going to be pissed when Rack Bauer gets the pickle tickle from Jack.
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Kim has gotta die. She's the last thread holding Jack's sanity together. With her gone, we get a truly unstoppable killing machine with absolutely no accountability or vulnerabilities. And since he's gonna die anyway (unless the writers throw in some "antidote" baloney- why would Starkwood create a weaponized virus that had a readily available cure?) why not go out with all guns firing?
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So he's infected but it doesn't do anything to him. (Probably shouldn't be a blood or organ donor.) Jack should die thwarting terrorists the way Buchanan did, not from a disease.
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I absolutely agree, Jack should go out taking down bad guys, not killed by Mad Cow.
But in the preview clip for tonight's ep don't they show him coughing and then passing out?
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HOLY SHIT.
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is right... I'm so sad.
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I tuned in late. What happened?
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They killed Kal Penn's character Kutner. Suicide. Fatal gunshot to the noggin.
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He must've needed time to do a new Harold and Kumar. Heh.
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House is wrong, right? Just him coming up with a solution to a puzzle that isn't there?
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Harold and Kumar Go to Heaven. Neil Patrick Harris plays God and they make a bong out of the Holy Grail. And roll joints with strips from the Shroud of Turin.
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My guess is Kim Bauer's blood will hold off the effects of the drug long enough for Jack to finish his mission, So that will be the reason she shows up. Other than the actress needs work....
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No Kutner makes me sad... I think I'm going to get happy by Naked First Daughter
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Apr 06, 2009 8:01:13 PM CDT
It appaers Sangala mumble mumble Starkwood mumble mumble Tony's
by raystevensonwarzone
What a TWIST!
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I'm 10 minutes behind on this episode, but it appears that Kumar is nowhere in this episode, no body on a slab or anything. Why? Usually, that kind of send off correlates to personality conflicts or contract disputes. Was that the issue here?
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You know it.
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grow a sack?
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Get these Goons out of HERE! The should've taken Jonas Hostage. Thats what Jack would have done
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A guy died and so they didn't turn on the lights in the hospital for the whole show . . . like Earth Hour but with a dead guy.
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TOWARDS the Camera...
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Wouldn't Tony be the guy they keep their eyes on no matter what?
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Furtively glancing.
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100% accurate
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Why the quick camera cut back to him when Tony slipped out. of course that could be just to keep us doubting.
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That's where that dude's from! Drove me crazy last time he was on.
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Yeah, this guy is fucked.
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Must be done On Foot and INTO the Camera from now on...
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It's one of ten possibilites, for heaven's sake.
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Unfortunately he can't shoot the bioagent.
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I would have done the Bush Twins, so I understand his needs.
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yuk yuk yuk
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They're very handy when I'm exposed.
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Go check the Dollhouse TB for it.
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Or does she get Aaron Pierce: Agent of SHIELD to do it (fake rape cry)?
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I'm an oldtimer
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Like at the end of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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Apr 06, 2009 8:27:22 PM CDT
I can scream very loudly when the occassion demands
by raystevensonwarzone
Like when I fuck my security detail
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That made me laugh.
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I was thinking the same thing. Why did I have to go get some Wendys? I'm a couple of minutes behind.
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I need to make some extra cash. I would love to sell people out, too.
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He never did get paid
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Giggidy
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I don't see how that's going to work.
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but it's good to see Rack Bauer using her Soap Opera skills to good use
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Except for when he is killing tons and tons of people.
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I think she's a commercial actress....but I can't remember where I've seen her before.
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in the first place.
That's right, I'm here all night folks. -
You know, the one he had with Rena Sofer (allegedly).
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It's a reason to bring back Elisha Cuthbert.
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"You look better" "Thanks" was classic
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That second dude that Tony just knocked out is a piss poor soldier.
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Tony learned those moves from Jack.
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Me and my Daughter Don't TALK! I told her not to fuck that psychologist old man, and she disobeyed me, and now to get her back I will die!
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It happens everytime he takes down someone.
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Yes sir.
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Uh...howzat?
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to Vanishing
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In America its a Woman's right to kill her helpless unborn child!
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Interesting twist, huh?
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Elisha coming back, or Jack dies... Yeah, I hope Jack dies.
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Indeed.
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FUCK killing Kutner. That SUCKED. ANYbody else would've been fine. Kutner was the one with the most character potential Stoopid House.
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But frankly, I think she's on meth
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Only when it comes to annoying bitches.
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Awesome scene
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I'd sleep on the couch tonight.
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He's the most like House. House needs to get all introspective-y and shit so he can bed Cuddy for the ratings.
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He loves getting it in dabutt.
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Fag.
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I'm pretty sure they meant T Cells, amirite?
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I guess Sprint does offer better service.
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For a Midnight Cowboy reunion.
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Homophobic AND unable to detect sarcasm.
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For an Anaconda reunion.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_stem_cell
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MSU will make a run before the end of the half.
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How does that make me homophobic?
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I can't get this blood out!
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Jeff Gordon after the SPRINT CUP race yesterday. He was making a call, on a Sprint cell phone I presume, with the cameras on him and the SIGNAL DROPPED on live TV. Funny shit.
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Sure, I'll try and forget most of "Enterprise", but the other series were okay...
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will got taht bit of blood out.
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Couldn't have said it before myself
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ruining my President's Daughter near nakedity
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yuk yuk yuk
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Also, 4th season ENT (excluding the lousy finale) was better than every season of VOY and heck, maybe even better than the first two seasons of TNG
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She's going to frame him. Here it comes.
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That's better than job promotion anyway
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Olivia, is that some cum on you lip?
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Damn that is some poor grafix
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He swam to the White House. DUH.
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Voight is a bad mother fucker
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By launching one of them"
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Enough with the whitey evil bastards.
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When you're blackmailing the president, and you absolutely need the call to go through, choose Sprint.
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Just a hunch
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I was hoping she'd say "fuck you" ad hang up.
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Since 24 has magically invented a cure for Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, why not let him launch the missiles?
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"Someone call up Mike Novick, we need that pocket constitution of his"
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Wouldn't the air strike have taken out the missiles as well? They couldn't have been THAT far from the base if Tony was able to track them on foot.
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That shit kept dropping my calls and now I'm sitting on all these Python 5 missiles.
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knows how to self administer an injection.
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Would have bound and gagged the President, then ridden the missles down Slim Pickens style
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If he fires those missiles he'd become a clear public enemy of the USA, right? So who could he run to for help after pulling that? What's the end game after killing millions of Americans? Call the bluff.
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Tony is no Jack
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but 24 has managed to bring the awesome ever since!
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That FBI pilot got Shot right in the fucking face!
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The game is one sided already, and I think I can get to bed at a reasonable hour tonight
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of the next episode in the previews? Assholes. You already got us hooked, you don't need to show ALL the goods.
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tony is def dead next week, judging by the previews
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The explosion on screen was at the facility, not the missile hitting a city.
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I don't feel less manly for choosing to watch 24 over the first half of the game. However, if I were watching Heroes rather than basketball, I would have to have done so in a dress.
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I hope Michigan's economy was counting too much on this game
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when I see his cold, dead, not entirely disinegrated body buried somewhere while Jack watches with complete DNA testing done as the earth is shoveled over his body.
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Kim's effect on the ratings.
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IT'S 24, DAMMIT!
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LOL. And even after then, maybe a steak through his heart and his head cut off and removed from his body. You know, for good measure.
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In my pants.
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WE DON'T HAVE TIME!!!!
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I said I DON'T feel less manly, as 24 is all balls. Even if it is a soap opera with guns and big missiles. However, Heroes... eh.
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I just watched the Good Life video and Chloe is in it and Kim is looking damn good in the Perfect Situation video.
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he'd have already shot Lawson in the knee, Ellington in the chest, and Hansborough in his big ugly head.
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Did she die?
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She just watches fat guys die.
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Not the character, the actress. Ausiello at EW says she's back later in the season.
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See you next week
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The end.
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Yet I can't get anything in the midst of Park Avenue. Damn T-Mobile. Bad enough that Catherine Zeta-Jones was affiliated with them (who annoys the shit out of me), but this is just salt in the wounds.
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I grew up in the same town as CZJ and was a few years behind her at school. Putting aside the fact that I was a chunky monkey back in those days with no chance of ever getting in with her, I found her stuck-up and aloofish. I also hate the fact that she can't get rid of her Welsh accent, regardless of the role that she is in. It's complicated. We're just never destined to be friends (breathe easy Michael).
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I wish her every success and happiness (like she hasn't found it already). I just wish that she was a better accent. Still...she was cute in "The Darling Buds of May" back in the late '80's. Those low cut shorts and gingham shirts with the cleavage showing were something to behold...
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If you pause and watch the trailer for next week in slo-mo, you can clearly see a major character being shot at point black range...I don't know how this one could be misdirection
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They just kinda dropped it.
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and I think it is cute.
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Let me just edit that. Oh wait.
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I read that the guy from 'Slumdog Millionaire' has signed on as a series regular for Season 8...good to see they're consistent with their every-other-season-Muslim-terrorist pattern
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C'mon, Lost, ease up his schedule a bit.
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Apr 06, 2009 10:32:47 PM CDT
I assume that your tongue was partly in your cheek there, Shermd
by chimpjnr
Desmond has hardly been seen in this season of Lost. More's the pity...
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We all know they're going to cure it somehow. Why make it "incurable" so that you look like idiots when you cure him?! There are a million other ways to have suspense. The antidote has to be airlifted in from CDC in Atlanta, it has to reach Jack within X hours of his exposure, time is almost up, but he's in the hands of the enemy and can't be found. There are a million ways.
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From normal, everyday villainy to cartoonish super-villainy.
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Jack has 24 hours to transport a blood sample to a hospital.
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I'm sorry but the whole Mercinaries holding up the US government I just don't buy at all. Seems to me with all our defense spending we would be able to knock down a few pakistani missiles. Also what's Jon Voight's get away plan, no way his company will be viable what so ever. I just wanted them to fire bomb the entire complex and do away with this retarded storyline. I've liked a lot of this season, but the last two episodes didn't make any goddamn sense. Like the US government wouldn't have every SWAT team in the tristate area pumped in to kill every one of those mercinaries. I mean by definition they are all traitors so I don't think the government would think twice about nuking their asses.
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Bring back Theo Stoller! That was some mighty fun television...
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Olivia sashays out of the hotel room and Pierce shoots her a look that says "You smell like quickie sex."
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Do NOT bring Kim in to eff up this season.Have Kim refuse, and reveal that the kid from last season was Jack's son and bring him in instead. But, please, for the love of nielsen®, do not bring Kim in.
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"24" is my 69-year-old mom's favorite show, and I think that she actually had tears in her eyes when Jack starting flopping around on the floor. There's no telling what she'll do if Jack kicks the bucket this season.
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is this shit over yet???
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I'm sorry, but Season 7 -- which at least started off with a hint of being promising and a bit different, with the TV movie -- is now shaping up to be every bit as shitty as Season 6. Which almost has me on the verge of wishing they would pull the plug and skip Season 8, lest they spiral this show even more downhill and completely into the gutter.As others have noted, WHY would you call off the air strike? The incendiary bombs would've taken out the rockets TOO. WHY would you let Jon Voight get the upper hand? He has NOTHING. Go ahead...call his bluff. He fires a rocket, he kills hundreds of thousands of people, and now there's no reason NOT to hunt his ass down. At which point he goes down in American history as it's greatest traitor and he even gets the first public TV execution to appease the masses, who at that point would want anything and everything that is Starkwood related burned to a crisp.For that matter, what the hell is Voight even trying to accomplish anymore? Given his comical villainous speech tonight, apparently he's interested in seeing Starkwood survive as a company -- but who the fuck would employ them after this? Certainly not the U.S. So, fine, move all the personnel and equipment to another country and THEN order a military hit on them. Duh! So what does Voight actually think he can say to the President next week? Some lame line like: "Starkwood did bad things for the government in the past and unless you shut down all Congressional investigations, I'm going to use my rockets"? What the fuck kind of threat is that? First of all, the President and Congress get elected and rotate in and out of office. So what is Voight's master plan -- to blamemail each new president over and over again? And how can Voight even blackmail THIS President? She can simply say "Fine, go ahead. Go public with all your dirt about past administrations, you nut job. In case you didn't notice, I'm the NEW President, so you won't be soiling my hands. Hell, if anything, I'll look even BETTER to the American people and practically be reassuring my reelection since (according to tonight's episode) I was the one who voted against you guys when I was in the Senate."Seriously, this season went from the truly incredulous and lame plot of an African warlord (???) storming and capturing the White House because he was mad about losing a turf war back home (!!!) to morphing into a semi-interesting concept about Starkwood and paid mercenaries or paid militias, which quickly went into the crapper due to such fucking huge plot holes and such piss-poor internal story logic.I swear, it's amazing to think how truly GREAT this show was back in Seasons 1-4 and what utter crap it's become. Worst of all, I can't believe this is the bullshit storyline they created WITH a writer's strike that ultimately bought them MORE time to try and fix the utter shitfest that had been last season. But now they're on a pace to match it!
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There was no guarantee the airstrike would have stopped those missles from getting off the ground. Hodges showed Taylor that they were set to a trigger, so she wouldn't risk the chance that even one of them got off the ground.
As for just taking out Starkwood and ending the whole crisis, I think this goes back to the overall theme of this Season- that doing whatever it takes is not always the right way. Risking thousands of lives to catch the bad guys is not how the world works. They could have shut down Starkwood last episode and gotten into a shoot-out with the militia, but they didn't because 1) the rule of law applies and 2) mowing down people is not how this show works.
What Hodges is trying to accomplish is to discredit and destroy Allison Taylor and her supporters. He wants "sovereignty" to do as he pleases. Stay tuned to see his end game, it will be interesting. And if you know anything about politics, you'll understand that Presidents change, but bureaucrats linger for decades. They become institutions unto themselves. Look at Obama's cabinet- lots of people from the Clinton years there, right?
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Have to admit that, since 24 is one of those shows (and there are far too many on TV) which makes out that anything can be done just by sitting at a computer keyboard and frantically hitting keys, why couldn't Garofollo just turn off the missiles? Oh, and I am loving the increased level of product placement this season.
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Voight's hammy performance was great; the bloody shirt, the whole bit. He's one reason why this season has been good, but it looks like they're reverting back to the stereotypical dark-skinned evil foreigner next season. Also loved Kiefer's expression while he had the seizure. Wonder if he can really bug his eyes out like that or whether they employed CG. Reminded me of Total Recall.Kim coming back will be ok as long as she doesn't drag the emaciated creepy-looking CT Howell with her. And if she takes a shower. And puts on a wife beater. And engages in a footrace with Rack.
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you cunts (americans) spent a heap of cash on stealth technology... so the airforce sends F18's??? wtf?? i could track them on a Nokia 5110!!! they shoulda sent an F-22... or the thing out of broken arrow... with john travolta in it!
also.. was anyone else a little gutted that the presidents daughter consented?? if i was directing, i woulda had the guy blackmail her into giving him a handjob.. then i woulda should the disgusted look on her face as she complied. -
Jonas arrives at the White House. The Pres sits down. The two of them are alone in the Oval Office. He starts to talk when she cuts him off. "Here's whats really going to happen"- she says as she pulls out a 9mm. "I kill you right now then deliver your severed head to the front gates of Starkwater with an ultimatum to your little army". "You can't do that"-Jonas says "The American people won't stand for it". "Your wrong"-the President says, "I'm the fucking President, I won't do one second in prison. By the time it's over, the press will paint you as the biggest terrorist in U.S. history". At which point she puts two slugs into his chest. Jack and Freckles arrive at the front gate of Starkwater. Jack is carrying a gym bag containing Jonas' head. "Here's a message from the President" Jack says. "Now that the guy who signs your paychecks is dead, you now have twenty minutes for all of your staff to vacate the premises. We know all of your names since you all pay taxes, thank you IRS. There are 20 F-18's on the way to turn this facility into a smoking crater. I suggest you move your asses. And by the way, if your thinking of dying here, this is what you'll be missing". At which point Freckles pulls up her top, revealing her lucious cans. "Your choice". ******Silent clock******
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The Slumdog Millionaire guy isn't playing a bad guy, he's playing a diplomat or something. Like Bashir (although whether he's a reformed terrorist or not I don't know)
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Sherry Palmer.
And of course it's fucking hammy. This show has really always been a soap opera. And I fucking love it. -
Never mind biological weapons, Starwood could destroy the lead crystal market of the world with those bad boys.
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"Kapoor will be playing a leader of an unnamed Middle Eastern nation who comes to the United States on a peace mission" So they're going to have an Asian actor playing a Middle Easterner, from a country that is or may have been hostile. Not much to go on, but this is 24, so presuming that he's evil isn't really going out on a limb. Even Bashir was kind of belligerent in the beginning.About the decanter -- if Starwood's WMD plot fails, they can always get into the lead crystal business and poison the world that way.
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Was when Tony, deep in the belly of the beast, with six highly trained Mercs on his ass, asks Jack after coming back from the doc, 'Are you okay'? Right before he does a neck-break/jump kick on two opponets, disarming them. Very gangster... I love that their utilizing Tony so much this season, the chemistry between him and Jack is always strong...
And yeah, it was hilarious that Jonas killed his CEO Tony Montana style. -
I love the over the top performance. He's really chewing up the scenery. The only thing better would be Shatner as the bad guy.
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Really, Jack is showing horrible side effects within 2 hours. How can anything with Stem cells save him? I would have much prefered if Starkwood had created an antidote to the chemical weapon they created and it needed to be found. Just an excuse to get annoying Kim back for a few episodes I guess...
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I love the way he was posing and mean-mugging in front of his camera phone... getting just the right profile view of his face while he talked tons of shit.
So, when does the president's daughter sex-tape hit the redtubes!? I'll buy that for a dollar! -
Seemed like they were trying to imply a sense of romanticism which, let's face it, wasn't entirely there. Oh, and whoever said it before was 100% right - Aaron's face said it all. Should have pulled a Don Draper crotch grab and sniffed his fingers with disgust there and then.
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And that was some pretty fast sex...
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him to kiss his ass goodbye and let the Hornets lay steel. If he fired one of the missiles it would have been tragic but it's better than letting him dictate terms. Now he's holding the eastern seaboard hostage. Another TBer said the F-22 or even an F/A-117 could get in and out undetected and blow that palce to hell.
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Jesus, I've never encountered such whining and nitpicking since... well, since the last talkback I visited. Hey, Jack Bauer should have died 5 seasons ago, mmkay? Stop watching the show because it's already blown apart all credibility and realism. Jeez...
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In the president's defense, and to the others that disagreed with her negotiating with Hodges instead of standing her ground (no disrespect of course, guys), I think that she agreed to his terms so that she could find another strategy later. Do you guys realize that he only gave her 30 SECONDS? Not much time at all. I wouldn't want to wager the lives of millions on half-a-minute, especially with a team of professionals at my disposal that could possibly combat things from the inside, meaning she just needs to BUY TIME, like any good negotiator. She can let 'Jonas' think he's in control,(he wants his ego stroked, is all) but of course, have a back-up plan. That 'we don't negotiate with terrorists' mantra isn't all black-n-white.......sometimes you have to relent to achieve your ultimate goal. It wasn't an issue of her having 'balls' or not. Restraining yourself and your first impulse also takes balls......
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