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‘CTU Isn’t The Organization You Knew!!’ Hercules Has Seen The Start Of 24 In NYC - And Says The Jack Sack Is Back, Baby!!
SPOILER ALERT !!
I am – Hercules!!
As the folks who follow my twitters know, Fox forwarded the first four hours of “24’s” eighth season in early December. Notes on what’s in store:
* 8.1 Opening titles: Kiefer Sutherland. Mary Lynn Rajskub. Anil Kapoor. Mykelti Williamson. Katee Sackhoff. Chris Diamantopoulos. John Boyd. With Freddie Prinze Jr. And Cherry Jones. Special Guest Star Elisha Cuthbert. Guest starring Bob Gunton. Nazeen Contractor. Doug Hutchison. Akbar Kurtha. Benito Martinez. Paul Wesley. Jennifer Westfeldt. Necar Zadegan. Jaime Gomez. Stefan Kapicic. Cliff M. Simon.
* Writers:
8.1 Howard Gordon & Evan Katz.
8.2 Manny Coto & Brannon Braga; story by Howard Gordon.
8.3 David Fury & Alex Gansa
8.4 Chip Johannessen & Patrick Harbinson
* The Jack Sack? Back!
* Kapoor (the Regis Philbin of “Slumdog Millionaire”) plays Omar Hassan, the Arab Jed Bartlet, the greatest Middle East leader one could hope for.
* While Ethan Kanin (Gunton) is still around, he’s no longer President Taylor’s chief of staff.
* Jack Bauer, now in Manhattan (and just down the street from the big Hassan-Taylor disarmament negotiations), is not only not dead, his doctor “signed off” on him two weeks earlier.
* While Jack’s in perhaps better shape than we’ve ever seen him in, things have not gone well for Chloe O’Brien since we last saw her.
* After so many years of “Battlestar Galactica” it’s strange to see Sackhoff playing the Chloe role this season. She's not the girl with the gun anymore!
* CTU NY is not dissimilar to CTU LA. Still lots of glass and a prominent staircase leading to the director’s office. The biggest additions noticed in the first four hours are a jumbotron-like HD screen and a sci-fi interrogation room.
* A piece of dialogue I loved: "Oh!! Oh!! What's the matter with you??"
* Doug Hutchison, who plays Horace Goodspeed on "Lost," stars on "24" this season. Did not recognize him without the hippie hair.
* Domenick Lombardozzi (Herc from “The Wire”) plays another Herc-like role as an NYPD patrolman.
* Very exciting opening credits for 8.4! Jurgen Prochnow and ... someone else!
* What’s good? The Kapoor and Hutchinson characters. Dreamy Jennifer Westfeldt as an ambitious journalist. And Rajskub continues to fry my burger!
* What’s not so good? Tomorrow’s subplot involving Lombardozzi feels a lot like network time-killer. And this may be unavoidable, but more than a few elements in the first four hours feel perhaps a little too familiar. Hopefully these are plotlines that start like old scenarios and move in surprising directions.
* I say season eight is off to a compelling start!
9 p.m. Sunday. Fox.
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So, I guess I'll watch it... it's no LOST...
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a few seasons back: shoot down Air Force One...last year: attack on the White House...this year: blow up the United Nations?...topple the Statue of Liberty?...have a plane fly into the Empire State Building?...the possibilities are endless in NYC!!
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I thought it would be a lovely change of pace to have Jack face his most difficult day: camping out in line for 24 hours at new Shea Stadium or the Garden to buy Springsteen tickets.
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...guess I'll just have to watch it with all the plebs then... That is all... Dammit...
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Started off pretty well, but things started to unravel relatively quickly. I kept expecting the episodes made after the writer's strike to be a vast improvement, considering the time they had to get their shit together and come up with a decent plan, but god damn were they ten times worse. I expect this season to be as mediocre, but I admit it, they've got me by the balls ever since season 1, I'm bound to watch for as long as the show continues. But I reserve the right to bitch like a pussy about it, damnit!
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But I guess that was her ulterior motive since she hates anything patriotic. I hope this season is better without her (how could it get any worse?)
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she is only 27, must be lots of partying, ice hockey players etc.
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gets to star in 24 and fuck Buffy, lucky guy
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At least we know that when he's gone from this mortal realm his soul will burn forever in hell as a consequence of the deal he clearly must have made.
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Gonna luv' it! Drain me!!!!
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What a legend. The Keep, Das Boot, Dune, The Seventh Sign - all big faves of mine.
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she may not be that funny, or that great of an actress, but boy she does read a hell of a lot (and write just as much). and the best patriots question everything. i'm not comparing her to john adams or anything but he also bashed shitloads of government actions as well. don't sit by and keep quiet. she's a patriot. if she's wrong, then actually go out, and get on a bigger soap box then her's and prove her wrong. lots of people at work, bitch about their jobs all day, but don't offer solutions. those people are annoying shits. but if you bitch and have a solution and say it. then you can work towards an amicable solution. if you're a right wing dickhead, or a left wing asshole, speak the frig up, and give a better solution. i don't agree with a lot of shit she says, but then i'd have to do a lot of research and work to shut her up with far better research than she has done. so she wins, i lose. i gotta step my game up. bashing government doesn't mean you aren't a patriot, it means you love your country enough to voice your disapproval. i don't trust people that toe party lines, because there's never one correct way of thinking (unless you are borg). there's plenty of gray areas. i wanna hear stupid crap from both sides and suss out what's the best idea, or look for mostly fair ideas. debates are always fun, but a lost art in this country. they just are fights now. i'm sure plenty of you will disagree with this post. good for you. 24 kicks ass even with freddie "no talent even remotely close to his dad" prinze jr. or katie "goofball shark eyes" sackhoff
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I saw a clip of Mary Lynn Rajskub where she discussed the conservative Heritage Foundation inviting her to be on a panel about terrorism. She said, "You guys know I just play a counter terrorism expert on TV, right?" The panel was called, "24: Fact, fiction, or does it matter?" It's the same panel where she thought Rush Limbaugh was leaning in to kiss her cheek, but he kissed her on the lips instead. Creeepy. http://tinyurl.com/y94n3mg
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Janeane Garofalo is a fucking slimey wart on the gangrenous dick of a AIDS infected donkey in a Tijuana sex show.Fuck her. I wish she was dead.There's a BIG fucking difference between "reading a lot," "questioning everything," "offering amicable solutions" and calling an entire group of individuals who themselves "read a lot," "question everything" and "offer amicable solutions" a "bunch of tea bagging racists."I wouldn't piss on this cunt bitch to put the fire out if she was burning to death.Her death is numero uno on my "Ways to Make the World a Better Place."How's that for "speaking up?"
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Jan 17, 2010 9:24:26 AM CST
If T-baggers read, why do so many misspell their signs?
by american mythos
And trust me, I know a couple self-described teabaggers. Dumbest motherfuckers I know.
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Of badassery, ctu moles and me yelling damnit!!? you bet your ass you are.
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Holy MOLEy! Do you really think they could be PLANTing some new ideas into CTU? I did miss that SPYcial CTU phone ring. I am sure they will coINSIDE MANagment failure with bringing in Jack. Always works out that the goofball in charge screws things up. Too bad I don't know how to bold.
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...and good job there, jimbojones. I just hope the first mole's not Starbuck. Cast sounds fun and I'm ready for another big bag of popcorn. I thought the first 16 or so hours of last years bag was marginally fresh, adequately salty and with some handfuls that were just buttery yummy (thanks for the Tony Todd!). The last four hours or so had a lot of kernels, but that can happen when you get to the bottom of the bag. I'm just hoping we don't get more of the chewy stale stuff from the season before last.
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With Nathan Fillion.
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So retarded liberals can understand the signs. Dew ewe unnerstan?
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'Cause I call y'all "cock smoking morons."
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How funny would it be if that means they keep succeeding all season and don't fuck things up?
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Did your sheets get all sooty at last night's cross burning?
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I just feel like its going to be the same thing all over again. Especially since they actually detonated the nuke is S6...its like, whats the point? I'll still watch cause nothing else is on mondays and dvr makes things easy...but really...I'm waiting for LOST.
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...please understand I'm not judging you, but this site is for commenting on movies and television shows. This particular thread is for discussing an action/spy series called 24. There are other sites devoted to homoerotica, even social networking sites where you might be able to hook up with someone nice to "share your bicycle". You might want to try one of those, though I would suggest first getting a little attention about the obvious fear and revulsion you have toward women. The instinctual disgust you exhibit at the female form that would lead to a description of a woman as a "slimy wart on the gangrenous..." reveals deep phobias that you're going to need to overcome regardless of your sexual preferences. Good luck, and when you've worked through all this I hope you come back around to talk about 24.
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You know Kims baby will be kidnaped to get control of Jack. The real question is will the righters kill the baby or go the easy way of letting Jack save her??
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...Jack ends up the guardian of the baby. I hope this isn't true, but if it is...you heard it here first. At least in this talkback.
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I'm sick of these amazing coincidences where Jack just happends to be right near where a terrorist attack happends. He's in Manhattan now just as this latest threat is happening? Geeze. This has been happening since season 4 (although at least, while horrible, season 6 had him brought into the situation.)
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I've watched 24 religiously since the first episode but I completely missed last season. I know there's a new female president and Tony is somehow back - but is there anything else that I MUST know going into season 8?
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Can't wait to see what Katee Sackhoff adds to the mix.
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I don't think Tony is going to be in season 8. I think he didn't survive last season, but I can't remember any details. Bikesharer- If you'd like, I will teabag ou, but as I lay my nuts down gently on your forehead I will have to ask you why you stil think you deserve an opinion about this country after voting for Bush twice? I only assume this about you, since I never met a teabagger who didn't. Also, I never met a teabagger that was angry for any reason other than 1) My nuts weren't placed upon their face well enough or 2) Sarah Palin wasn't vp.
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is one of my favorite people on the planet. I understand why many people don't agree. But for her to take any flack whatsoever for pointing out the glaringly obvious racist element that made its ugly presence felt at many of those tea party protests is ludicrous.If you don't find her funny or attractive or a good actress, you have the right to your opinion. And when she sees people holding signs addressed to the newly elected President that say "What You Talkin' Bout Willis?" and "This is an African Lion. This is a Lyin' African" she has the right to call those people what they are: RACISTS.
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...and those weren't the worst. And understand I agree with your central point... ...However... One of your favorite people on the planet? Clearly you have never been forced to sit through The MatchMaker 12 or 20 times. And don't even get me started about The Truth About Cats And Dogs.
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That a series with such a fragile structural concept has lasted so long and actually had a few really good seasons fter the first, which was great IMO. I thought this was dead after season sux--er,,I mena six, but seven was really good and,hopefully, 8 will be as well. Thought this would have been done after three or maybe four years. Nice job so far!
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I actually met her after a routine. She is insightful as she is in interviews. Granted I was acting like a gushing schoolgirl
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and why doesn't he work at the daily planet yet?
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If you're iffy on the subject, Fox is re-airing the Season 7 finale and 7 PM EST, assuming you aren't watching football it's on there. Besides, the best stuff with Tony anyway occurs at about the 18-20 minute mark. "YOU KILLED MY SON!!!!" his exit is a little Scooby-Doo Exit-Stage-Left would have gotten away with it if it weren't for your snooping kids! but Bernard knows how to yell so it plays decently. But I don't think he's back because A) it'd be awkward to fit him in there (see how they jumped through hoops to get Nina Meyers to fit into Season 2 & 3) B) Carlos Bernard has flat-out said "I am not in the season, they're almost done shooting and haven't called me." It's okay. They're saving the climatic Jack vs. Tony throwdown for the big screen.
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Jan 17, 2010 1:44:14 PM CST
Also, new 24 Season rankings for everyone. Please update calenda
by tall_boy66
5>7(yes, it was that good)>2>1>4>3>6
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For those crying "Blasphemer! Burn him in oil!!!" it's very simple: No Teri Bauer gets amnesia. No Kim Bauer spends over half the season stuck in stupid bullshit that she got herself into (the Kim-in-distress last 5 episodes of the season twisted the formula around a bit where she actually got shit done on her own for once). I'll admit, it's not like "SEASON 7 GREAT! SEASON 2 AND ONE DOGSHIT!!", not at all, but Season 7 is just more consistent and doesn't have those big goose-egg plotlines like S1 & S2 have.
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Lotsa Moley Moles, I betcha
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I just like her. Always have. And she hates doing fluffy romantic comedies as much as you hate watching them. Read the A.V. Club interview she did for The Onion.On CATS AND DOGS: "I think it's soft and corny, and the soundtrack makes you want to puke, and everyone's dressed in Banana Republic clothing... It was originally supposed to be a small budget independent film where there would be much more complexity to all the characters, and Abby and the guy don't wind up together at the end."She's very self deprecating. She took the 24 role to prove her politics had nothing to do with her acting. And she comes off harsher and more strident than she means to in political discussions because everyone else is just spinning and repeating talking points. She says what she believes. That's something that should always be encouraged.And if you want a good laugh watch the youtube clip where she turns into a flustered blushing Jane Austen heroine at the mere mention of Colin Firth showing up at the Air America offices. It's really funny.
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If she's one of my favorite people I really should get her name right.
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in the history of the show. S4 was exceptional.
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Agreed... Marwan just wouldn't die... As far as I can remember, he is the only villain that was the villain from hour 1 to hour 24, and Jack STILL wasn't able to kill him (he killed himself).
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He was the villain in episode 1 and was the villain (if not the Big Bad but an antagonist) in episode 24. Just depends on how you define him for the majority of the season.
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I finally gave up on the show for good last season. It just got too painful to stick with.
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for allowing Fox to pull the wool over his eyes yet again. My prediction: 24 is going to get off to a good start and then quickly turn to utter shit like it has the last few seasons. No thanks. I ain't watching. Like a great wise man once said, "Fool me once; Don't get fooled again!"
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taking all previous episodes throwing them in a blender, throwing in a few cliched plot devices, a few sarcasticky Chloe comments, and a few extra dammits for good measure and hitting the mix button and seeing what the result is. Sorry, I will be watching the Golden Globes tonight, and the most awesome Ricky Gervais. Haters be damned.
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"I could do this all day!" Is one of the finest lines in TV, ever.
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Are tea baggers any worse than the Marxist-Socialist nutjobs who protest any and everything American? No, they're not. And there's plenty of misspelled signs by Left wing morons at war protests and abortion gatherings, except you'd need to go to right wing websites to find them, cause the mainstream media is only interested in highlighting the stupidity of one side, and they'll never make fun of Left wing wackos, cause most of them sympathize with the Left wing nonsense.
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http://tinyurl.com/pwap3y
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that is all
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Seriously? It's like Michael Bay: The TV Show. Just dumbed-down, lowest common denominator garbage churned out for the masses. I figured it was only watched in trailer parks, not in the nerd nests of AICN viewers...
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Isn't Fayed the longest running 24 villain (bar Nina obviously).I wans't counting but he was in the first ep of season 6 right up to near the end.I'm not surprised you don't remember, given that most of us tried to drink that season out of mind.
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People who say 24 is "lowest common denominator garbage" are pretentious hipsters who were tripping the fuck out on it during Season One and Season Two when 24 was the only good show on TV. Without 24, there would be no Lost, so show some respect. That said, I miss David Palmer. I wish the show had a bigger stable of characters who followed from Season to Season like they used to. I'm tired of getting used to a whole new cast every year.
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This is the misguided delusion that it "appeals to people in trailer parks" because the show is supposedly conservative. These are the same people who have never watched an episode, especially Season 5 where it had a SITTING REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT participate in terrorist attacks on his OWN COUNTRY in order to secure OIL RESERVES overseas. That was what Logan did what he did. For oil. He said so. On what fucking planet is that considered "conservative propaganda" that would appeal to "trailer parks". Go ahead. Try and explain that one.
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I've posted this several times throughout the year but I will repeat again that seasons ONE and TWO are undeniably the best seasons of 24. Sure they had a couple of weak storylines but when it was good, it rivaled the intensity and suspense of even the best movies - except we got TWENTY FOUR hours of it!
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make this happen.
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The big four hour season premiere events are always fairly decent. It's only around hour 12 or so that the plot generally falls apart and the whole thing becomes absurd.
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would hate the idea from this season of reaching out diplomatically to Middle Eastern Leaders. On Fox News, President Taylor would be mocked for bowing to him and Glenn Beck would get out his blackboard and somehow tie her to Marwan.
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A poster was incorrect in regards to the name of the movement to protest out of control government spending and taxes.
The name of the movement is the Tea Party movement. It refers to the Boston Tea Party, one of the most important events in the founding of our country.
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I like Freckles. She has a very pleasant chest area and she's good at playing angry and conflicted. And when she she looks sad it's just totally heartbreaking.
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...I bet you don't even realize how adorably cute you're being. And about all the political posturing. 24 is a tv show where the main character, after being released from 20 months of torture at the hands of the Chinese is given to a terrorist who intends to murder him in exchange for another terrorist the government believes it needs to capture. Jack discovers that the terrorist he has been given to is the true villain, rescues the terrorist he was to be exchanged for, stops a subway bombing, discovers a plot to explode a handful of nuclear weapons in American cities, kills a fellow CTU agent protecting the terrorist he rescued and survives the detonation of a nuclear device... ...in a FOUR HOUR PERIOD. If you're looking to this show for political guidance, in any direction, ever, you have a paucity of ideas and knowledge that should preclude you from participating in a representative democracy. Or obtaining a driver's license. Or owning a firearm. Or a pet. Or working around open flames.
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Only surprised that it took 8 seasons to arrive there. Gutted that I moved away from NYC last year. I lived right around Grand Central, Crysler Building, and NY Library, so would have seen filming there for sure. That said...the filming of "I am Legend" fucked up my weekends for what felt like months. GO JACK!
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The main character uses conservative tactics to take down the villians, but the villians are always being used by or are conservative rich white guys.
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Jack is once again going to be going rouge and at odds with the head of CTU who'll be an insufferable asshole all season, and that no matter how right Jack is no one but Chloe will believe him, and... please, not the same old shit!!
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I was watching the Fox broadcast but, since I live in Canada, they overwrite the signal with the Canadian broadcasting signal so it started earlier skipped over a solid 5 seconds or so. So it went from "Events occur in real time" to JUMP CUT! they were on the second credit, missing Kiefer Sutherland's credit and whatever the shot on screen was. So what was the opening shot? did a caption say it was in New York? Was it Kim's vag? was it more traffic? Whaaaaat?
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what? jack's wearing blusher?
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stupid hippie.
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Just sayin'
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Hah, that was great. Thanks, New York's Finest.
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Jacks Axe
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LumberJack!
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Nothing will ever replace the immortal line, "Get me a hacksaw."
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Jan 17, 2010 9:03:21 PM CST
Odds on Bad Guy... 2-1 blonde reporter/3-1 Hussan's #1/5-1 Fredd
by crazycurt
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His hair looks like the Heatmizer's from "a Year w/o Santa Claus"
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Jack's gotta stop him from putting strychnine in the guacamole!!!
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reporter is too obvious too soon, the brother is too obvious and too over the top....i suspect his wife
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That's who I have my money on.
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You know it! I know it! Believe it!
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If she was the actual threat, and everything's fine for the rest of the season. I wonder how many episodes of a happy Jack we'd watch before quitting the show for good?
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Why is Chloe acting like she's still playing Gail the Snail?
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"We're only in Hour 2, OF COURSE SHE'S NOT THE REAL FUCKING THREAT YOU MORONS."
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man i missed this talkback
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Them and Citibank...nobody else.
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dude looks like a cross between pee wee herman and balki bartakamous
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I knew it! Goddamn.
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The dude who fired the rocket and talked to the brother. I'm drawing a blank.
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24 just couldn't be 24 without having a stupid, completely pointless plot digression. I'm guessing Starbuck's stalker is going to be this season's pointless melodrama.
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Where is Freckles Bauer at?
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Jan 17, 2010 9:33:34 PM CST
not Horace Goodspeed....but bad guy from Bait & Tooms from X-Fil
by crazycurt
Looks similar but not him!
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Katee, does the phrase "no fucking way" mean anything? Smoking hot on "24"!
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Just don't talk to anyone in the airport on the way this time, ok?
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Much better than Kim whining for the next 12 hours about Jack blowing them off again for duty.
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Jan 17, 2010 9:37:33 PM CST
START CHECKING TRAFFIC CAMS, BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by wackybantha
JACK'S BACk, BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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LOL...would there really be a difference?
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But at least she'll be at the other end of the country all season. Good riddance.
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do we see jack and the danny glover wannabe ctu director out in the field together lethal weapon style and jack uttering "im too old for this shit"
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"That's what she said!"
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Pretty soon he's going to mouth off to that prick
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Cute the White Trash sister!
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Jan 17, 2010 9:46:14 PM CST
"You're the only one that know that truth!
by rickety_crickets_bionic_legs
That I was born a man."
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Fucking Editless Talkback.
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How did Starbuck get this job?
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She's just acting as a mole to find the real mole who's been setup by the ultra mole.
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Fox has always stayed out of the 10 pm network scheduling for some odd reason. Are they expanding their primetime to 3 hours now... This critics says yes
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New CTU is as full of holes as Old CTU. Awwwwwww.
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Jan 17, 2010 9:48:17 PM CST
Would you bother with a background check on her
by rickety_crickets_bionic_legs
One look at those tits and she's hired.
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They are the only significant long-term characters left that Jack cares about. Every season has a major death, so it's going to be one of them.
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Damn straight. Nothing separates a Man from his Bag. Especially when it's Jack and his Sack.
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For the Rack returns tomorrow night. Let's hope Jack pulls a few strings and gets Tony out of jail. Then we can have the Rack, Jack and Tony show.
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Jan 17, 2010 10:09:04 PM CST
"Is anyone else wondering why FOX is airing a show at 10 PM?"
by shermdawg
Heh, my Fox affiliate started airing an episode of Two and a Half Men at ten. Fifteen seconds in they realized their goof. Guess they weren't used to it.
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I always thought Horrace was underutilized on Lost so it's nice to see the actor bounce back and forth and do some scenery chewing. The New Yawk accent to Boris Badenov moment of unexpected violence was genius.
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That's her dark secret and she's just trying to settle down at a normal job of national security.
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Not hurting from the recession there.
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All will be well when she returns tomorrow night.The question is, who is going to have a higher body count, Freckles or Jack?(Jack has two so far.)
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That's who it was. The Horace Goodspeed tip conected the dots for me. Thanks.
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Your monitor is all the way down in the desk? Ain't you gonna get neck strain if it's not on your eye-level? I think the production designers / directors were sick of shooting around computer monitors so they put them out of the actors eyelines. But I like seeing the out-of-focus monitor shot in the foreground, it keeps with the documentary shooting style of the show. I like NuCTU for being flashy but it's a bit overly sci-fi. did you see that interrogation room? were they on the Starship Enterprise or something?
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Must be all of those livers he's been scarfing down...
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Jan 17, 2010 10:37:03 PM CST
And WTF with people thinking Elisha Cuthbert isn't "aging well"?
by nasty in the pasty
She's 27 and still looks about 19. She doesn't look ANY DIFFERENT than she did in season one. Or do people think all women who are mothers automatically lose hotness points?
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I miss Bill Buchanan. He never should've been killed off.
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This sure feels like they took plots from past seasons, put them in a hat, and are simply mailing it in this year. C'mon! Moron CTU head? CHECK. Moles? CHECK. CTU staffers with pasts that could ruin them? CHECK. Jack going rouge? CHECK. Chloe hacking someone elses terminal? CHECK. Jack's opinion being ignored? CHECK. Stupid CTU agent sideplot nobody cares about? CHECK. Muslim version of Palmer's family? CHECK.
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Seriously, did it bother anyone else? Worst 24 haircut since Teri Bauer in season 1.
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Jan 17, 2010 11:17:09 PM CST
Ordinary people have panic attacks. Chuck Norris has Jack Bauer
by techsteveo360
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just askin'
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With all those macbooks and glass, it does look like the Apple store. Problem is, if 24 is supposed to be in the future, why are they using 2009 Macbooks?
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That is all......
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Jan 17, 2010 11:35:33 PM CST
Yeah, the prez's bro's hair is right out of fucking 1973
by nasty in the pasty
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It takes place in 2010. They're not following the correct timeline. It's like That 70's show stopping at 1979 or the Korean War last 11 years on Mash.
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that you do not question Jack Bauer and you do not question Chloe O' Brien. Because they are right and you are wrong. They should put that on every screensaver and hang a poster on the wall.
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According to 24 wika, Season 6 took place almost 13 years after Season 1 so if Jack's granddaughter is, uh, 3 years old in Season 8 that would put Season 8 in 2015/2016. I know it all takes place "today" but it's fun to extrapolate.
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The date mentioned on the wiki sit for Season seven is, like, 12 years and 10 months, so 2015/2016 is where Season 8 takes place. We survived 2012 in the 24 world! take that, Myans!
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At least they haven't blown their load in the premiere ala season 6. It's a solid foundation, and it seems like they know where they're going, so I'm cautiously optimistic. Really liking Hassan. Got a little more edge to him than Palmer ever did. Looking forward to the return of Rack Bauer tomorrow night!!
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It's just become so familiar. And Katee Sackoff's character isn't off to a good start. I'm not a hater, I liked season 7, but this premiere was actually kinda boring. I'm hoping it will pick up some steam though.
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when the season kick off episode has Jack killing someone with an axe and it was still only okay.
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Episode 1 was really fucking awesome. Episode 2 was one of those rare episodes you haven't seen since Season One where absolutely nothing fucking happened, yet it was still kind of a good episode.
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If that isn't a beautiful start to the carnage, I don't know what is.
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I've missed this talk back.
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is gonne be kind of a push over. But then again, who can withstand JackWrath?
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I wasn't going to watch this year, I gave up after the suckfest of season 6. But it's looking pretty good. Axe to the chest and cute Katee, hard to beat that.
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I love 24. But I found myself rolling my eyes alot and getting sleepy for these first two hours. I guess I'm getting tired of the same old formula over and over, and these damn CTU employees with shady backgrounds and social disorders. They need to either do something new, or end the show.
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with long hair.
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are you on crack? maybe if she dropped 15 - 20 pounds.
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Clean out your desk. No seriously, get the fuck out. The man has singlehandedly stop at least seven major terrorist attacks, was accused of assasinating one former president, was largely responsible for the removal from office of another president, saved multiple presidents lives and testified about all of these things in public hearings in front of Congress.
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That noob has no business working at CTU or ANY government agency if he doesn't know who Jack Bauer is. He must have been living under a rock for the past decade.
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yikes, shitty acting from top to bottom and totally unbelievable plot points. i watched to first season on DVD a few years ago and it was pretty good. well written perfectly paced tried to get into following seasons but never found inspiring. figured after all this time i would give it another go. what a POS. seriously
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...holy crap, that's Horace, too?Only took 25 min. until Jack raised his voice, but the first "dammit!" didn't occur until 1:05 and wasn't uttered by Jack?! The moment after Assa-veda died would have been perfect, but this is the "new" Jack I suppose.Having CTU back in the picture could be a drag, but a badass Rack Bauer could make up for that.Finally, it's 24, whaddya expect?
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it looks like the Jack Sack got an upgrade with the new CTU. Keep your hands off the fine Corinthian leather, Mr. Gellar.
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All this nitpicking and noone even acknowledges that after the shitfest that is season 6, that 7 saved us from the show staying completely shit, and 8 does start out fairly well, not great, but better then i expected. My only real complaint is the katee storyline seems kind of pointless right now, but the writers have always found a way of tying things up even if we dont like it. I like how chloe is being treated, this new guy arlo seems like the perfect mole in ctu! I like the gentle jack side early on, its something the character had been lacking! I even and i will say now i hate freddie prinze jr, but i am so far pleasantly surprised by how he handles himself in the show, and am curious where his character will go! Now the big negative is trying to make us believe the brother is a mole, guaranfuckingtee you that it will turn out the terrorists have his son or a loved one and are using him thru someone else thatll turn out to be the wife or daughter! Last point, and then ill shut the fuck up til tomorrow nite, sooner or later this show will be ending, high chance itll be this season. So instead of us all nitpicking, lets keep in mind that we have had 3 great seasons, 2 pretty good seasons, 1 good season, and 1 blow our fucking brains out rather then watch again season (season 6!) Now with that idea in mind, sooner or later everything in the show ill feel rehashed, when in fact all it is is the writers taking a basic concept and shaking it up to fit a new season. Thats what each season minus season 6 has been. I for one dont see the point of complaining when a show has had the kind of remarkable run our show has. Just a thought everyone, oh, and if it isnt 24 related, please shut the fuck up! I dont fucking care about garofolos politics, and this board isnt fucking about it! Jesus christ you fucking drama queens!
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the women of this season's 24 is fugly.Sackhoff is no improvement either however she's still doable unlike the chick that plays Chloe.(She looks so effin batshit.) good start during the first two eps BTW.
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I'll wait until the rest of the premier tonight to make a final judgment, but this season is skipping like a broken record so far--
1) What's with President Hassan's hair?? My god, he looks like a hedgehog. He looks like he just snapped into a slim jim. I didn't know Mancow was acting these days!
2) They went with the dying-man's-last-words-cut-short-before-he-can-reveal-useful-information cliche. I was hoping Acaveda from The Shield would at least make it through a few episodes before they capped his ass.
3) What's with everyone digging on Freckles? I wouldn't fuck her unless a little kid's life was at stake or some shit.
4) We're expected to believe that the blonde bitch from Battlestar Galactica got a job at CTU, which has had a long history of moles and security lapses, using a fake identity?! If it doesn't turn out that she's in witness protection and the CTU director (don't remember his name, so we'll just call him "Director Black") knows about her secret, I'm gonna call bullshit and stop watching.
5) Jack has only killed two people so far. That's ONE bad guy per episode. This is completely unacceptable.
6) I'm tired of baby sideplots. I dont ever want to see that little grand daughter or whatever the hell that thing is AGAIN.
7) Director Black interrogates the main suspect (that tight ass reporter slut) personally? Isn't there someone else who can do that? Shouldn't he be on the floor running CTU!?
8) How did the Russian guy from X-Files get into perfect position to use a rocket launcher against the CTU helicopter in that amount of time? Why didn't he wait until all of the agents and Acaveda were on board before blowing it up? Wouldn't that have made the most sense?
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How could I possibly watch this show after Jack's wife lost her memory in season one?
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WerePlatypus, you can get away with donkey punching Kim Bauer once for laughs, but after the 7th and 8th time it just gets kind of insulting and mean. Know what I'm sayin?
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but looking at that babyface of Freddie Prinze Jr makes to want to bash it in. No gravitaaaass.
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Of Lester from "Chuck" (the Indian lesbian, according to Awesome's father) and Jason Schwartzman.
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anyone that asks that question should be kicked in the groin straight away
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By now, even with the "new" CTU, there is a sort of insane cult of Jack. Someone ALWAYS gives Jack what he wants. Here's how it should end. Daughter and granddaughter get somehow killed because of Jack. At this point, Bauer has served his country in a thousand ways, day in and day out for 30 years or so. In return, he has been shot, accused of all manner of things, left to rot in a chinese prison for a few years and only brought back so that SOMEONE ELSE COULD KILL HIM, lost a wife, a badass girlfriend (Nina. . . mmmmmmm), had to fake his death twice (which does God knows what to a federal pension) and now had a dead daughter and granddaughter. This is the time for Jack to decide that the USA is evil. He secretly springs the equally insane Tony from prison, and starts making increasingly insane requests from the president, who grants them. He is eventually given a live nuke, which he drives into the white house while Tony takes one to some government continuity facility in colorado or whenever. White screen, series over.
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she would take at least 6 beers and some very blue balls to go near that
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And Grandpa Jack will need to come to the rescue of the little one
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of him being the Jack Bauer replacement aren't true. Last night I remembered why I can't stand the guy. The guy has zero chrisma.
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Jack is living with his granddaughter in an isolated rural area. Jack is visted by an old friend from the govt and told that someone is taking out former colleagues of his. He tries to recruit Jack, but Jack is not interested, the govt guy leaves a couple of soldiers as bodyguards.
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didn't anyone else catch that his grandkid (Jack a grandpa, imagine that) is named for her dead grandma? And what's wrong with the son in law? Awfully meek fellow. Kim must wear that pants in that arrangement.As for judging the season so far, any 24 vet knows that things usually change tack within the first four to five hours. The initial threat and secondary bad guy take a fall, only to reveal the true plot and the real mastermind.
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Okay, so the actor ain't the most gorgeous actress on TV, but seeing her on the Tonight Show, she's much better looking when smiling and not displaying Chloe's constant scowl. Just a little observation.
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Of course Jack must have lost the old one at some point. http://bit.ly/6oTwkO
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Jan 18, 2010 10:05:15 AM CST
If Katee Sackhoff turns out to be a frakking angel in the last e
by fireclown
I'm throwing punches.
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Not sure if this was intentional or not but I thought it was funny the way Chloe said to Jack (after he decides to help her) something along the lines of, "Thanks for sticking around....help us out and then you can be on your way to California". Was that a way of saying "thanks for sticking with the show....soon we'll be making a movie"? Or am I just crazy.
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"'Cause I call y'all "cock smoking morons."
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... is the sharpie guy from the UPS commercials... right?
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Seriously, his hair is ridiculous. How does it defy gravity like that? How is this man conducting these peace talks after having been apparently struck by lightning?
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Honestly, is it even remotely believable that someone working for the government would not know who Jack Bauer is? Hell, I bet a lot of the general population knows who he is.
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...but for crying out loud, can they shake it up already? And I don't just mean moving the show to NY. They really just need to end it with an everyone versus Jack season. But I suppose it's not like they're coming up with many new shows lately, so I guess it's fine to stretch it out. Which reminds me, why hasn't Herc posted anything on Whedon's possibly FX deal?
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I mean, that is one fucked up haircut. I pretty much just assumed he was the mole/evil from the very beginning based SOLELY on his evil fucking haircut. That shit is weird. Only a crazy, coup-seeking pervert would have a haircut like that. People who kill their own brothers have haircuts like that. Honestly, that haircut singlehandedly made it too obvious for me to not trust him. He looks like a creepy little gay son of Demetri Martin and Jason Scwartzmann. I can't get over how much he was freaking me out.
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...because so far this season is unreeling at a more sedate pace than any since two, but a couple things I did and didn't like: Like: President Hassan's Super Elvis Hair. If there's not a plot point hidden in there I'll be disappointed. Like: Kim and Chloe working together to get Jack to stay. It was unexpected but it worked and added a little bit of depth to both Kim and Chloe. Like: Finally, we get a new selfish, incompetent, ass-covering head of CTU/whatever is taking its place for the season. I loved Bill, but Bill was always too decent. Like: pickaxe to chest resulting in double takedown. No explanation needed. Like: Oddly enough, since I usually detest him, Freddie. In his current role. I'm sure those rumors are nonsense, though. No one could think this guy could carry the show. Like: Katee. She could be a real good fit for this show, and she and Freddie could be a cute little Tony and Michelle echo...except... Didn't Like: Hillbilly-palooza. This subplot gives me queasy flashbacks to the Sean Astin shenanigans. Also, in the future 24 posits there are only urban centers with extremely affluent suburbs and great nearly barren stretches of trailer courts connecting them. If this is true, what has Jack Bauer really saved? Didn't Like: Jack Bauer is now such a legend that just saying his name will strike people dumb. Actually, this part I liked. But...that crazy woman who was so instrumental in four of the things he did? You know, the one who found out stuff no one else even knew was there to be found, who spun laptops on her fingers while she bounced a mainframe on her nose...she's barely got a job, and even in context with Bauer we act like we don't even know who she is. Didn't Like: "I'm the butt covering head of CTU. I'm so craven that if you threaten to tell somebody what an incompetent blowhard I am I'll be so scared I cave right in." But if he's so butt-covering and so scared he wouldn't up the ante by letting Jack take a gun and a bag and hunt down this "unlikely" lead himself. Because then he's in a no-win situation. If it doesn't pan out, maybe he slides on showing deference to Jack's reputation, but there will still be the question as to why he broke so many protocols. If it does the more serious question becomes why he didn't follow up with his own agents. Now, looking back in the Book of Chapelle I find this passage: "When blackmailed into action ye wish not to take; promise they who would do est thou ill what they desireth. Let falsity flow from thine mouth like manna, and exit thy foes to stage left; To those out of sight no promise made must long endure." And then Freddie could have given Jack back his sack, handed over his own piece and the show could have proceeded, with a better bureaucratic foe and a more interesting dynamic.
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tank you, tank you veddy much
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Horace from Lost as the early mini-bad henchman is cool. I wonder how many episodes he will last though... Will he make it to mid season or be replaced by someone else long before that? Too bad about "Son of a Bitch" Aceveda buying it in the first episode, I would have liked to have seen him around for a while. I liked that they referenced the Salazar case from season 3.
Chloe is as scowly as ever, and yeah, the actress is a lot more attractive when she's not playing Chloe. Katee Sackhoff looks good with the long hair. Freckles tonight... wonder how much of a hard ass she's become. Can she top Jack's axe double kill? Probably not... -
Yum !
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Have kept my eye out for this guy since his two episode stint as Tooms (the elastic guy) on X Files. But, did he gain about 10 pounds, all in his face?
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I can handle myself, even up against you." Famous last words, as Rob is clearly plotting Kanen's death.
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I don't think you need to typecast actors, but her acting so happy and sunny is strange. Probably a good reason for her to take the job. So she's not always playing the tomboy-ish ass kicking crazy chick.
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Uh, why? Just curious. How is she "unattractive"? Just cause she's ginger don't me she ain't hot.
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Seriously, and she's n ot even that hot. I don't understand what her appeal is beyond some geek cred for BSG, of which she was the worst part.
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Kim will die, and Jack will get to raise his grandaughter. That should be the ending to the show, Jack and Rack raising Jack's grandaughter.
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I caught Mary Lynn on Conan, and she's actually really funny. Chloe is still annoying as hell, and still far from attractive, but I like the actress alot better.
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You can go back to hating her again.
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That's messed up.
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like, the actress?
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Iranian Tony Stark.
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Are distractingly hot.
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I wouldn't fuck her with YOUR dick. And it's not the ginger thing, Lord Christ knows how many I've had the pleasure of tapping.
Freckles just has some kind of alien forehead thing going on or something. She looks like the kind of woman who ends up chain smoking in your face until one day she throws the divorce papers on the table. Yeah, she's got a great rack and freckles, but in HD it looks like she's almost fifty years old or something. I'd rather go for the 18 year old version if I've gotta put up with that alien forehead. Long story short: I'd hit it from behind and never call her extraterrestial ass again. -
Last year she did a stint on Nip/Tuck? She was into taking hits from the anesthesia and having daredevil sex... if I remember correctly. Then, they recast her part to Rose McGowan (if I remember correctly) and didn't even bother to change her fucking hair to blonde! AND, the character was completely different (but still, same name and same relationship to one of the main characters). That show is a fucking train wreck now, but it will be over soon... I still watch though.
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This little story angle, along with the mention of her husband being downsized, seems to be some kind of comemntary about the current state of the economy both in the real world and the 24 universe. However, someone with her apparent computer skills should have no problem getting a high paying job in the private industry and shouldn't have to settle for what seems to be a miserble job back at CTU again. In fact, her husband Morris was quite the techno-whiz too and should equally be able to land a great job in the private industry. So I don't like this whole story angle portraying her as struggling to keep this shitty job like it's the only thing she can get. And if she and her family are struggling so bad financially, why are they living in fucking NEW YORK where the cost of living is insane and taxes are ridiculously high?! She and her family should move out to the midwest somewhere. Her and Morris could probably do really well in some private corporate security jobs, similar to Jack's plan for when he moves back to California.
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It wouldn't be a talk back without someone saying how ugly some hot actress is.
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We're talking about a show where moles pop up constantly in CTU and in the highest levels of government, where you can TUNNEL THROUGH A WALL TO INVADE THE WHITE HOUSE, where you can be shot in the neck but back running CTU in a few hours after surgery, etc etc. It's all in good fun!
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She's funny and less annoying in real life.
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I think I'll skip this season. Thanks Brannon Braga for ruining a good thing.
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Both my wife and I were in agreement.
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transvestite.
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... that hasn't already been said about Afghanistan?
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And she's 10 times the actress.
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I have zero problem with that. as for the forehead, just more room to shoot.
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If my dick is severed and then used to fuck Freckles, I would not appreciate that. Unless it was videotaped and my dick was replaced with a robo-penis that had heightened sensation.
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Jan 18, 2010 6:56:48 PM CST
How many would fuck the 'Manny 'out of Sackhoff Tranny?
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
That is, if some of you fap-fap cheetos eating geeks could find your limp dicks underneath the folds blubbering flesh.
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Are we using this for 24 Part II talk back?
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Was for "Give him back his bag".
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How long until the Daleks show up??
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Ridiculous subplot hangups already? In hour 3?
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Thank you. I couldn't quite get the Daleks joke in there.
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Can easily track down andjust summon federal agents from their offices.
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Might be the worst character on 24 since the cougar.
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That's the only thing that makes sense, but what a horrible choice of character traits.
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Probably. Which was probably on the dartboard.
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I really can't wait for characters to start getting shot.
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On the next one going down?
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Needs something to happen to him quick! Or his personality needs to change at the very least.
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Blow up the whole fucking building.
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Is fucking awesome. Anyone who doesn't think so is... well, to each their own.
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is just too against anything that could possibly be helpful. It wouldn't surprise me if he's in on it.
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It's really bad, girlish hair.
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I think maybe he just wasn't ready for the job and is trying too hard to be by the book. Jack will take him down a few pegs and then he'll be o.k. ...maybe.
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Jack AND Chloe will take him down a few pegs.. then he'll be o.k.
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"Jack just got that cop killed."
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DO NOT EVER OFFER TO DRIVE JACK BAUER SOMEWHERE!!!! RIP Police dude. :(
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Let's start with you. Lol.
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Katee Sackhoff is just awful at this.
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My personal fave with Chloe a close second should be poppin' in here soon!
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The cop knows how it goes. Hope he has a good episode.
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Look into your heart you know it's true
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Just got a timely save by the Jack Sack.
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Jan 18, 2010 8:10:05 PM CST
Why is Hastings walking stoop shouldered
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
Looks like a cross between Pacino and a pimp
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i was just about to ask the same thing about ctu director quasimodo
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At least, not right away.
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Maybe Hastings was stuck in the same submarine?
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Hastimodo?
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and a new name is born
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HastiBubba. But with that lip tucked back in, he's lost the Bubba character from Forrest Gump
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Jan 18, 2010 8:17:21 PM CST
So is Hastimodo a bumbling CYA bureaucrat, or just stupid?
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
Can chloe scowl more even when she gets good news?
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Jan 18, 2010 8:19:27 PM CST
Farhad was probably a half brother anyway
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
Look how short he was?
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This one gonna stick!
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Why has she looked half retarded this season? She always has this confused look on her face that is supposed to be anger I guess.
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I like this more~!
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Humpback walk FTW
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Jan 18, 2010 8:26:39 PM CST
Its's that Amex card spending points on dress bitch
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
In a Olive Garden commercial!
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We missed you two! Uh...you.
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Jan 18, 2010 8:27:24 PM CST
Renee looks ridden hard and put away wet
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
But that chest is smackin!
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Better pick up.
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Really, small talk isn't gonna work. Just make out in the elevator
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"GodDAMN, that's some big-ass hair."
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I like the idea of Chloe and Freckles scissoring.
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...she obviously want to get in his sack!
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Leoben?
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I mean, if I'm putting my ass on the line, first person I wanna talk to is payroll to make sure I'm back on the fucking books. Chloe and Buchanan last year chasing down shit for nobody in particular, now Renee and Jack just basically volunteering to be shot at...Morons.
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Jack can go 24+ hours with out relieving himself. I'm guessing he does that by not eating. Renee is learning theways of the Jack.
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just take this so she could play the exact opposite of Starbuck, so she could avoid being typecast? Because otherwise, I don't see why she'd want to be such a shitty character.
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...the scuzzy man from Starbuck's white trash past is currently the most inane thing on the show. Bleh.
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Sorry Hack Bauer. You've been replaced!
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Bitchin
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She harder than Jack now.
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Rack is all fucked up. Nice.
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Jan 18, 2010 9:01:11 PM CST
What if a cock ring couldn't come off?
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
Dayum -that bitch is insane
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Doesn't only cut herself apparently.
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Holy shit. Rack just channeled season 2 Jack for that shit. Good lord.
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Jan 18, 2010 9:07:11 PM CST
So yeah, if i'm the guy whose dick hand was cut
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
I'm totally helping the bitch who did it. Must be a Russian thing like cutting off a finger with the Yakusa. Yeah.
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that was EXACTLY what I was thinking. Renee now has Jack's sack!
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Nuff said.
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I wonder if he will be all freaky about when he sees Starbuck
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We didn't get a huge body count or even a decent attack...but holy dog shit Rack Bauer turns me on, and now thats she has clearly lost her goddamn mind, I like her even more. Even Jack couldn't believe that shit. I love this theme of everyone who comes into contact with Bauer just ends up broken and fucked up. It's awesome that it took someone in the direction of being like Jack to the max. She's capable of anything. Awesome.
Starbuck, on the other hand, is by far the worst storyline running. First of all, it's just retarded that this whole thing is, of course, coming to a head on "this day of all days!!!" It's just ridiculous. Also, even if she has a hidden past, at this point, she's clearly very trusted, she could explain herself, at the very least to her fiance, and have him beat the daylights out of her. People are understanding, and once they met that guy, they woulnd't blame her. She's a federal employee, and she handed him the key to her house. Are you kidding me? That was just beyond belief. Utterly retarded. -
with the Starbuck situation is if someone specifically researched her involved with the plot and deliberately sent him to her so that she would be off her game while they were planning their attack. Unless it's somehow integrated within the overall story, it's utterly useless.
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A chance to redeem his performance in Heroes...which to be fair, wasn't bad. It was just the rest of that season.
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the apprentice is now the freckled master
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Where is everyone? Those were two awesome hours of 24.
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Weird.
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If there's a decent writer anywhere near the show, that Frak Bauer subplot is resolved for good no later than episode 6 or 7, because it's just awful. It's like when Sam-Wise's sister showed up and stole his keycard...although, he was targeted, wasn't he...I dunno. All I know is they've dropped this on a character that isn't even a character yet, and it's dull as shit, and seems completely pointless.
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Needs to do a little lesbian dom with thing with Chloe.
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Not too much to complain about except the fucking requisite soap opera interlude with Starbuck and her hick brother.
Yes, it's a bit predictable, but I think making this show unpredictable would be amazingly difficult now given how we can see most of the twists coming a mile off, and if they came out of nowhere, people would complain that they were "cheap".
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I keep seeing that brief shot in teaser commercials and was disappointed that it wasnt in the premiere.
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We had to wait 3 1/2 hours (24time) until Freckles pops up and all we get to see her saw a guy's thumb off? (I guess the bath towel scene is next week.)When did she have time to go undercover in a year's time? I thought Freckles said she handed in her badge after getting in trouble interrogating that guy last season. Then Chloe asked her about the security job in which Freckles said she left.I guess as long as Jack and Freckles rack up a large body count, the plot doesn't really matter. So far, Jack, Chloe, and Freckles are the only good thing about the show this season.
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She chopped off his whole hand!
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Jan 18, 2010 11:42:47 PM CST
Ya, thought I was watching something different with the 'finger
by necros
half his arm was laying on the ground. I wonder if Behrooz will show up in this season. That Farrah guy is like Bizarro Fabio Behrooz. Bubba is more or less channeling his role from HEAT. So far Starbuck and Rack's over acting is pretty bad. Wish 24 because of the characters, content has special guest directors like Sopranos or other HBO shows, I know with Rothman impossible. But imagine a 24 episode directed by Michael Mann, David Chase, etc. Would be cool. But obviously never happen.
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You could see the rest of his hand, fingers still attached, when they showed the close up of what Jack saw when he came in the store. Freckles was just giving him a little taste of what she has to offer! ;)
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The episode clearly stated that she went undercover SIX YEARS AGO in the Russian mob. It wasnt between season 7 and 8. Her expertise from her undercover period is why they pulled her back into this mess.
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Jan 18, 2010 11:56:49 PM CST
Wow, the whole Starbuck loves a douchebag thing is getting old..
by fsjguy
Really? a semi-intelligent woman loves that white trash loser? like really, i know women like bad guys but come on...this is already reaching ridiculous...even the stupidest woman on the planet would have said screw you long ago....
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That explanation is a plot hole because she wouldn't have been surprised of Jack's method's (if she did indeed go undercover)last season. Remember, she was a buy the book agent. Remember the line that her boss Larry said about Renee knowing Jack for 8 hours and already he's rubbed off on her his methods. (I'm paraphrasing.)
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The tracker was on his wrist.
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with tits. That subplot with Dana Walsh is contrived an unnecessary. I hate lazy writing and plot devices.
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Rack Bauer is going to be the saving grace of this season. She blew the roof off the place tonight.
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There's always a shitty side-story distracting one of the players at CTU. Remember when the lady running CTU had a retarded daughter? Or Samwise's drug rehab sister? Or the chick who has a history of falsely reporting workplace sexual harassment?
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"THAT'S WRONG!"
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Man, she was bat-shit crazy. Hated that subplot.
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So that we could see her character die a horrible death in a terrorist attack on the new CTU :)
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I seriously just want Freddy to bust in and shoot his ass already. End of story.
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But she's still five times hotter than Starbuck.
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from the first ep, LMAO@ dick sucking aceveda from the shield going into a crack house, probably to suck some newfound dick. And then he thinks his butt buddy is taking a shower. So, if you think someone is taking a shower… you dramatically pulls back the curtain??what if dude was alive? HAHAHAH faggot shit. Then we got arab dirty old mikey across the street watching shit go down, and Fake Tony as a sniper. I fuckin love this already! YES 3 minutes in and we get someone hotwiring a car within 10 seconds.
HAHA here we have President Slumdog and the got damn Prince of Persia as his shift eyed sidekick. Im expecting this dude to start jumping off walls rocking the sands of time and shit. I already see parallels between Palmer and his bro and these 2 dudes. Interesting, would be ill if it held up.
I love this slow build so far in the first 15-20 minutes - aw shit -
LOL black man fucking up and pulliing that “hey mah brotha watch mah back brotha” bullshit. Affirmative action hire. Zzzz. why the ONE black guy they hired had to be a fuck up? man aint no black people anywhere near this show and the one they get is looking for white people to watch his ass. SMH.
LMAO@ the hacksaw 2010 moment. Freckles had her Day 1 last year, and this is her Day 2, in the same place mentally that Bauer was. Brought in by CTU to help with some emergency, talks to a dude and fucks him up badly while being cold as a motherfucker. only this time jack is surprised dude like the ctu director was. its like some back to the future alternative universe shit going down here. arill, its great to have her back. the screen just light up when she arrived, and i loved her showing emotion when jack walked in. but i digress.
oh man i love when Officer Herc makes the worst decision of his entire life. He must be related to James Crowley or some shit, i mean how out of all the times u could do some fucked up shit u do it to a man who has a line to the president, is working with CTU to find an assassin? Herc's life is completely FUCKED right now. All because he crossed Jack fucking Bauer. just think about how he is gonna try and explain that one tomorrow. Jack will get up in his ASS. On the flip side, Officer Chank has to be feeling pretty good about himself, just basking in the glow of Bauer's aura probably made his dick grow about 3 inches. Congrats kid, while u still cant fill out a magnum, at least u can rock a regular ole trojan without it flapping in the wind like a got damn parachute.
excellent fun for 4 hours, save the fucking black guys playing basketball shirtless in queens running up on a random white man, cuz i guess thats what the writers think black guys do. other than that and Agent Gump being a shitty CTU head, this is alot of fun. cant wait til next week! BLACK JACK BAUER OUT -
how does that shit work again?
test -
from the first ep, LMAO@ dick sucking aceveda from the shield going into a crack house, probably to suck some newfound dick. And then he thinks his butt buddy is taking a shower. So, if you think someone is taking a shower… you dramatically pulls back the curtain??what if dude was alive? HAHAHAH faggot shit. Then we got arab dirty old mikey across the street watching shit go down, and Fake Tony as a sniper. I fuckin love this already! YES 3 minutes in and we get someone hotwiring a car within 10 seconds.
HAHA here we have President Slumdog and the got damn Prince of Persia as his shift eyed sidekick. Im expecting this dude to start jumping off walls rocking the sands of time and shit. I already see parallels between Palmer and his bro and these 2 dudes. Interesting, would be ill if it held up.
I love this slow build so far in the first 15-20 minutes - aw shit -
LOL black man fucking up and pulliing that “hey mah brotha watch mah back brotha” bullshit. Affirmative action hire. Zzzz. why the ONE black guy they hired had to be a fuck up? man aint no black people anywhere near this show and the one they get is looking for white people to watch his ass. SMH.
LMAO@ the hacksaw 2010 moment. Freckles had her Day 1 last year, and this is her Day 2, in the same place mentally that Bauer was. Brought in by CTU to help with some emergency, talks to a dude and fucks him up badly while being cold as a motherfucker. only this time jack is surprised dude like the ctu director was. its like some back to the future alternative universe shit going down here. arill, its great to have her back. the screen just light up when she arrived, and i loved her showing emotion when jack walked in. but i digress.
oh man i love when Officer Herc makes the worst decision of his entire life. He must be related to James Crowley or some shit, i mean how out of all the times u could do some fucked up shit u do it to a man who has a line to the president, is working with CTU to find an assassin? Herc's life is completely FUCKED right now. All because he crossed Jack fucking Bauer. just think about how he is gonna try and explain that one tomorrow. Jack will get up in his ASS. On the flip side, Officer Chank has to be feeling pretty good about himself, just basking in the glow of Bauer's aura probably made his dick grow about 3 inches. Congrats kid, while u still cant fill out a magnum, at least u can rock a regular ole trojan without it flapping in the wind like a got damn parachute.
excellent fun for 4 hours, save the fucking black guys playing basketball shirtless in queens running up on a random white man, cuz i guess thats what the writers think black guys do. other than that and Agent Gump being a shitty CTU head, this is alot of fun. cant wait til next week! BLACK JACK BAUER OUT -
in my mind was Erin Driscoll's daughter. The whole Maya thing was torture.And Rack Bauer is arguably Jack's best partner since season one. Helluva better match than Audrey Raines.
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Isn't that the next subplot?
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BATSHIT INSANE WOMEN. You know this is true and you know it's dead on accurate, the most realistic part of 24! Dana Walsh giving her house key to this hick asshole: INSANE. Rack sawing off this guy's hand (or maybe it was his thumb): INSANE (but awesome, like Jack S2). The only character that hasn't had many insane moments is Chloe... for all her scowly personality disordered madness, she usually makes the right decisions! The other women on this show... BATSHIT INSANE!
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Freddie Prinze Jr not ruin the show. I thought he wasn't bad at all.
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She's the only reason I'm staying with the show.
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like Meryl Streep. He has the charisma of a head of lettuce and the acting chops of a rotting corpse.
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Conveniently had taken a class in nuclear power so was able to move the plot forward for that season, if I recall correctly.
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Chances are if Sutherland doesn't come back for s9 he is the new lead.
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Why the fuck is he always sliuching like he's in a room with a very low ceiling.
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I mean, shockingly bad. HE is the head of field Ops? Christ.
Frediie is lucky he can still get acting jobs. -
David Palmer(D) - elected 2000
Geffrey Keeler(R)- 2004
replaced by Charles Logan(R)
Wayne Palmer(D) 2008
replaced by Noah Daniels(D) who lost to
Allison Taylor(R) 2012.
So 24 takes place in 2013/2014 unless Logan was elected in 2008 in which case it's 4 years later.
Does anyone remember if Logan won an election or just filled in after Keeler was incapacitated?
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looking pretty average in this ep, we need some decent scenery on the show
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the guy has it made, fucks Buffy, can't act and still gets work
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it is absolutely terrible.
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I'm surprised everyone is getting their panties in a bunch about Starbuck's subplot? Seems like obvious misdirection to me, making viewers think she's a victim, when she's really the mole.
Hello! She doesn't want her ex-boyfriend/brother around to blow her cover...not to blow her wedding. She gave him her keys to get him the fuck outta there, now she's on her way home to kill his ass. Put the guy you want dead in a place where you can easily find him, cut off his glue-sniffing head, leave the mess @ home and go back to work. LOL
Loved Chloe's plan to call Kim. That was wicked. After she unsuccessfully played the guilt card on Jack and he walked away from her, SHE STAYED THERE! How cool was that?! She had the ace up her sleeve in Kim, and when Jack looked over Kim's shoulder to see Chloe still sulking, hahahaha you knew Jack said to himself, "Well played Chloe. Well played."
Producer's did a great job casting this season! David Anders? Fuck ya! Callum Rennie? Fuck ya! Anil Kapoor? Fuck ya! Anil Kapoor's hair? Fuck ya! Domenick Lombardozzi? Fuck ya! Freddie Prinze Jr.? Umm. Okay, I'll just stop there. But maybe he'll be okay like one-eyed Rickey?
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Compared to what I was expecting, he was OK, especially at the very end of Episode 3 with his heroic car chase. On a different note though, I'm a little surprised by the number of known actors in it this season, most of whom don't seem to hang around for long. Aceveda lasted just one episode, and who knows if we are going to see Herc again.
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His recovery from the brutal beating Herc dished out was Wolverine-like.
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Is this the earliest that a head of CTU has ever put their trust in Jack? Hastings realizes that it was a fuckup and may be willing to follow Jack's lead from now on... which means that it can't be long till the assholes from DIVISION show up!
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Jan 19, 2010 10:03:52 AM CST
Surprised that nobody has commented on Hastings being none other
by chimpjnr
Bubba Gump.
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Ya, he's not terrible. He has a long way to go to compare to Chase or Black Bauer. He can't even lace Lee Castle's boots yet! But somehow he fits w/ New York...seeing him run to the chopper with the Italian red-shirt CTU agent, he kinda fit. And if a character actually listens to Jack, that's usually an immediate merit badge of credibility w/ the audience, because even after everything nobody listens to Jack.
What if Starbuck is Jonas Hodge's daughter? Didn't he have a slight southern drawl? LOL I'm reaching, but there's something to her. And a big thank-you to the 24 wardrobe dep't for letting Starbuck wear that black evening dress to work, which we'll now see ALL DAY. No Michelle Dessler pant suit for our girl Starbuck! -
The word hack is too good to describe Prinze.
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...on Kim Bauer's face or Freckle's rack?
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Both inside and out. I'm surprised that there isn't a velvet rope outside.
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Jan 19, 2010 11:12:10 AM CST
BigTuna - That is why his new name is Hastimodo
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
Hastimodo - hunched over like his his older brother, quasi.
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Killing off Bill Buchanen was the worst thing the writers ever did. Hastings is worthless. Maybe he will drop dead from uranium poisoning or something.
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chimpjnr, Search this thread for the word bubba. You are late to the party, son.
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That's a BIG statement to be making. There are some strong contenders for the title of worst ever CTU Chief. Samwise was definitely down there with the worst, as was Erin Driscoll. The real question is how long will he survive? I think I'm correct in saying that Bill Buchanan holds the record for the longest surviving holder of the role (though granted he did not die whilst in office, so to speak).
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And I have no excuse as I haven't just turned up at the party either.
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If she is, I doubt she's an abuse victim, because she would just go ice her ex-boyfriend stalker. I think she's got a criminal past or she's a former homegrown terrorist turned good guy or something, and now her past in catching up with her.
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None of you idiots can even say hi to Blackjack? This talkback is doomed.
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The only man who ever came close to being a black Jack Bauer was Action Jackson.
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...is the worst CTU director, edging out Erin Driscoll. Samwise is 3rd in awful-osity. Guys who worry more about political crap always take top billing in my little corner of the universe. Great start to the season overall though!
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has that weird ginga thing going n. her forehead/eyes are strange. she reminds me of carrot top.
the one thing i do like - she clearly sucked a lot of russian cock when she was undercover. nice.
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need a real vacation. Agree with all of you about Starbuck's subplot. She needs to go home and just shoot him and be done with it. You work for CTU goddammit! You make people disappear for a living. Hastimodo needs to pulll his head out of his ass stat. He is the worse CTU head they have ever had and that's saying a lot. There have only been 2 good bosses for them Bill "TC Mcqueen" Buchanan and George Mason. Mason was smart enough to to let Jack do his thing and they both gave their lives for their country.
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must get off on playing abused/ fucked up women. Starbuck, the rape victim in Law and Order, Nip/ Tuck. And this whole mole in CTU subplot shit again?? WTF?! I swear, working for CTU is a fucking demotion for government workers. Hell, any gov't job they do a rigorous background check. Not so with CTU, I guess. Any trailer trash can change their name, take a class at ITT tech, and get a job in this Bizarro world US gov't. Good thing we have meathead redneck cops to set things straight and hold up the chow line! Poor Jack. Gone for a few years (in TV time) and suddenly not relevant anymore. "Who's Jack Bauer?" For that you get a kick in the nards, noob.
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Maybe we'll get a from behind panty shot this season.
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Emo Freckles cutting off that dude's hand was the only thing that didn't put me to sleep.
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...in that shower scene they're running in the commercials!
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Bring back Bill Buchanan, that sexy motherfucker.
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Jan 19, 2010 4:40:16 PM CST
Kapoor: "My hair will bring peace to the Middle East!"
by mrmysteryguest
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Jan 19, 2010 4:41:25 PM CST
Jack's gonna take care of Starbuck's greasy abusive boyfriend!
by mrmysteryguest
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Jan 19, 2010 4:42:43 PM CST
I smell a CTU spinoff from this season! Who's with me on that?
by mrmysteryguest
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that everyone is a retard but Jack. He is always right but no one ever listens to him. How many time do you have save the world before people figure out they should alway do what ever you say. "Blow this monkey or the world will end" I'll get right on it Jack.
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Emo Freckles vs. Zombie Nina Myers would be the cat fight to end all cat fights. Imagine how many hands would be dismembered!
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...and he's dead.
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I like the way that NYC CTU is a mirror of the classic LA CTU. There's East Coast Tony who's marrying East Coast Michelle. Meanwhile Fearless Leader (one for the Boomtown fans) is surely one step away from being replaced by someone from East Coast Division. Shame Davros got offed, hopefully Sarkov will step up to be a nice mid level boss before Jack unleashes MadRack on Judge Rico's ass.
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Look like an Islamic Giancarlo Giannini and Jason Schwartzman. I like Hassan so far though - he's defo going down the Palmer route so far. I'd quite like to see him get to kick some real ass though just so's I can start calling him Iraq Bauer :D
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to go "frak himself" right before she shoots him in the testicles. Sadly, I don't think that's going to happen.
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Definitely get a sense of a spin-off. The sheer amount of money that they spent on that CTU set alone needs to see some sort of return.
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Why cant Jack just bend Rack over a table and fuck the crazy out of her?
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Omar Hassan appears to be Persian, not Arab.
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That was just tabloid nonsense. Rush leaned in for a kiss when he had her cornered on a panel at the Heritage Foundation and that was it. She has apparently said "he has not bedded me and never will"
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completely ripped the idea of moving the witness/prisoner through the city from 16 Blocks
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I live in iIreland and watched these episodes online. A female jack!!! With a Rack!!!
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has an Indian accent, not Middle Eastern
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That said, her character sucks ass and pales in comparison to Freckles. I second SithMenace's motion for a Freckles panty shot. It also would be cool to see Prinze, Jr. kick the the ex-husbands dick in while wearing his Fred from Scooby Doo getup. Oh, and I respect the Garafolo love and her right to speak her mind. I just find her opinion to be completely unhinged and if I was a liberal (I'm not really a conservative either, so don't start with the left wing rules/right wing facist shit), I just wouldn't claim her as one of my sides' relevant voices.
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24 is a formula series... but its getting tired and the writers seem to be very lazy and not making sense. What they have done with Renee arc is just stupid. She was all weepy eyed and devastated by getting 'Jack-like' last year, but years before that she was deep undercover in the Russian mafia?
And we all know CTU's background checks have been very bad, but their lead tech person with the highest level of clearance changed her name and had an ex-boyfriend in prison? Without them knowing? And she rolls over and gets so scared by him showing up? Ugh
If they had swapped story lines with those 2 it would have worked better, even though the trailer trash storyline is just a lame time filler.
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Jan 21, 2010 8:58:52 PM CST
Not initially, it's like anything. You have to work your way up
by fireclown
GOLD! Keep this crazy bitch front and center.
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