"Official" 24 thread. Commentary

Aye, let the madness begin.
I've only saw the first episode

* I LOVED the Russian hit man. Too bad he's gone....There simply aren't enough roles in Hollywood for 5' 4'' overweight Russian dudes. It was so cool when the camera focused on that menacing look in his eyes. I was downright scared!!!

* A LL Cool J look a like is now the head of CTU. Although he doesn't seem to lick his lips as much as LL.

* Chloe still looks like she ate too many fiber-one bars in her dressing room.

* Interesting subplots with that new female CTU agent who wears a cocktail dress to her job at CTU.

- She was able to obtain a senior position at CTU and apparerntly high level security clearances, even though she just recently created a new identity for herself.

- I guess just no guy is good enough for her. She has 3 great options...

1. Fiance, who she clearly has no interst in, is handsome, devoted, all around good guy
2. Hillarious ex boyfriend...no paycheck, but who wouldn't want to party with this dude
3. Funny dude who hits on her when he is not using the fleet of unmanned drones over NYC (David, do we really have these?) to photograph women sunbathing at rooftop pools.
We shall see.

* The actress who plays president Taylor is not exactly Merryl Streep

* I was geniunly touched by Jack's relationship with his adorable baby grandaughter and the new nice Kim Bauer

* Couldn't care less about the new psycho Agent Mitchell. Please get rid of her.

* The Russian Mafia is "secretive to the point of paranoia" except that they have huge tatoos of the Kremlin on their chests.

* The new CTU in NYC looks like one heck of a dance club.

* This year's first protagonist, is the host from who wants to be a millionaire in the movie "slum dog", and is also now the president of the middle east country our Mrs President is about to sign a monumental peace agreement with. But someone wants him dead. Stay tuned.
 
Its all still on my DVR and I haven't even bothered to pick up where I left off.. 24 bores my soul... It had lost the charm for me..
Even when it's ridiculous and I want to just watch it to make fun of it.. it's boring.

MEH :(
 
Sorry to hear that Karen, I really enjoyed your re-caps of the show (almost as much as the show).

You are right, it has gone downhill, but I just can't seem to walk away. This years subplot with Dana if the worst yet, just horrible.
 
Yeah, Dana subplot blows. Would be a good season if they stopped spending so much fucking time on that. Hopefully she died in the EMP blast (which was cool and I think it'll be a nice turning point for the season to go to good).
 
And to make the Dana thing worse, they have firkin Milton from Office Space as the Parole Officer. I think he is going to turn out to be something other than a PO and this crap will be around all season. :puke:
 
Anyone still watching this? Last night's EMP blast was a pretty good twist.


SEEEECURRRRITYYYYYYYY

the dana subplot is fucking ridiculous. what parole officer is out at 3am bothering another government official in the middle of an international nuclear crisis and refusing to let her do her job?

I want renee to be badass renee again, and kick some ass. I could see tehran (or whatever) being another traitor from a mile away, but the twist with him not dying surprised me.