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24 - Day 5

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OHMYFRIGGINGGOD!!!!!

For those of you in this fabulous community who watch it, and I'm sure there's many since there is a sense of impeccable taste here, will know what I'm talking about when I say that this season (day 5) of 24 is hands down the best since Day 1.

So why is there no thread for us to chat about it? (or Lost for that matter)

I'm in the UK and last year Day 4 was the only one I've actually watched as it was broadcast. The previous seasons I've bought the box sets, and watching it on 24 totally ruined it for me. What with the ad breaks, and only 1 episode a week!?! What's all that about?? I honestly don't know how people do it.

Anyway, I've been downloading it and me n the missus have been watchin it in 4 hours chunks. Tonight we watched eps 17-20, and just when I thought it couldn't get any better (or worse), it continues to blow me out of the water!

So who else is watching it? What dyou think of this season? And if this thread becomes popular, do we need to avoid spoilers?

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I personally think this is the worst season by far. It peaked during Season 3, and has gone downhill since.

SPOILERS FOR DAY 5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What with the casual, swat-of-a-fly killing of the only character besides Jack to be around for all 5 seasons (Mike Novick was absent in season 3 and most of 4), the almost arbitrary killing of one other such character and one to have been around since season 2, the increasingly far-fetched plot twists (the President, that fucking pussy, was the man behind everything? Give me a break - his character totally changed once that revalation is made), and the over-used plot "twist" of Jack going rogue and CTU trying to catch him only to realize that they "need" him again show that the writers are definitely making this up as they go along. It's poor plotting, and the reused storylines are really starting to bug me. It feels like an entirely different show from what we all fell in love with in Season 1.

Having said that, I'll still finish out this season at least - these last few episodes will determine whether I tune in for Season 6 or not, though.
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Why the hell are you giving spoilers for the current season???
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I warned there were spoilers, for Christ's sake - is that a problem? The episodes have already aired, you know.

And if you mean why am I bothering to give a spoiler warning for episodes that everyone's seen (which I don't think was what you meant, but I could be wrong), it's because there are people - I know a few - that are waiting for the DVD to come out that don't watch it when it airs on TV, and if they come here, I don't want to spoil surprises (badly-done though they may be) for them.
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Spoiler warnings are useful in this case because, while some folks (like ChainsawAsh, ADM and myself) keep up with the show week-to-week as it airs here in the US, there are other people who out of choice (my wife prefers to do season-set DVD marathons) or necessity (UKers who don't download torrents are several weeks behind--I guess it's what they get for seeing BSG before we do) aren't current with what happened before the last sequence of "dleek-kthoom" at XX:59:59 on the Bauer clock.

**So yeah, like, there might be some spoilers and stuff below.**

I was a little disappointed a few weeks ago when Chloe didn't smack Miss I-was-a-chemistry-major-nobody-better-fuckin'-touch-me with her laptop, but seeing her zap hotel-bar-dude not once but twice definitely made up for it. However, by sending her out into the field late in the season twice in a row, they've set a tricky precedent for next year.

I'm still undecided as to whether I'm intrigued or frustrated by the idea that terrorist plots are like ogres. Just when we thought we'd worked through all the oniony layers to the core duo (no Intel reference intended) of Logan and Henderson, we see that the helicopter falling off the roof of that Chicago hospital was simply a way for Dr. Rocket Romano to disappear into his lair of headset-wearing puppet-mastery. Or is he merely another, bigger marionette than Bierko and the others? Is John Malkovich behind it all? Tune in next week, same Bauer-time, same Bauer-channel!





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Ah... I thought they were spoilers of episodes to come, sorry.
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Potential Spoilers...

To be honest, I loved the season at first. I was thrilled with how action packed it all was. But, as time went on, I was getting a bit bummed out. I suddenly realized that it seemed as though they had run out of original ideas and were just heaping in the deaths of main characters to compensate for this lack of creativity. I was really bummed about the deaths of Edgar and Tony. Seemed completely pointless deaths to me. Didn't really help the plot flow at all.

However, since they got out of CTU and Homeland Security came into the picture, it has returned to its thrilling old self again. And only one more main character has died (Sec. of Defense)! Yay! So I'm all about this show once again. Jack is badass!
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Here be spoilers ... read at your own risk.









I continue to wonder why I'm so addicted to the show when the writing is so positively abyssmal so much of the time. Jack is a complete badass -- one of TV's coolest characters ever -- yet the writers give short shrift to his supporting cast, regularly channelling their inner Roger Corman. I just don't get it some times.

Case in point this week: Chloe zapping the obnoxious dude was priceless. One of the highlights of the year for me. But then nothing came of it. Now, anybody who has heard a tazer go off in a quiet room knows every head turns to know what the hell that sound was. Nobody looked. Then apparently nobody noticed the body slouched beside her for half an hour. I wanted fallout to come as a result of this, because Chloe is an analyst, not a field agent. She would make a tactical error like that that could jeopardize what she's doing. But her no-B.S. demeanor would brilliantly devise a way to talk herself out of pretty much anything. Great potential, horrible execution once again.

For anybody who finds some of the finer points of the show wretched (as I do) but still can't get enough, check out Dave Barry's 24 Blog at the Miami Herald. Truly priceless commentary.
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