24 Live another day

With less then an hour to go until it airs I figured I should start this thread.  I don't know about anyone else but I have avoided all spoilers so I am stoked for the return of 24.  I don't care if it got a little silly in latter years 24 has always existed in a silly action movie universe but it is the king of action on Tv if you ask me and with this new series seemingly taking place in London to shake things up I am stoked.

I need a fun escape for a couple of hours tonight and this looks to be it.

I don't know about anyone else but I can't wait for it to start.

Well that is how you kick off a season or a mini series.  So many things up in the air and when are people going to learn not to go after Jack's friends and family? I don't care what he says,Chloe is his friend and I think he would have done all this even if he didn't need her.

Oh and was that Miranda from Mass Effect?  I'll have to check on IMDB but from the voice I think it was.

24 is back and it is good!

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Well that is how you kick off a season or a mini series.  So many things up in the air and when are people going to learn not to go after Jack's friends and family? I don't care what he says,Chloe is his friend and I think he would have done all this even if he didn't need her.

Oh and was that Miranda from Mass Effect?  I'll have to check on IMDB but from the voice I think it was.

24 is back and it is good!

Yes it was, she was also in Dexter.

I'll have to check that out.  I have to say from watching her I think she could play her character from the game in live action. She is a good actress and I like her character in this.  Oh and there was a character named Shepard.

Oh and I am really mad at Jack right now.  After all the times Chloe refused to believe the worst about him and put herself at risk for him he should have trusted her and anyone she choose to work with. She would not work with bad people. He should have showed the same trust in her that she showed in him.

Oh and Bashir and Yates mentioned in the same sentence? I'd say Manny Coto is letting his Trekie statis show.

If everyone was doing what Jack says the series would be called "12".

Well at least this time people had a believable reason to not listen to Jack(what with him being a fugitive and all)and it looked like Miranda(Sorry I am blanking on her name in the show at the moment and I have played ME2 about a dozen times)was going to stop Yates if they hadn't come under fire.

I Have to say i love the plot twist of Jack only being captured because he wanted to be there,Jack is now on par with The Joker. 

Oh and everyone was looking at the chief of staff like he was a jerk for shouting down the President but I don't see how he was. If you have ever seen footage of parliament then you know that is exactly what happens. If you think our politics can get dirty well then line on the floor of parliament is there to keep the members from coming to blows and people are shouted at all the time.  I hate to say it but I am starting to agree with that guy,I don't think the president is up for this.

Also I am not sure what the larger plan is and it will be interesting to see it play out.

Oh and Steven freaking Fry as the PM!

Oh and on a side note this may just be me but am I the only one who is always just a little weirded out whenever I see and hear a voice that I only know from a cartoon character coming out of a real person's mouth.  I don't know what it is but whenever I see say Homer Simpson or in this case Miranda Lawson's voice coming out of a real person's mouth it just feel wrong somehow.

I guess it's just seeing her in a nonanimated form,because as I said I could see her playing the part in live action.  It doesn't ruin anything for me it just feels a bit off hearing that voice and seeing that face in live action.  I have no idea why.

Oh and the fight between Jack and the drug dealers lasted about as long as I thought it would,all of thirty seconds.  You know low level gang members should really just run away when he show up,it's like they are red shirts and Jack is a new alien life form on an uncharted planet.

Tobar said:

[...]She's also in Chuck[...]

Yeah hopefully the new format works out all though I think part of me will miss the insane twist that we normally get to keep the story going for a full 24 hours.

Yeah,he really should learn to let some calls go to voice mail. He could at least hire a PA to help out so he can hand one of the cases over to him and get some sleep and maybe use the bathroom. After the times this has happened I hear Jack and his bladder are no longer speaking to each other.

I think Jack may have just destroyed any chance Heller has of getting that base(and that is fine by me,the last thing the world needs is another drone base snuffing out anyone the government doesn't like)I mean i don't see the British being in a very understanding mood once the media fills with unconfirmed reports that American guards fired on British protesters.

Oh and we got more Steven Fry in this episode,that is always a good thing.

Akwat Kbrana said:

Jack probably tinkles during the commercial breaks.

Tobar said:

TK-949 said:

If everyone was doing what Jack says the series would be called "12".

 As for this, I was referring to how Navarro chides Ritter about listening to Morgan because she's the best at her job. And then turns around and completely dismisses all the warnings from her about Bauer. Even going so far as dismissing her and having her escorted off the premises.

He's either the most incompetent leader ever or a double agent.

 Oh come on,don't be silly.  Captain Archer from Enterprise with his wonder mutt who pees on sacred trees still has him beat.

Also he could be both:)

Well that was intense and a perfect example of why I love 24.

Working with terrorist can lead to the loss of limbs,who could have seen that coming?!

Oh and it is time for weasel face to go,he has done nothing but screw up and commit crimes from second one of this season.

It looks like the shit is really going to get real next week and I can't wait.

Yeah It feels more focused and better paced because of the number of episodes have been cut in half.  Fox is talking about bringing the show back with 12 episodes a year and if this is the result I am all for it.  I think this is one of their best seasons so far.

Heller really showed his true colours this week and I hope he dies for it. He is a selfish man drunk on his own sense of power who doesn't give a damn about human life.  He has committed war crimes and when called out on it he has let other people die for his crimes,he has stood in the way of every attempt to stop these attacks not because he had bad info but because acting would cost him power and he would rather see people die then lose any power. When he talks about people dying he doesn't talk about the deaths themselves being tragic he talks about how it will cost him power. he doesn't care about any of the people who die and as long as he gets to keep his power and his life he doesn't care if the everyone in the country dies. None of this would have happened if Heller hadn't ordered the murder of children. His hands are just as dirty as the terrorists. If you ask me there are no good guys this season both sides are just as evil and I hope Jack takes them both down. I hope Chloe doesn't go back to being a government stood because it's clear Heller's government doesn't care about human life at all.

Last week jack showed that he was willing to die for a crime he didn't commit if it would save lives,this week Heller showed that he isn't willing to face the music for crimes he did commit and instead stood in the way of stopping the attacks and send men in to die just to save his own skin.

Instead of handing Morgan over to be tortured next week I wish Jack would just hand Heller over so that he could buy some time and end this.  If you ask me too many people have died for Heller already and he needs to answer for that.

NOW THAT IS WHAT i HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR ALL SEASON!

So many twists and turns and great character moments,I don't want to give away spoilers right now but I did not see that final moment coming.  This was one of the best episodes in the series' run and next week's episode looks to be even better.