24

[Maximus]

Spoiler for spolier:

Starbuck in CTU? That is going to bug me

[BoylenOver]

I know this will largely be devoted to the current season, but I'm in the middle of season 2 right now. Holy moley. I get so intense watching it. It's really fantastic.

My understanding is season 1 is really good, season 2 is amazing, and it declines noticeably after that. Can that be corroborated?

[woot]

I know this will largely be devoted to the current season, but I'm in the middle of season 2 right now. Holy moley. I get so intense watching it. It's really fantastic.

My understanding is season 1 is really good, season 2 is amazing, and it declines noticeably after that. Can that be corroborated?

I can pretty much confirm. The writing in season 1 already had some huge problems (the episode with Jack's wife comes to mind) and it might be that I just got sick of the repetition of it all. It's really hard to tell whether the writing got worse or whether it just seemed that way for lack of creativity.

[Pheidippides]

I can pretty much confirm. The writing in season 1 already had some huge problems (the episode with Jack's wife comes to mind) and it might be that I just got sick of the repetition of it all. It's really hard to tell whether the writing got worse or whether it just seemed that way for lack of creativity.

I actually liked seasons 1-4. Seasons 5-7 weren't great, and the phrase "jumped the shark" ran through my head several times last night. This about a show where you have been asked - from the beginning - to repeatedly suspend disbelief.

[jay santos]

We already know what will happen. People will die. People will almost surely die, then be miraculously saved. There will be a mole in CTU. Good guys and bad guys will torture the shit out of people who may or may not have info to help them. Jack will save the day. I was a fan for a few seasons, but there's only so much you can do with that franchise.

[LiveCoug]

It is formulaic and very predictable, but I just have too much fun watching the dang show to give it up.

[Fiyero]

I thought seasons 4-5 were the best. Skip 6 entirely, it nearly killed the franchise.

[thesaint258]

I know this will largely be devoted to the current season, but I'm in the middle of season 2 right now. Holy moley. I get so intense watching it. It's really fantastic.

My understanding is season 1 is really good, season 2 is amazing, and it declines noticeably after that. Can that be corroborated?

I think there have been a couple of decent seasons since season two, but overall, it's not nearly as good. I forget which season it was, but halfway through I decided the writers had no idea what they were doing and were trying to cover their incompetence by having Jack run around like a chicken with his head cut off. My opinion was later confirmed when I read an article about 24, and one of the writers interviewed said that they didn't know where the story was going.

[TheBYUGuy]

It is formulaic and very predictable, but I just have too much fun watching the dang show to give it up.

I'm with you. This is basically the one thing on TV that my wife and I both get excited about watching together. We recognize its faults but we still enjoy it.

Now, back to Day 8: What is with the new blonde chick in CTU, the one with multiple identities? She looks very, well, unfeminine with those broad shoulders but I don't think that's the effect the directors and costumers are seeking with the sleeveless top. I predict in some future episode we'll find out that

Spoiler for secret prediction:

she has another secret identity--she was previously a man.

Renee will be back tonight and my eyes will be able relax a little.

[PaloAltoCougar]

I enjoy watching the show with our youngest. Whenever a new character is introduced we quickly announce our prediction as to his/her longevity ("Dead but later", "Dead, tonight", or "Lives!"). We've become uncannily accurate. Last night's call on the two cops in the alley way was easy. Neither of us saw the ax in the stairwell, though, so we had assigned longer lives to the two thugs chasing Jack and the druggie.

And isn't it great that the discredited game show host in Slumdog Millionaire has been able to leave India and become the President of Iran?

The show is a definite guilty pleasure.

[clackamascoug]

A good ax to the chest never hurt anyone.

Doesn't the bad guy look like Mike Fratello?

[Fiyero]

The cop that is beating up Jack right now? I'll pay 100-1 that he ends up dead soon.

[Fiyero]

I'm indifferent on Forrest Gump's Viet-nam pal Benjamin "Bubba" Blue playing the role of the new head of CTU. But Renee is much better than Audrey as Jack's woman.

[TheBYUGuy]

And isn't it great that the discredited game show host in Slumdog Millionaire has been able to leave India and become the President of Iran?

Whenever he sits across the table from President Taylor, I shout out, "LET'S PLAY MILLUN AIR!"

Renee still looks good. I like that she's crazy now.

Bubba Gump has to be the least competent director in the history of CTU. What a moran!

[LiveCoug]

Whenever he sits across the table from President Taylor, I shout out, "LET'S PLAY MILLUN AIR!"

Renee still looks good. I like that she's crazy now.

Bubba Gump has to be the least competent director in the history of CTU. What a moran!