I'm sure the 24 staff wasn't looking for any backlash similar to the Muhammad cartoon controversy. Safe than sorry.

Not a bad episode yesterday, the 'mentally disabled' plot turned out better than I thought it would. Did anyone find it funny though when Bradey suddenly spoke perfectly well for about 2 seconds when mentioning about the firewall crap?

No, he was a savant, so that's not unusual. I was grimacing though, because on top of everything else he's done, now Jack is exploiting a mentally handicapped person. Way to go. It's blasphemous to say this, I know, but maybe 24 has jumped the shark.

The whole bit with Wayne Palmer at the end, while incredibly satisfying, was so predictable. This season seems to be recycling old plots, first with storming the embassy, and now with trying to remove the President on medical grounds. Come on, can't we get some new material?

I didn't like the first half of the episode, largely because it dealt with the internal drama built around CTU and the White House.

Then we actually made progress on the task as hand, which was quite nice. It's sad to see that the political troubles are not over, as that's my least favorite part of this season. I'd rather watch more Kim adventures.

Palmer coming to at the end and calling off the strike was awesome. I didn't see it coming to be honest. I forgot about Palmer after he had troubles when coming out of the coma.

Anyhow~ Seems Yosemite Sam (president) is gonna try and oust Palmer from his position. They tried doing this to his older brother, so I'm kinda like "huh what. Again?"

Next ep's preview seems to show a firefight, or at least one starting. We'll see how this rolls along.

Does anyone else have the feeling that the writers will do the same thing with Nadia this season that they did with Nina during season 1: make her look guilty, make her look innocent, and then have her be guilty.

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Although I definately think this is one of the worse seasons, I do like the rivalry between the two main terrorists. Usually they focus just on the one main baddie :)

'Sup zombie serum~

ZOMBIES ATE MY TERRORISTS

Kind of off topic, but did anybody catch the new South Park today. I lol'd.

"THERE IS A SNUKE IN HER SNATCH."

So yeah, I'm really late in talking about this episode (even with th crash), which just goes to show how much I liked it.

Seriously, I could bitch in detail about why I didn't like it, but that would take too much effort that isn't even worth it. The main thing was that even when the episode had one saving grace in Palmer coming to the rescue, they ruin it by reusing an old plotline afterwards. Ugh. I'm still hoping this season can get better somehow, but really, I don't see how that can happen (maybe Zombie Almeida).

But yeah, that episode of South Park was hilarious. That maybe be my second favorite episode ever (because nothing will ever top Chinpokomon).

I liked the applejuice parallel to Jack's drug problem. Then the constant takeovers ='D Awesome ep, but a good amount of the humor was inside jokes that only fans would've caught.

The CTU phone sound effect was the best part of the episode. Kyle in the Chloe role was fine, but why did they have to make Cartman Jack Bauer?

I dunno. The bad guy blowing up in a corny explosion was worth a laugh ='D DEATH MUST BE OVER-THE-TOP.

So how bad is the episode going to be tonight? More Supreme Court perjury action? I predict the climactic event they've been touting in the commercial happens in the last 5 seconds.

I like how Season 6 suddenly turned awesome in one episode.

Palmer bluffing was something I really didn't see coming. I figured it was odd how he had a 180, but figured it was from brain trauma thanks to the adrenaline shot. It was a nice little trick~

Finally, a scene of Jack kicking unexpected levels of ass. When I saw the preview last week, I figured that Jack getting plugged would've been in the last couple minutes of the episode. Was like "sigh." Then he gets plugged, and it's unveiled as a staged op? Fucking awesome.

The fake cell helping out Fayed was a slick plan, as well as the duress-code. I figured that Jack would've arrived on-site and got captured. He didn't call in and I figured it'd come back to bite him in the ass. Not so~

The fight scene with Fayed and his men was fantastic. I also like how you saw Jack pick up his handgun he left behind after it all. Nice little touch =p

But Audrey getting unraveled in this season wasn't what I was expecting. This is good though -- I didn't want to wait another year to see this plot device get tended to. I figured there'd be more stuff with Fayed and the nukes, but it seems to focus on tying off Jack's troubles with the Chinese. I'm guessing they want the nukes or nuke detonators. Either way, this'll be cool.

"Mr. President, you owe me." ;D

"Damn, Jack..." <3 Sums up what I've been waiting on someone to say to Jack after all these seasons.

I didn't see them completely ending the Fayed and the nukes plot this episode, they were leading us to believe that #2 would take over and Audrey whould be brought back as an end of season cliffhanger. Great action, “say hello to your brother”, “Damn Jack”. I like how they tied everything back to the events of the beginning of the day, makes the episode feel like it actually part of one long day, these little thing help a lot with suspension of disbelief. I suspected Palmer may be have been bluffing but the writers kept me guessing. Little brother Wayne growing up; CTU’s fake rescue plan; Jack taking down a whole bunch of baddies; a new direction for the reminder of the season; significant redemption of a sub-par season;Good episode.

That episode was miles away from the rest of the season. My only complaint is that some of this stuff, like the staged terrorist group and the satellite tracking of the truck, lacked explanation or enough detail. But it really doesn't matter because the awesomeness of most of the rest overrides it.

As soon as Jack grabbed that chain, I knew he was going to John McLane Fayed's Karl.

Also:

The past few episodes were really downhill for me but this episode picked the season back up strongly. The nuke bluff was awesome!! Jack killed two guys with one shot. And when Jack got the phone call I kept thinking, "It's Kim on the phone" but then it turns out to be Audrey. Wow, excellent surprise ending for the episode.

The scene when Jack ran out of bullets and marched up to Fayed and he was shooting at Jack, that part reminded me of a scene from a Korean movie called "Windstruck". It was great. I was thinking, "Robocop!!" If you saw "Windstruck" then you'll get why I was thinking that otherwise never mind.

Holy shit. This episode REALLY picked up the slack that was starting to build this season. A bluffed nuke strike, an unexpected rescue mission, Jack finally killing people (single handedly, at that), and the death of the main villain, and an entire plot twist (or turn, I guess). Did not see any of that coming.

But how the hell did Fayed kill an entire truck of armed men, especially with the gun tucked away in his pocket. All of the CTU agents had their guns cocked and ready. Oh well.

What the hell do the Chinese want? The nukes? Are we going to finally find out what exactly had to be done for China's cooperation in Jack's release?

Haha, I need some more dramatic music for that hand to hand Jack and Fayed engaged in. Nonetheless, the last two episodes have been fantastic, definitely increasing the overall enjoyment of this season.

I'm all for another great plot twist. I'm guessing that the Chinese want something involving the nukes? Hopefully it ties in (loosely) with the main storyline...I'd hate to see just some storyline tacked on for the sake of completing the 24 episode run.

I think it was because they only had fake bullets in there guns and Fayed had real bullets in his gun.