[Movie] 24: Season 7 Discussion Thread - PREMIERES THIS SUNDAY JAN 11th! 2 nights 4 hours

As much as I am extremely excited too, we already have one of these threads!

How ya doing, buddy?

I can't contain my excitement!

There's nowhere I can't reach.

The presidents' sons girlfriend has mole written all over her!

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Heh. Oh by the way, I took your advice and started to watch The Shield, just couldn't get into it. I just found it boring to be honest, the main guy annoyed me too!

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Good first two episodes. I couldn't help but laugh at a couple of moments though, when the chopper flew past with Larry in, it just felt so cheesy, oh and when the flight control guy said something important to the guy behind him at the start of the second episode, and he nodded and casually walked off, rather than running off quickly. You would expect him to do that if planes are no longer under their control.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I was also laughing at the basement moment, it was pretty ridiculous! I was hoping though, now I think this would have a good twist, that the guy who let him go was actually an FBI agent, but all the FBI had orders (OK, maybe not all) to let the guy go if they found him, therefore making them more likely to follow them back to Tony.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I liked episodes 3 and 4. I liked how they didn't show Jack and the others preparing for the assault, and then suddenly the pace quickens at the end and they come bursting in. I can't say I like the look of the next episode though, I have a feeling the whole air into the safe room might drag on a bit, but we'll see.

Some other thoughts. I feel Jack too readily joined forces with Tony, there was only a brief bit of anger when he found out he really was a bad guy at first, then all was good and they're talking happily again. Also, I hope the President's son storyline quickens up, as I am enjoying what i'm seeing so far. I don't think Agent 'Gedge' is a bad guy, he was just observing what was happening on the bench. Oh, and talking of his girlfriend, she seems all panicky now, but when we first saw her chatting on the phone at her workplace in episode 1, it didn't look like she had a care in the world. I thought the stuff in the hospital with Renee was dumb. /end random thoughts

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Originally Posted by RacinReaver

The scene where <GUY> met <GIRL> with the Jefferson Memorial across the water is right on a pretty popular path to walk along; makes me sad I didn't go along it last time I was there.

I recognised it from Fallout 3!

FELIPE NO

I imagine Jack and (maybe) Tony are trying to be careful who they're shooting at the moment? The escape from FBI for instance, the security guards were trying to kill them but they were only drawing fire, right, because the guards are essentially good guys? Same with the assault on the Africa place at the end of episode 4, notice Jack is second going in, Emmerson does all the killing. One thing I hated about season 6 was the assault on the Russian embassy, no way would the Russian president order the assault on his own embassy, killing a load of his people (the russian guards)

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Good episode, the end stinger was brilliant. I'm not so sure about the silent clock, I love it when it's used for emotion (no, i'm not one of the 'omg they're not dead so why silent clock' people), but still, i'm not too sure if it fit here.

My main annoyance is with the trailers though. I'm not fussed that they spoiled some things for next week, but I am fussed that they put in scenes in the trailer for this episode that weren't even shown, like Jack at the Whitehouse. I really hope the writers/whoever it is who makes the trailers, don't assume that just because they're shot every episode, they can use whatever scenes they want in trailers to add suspense. I found myself confused in the last 10 minutes because I just couldn't work out how the Jack - 'ask around' scene would have had any time to fit in, and well, turns out it wasn't in it anyway. It's also the second time we've seen Ethan close the curtains in trailers, and we also saw Henry Tailor run across the road in trailers for 2 different episodes (although these are minor points compared to my main one)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Wo wo, calm down! I can't keep up with all this rivetting 24 discussion!

There's nowhere I can't reach.