[Movie] 24 Season 6 Discussion Thread

As I have already seen the first 4 eps as well as 10 min of the 5th, I'll say this:

Episodes 1-3 = Boring, average 24. Not good for a season opener. Too many 24 cliches and predictable scenarios.
Episode 4 = Holy crap this is what I've been waiting for.

The end of tomorrow night's episode will blow you away.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Cobalt Katze

I'm pretty sure it was a non-lethal shot...

No way, he's totally dead.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I agree with Enter User Name.

I see some real problems with 24 now. Season 6 has started off on the wrong foot.

The writers had a TON of possibilities after Season 5 and they flushed them all down the toilet to just go back to the same old cliched plots.

COMPLAINTS LIST:
-Just basically erased the whole China storyline. This could have made for an entire season of saving Jack from prison! Jack doesn't even have a scar on his face (would have been badass), instead he has some lame fake-looking acid hand and some scars on his back that you'll never see again.

-Wayne Palmer is president and is a spineless wimp. What. The. Fuck. How the fuck did he become president!? He certainly doesn't even seem like he wants the position or is qualified in the least! He doubts Jack, too! Fucking Logan was better than this guy! AND WAYNE USED TO BE A (moderately) GOOD CHARACTER!

-Again, why does the president only deal with 1 or 2 personal advisers? Where is his staff? I'd hate to think that all these decisions are being made without input from more people.

-Bad taste in my mouth from CTU and Wayne selling Jack out SEVERAL times during the first few hours and having the fucking audacity to NOT LISTEN TO HIM when he asked to call off the air strike.

-24 cliche to have an unsuspecting civilian family get involved and fuck shit up.

-Out of character for Curtis to act the way he did.

-I HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE Morris and Milo.

-Chloe isn't hot, stop trying to make her the new "24 CTU hottie." She's nerdy and funny, but she has the face of a frustrated bulldog.

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

Originally Posted by RockgamerXIII

Yes I listened to it, and as Graem said, he proved he could take the pain by withstanding Jack's torture for as long as he did (only finally giving Jack some unrelated information to get him off his back). So if he could do that, that's obviously not the main reason why his dad killed him, meaning there is some other reason why he wanted him dead. That's what I got from it, anyway.

I wouldn't put it past 24 to leave the whole reason behind this set of villains (Jack's family) as "We needed to protect the company, dammit!"

It's been just as lame last season, with "we need to do it for America / Oil interests, etc..." right from the get-go, with no additional motive.

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Originally Posted by Gechmir

You'll notice, though, that Jack's response to him wasn't along the lines of "why aren't you still in jail".

Well, Jack doesn't know any more than we do what happened to Logan. Remember, 2 years in Chinese prison, straight after Logan gets taken away?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by nazpyro

Jack pretty much took hour to dress up. Probably went to the bathroom too. I've never seen this before. What the hell?

Yeah, this was the biggest "setup for another episode, nothing happens in this one" ever.

Everything that happened in this episode was already summarized in the previous episode's "next week" preview.

Speaking of previews, next week doesn't look too exciting either.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by RockgamerXIII

I guess in general though, I kinda feel like the assualt on CTU is a copout for how terrinle this season has been. The writers know that attacks on CTU are always awesome, so they probably figured throwing one in towards the end of the season like this would help improve the show a little bit before it goes off this season. It was still awesome regardless, but it seemed kinda randomly thrown in rather than something intregal to the plot.

The writers are really grasping at straws here. They're trying to find SOMETHING that will bring this season back to "awesomeness," but everything they've done in the past 6+ episodes has been just plain cliched AND contradictory.

-So now Papa Bauer wants his grandkid alive?
-So now the Chinese are FINE with starting international incidents (by attacking a major US anti-terrorism department), even when they were SO pissed that Jack just mildly had something to do with the death of a Chinese ambassador at their embassy. Talk about stupid double-standard.
-So now Heller is PISSED at Jack, the man who saved his life and the life of his daughter so many times. And last season, Heller was WRONG to doubt Jack when he took the recording for himself! You'd think he would have learned.

I really think the writers set up too many storylines, and have NO idea how to resolve any of them in a logical fashion. They should just nuke everything and start from scratch.

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Originally Posted by neothe0ne

It seems no one on this board has seen anything of spoilertalk.com...

Right, and I wouldn't want to.

Why waste any entertainment value by reading what's going to happen in a 2-sentence line rather than see it play out in front of you?

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