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

I want to love this season, believe me. But I just don't think I can. I just can't get past the fact that they completely abandoned the "real time" aspect but pretend they haven't. Not that is matters much, but no matter how much I try to ignore it, my mind just can stop going back to it. It took only 8 minutes for that guy to be kidnapped from his vehicle, thrown into the back of a van, driven to a warehouse somewhere and create a device that breaks the firewall!? It always takes only a couple of minutes to drive from location to location at 8:00?!? The president of the United States just happens to find out about a kidnapping of someone just minutes after it happens before any connection to a national threat is even revealed?

I can go on and on, but I won't. I'm disappointed with this show. I want to give up it, but since I absolutely loved the 1st season so much, I just can't give up hope.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Did they really have to squeeze Chloe and Bill Buchanon back into the show? Not that I hated their characters or anything, but I actually looked forward to maybe not seeing them this season since CTU is gone. But I wouldn't even care though if they didn't bring them in in such a cheesy way, with the whole secret undercover detective squad angle.

And now Chloe has become some kind of super-hacker, as in she can hack into the FBI servers in a matter of seconds from a laptop in the back of a warehouse somewhere. And she is so fast a computer, that when Jack just happens to refer to a guy, she pull up a picture and a whole profile of the guy in literally 1/4 of a second. The implausibility of this show makes me laugh so much, and I can't tell if I'm watching a drama or a comedy a lot of the time.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Kishin

A hypothermic compound to make someone look dead for ten minutes? Seriously?

This is more ridiculous than that woman in Bold and Beautiful getting kidnapped by a Tunisian sultan. Twice.

They've come far from the entertaining camp silliness of season five (the best for the series) and sunk a new low for television history. I'll have to keep watching this.

I've completely given up on trying find logic and plausibility in anything in this show. It's the only way I can enjoy the show.

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

Originally Posted by BZ

No I am pretty certain that is not the case as Jack Bauer always announces the time after the Previously on... segment. Therefore, the time starts then.

But the time never stops since it is "supposed" to be real time. So technically it is 2-3 minutes after the previous episode ends. The "previously on 24" segments cut into show time just like commercials do.

But I agree things do happen WAY too fast to be real time, it annoys the hell out of me. Everything seems to take place in 1 square mile.

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

Originally Posted by jouhou

Spoiler tagged to be courteous of time zone.

Spoiler:

aww, man. Jack is infected and looks like he's going to die. Did they announce this as the series finally?
Sick episode, FBI is in a bad situation. At the last minute, I figured the guy sent them to the wrong location.

Jack will never die, he is immune to all illness, disease, and aging. And he's been awake for over 16 hours already and has not yawned even once. As a matter of fact, every single character on the show as been awake for over 16 hours and have shown no sign of being tired.

I was speaking idiomatically.