24

[beerme]

Someone please post an update tonight! The Salt Lake City FOX channel keeps interrupting with breaking news about a mass shooting at a mall.

 

[FriscoJim]

Let me first say I love 24 - started watching at the beginning last season and had to go out and either buy or rent the forst 4 seasons - spent every night for over a month catching up. Some random thoughts about tonight's episodes:

Anybody have a problem tonight with Fayed taking off in a helicpotor after setting another nuke to go off in like 5 minutes? Didn't he see episode episode 2 when the first nuke went off and Jack pulled the people out of the downed traffic coptor? No way he would have been far enough away for his chopper to be unaffected unless of course he knew Jack would disarm it. If it were 1776 I could buy in to members of the cabinet plotting but in today's world I can't see that happening - course I think Tom's father was a member of the Kennedy administration.

Does it ever bother anyone that CTU can pick up 'chatter' around the world but they can't pick up a cell call originating in their own damn building?

At least this year (so far anyway) CTU has obviously improved their HR department and done more thorough background checks - maybe NASA should follow their protocol.

The previews show Jack's sister-in-law held by his Dad's henchman - what's the line on Milo being alive?

Even with all the improbable stuff going on I still can accept this much more than a show about people in a downed airplane on an island that no one knows about that has all the amenities of a modern mid-size city - I refuse to watch Lost!

 

[motorgod]

Yeah, I googled part of the list, which I originally heard parts of last year on Rush's show. I found this list that had over a thousand Jack Bauer tidbits, but stuff toward the end of the list isn't very amusing. So I c/p some of the better ones here. Glad ya liked it!

Jack Bauer does not do push-ups...he pushes the earth down :nuke:

 

[FJR_pig]

Does it ever bother anyone that CTU can pick up 'chatter' around the world but they can't pick up a cell call originating in their own damn building?
The previews show Jack's sister-in-law held by his Dad's henchman - what's the line on Milo being alive?

I was thinking the same thing each time Jack's evil dad jumped on the phone while he was lurking at CTU. My thought was that no cell phones should even be allowed in the facility...

Didn't you see Milo hunched over, pre-wincing like he was about to take a round? Maybe he was bending over shaving that wanna-beard off his face. I'm guessing he makes it, even though he looks totally sissyfied in that shot. He did some kick-ass driving in that old-UPS truck, oh, I mean state-of-the-art CTU SWAT van. They wouldn't have someone like that die behind a dumpster...unless they have Jack shoot him.

Don't get me wrong, I love the show, too. Can't get enough of it. Two great episodes tonight. Gotta go, I'm in the mood to drill now.

 

[BlueStreak-1]

Did anyone see the Larry King interview with the cast about 2 weeks ago?

 

[OrangevaleFJR]

Does it ever bother anyone that CTU can pick up 'chatter' around the world but they can't pick up a cell call originating in their own damn building?
The previews show Jack's sister-in-law held by his Dad's henchman - what's the line on Milo being alive?

I was thinking the same thing each time Jack's evil dad jumped on the phone while he was lurking at CTU. My thought was that no cell phones should even be allowed in the facility...

Didn't you see Milo hunched over, pre-wincing like he was about to take a round? Maybe he was bending over shaving that wanna-beard off his face. I'm guessing he makes it, even though he looks totally sissyfied in that shot. He did some kick-ass driving in that old-UPS truck, oh, I mean state-of-the-art CTU SWAT van. They wouldn't have someone like that die behind a dumpster...unless they have Jack shoot him.

Don't get me wrong, I love the show, too. Can't get enough of it. Two great episodes tonight. Gotta go, I'm in the mood to drill now.

Does it ever bother you that Americans are portrayed as people so fucking lame as to suggest that there are any number of us ready an willing to let nukes go off in country as long as we get money, or one family member saved?

Sorry, but if I had to make a choice between my son's life/pain/my death and a nuke going off in an American city, I guess I'd have to stop the nuke from going off. Frankly, I'm find myself offended by the writer's of 24 and how they love to show how easily we are corrupted and how weak we are and how we'd sell our fellow americans up the river to get what we want. How many of us volunteer to serve in the military, each knowing that life hangs in the balance, but is willing to serve with a true understanding of the sacrafice for freedom. How dare they smite us like that! Grr...arg...

chill pill...

all that and I like the show...I guess I like seeing the "good guys" playing hardball. It reminds me of some other times when hard measures were taken for the greater good no matter how stupid the show can get, it's still fun to watch and being pissed at the writers is part of the fun I suppose.

 

[dbvolfan]

I still like the show but it is starting to get predictable:

1. Bad guy inside CTU

2. Bad apple inside President's circle

3. Dont understand how he was able to drive around LA so freely following a nuke. Hell, last time I was in LA I could go 5 miles in regular traffic yet he is whizzing al over the place.

4. I agree on the copter, the wave was strong enough to knock the other one of the sky due to the electronic shock wave, why not the one last night had it gone off?

5. Same thing on the phone calls....they can pick up some discreet call from Bubba in the middle of the AZ desert about a 'package' yet they cant intercept their own calls inside the building fromt he bad apples?

Oh yeah, I cant wait for next weeks show

 

[Warchild]

Gotta go, I'm in the mood to drill now.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I do love the show also, but I really get bent out of shape at characters like Jack's dad.

I mean, what kind of fucked-up monster goes around killing his 40-something year old son just to preserve a business he's built? And then threaten to off his grandson just an hour or so later?

Dude needs to be interrogated by Jack..... :evilgrin:

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the important stuff.... that Jack's sister-in-law is one blistering hot brunette, and secretly wants to do him. :lol:

 

[odot]

Um....me thinks they were together for a while before his dead brother picked her up.....

 

[Inlaw1]

Well, one thing is for sure. The Bauer family sure knows how to put the 'Fun' back in dysfunctional!

 

[FJR_pig]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the important stuff.... that Jack's sister-in-law is one blistering hot brunette

Man, no doubt WC, no doubt...

 

[FriscoJim]

ANother thing I forgot to mention - how come all those car chases in LA on COPS always end up with the guy being caught by the LAPD yet CTU let's a guy get away when he pulls under an overpass?

 

[mdisher]

One of the best things about 24 is reading Dave Barry's recap on his blog.

Usually it's done real-time as the show is progressing

Dave Barry's blog - 24 Category.

From this weeks episode:

Here is where we stand:
Jack's brother, Baldy, is gone, having been lovingly whacked last week by Jack's father, Farmer Hoggett, but not before being lovingly tortured by Jack. (There is a lot of love in the Bauer family.) Jack's dad is definitely a bad guy, but Jack does not know this, being apparently unaware of the fact that his dad has been a bad guy in pretty much every movie he was ever in except Babe.

Jack now has to find Morris, who was captured by McCarthy last week for delivery to Evil Terrorist Mastermind For Now Fayed, who will coerce Morris -- possibly by threatening to bring Audrey back into the plot -- into programming the triggers for the remaining suitcase nuclear bombs, which apparently run Windows Vista because nobody knows how to program them. We know from last week's previews that Jack will wind up trying to deactivate one of the suitcase nukes tonight, but we don't know whether he will succeed, or be blown into tiny nuclear smithereens, which will then reassemble themselves and call Chloe, because there is no way you are taking out Jack Bauer with a mere nuclear blast.

Meanwhile President Gary Payton of Your World Champion Miami Heat and his aides and generals and random cabinet extras continue to engage in important yet meaningful wooden dialogue concerning the constitutional ramificationzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Whoops, sorry. We have also learned that the vice president, who is in cahoots with the Ally McBeal Weenie, is Deadwood Mayor Powers Boothe, which should be interesting because on Deadwood he cannot sneeze without dropping -- speaking of suitcase nukes -- the F-bomb.

The Walid-and-Sandra subplot continues to stagger lifelessly forward. Speaking of lifeless: Edgar and Kumar are still dead.

We are hoping for some major action in tonight's special two-episode presentation. Yes, the show has been hideously boring a little slow lately, but we're confident that the writers have been laying the foundation for something very special. So get ready.

UPDATE: If the Anna Nicole Smith story makes an appearance in tonight's episodes, I am going to shoot my cable box.

UPDATE: Taser Bill, Chloe, if you have to.

UPDATE: Jack expects to have a visual soon.

UPDATE: Jack has a visual.

UPDATE: This is pretty much how everybody drives in Miami, except there are more guns involved.

UPDATE: McCarthy's girlfriend holds the gun like, "Whatever."

UPDATE: I really hate Milo's little moustache.

UPDATE: So just to make sure I have this right: CTU had the car under observation from a helicopter AND a satellite, in broad daylight, and they lost it.. WHOA! THE GIRLFRIEND!

UPDATE: I for one never really understood who McCarthy was, so I am not that sorry about his sudden passing.

UPDATE: I don't think that the rugged working guys in truck commercials ever actually work. I think they just get in their trucks and go, "Let's drive through some mud."

UPDATE: Which one was Assad again? The good terrorist mastermind, right?

UPDATE: Weenie Boy is pissed.

UPDATE: He's going to feel Weenie Boy out. Heheheheh.

UPDATE: This is some very bad acting by Mrs. Bauer.

UPDATE: Jack is upset because somebody shot McCarthy before Jack could.

UPDATE: I think the girlfriend is history.

UPDATE: Hitting Morris! Those terrorist bastards.

UPDATE: Hard to see Morris doing much programming if his body is a sack full of chicklet-sized bone fragments.

UPDATE: A loop matrix!

UPDATE: PERIMETER

UPDATE: Not one more nuke. Wow. He is a strict president.

UPDATE: "Agent Turner, what's the status of your perimeter?" "It's in place." Wow!

UPDATE: They're freshening Morris up.

UPDATE: A drill. Whoa.

UPDATE: I am afraid to look in the comments, because I am quite certain somebody has made a "fire drill" joke.

UPDATE: "At this point it's only a question of time." Yep, that's how terrorist masterminds talk to their minions, all right.

UPDATE: YESSSSSSSSSSS shooting.

UPDATE: If that suitcase nuke is anything like the computer system at the Miami Herald, Jack will need a password to disarm it, and he will have to change that password every 90 days or ELSE.

UPDATE: So far this is an excellent episode -- Jack, Chloe, perimeter, shooting... a freaking drill.

UPDATE: Two metal plates slowly converging. How... photogenic.

UPDATE: Has any CTU perimeter ever caught anybody?

UPDATE: DIP switches? Like a 1987 MODEM???

UPDATE: Geez, this is a lot of suspense, wondering whether Jack will succeed.

UPDATE: I just realized that the entire first hour was Walid-and-Sandra free.

UPDATE: I think they're showing the wrong "Previously on 24."

UPDATE: No, wait, they're not.

UPDATE: Wait a minute. Less than 15 minutes ago Fayed was in a sewer. How'd he get in a helicopter?

UPDATE: Wait: Who's the bearded dude? Is he another mastermind?

UPDATE: Is the bearded dude Gredenko? And if so, do terrorist masterminds ever go to any city besides Los Angeles?

UPDATE: I want an antiterrorist vest like Jack's, to wear to, like, the supermarket.

UPDATE: A nice father-son chat over the corpse of the son/brother.

UPDATE: They're monitoring chatter.

UPDATE: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

UPDATE: Preident Payton and Vice President Boothe apparently both ingested horse tranquilizers.

UPDATE: I can barely hear the actors over the roar of the dialogue generator.

UPDATE: Whoever is supposed to change light bulbs in the White House bunker clearly has fallen down on the job.

UPDATE: I miss the power drill.

UPDATE: Mrs. Baldy is hot, but she cannot act her way out of a paper bag.

UPDATE: Power-drill him, Chloe!

UPDATE: Graeme's body is still warm, and Marilyin is hitting on Jack.

UPDATE: A hotel! With Farmer Hoggett! Sounds like fun.

UPDATE: Wait a minute... so Fayed is NOT an Arab?

UPDATE: Do we think Marilyn will get shot in a shootout and reveal to Jack just before expiring that Farmer Hoggett is evil? Just a thought.

UPDATE: Chloe was reconfiguring the uplink and just then Morris walked in. If that is not romance, I don't know what romance is.

UPDATE: Young Josh is every bit as bad an actor as his mom is.

UPDATE: Finally, a bomb. Not nuclear, but still.

UPDATE: Those are the worst machine-gun shooters in world history.

UPDATE: OK, the first hour was excellent. The second hour was 57 minutes of sludge and three minutes of OK.

UPDATE: Next week Jack chokes Marilyn!

FINAL NEXT-MORNING UPDATE: As always, there is an excellent summary -- two, actually -- by the Amazing Steve™ in the comments section.

 

[FJR_pig]

One of the best things about 24 is reading Dave Barry's recap on his blog.

OMG, that was too funny. President Payton :rofl:

Please post Dave's comments every week so I can read them. (I'm too lazy to find them myself)

 

[mdisher]

Dave Barry's 24 Recap for this week:

Oh, you folks on the left coast are probably still watching

February 26, 200724

Here are the schematics of the plot perimeter:

The highlight of last week's episode was the heartwarming moment between Jack and his dad, Farmer Hoggett, when FH made Jack kneel down at gunpoint, but decided -- The old softy! --not to shoot Jack in the back of his head. That's how you show true affection Bauer-family style: by not killing a fellow Bauer. I'm assuming Jack and his dad will meet again before this season is up, and that their father-son reunion will make The Texas Chainsaw Massacre look like Teletubbies.

Anyway, at the very end of last week, Farmer Hoggett left a phone for Jack, with instructions to call a certain number, and when Jack did, the person at the other end, in a totally unexpected plot twisteroo, was...

Anna Nicole Smith.

No, sorry, she is still deceased, and so is Edgar. The shocking twisteroo person at the other end was Disgraced Former President Complete Handbag, whom we used to hate but who now looks pretty good compared with our current leader, President Gary Payton of Your World Champion For Now Miami Heat, whose strategy for dealing with nuclear terrorists is apparently to put the entire nation into a drooling stupor by talking in measured tones.

In subplot action, the Ally McBeal Weenie, who looked like he was going to join the plot -- which this blog wholeheartedly supports -- to whack President Payton and replace him with Vice President Powers Boothe, decided instead to rat out the plotters, so he was clubbed with a flashlight in the bunker by Colonel Mustard, who... no, wait, sorry, he was clubbed by his treacherous aide Reed, but, tragically, does not appear to have been killed.

In the Morris-and-Chloe subplot, Morris is still down on himself for programming the suitnukes after being used as a human do-it-yourself project by the evil terrorist submastermind Fayed. Chloe still loves Morris because he did not metabolize his alcohol. (Chloe can tell, just by looking at you, what you have metabolized.)

The Walid-and-Sandra subplot has completely disappeared, which is fine with me. If the writers try to bring it back, I think the other characters should say to them, "Get out of here! You never had anything to do with the plot anyway!"

Anyway, the big question tonight is: What will ex-president Handbag tell Jack about Gredenko, the evil terrorist mastermind for now? Can Jack find the remaining bombs before they go off? Most important of all, will there be any sightings of ex-president Handbag's First Lady?

We will just have to wait and see. And while we are waiting, let us not forget to metabolize.

UPDATE: It is SO hard to get good terrorist submastermind help these days.

UPDATE: The bunker has Ominous Muzak.

UPDATE: PERIMETER!

UPDATE: "He reminds me of you... neither one of you can act."

UPDATE: "Hi! We're here to kill the president!" "OK, then!"

UPDATE: Duct tape!

UPDATE: "We're not cold-blooded murderers." Who WRITES this stuff?

UPDATE: Victoria's Secret has reinvented the bra... again.

UPDATE: Morris specificed the wrong slot assignment for the SIP adapter! If I had a nickel for every time I did that...

UPDATE: If somebody had drilled two inches into my shoulder with a 3/8" bit, I would not swing my arms the way Morris does when he walks.

UPDATE: Too much talking.

UPDATE: Snore.

UPDATE: A drone!

UPDATE: So, do we think the terrorists will put a suitnuke on the drone, and it will drone away for several tense episodes? Or what?

UPDATE: It takes THIRTY MINUTES to get a bomb ready?

UPDATE: There can be no question that the highlights of tonight's episode are being provided by Victoria's Secret.

UPDATE: "Don't be sarcastic! Your data merge is incomplete!"

UPDATE: The Morris subplot is getting so repetitive that they have to be setting us up for a shockeroo, right? Like he's a mole? Or he's the one who reinvented the bra?

UPDATE: They're clearing a ground corridor. That's like a perimeter, right?

UPDATE: YES! Chloe is NOT afraid to yank a man off the toilet.

UPDATE: Morris didn't wipe.

UPDATE: The old cough ruse.

UPDATE: Seriously, you put a three-inch piece of duct tape on my mouth, and I will have it off in seconds without using my hands.

UPDATE: OK, it just now occurred to the weenie to do that?

UPDATE: Summary: Not enough Jack. Way too much talking. One boom -- one lousy boom -- at the end. The clear action highlight was Chloe yanking Morris out of the toilet. And of course the reinvented bra, which seems to work well. We now await the amazing Steve, who should be writing the show, if you want this blog's opinion.

 

[odot]

Me thinks dementia has caught up with bauer.....and, he did have a thing with the hottie brunette.....imagine that. Let the nukes fly.