I wouldn’t mind seeing Agent Morgan in a spin-off series. She’ll need a Chloe-type, but this time the hacker should be male. I hear Zachary Levi is free these days.
I was also slightly disappointed in the finale, mostly because I was hoping for more of an… ending. Not even necessarily happy; I’d have been perfectly fine if a distraught Jack took his final solace in blowing up the helicopter as soon as Chloe was safely away. Just don’t feel the need for something that’s even possibly a hook for another 12 hours next year, though I’m sure that’s where we’ll all end up if the ratings were good enough (relative to a budget that couldn’t have been that high - so many shootouts on generic industrial sets over 12 hours!).
On the other hand, I’d totally watch a Belcheck origin mini-series, about adventures in Eastern Europe where he isn’t allowed to say more than ten words an episode.
I think it was great. I thought Audrey’s death and the reactions of Jack and her father were handled wonderfully. And thank goodness there was a giant sword on the bridge of the ship so that the villain could be dispatched in as dramatic a fashion as possible. I believed that Jack wouldn’t survive, but since I enjoyed this abbreviated season so much, I’m glad that he did so he can come back and save the world again in the future.
Oh, I also learned at some point last night that “nukular” in sufficient quantities really, really bugs me. If you had asked me before, I’d have been all, “oh, common mispronounciation, don’t get too worked up over it”. After hearing it a couple of dozen times within 10-15 minutes, from all of the characters in the scene but one, I was getting actively, RL frustrated. It almost has to have been a conscious decision on the part of the director, right?
24 in its original series form had gotten stale, I was happy enough to see it go off the air.
This miniseries brought back most of what made in fun in the first place without most of what made is stupid, so I’m all for more.
I do agree that the helicopter was a fairly silly touch. Particularly as Chloe and Belchek can presumably go back to the car and call up the CIA and say “hey, there’s a helicopter flying over (this place) RIGHT THIS VERY INSTANT please track it and rescue Jack Bauer, who just saved the entire world”.
There were some great moments, both of the quiet variety and of the ass-kicking variety.
Maybe it was just me, but I thought that was what was about to happen, especially when Belchek told Chloe something like “we need to get in the car now”. In fact, thinking about it, maybe it did go down that way after the screen went black. Anybody else notice that we got a silent clock at the end of the episode?
I sort of felt like any time Jack or Chloe or whoever kept saying “You don’t have any friends left Jack!”, Belcheck was saying to himself “what is fuck bro?!!”
Plus why did they keep saying that? The POTUS and his daughter seem like pretty good friends of Jack. Not to mention Agent Morgan. Plus Bauer seems like a pretty likeable guy when he’s not shooting terrorists and pistol whipping his coworkers.
Weirdly, the thing that bothered me most in the last hour –
Morgan has pretty much been playing Jackette all season, doing the pragmatic things, even the hard decisions. So, now she knows Jack is sneaking aboard that ship, vastly outnumbered, in a tense, very urgent task.
So NOW she has to call him up just to tell him his girlfriend is dead??? WHY??
Okay, for the ‘drama’ of it, so we have a reason for Jack to go nearly berserk on his enemies. (Not like he’s been a dainty reluctant flower of a killer up to that point.)
But worst of all, when Jack is stunned into silence by her news, she had to go “Jack, talk to me!” several times.
Uh. it doesn’t occur to you that something might be going on right then?? Maybe an enemy approaching you don’t want to hear you? But no, suddenly the most important thing is that Jack deal with your emotional needs.
Oh, and forgot to mention: that Chinese president was awfully trusting. He should have said, 'We got your recording, but we all know how easy it is to fabricate computer images. Let me speak to the guy directly so OUR technicians can confirm his identity."
So the President says “Sure”, calls Jack and tells him to put whoozie back on camera…
POTUS had Jack on the most wanted list. Audrey married another man and hadn’t seen nor heard from Jack for years. Morgan was initially trying to capture Jack. Only Chloe had Jack’s back unquestioningly for years. The others realize that Jack is best kept caged and let loose when he’s most needed.