I really enjoyed the season overall, my only complaint is I found President Taylor to be annoying (and not a very great actress). No one will ever match David Palmer’s charisma and strength. I’ll be kind of bummed if she’s back for season 8, but I don’t see how they can keep moving through presidents. Yes, the show is unabashedly over the top, but to have as many presidents in 8 years, than we’ve had in the last 50, seems too much, even for this show.
Plus it seems like they set her and the chief of staff up for next season. I did like Ethan though. Nice to finally see that actor play a good guy.
But in the 24 universe it has to be many years in the future (from 2009) if we allow for the years that we are told have passed between each day that each season represents.
True. Which gives me a Bauer-strength kickass thought. Set the next season in the year 2024. Then, unleash some crazy sci-fi terrorist event. Like, Jack punching nanobots out of the sky…
I really thought that was a satisfying ending. Yes it was over-the-top all season, but that is what the show is, but the ending felt like it fit perfectly well. This season was much much better than the previous 3 or 4.
One thing I did laugh at was Jack yelling at a crawling injured Tony to freeze and not go for the gun, as Tony SLOWLY crawls toward the gun. Jack could have run over there and kicked the gun away easily. (Also, my wife pointed out that in reality Agent Rowwwr probably would not go out in the field with hair all flowing breezily in the wind so it could blow into her face at a critical moment.)
I was making the joke, ever since Jack got infected, that one of the symptoms was uncontrollable diarrhea. Dysentery-style. So, at crucial moments during a high-tension scene, I’d add my own soundtrack by making shit noises, much to the dismay of my wife. It was particularly funny during the torture speech, and on his deathbed.
Next season, Tony will be a seven-foot tall cyborg in a black respirator suit.
“Tony Almeida–One of my brightest pupils–One of my greatest failures. Tony was once a fine field agent–and a good friend. But he turned to evil, and after I shot off several of his limbs in that warehouse, Tony became more machine than man–kept alive only by his burning desire for revenge.”
Elisha Cuthbert runs like a girl. She’s not going to catch the Hip History Professor guy even after he’s been shot in the legs and still manages to somehow run away.
Elisha Cuthbert cannot even act like she’s on fire when they set her on fire.
Where the hell did Tony get a frickin forklift two seconds after Jack closes the door?
Cliffhangers are not cool. The best ending was the one where Jack went away to Mexico like the Incredible Hulk. This is just dumb.
So did Tony set the world record for double-agentness this season?
Originally, he was working at CTU. Agent.
At the start of this season, he was working with the bad guys. Double Agent.
But he was really working with Bill and Chloe. Triple Agent.
But he was really working with the bad guys to steal the last canister. Quadruple Agent.
But he was really infiltrating the bad guys to avenge Michelle. Quintuple Agent.
Well, pretty good season overall–certainly the best since Charles Logan’s public disgrace. Silly, over the top, full of inconsistencies? Of course. Entertaining as all get-out? Hell Yeah!
When President Taylor made the decision to make Olivia face justice, I was jumping up and down shouting, “YOU GO, MADAME PRESIDENT!” The bitch got just what she deserved!
Of course, Henry will probably divorce her, which sets up next season’s romance between her and Ethan.
I agree that CTU will be permanently recommissioned, and we will come full circle when Jack is named head of the agency.
One more thing: Wilson claims he has no knowledge of any conspiracy (of course) and they have no charges to hold him on. Really! How about the fact that the guys who work for you fired on an FBI helicopter?
Still loved it, though. January is gonna be a long wait.
I was kind of “meh” over the season finale. I mean, we know Jack is not going to die, so having him as the one whose organs are to be harvested, almost emoliates himself, or is rigged with C4 is not all that suspenseful.
One thing that kind of bugs me with the whole Tony as quintuple zombie agent: it seems like based on the super-secretness and careful planning of the private defense cabal that the fact that Wilson was involved in the assassination of Tony’s wife would have come up at some point. Perhaps Tony used a fake SSN on his evil henchman background check form though.
That whole bit at the end about Renee going over to the Dark Side was pretty forced. First of all, there was no immediately pending crisis that required Jack’s patented interrogation methods. There was plenty of time for the FBI to ferret through Wilson’s affairs and dig up some dirt – if not membership in the conspiracy, then at least income tax evasion. Further, there’s always Tony who’d be willing to rat on Wilson in exchange for the usual 24 Presidential amnesty (and probably some morphine). Not to mention that after this Day’s events, the members of the conspiracy would be keeping a very, very low profile for some time
Second, there’s just not enough time for her to beat a confession out of someone as smug as Wilson. He * knows * that his attorney is going to be showing up at FBI headquarters with a few writs of * habeas corpus * which, in true 24 style, will somehow get him released even though he was found, with no convenient explanation, in the company of terrorists with a contingent of bodyguards with automatic weapons who immediately started firing at the FBI.
Maybe Renee is anold fashioned double agent and actually works with Wilson. Don’t try to give me, “Yeah, but…” because this is 24 and we all know anything is possible.
Or Renee will kill Wilson, secretly acting under orders from the real mastermind to silence Wilson before he can talk…
I’m staring to think that the last season of 24 will play out like this: On Day N, Jack will have been named Secretary of Homeland Security; at the beginning of the day, a Dastardly Terrorist Plot will kill the POTUS and the rest of the Cabinet. Newly-sworn-in President Bauer will personally lead the investigation. Then, in the very last hour of the very last day of 24, whoever Jack’s sidekick-du-jour is will discover…
That in fact Jack Bauer himself is (and always has been) behind it all–from Day 1 on, everything from the assassination plot on Senator and Presidential candidate David Palmer, the death of Jack’s own wife, on down the line to nuclear and biological attacks on the U.S., has all been part of a plot by Jack to whip the country into a paranoid frenzy while gradually manuevering himself into a position where can be named President, as above, and then suspend the constitution (for the “duration of the emergency”, of course) and rule as absolute dictator of America–all of which Jack will helfpully explain to someone who he’s holding at gunpoint, ending with Jack laughing maniacally: “MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA! You fools! Now ultimate power is MINE!” Cha-chunk…Cha-chunk…Cha-chunk…24:00:00
