I loved the first season. It dragged a bit towards the end but the shocking ending made up for it.
The second season started great , got bad with kim’s unlikely adventures (which thankfully didn’t last too long) but it had its share of good moments and was overall satisfying. Not as good as the first, but pretty good anyways.
I started watching the third season and gave up completely on the series around the 11th episode or so. The frequency of “give me a break!” moments crossed my threshold and i just didn’t enjoy the series anymore.
Now, season 4 has started and we’re already at episode 4. Out of boredom, I’m thinking of watching the remaining of season 3 and starting on season 4.
So tell me, when did you stop watching 24 and why?
I actually though that every season was better than the one before that.
I haven’t seen anything of Season 4 yet (will probably be on Dutch TV next year), but I do get the feeling that 3 seasons is enough.
How many times can they up the stakes without getting utterly ridiculous.
I loved the first season, because the action was fairly well plotted to match the supposed time on screen. The second season seemed to abandon this idea, and Kim annoyed me so badly I just couldnt watch anymore. I thought of jumping in on Season 4, but I really would rather play GTA: SA
I crossed that threshold somewhere in the first season, but I was home enough that I was able to keep watching. By the second season, I had too much going on Tuesday nights to keep up with it, and I got tired of the endless contrived moments. Nor did I want to tape it and take up time elsewhere to watch. I think I watched one episode of the third season.
I did watch this season’s premier, however, and liked what I saw. Unfortunately, I’m busy Monday nights now, too.
After the second season. It didn’t really build on the first season like I thought it should have, increasingly broke with the real-time hour concept, and, really, how many times can you contrive a national crisis that can only be resolved by the same one man in 24 hours? Twice was probably one time too many.
Tried again this season but still can’t. As cute as that boy is I can’t ignore the shakey-camera crap and I feel bad that he is yelling all the time. I really want to watch it though – would pre-medicating for vertigo and anxiety help?
I almost didn’t start watching this season, since S3 was just so mind-numbingly awful. I’m holding out some hope for S4; it’s marginally promising at this point.
This is probably a stupid question, but I haven’t seen 24 at all yet, even though I do have it in my Netflix queue. I know that the show is in “real time”…an hour broadcast is an hour in the show’s world. So, I know all that. But what’s the time elapsed between seasons of the show. It’s not that season 2 is just a day after season 1 and that Kiefer Sutherland’s character is having the worst week in the world, right?
We TiVo’d a marathon of S1 that FX ran shortly after it finished. We thought it really dragged in the middle and then got goofy thereafter. (Amnesia + mountain lion? Are you kidding me?) So we didn’t watch S2 or later. Can’t say I miss it.
My interest died in Season 2 along with Jack. There’s no way in any world that I could buy that Jack died, was brought back to life - and was running down and tackling gunmen 15 minutes later! I finished the season but couldn’t bring myself to watch Season 3. Besides Season 3 had Kim in it.
I recorded the four-hour opening this year because of the advance word that it was jettisoning all the stupid baggage and starting over. But four hours… I don’t know if I have that much commitment in me.
I saw the first season only a few months ago, I’m now about half through Season 2. I will probably stay with it, because I enjoy watching Sutherland work. He does a fine job with the broad stuff and even better with the subtle material, I think he would make a great villain in an action/spy film.
I’ve taken to watching scenes outside the CTU team at 2X speed to minimize the pain. Palmer’s wife is like Lady MacBeth on a coke binge, and Kim’s storyline in Season 2 is laughably bad. There is one bit of DVD commentary where the Director (or maybe it’s the Producer) makes a telling statement. When Kim’s BF takes out psycho-dad in the hospital parking lot, he says something like “He knows martial arts?..Yeah, sure, why not?” Well, when you are already trying the viewer’s patience with a rediculously implausible plotline, it may not be the best time to have Stinky the recording engineer break out the spinning back-kick.
“Kim the Computer Whiz” may push me through Season 3 rather quickly, though watching her spit out technical language may actually be entertaining.
I saw the last few episodes of Season 1 and was pretty impressed (other than the amnesia thing…)
A few episodes into Season 2 I probably would’ve stopped watching if it wasn’t for the jokes we were making about it here. Same for Season 3 and I’ll say Season 4 is starting out as the weakest of all. The Cafe Society jokes might not be enough to keep me interested. There are so many other good things on TV now (eg: Lost, Battlestar Gallactica, Survivor).
