I almost don’t know what to say.
OK, I know one thing to say: If you haven’t watched tonight’s episode of 24 yet, stop reading NOW. NOWWWWWWW.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
In fact, tonight’s episode was so frakkin’ unbelievable that I’m not going to write ANOTHER WORD before the jump in case someone isn’t listening to me.
So, Tony Almeida: Bad or good?
We’re certainly exepcted to believe he’s a bad guy. And he certainly may be.
I do know that Adam over at The Jack Sack is going to possibly quit 24 forEVer if Tony stays bad.
That alone is enough for me to say:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
But even without that potential, I still would say:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I mean, we endured Tony’s Season 5 “death,” where he didn’t even get the silent clock treatment.
We endured the bizarre twist that brought him back (actually, brought him back to life).
We endured thinking he’d turned bad because Michelle was killed and rejoiced when we were told he was a good man who’d just temporarily gone bad.
But Tony killing Larry (who, as one of my B4B compatriots so eloquently put it, we’d hated until about 5 minutes before he was killed, so his loss wasn’t so punishing) and letting the bad guy go free with the biological weapon? WTF is that? Whiskey Foxtrot Tango, they’re making Tony the big bad. Possibly bigger and badder than Jonas Hodges?
There are still six hours left in this day, time enough to rectify this situation.
And I love 24 and its insane twists.
But making Tony the truly bad guy is just insanity.
My guess is he is tracking the loose biohazards and just knocked Larry out….. Otherwise the rest of his actions make no sense.
Argh, it just makes no damned sense! Think of all the heroic things he did today and now we’re being told it was all a cover?
I should have known Larry was gonna bite it. Right at the beginning of the show I texted a friend and said “I finally love Larry”. DAMN.
I swear to god 24, if you make my Tony the unredeemable bad guy, I just don’t know what I will do!! I mean, I have been wary of him all season, and have been sure that they were gonna off him for good this season, but the Big Bad?? Say it ain’t so!!!!!!!!!!!!
PS – After all of that, the five seconds of Kim was almost forgotten. I actually got all mushy watching the Kim/Jack scene. They really are sweet, even though I still hate Kim.
Great episode, but I am even MORE worried about Tony now…
4 theories on why this may not = Darth Almeida:
Maybe 1) Moss was a bad guy, which Tony knew about, 2) Moss didn’t die, but Tony “fake” killed him to actually save his life, 3) Tony made a “Chapelle” decision on his own- killing one innocent man to save many thousands more, 4) Tony is acting under coercion (someone is holding something over his head that has yet to be revealed)? I could accept all of these things.
@Donna – Could be.
@Rickey – I know!
@Erika – While we were liveblogging over at B4B, we were all liking Larry for about 3 seconds and then, whammo! Someone pointed out that we had only liked Larry for about 3 seconds, so we shouldn’t yet judge Tony so harshly. There are indeed six hours left, and anything can happen. (Oh, and yeah, was that it for Kim? They built it up way too much. Was that just a red herring so we wouldn’t focus on Tony?!)
@Adam – All of those are interesting thoughts, and any (or even more than one) could be the case. The least likely seems to be that Larry’s dirty, because he was all gung-ho about bombing the missles. Though, Tony went to great lengths to blow up the missles, so …
I’M SO CONFUSED!!!
I just finished watching (yeah, we’re a full week behind) and I can’t believe what I just saw! If Tony really killed Moss like that, I don’t know how to process it. I can’t bear the thought of Tony really being the bad guy.
Very emotional scenes with Kim though, I don’t believe we’ve seen the last of her.