April 19th, 2010 | by AmyV | 24
Apr
19
As ticked off as I was last week that Renee “Red Hot” Walker was killed off, an interview that Annie Wersching gave to TV Guide gave me hope for the rest of this season.
SPOILER ALERT, don’t read if you don’t wanna know anything at all – though this spoilerism is more of a general nature and I don’t think will come as a tremendous surprise to anyone. Read full story
April 13th, 2010 | by Erika | 24, jack bauer, tv shows
Apr
13
Yes, terrible, awful things happened tonight on 24. If you haven’t seen it yet, be advised that this post is FULL OF SPOILERS!! STOP NOW IF YOU HAVEN’T SEEN IT YET!.
The Happily Ever After we all wanted...
Another heart-breaker people! I haven’t been that upset over someone’s death on 24 since Tony. But you know what? Thank god 24 has some balls once again. I was happy to have Tony back last season, for my own selfish hormonal reasons, but they just hacked at his character. The writers keep a beloved character around too long, and they degrade exponentially. The only exception being Jack and Chloe, in my opinion. Remember how awesome Nina Meyers was, until she wasn’t? Martha Logan was great, until she really, crazily wasn’t. I would rather Renee go out in a way that gives me the vengeful, driven Jack that I love.
Does Jack deserve that kind of heartache? No one does, really, but this show is based on despair. I spent season one hoping that Jack would prevail, only to be devastated by watching his wife, the mother of his child, die in his arms. Wouldn’t a happy ending be an affront to that premise? Besides, who says romantic love is the only happy ending? Jack finally has a good relationship with his daughter Kim, and an adorable grand daughter, Teri’s namesake, to bring him joy. Why isn’t that enough, at least for now?
I admit my gooey heart was rooting for a happy Jack and Renee ending, but I give the writers mad props for being brave again. Offing Hassan last week, and wrenching Jack’s heart this week, gives me some serious drama and revenge to look forward to, and that excites me.
Plus, the extra added bonus of Chloe finally, finally! getting to run CTU, as it should be.
April 12th, 2010 | by AmyV | 24
Apr
12
OK, look. One of the things that was great about 24, once upon a time, was its willingness to kill off important people. I can appreciate and respect that about a show.
OH, BY THE WAY, THERE ARE SPOILERS HERE, SO DON’T FRAKKIN’ READ IF YOU DON’T WANNA KNOW.
But it’s been some years since 24 was that fearless. And last season’s return of Zombie Tony, only to make him bad, good, bad, good and then just psycho again, that really ticked me off. Better to have given him a silent clock originally and kept him dead.
But tonight’s death of Renee really pissed me off. No two ways about it.
This is, as we know, the last season. Jack deserves a wee bit of happiness, and Renee and Chloe were the only two others worth anything on the show this season. Hastings had redeemed himself, but still, he was a shrimper.
I’m so ticked off right now, I know I’m not expressing it well. In some ways, tonight’s episode was awesome. It showed a fearlessness rarely seen in network television. But Renee was NOT the person to kill off.
Renee was the finest character to join 24 in years.
RIP, Renee Walker. Jack’s gonna make sure your death wasn’t in vain, and that’s the only good thing that could come of this. Jack’s gotta rack up a body count, and that’s never a bad thing. You know, for those of us safe on our sofas, watching.
I only wish that the silent clock were subterfuge this time around.
(P.S.: Chloe in charge of CTU? Frak yeah!)
February 9th, 2010 | by AmyV | 24
Feb
09
OK, let me start by saying that the entirety of Monday night’s episode was about as far from Awesometastic as you can get.
In fact, I almost fell asleep a couple of times. Or would have, anyway, if I hadn’t been liveblogging.
But that 30 seconds or so â you know what I’m talking about â were among the best 30 seconds in the history of this storied show.
Let’s recap, shall we?
Renee stabs the crap out of Leoben Vlad, ’till he’s dead and bloody on the floor. Jack comes in, Renee stabs him in the gut.
Oops.
Jack slumps to the ground.
Suddenly, a bad guy bursts in! Without missing a beat, Jack slides the knife out of his gut and flings it across the room as only Jack Bauer can, stabbing the bad guy in the throat. I think he got pinned against the wall, even.
But wait, there’s more.
Jack and Renee leave the room, whereupon Jack shoots two more bad guys â to death! By the way, he’s bleeding a lot.
May 8th, 2009 | by AmyV | 24, blog carnival, carnival of bauer, liveblog
May
08
Honestly, it’s hard to get too excited about an episode that was so obviously filler and in which so little happened.
I mean, what does it say when Kiefer Sutherland headbutting a fashion designer on the streets of Manhattan in defense (kinda sorta) of Brooke Shields is almost more interesting than the Monday episode (for the definitive story on this, see Point / Counterpoint)? Especially when there are only three hours left in this day and we still have no idea what the frak is going on.
I guess that’s why I never really got around to a separate blog post on it this week and decided to wait for the weekly blog carnival, which I am always happy to host.
Basically, this is what happened this week:
February 18th, 2009 | by AmyV | 24, jack bauer
Feb
18
One of my fellow Blogs4Bauer bloggers commented Monday night during the liveblog (had a sick toddler, so I couldn’t watch and blog and snuggle at the same time) that Chewbacca’s girlfriend is the cougar of this season, and I have to agree.
I do not consider that to be a liability, however. The cougar has given us years of laughter amidst the tears.
And, honestly, I consider Season 2 to be equal to Season 5 in awesomeness.
But Season 7 seems to be giving those two a run for their money.
Monday’s Hour of Bauer was quite excellent.
I SQUEEE!d when Agent Aaron Pierce (ret.) showed up. And I recognized his voice immediately. Did you know that Glenn Morshower is the only character other than Jack to appear in every single season so far? Yes, last season he had a poor cameo as Crazy Martha’s grocery shopper, but at least he was still there.
And as craptastic as Season 6 was, without Pierce’s trip to the farmer’s market, we never would have had the Great Kiwi Toss of Day 6, which, of course, immediatley preceded the Great Presidential Stabbing of Day 6, both of which were excellent.
February 11th, 2009 | by AmyV | 24, jack bauer
Feb
11
Ladies and gentlemen, we have hit a new high point on 24: An almost-torture scene involving a baby.
Yes, our Jack-ette, Special Agent Renee Walker, handcuffed a mom to a table while her baby was crying and pretended like she was going to hurt the baby to get the dad to talk.
It cost her a little piece of her soul to do it, but she did what she needed to do. Jack’s been there. He can be her sponsor.
This season has some kick-ass women – President Alison Taylor is pretty hardcore, too, saying she can’t expect the citizens of the country she serves to make sacrifices if she’s not ready to make them herself.
She’s way tougher than Larry over at the FBI. Who, first off, is completely unable to be incognito (what the hell was he doing in the hallway while he was talking to Renee on the phone?), and second, is totally a wimp and gives away the keys to his SUV to Jack, who – naturally – totals it.
By the way – were those looters trying to rifle through Larry’s car while Jack’s off offing the bad guy? Is D.C. really that bad now? Just wondering.
All those little details are part of what makes 24 great.
To be sure, the scene was a little boring when Larry waxed poetic about how what makes us different and better was that we don’t resort to torture, blah blah blah, but Jack had the right response: “Not today.”
But the best line of the night was when President Taylor wondered aloud if she could trust Jack.
His response: “Ask around.”
Indeed.
Now, I know she’s a brand-new president and all, but you’d have thought there’d be some secret communique between presidents, some book or something, where it would have a photo of Jack Bauer, with the explanation: Believe everything this man says, he’s saved this nation six times already, dammit!
How could she be president and not know Jack Bauer? Yeesh. How the heck long was he traipsing around Africa and elsewhere?
Last of all, I totally love the insane storyline of Dubaku’s girlfriend and her disabled sister.
That’s exactly the kind of insanity that makes 24 so much fun. A friend over at Blogs4Bauer the other night when we liveblogged commented that this woman’s going to be the cougar of Season 7, and I think he’s absolutely right.
Look, the guy’s trying to keep control of his fictional African nation while launching terrorist attacks agains the United States and torturing the First Gentleman. He CAN’T come over for a lasagna dinner. Sorry. He’s just going to have to reschedule.
January 20th, 2009 | by AmyV | 24, jack bauer, miscellaneous, supernatural, talk like jack bauer day, uncategorized
Jan
20
I would recap yesterday’s episode of 24, but not much happened.
For some reason, Emerson (whose British accent was nowhere in evidence) punched out the Sangalese bodyguard instead of killing him. The ambassador and his wife almost gave their lives in their panic room until Mrs. Ambassador chickened out and opened the door.
Jack proved he watched Mr. Wizard as a child; Tony said about 6 words; Chloe and Bill were MIA; Larry got stern with Agent Walker; we learned Queens Boulevard is having an affair.
Whoop-de-doo.
Then things got interesting.
Walker got captured, Jack roughed her up (and all the fanboys enjoyed that very much) and then … Emerson orders Jack to kill her.
We know that Jack is very capable of either killing a good person if he has to (Ryan Chappelle, Season 3, and yes, I am fully aware some might not have considered him all that good, but he wasn’t a “bad” guy) or of making it look like he’s killed someone (Nina Meyers, Season 1, before anyone knew she was a bad guy).
