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24: Well, that sucks.

April 13th, 2010 | by | 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.

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24: Season finale

May 19th, 2009 | by | 24, season finale

May
19

I know there are many people out there who don’t agree with me, but I thought last night’s finale was rather good.

Look, it’s 24, and it’s been written so deep into a corner over the past several years that it’s amazing they’ve been able to write their way back out.

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But the rebound from last season was nothing short of spectacular.

Over the course of the season, there have been more twists in the plot than on a strand of DNA.

But the finale managed to bring them all together, albeit with a whining Tony who is a mere shadow of the shell of the man he once was. We all knew that Michelle’s death hit him hard. And, OK, she was pregnant, so that makes it even harder. But watching Tony was like going back to the TV show Pretender, when Jared was doing a patented Triple Pretend.

Except for one thing: On Pretender, we always were in on Jared’s pretending. We knew he wasn’t a doctor. Or a car thief. Or whatever.

Tony? It shifted almost from week to week. Gave me a headache. Was Tony bad? Was he good? Was he bad? Was he good? Was he badly good? Goodly bad? Just plain ol’ bat-guano crazy??

Ding ding ding ding! We have a winner! Bat-guano crazy.

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The Carnival of Bauer!!! … filler episode edition

May 8th, 2009 | by | 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.

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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:

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24: Jack has a moozure

May 1st, 2009 | by | 24

May
01

I don’t know why I’ve had a hard time this week writing about 24.

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I think it’s a combination of factors:

Tony is so utterly bad (unless he’s not) – boo! Chloe’s back – yay! Jack’s dying – boo! Jack went off on Janis Gold (otherwise known as Grimace, in some circles) – yay! Larry’s still dead – sorry, best I can do is neutral on that one. I only liked him for about 5 minutes before he was killed.

I can’t believe that Jack is going to die, and I assume that Kim is giving blood or spinal fluid or stem cells or whatever it is that she needs to donate in order to save Daddy, despite what he said. At least she’s no longer with Pony Boy.

Jack cannot die from mad cow. There’s another season to go.

There’s still a chance Tony might still be good, but I doubt it.

Chloe is totally Chloe, which makes me happy. But I also hate Mary Lynn Rajskub for looking that good so soon after having a baby.

Janis must be stopped. I don’t think she’s the mole, though. Unfortunately. It would be really sweet if she were.

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24: The truth about Tony

April 21st, 2009 | by | 24, tony almeida

Apr
21

Didn’t watch? Don’t read. That’s all I’m gonna say.

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They could not have made Tony look any more suspicious last night if they’d said to him, “Hey, Carlos, make Tony look really suspicious tonight.” Actually, that’s probably what they did.

Thing is, Tony knows that if anyone could sniff out his duplicity, it’s Jack. And he also knows that the only way to stop Jack once he knows what you’re up to is to kill him.

Which makes me think that maybe Tony isn’t truly Darth Zombie Tony Almeida, but merely Zombie Tony Almeida, double agent.

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24: What?

April 13th, 2009 | by | 24

Apr
13

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.

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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.

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24: Whack-a-mole

March 19th, 2009 | by | 24

Mar
19

The big debate Monday night on Blogs4Bauer’s liveblog of Hour 14 was the status of moles.

Right now, it seems as if there are so many moles in the White House, the Rose Garden should collapse in on itself.

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Let’s look at the candidates, shall we?

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24: Day 7 two-night premiere recap

January 12th, 2009 | by | 24, jack bauer

Jan
12

So many times in the past two nights, I have wanted to yell at my television, ordering everyone to just listen to Jack already. After all these years, they haven’t realized that Jack is ALWAYS – not sometimes, always – right?

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President David Palmer knew it. And he got the 23rd amendment pulled on him for his belief in Jack. But Palmer’s the only one who ever believed Jack.

Agent Walker’s pretty damn close to becoming a Bauer-ciple, however. She believed him in the first two hours and now finds herself acting like him. C’mon, you know you cheered when she pressed her gun right into Tanner’s wound through the badge and then cut off his oxygen? Thatw as a classic Jack move if I ever saw one.

So after four hours, these are my basic thoughts about Day 7:

• Who knew Bill Buchanan was such a hardass? He’s ready to sacrifice anyone, Jack included, to achieve his objective. He’s kind of like Jack, but on an even bigger scale. What do you think happened to make him this way? Someone kill Karen? We have, however, only seen four hours, and if there’s anything we’ve learned after six years of this show, it’s that nothing and no one is ever what they seem to be, except Jack.

• Tony was actually physically dead for 10 minutes before being revived. Does that make him part zombie? And he did actually work for the bad guys for a while, until “innocent Americans” started being targeted. He’s such a Boy Scout, deep down. Read full story

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