I'd rank Season2 as my favorite followed by Season 1. Seasons 3, 4, 5 and 7 follow in no paticular order, possibly all tied, and season 6 stands at the bottom. So far, though early to tell, Season 8 is looking promising.
Woud this make 24 better?
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I'd rank Season2 as my favorite followed by Season 1. Seasons 3, 4, 5 and 7 follow in no paticular order, possibly all tied, and season 6 stands at the bottom. So far, though early to tell, Season 8 is looking promising.
Nardpuncher
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I just saw season 7 episode 1 and can see where you guys said the real-time thing was slipping.
They abducted John Billingsley's character at about 8:02 AM and had him working on some computer circuit to interfere with the air traffic control by 8:15 or so!
They abducted John Billingsley's character at about 8:02 AM and had him working on some computer circuit to interfere with the air traffic control by 8:15 or so!
Six is definitely the worst. Two, then one are definitely the best. I have mixed feelings about season three, which didn't turn into self-parody like season four, but also commited character assassination (literally and figuratively) against Sherry Palmer and Nina Meyers. Then again, season seven brought back Tony only to do no better. Maybe it would go like this:
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Four is a mess, but the spectacle of it just made it fun. Yeah it bordered on self-parody a bit, yet at the same time it did it in such a way that it was fun to watch. Even if Marwan's Rub Goldbergian plan of MacGuffins was ridiculous and CTU couldn't hold a perimeter around a VA hospital full of quadruple amputees.
Five I only vaugely recall. I recall it being a bit more together and logical than S4. I'll likely watch it on DVD here within a couple of weeks as I'm on a 24 DVD watchthru.
Season 6? Oy. Started off solid, but the stuff with Jack's father was just dumb. Did we have to make his father the big-bad/evil? Really? And his brother the leader of the Bluetooth group? Really?
Season 3 played-off mostly as a clearing-house. Get Palmer out of the presidency (so Jack in future seasons would have to "fight" with the president to do what he wants) get rid of Sherry, get rid of Nina. But overall, it's a good season. Though the secondary story with Plamer's campaign struggles was sad.
Season 7 was good in get the series back on track - the two year long hiatus helped- though I think it's hurt by Jack being sidelined for the last few episodes due to Weaponized Mad Cow Disease.
So in thinking it over:
Day 2
Day 1
Day 3
Day 7
Day 4
Day 5
Day 6
The season three Palmer story really annoyed me. In seasons one and two, Palmer's story connected to Jack Bauer's story. In season three, Palmer occasionally interacted with Jack and the virus storyline, but his story was unrelated. It was also disjointed, running out of steam mid-way through, which led to the reintroduction of Sherry. And, like everything else in season three, when Sherry comes back it's like season two never happened. Jack's not rehabilitated, Jack and Kate Warner aren't together, Palmer's not seriously inujured or dead, the season two conspiracy was rounded up off-screen, and Sherry is back to her old season one ways. Ugh.
I agree on season four. It's really, really, really stupid. But it's also kind of fun.
Season five is pretty good, though. It's a lot like season two in the way the back-half is plotted, but with enough changes that I can enjoy it. And it has some great character deaths that really punch you right in the gut.
I agree on season four. It's really, really, really stupid. But it's also kind of fun.
Season five is pretty good, though. It's a lot like season two in the way the back-half is plotted, but with enough changes that I can enjoy it. And it has some great character deaths that really punch you right in the gut.
There was also the scene -- I don't remember which season -- where the President called together a staff meeting, a house meeting or something like that in the middle of the night and everyone was there like 10 minutes later.
In watching 24, I'm wondering if Jack doesn't have some-kind-of eye-blinking disorder. 
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
Also for me it's great to hear people's thoughts on 24 as my girlfriend and I just started on season 1 about 4 months ago and slowly got up to season 7 just this week.
I mean, I idn't know season 6 was considered the worst. I didn't have abig problem with it, but I can see where you're coming from.
I also did sort of notice that the one with the Mummy guy in it seemed sort of nutty.
I always look back at a season after it's done and really think about how ape-shit that day was. I mean there's a day where Jack woke up, got arrested, shot at many times, hundreds or thousands of people died, a president dies (maybe) he drives 100s of miles, CTU gets invaded, he uses his cell phone enough to kill 3 batterries and there's usually time for a lot of in-house bickering at CTU.
I also like that the only time I think we've ever seen Jack eat is a Jell-O cup in the first hour of season 1! I think we've only seen him drink water once or twice!
I mean, I idn't know season 6 was considered the worst. I didn't have abig problem with it, but I can see where you're coming from.
I also did sort of notice that the one with the Mummy guy in it seemed sort of nutty.
I always look back at a season after it's done and really think about how ape-shit that day was. I mean there's a day where Jack woke up, got arrested, shot at many times, hundreds or thousands of people died, a president dies (maybe) he drives 100s of miles, CTU gets invaded, he uses his cell phone enough to kill 3 batterries and there's usually time for a lot of in-house bickering at CTU.
I also like that the only time I think we've ever seen Jack eat is a Jell-O cup in the first hour of season 1! I think we've only seen him drink water once or twice!
Yeah, Jack wolfs down what looks like a TV dinner after rescuing Teri and Kim and he makes it back to CTU and is waiting to be debriefed/questioned.
Also during Season 1 we actualy see him catch about half a wink of sleep when he's holding the sassy overworked waitress in the construction yard.
For me, what made it bad was making Jack's father and brother EVUL!!! And some of the stuff was a bit over the top. Think of it, after Season 6 the characters of 24 live in a world where terrorists successfully have detonated a nuclear weapon in Valencia, California and killed 10s of 1000s of people, leveled a square-mile of a suburban area and not to mention the enviromental problems that follow a nuke. It's just a bit "troubling" to rationalize.
Yeah, that's Marwan in Season 4. Which, yeah, is nutty as all get out.
Also during Season 1 we actualy see him catch about half a wink of sleep when he's holding the sassy overworked waitress in the construction yard.
For me, what made it bad was making Jack's father and brother EVUL!!! And some of the stuff was a bit over the top. Think of it, after Season 6 the characters of 24 live in a world where terrorists successfully have detonated a nuclear weapon in Valencia, California and killed 10s of 1000s of people, leveled a square-mile of a suburban area and not to mention the enviromental problems that follow a nuke. It's just a bit "troubling" to rationalize.
Yeah, that's Marwan in Season 4. Which, yeah, is nutty as all get out.
Hard? No. There's a couple of times through the series I recall him coming out of a hallway after a commercial break or cut to another story-thread while he's in someone's home or something like that. Could be infered that he went to the bathroom in these times.
According to 24's Wikia:
Jack is seen eating four times in the series:
Day 1: Midnight - 1:00 AM (I believe a chip, or a snack or something while at home.)
Day 2: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (the TV dinner in CTU holding.)
Day 3: 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM (assuming he ate the food Claudia brought him.)
Day 5: 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM (the breakfast scene early in the episode.)
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