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24: Day 8 - 1:00AM - 2:00AM: Discussion and Spoilers

Grade the episode.

  • Excellent

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Good

    Votes: 8 44.4%
  • Average

    Votes: 7 38.9%
  • Bad

    Votes: 3 16.7%
  • Terrible

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    18
He's hobbling on foot, given past history CTU will never catch him now.

LOL!

I officially nominate the men of Fakistan as the manliest men on this show. Unlike the American Charles Logan and the Russian Vlad the Impaled, Farhad and Hassan's bodyguard have proven they can go all night long with the ladies.
 
I would have gone with Excellent, even with the Dana subplot because it didn't dominate like it had. But they are really ruining Cole, so I had to go with "Good".
 
Sorry I wasn't here tonight to comment with everyone, buddy came over and we watched it on time-delay.

Good episode, and improvment over last week but some thoughts:

I think all Jack has are Hail Mary plans.

This "Hail Mary" was a pretty good one that, hey turned out well.

Can they not control the oxygen levels inside the hypoberic chanmber? Can't they reudce the O2 to a point in there where he passes out, go in there and then capture him?

I so expected the Red Shirt to die. I half-expected him to talk about his pregnant with his first child wife at home, and his really great parents who just started their retirement while he was with Jack.

Cole is rock-stupid. I mean, seriously, Red Neck DiCaprio was shot by Red Neck Faraday, and Faraday was shot in self-defense by Cole. Sure, he'd have to explain why he and Starbuck where there and what was happening but it seems to me covering up two murders isn't the better way to do things. :rolleyes: At least that plot was mostly on the back burner. But of course someone out there needed to contact him (per the next week preview) I should've seen that one coming.

I'm giving this episode an Average.
 
Apparently, the bodyguard and the president's daugther (I can't remember names anymore) are still going at it next hour.

Hassan- Where is Kayla? Kayla? Kayla? Kayla?

Heheh. Like I said, my memory. ;)

Kayla was rocking the sexy in the hotel room.

I thought the action in the hospital was pretty good as was Jack's plan. Hastings grew a pair and Taylor actually did something while she wrung her hands. I'm still waiting for something big to happen though.
 
Starbuck is dragging Cole down with her. Or is he Dean Winchester? He's doing the gruff Dean Winchester voice.

I actually like this storyline. I'm surprised so many people dislike it. It's literally the only interesting thing happening this season.
 
I kind of hope the daughter is actually evil. I figure they'll have someone do a "heel turn" and it might as well be the least obvious choice.

Also, I'm sure (white) Mommy will show up to talk to her terrorist son. No other reason to bring a known guest star for an otherwise bit part.
 
They somehow have to get Renee back into the game, because if they don't I will be seriously pissed.
Me too. She's going to Jack's apartment. She could actually be asleep before 3 AM. I don't think that's ever happened to an important character on the show.

Funny how Cole and Dana weren't missed at all by Jack or Hastings during this hour.
 
Funny how Cole and Dana weren't missed at all by Jack or Hastings during this hour.

That would actually be one of the reasons I didn't like this episode. It was an improvement over last week but that's not saying much considering last week's episode was one of the worst in the series, period. A government agency whose sole job is to fight terrorists has a lead agent and an analyst go missing, throws a noob agent who looks like he's about 15 years old into the fire and no one seems to give a damn? Why should we, at this point? :wtf:

I understand that the show's going to repeat some plotlines and do things that might not make sense until we see how it all unfolds, but FFS do it with some panache. Pretty sure this season's going to wind up being the worst one of them all by a pretty big margin unless the writers manage to turn it around, which they have yet to show any signs of doing.

Bad. Or whatever the second from the bottom poll rating is.
 
Where are all the experienced agents? I earlier seasons, the second in command has at least finished high school.
 
I watched for five minutes, then turned it off. Should I go back? I just want this series to be over so I can have seen the lot of it. But not if it keeps going on and on like this.
 
As someone who works for Homeland Security, I can attest that the bullshit going on at CTU is completely in keeping with the day-to-day at Homeland. If there's a smart way to do something, there's at least three committee approved reasons to do something else at Homeland. Combined with creating a massive government agency from scratch and staffing it half way with extras/rejects/retirees from other agencies and half with McDonald's day shift managers and you get something along the lines of CTU New York.

You'd think that second in command of the Tac Teams charged with finding a WMD would have as basic prerequisites the ability to secure your gear and maybe more than five minutes of actual field experience ... but you'd be wrong.
 
Bad. Is it my imagination or is this a really shitty, out-of-steam, beyond-running-on-fumes season? I'm flashing back to Gregory Itzin and Jean Smart in, what, S5? Man, those were the days, huh?

What kind of law enforcement professionals think they can get away with hiding bodies in three feet of swamp water right next to a road? :rommie:

The young redshirt guy that Jack was coaching was extremely cute! :bolian: However, young as he may be, I don't buy that he'd be shitting-his-pants scared at the first evildoer he encounters. They train for that shit. At the very least, he'd be hiding it better.

Jack's "romantic talk" with Renee cracks me the hell up. :rommie: Would it kill you and also cause an unforgivable breach of national security to say, I dunno, "I love you, Renee"? What kind of beyond-damaged, fraked-up relationship are those two going to have. Hey, maybe I do want another season of this show. That could be interesting!
 
^ Yeah the whole Dana/Jenny plotline makes the agent Cougar plotline seem like Shakespeare in comparison. :guffaw:

And honestly, both Jack and Renee are about as damaged as can be. So the fact that they're even opening up to each other is a step in the right direction.
 
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