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[RobertScorpio]

Eh, I tried it a couple of times but it couldn't hold my attention, even when Gina Torres was on.

The Gina Torres storyline was one of the more banal subplots they've done (other than the wham-bang ending, which could have come about in various far more interesting ways) so you really didn't miss much there. That was the first "We have to have a presidential storyline, right?" that teetered on the edge of boredom, but boy oh boy did they find ways to make those plots worse as the years went on.

Yeah the Torres plot in Season 3 was very lame and worse-yet carried no connection with the main story line it was just a distraction. But I'd take it over the Stabuck plot this season.

^^ me too. This Starbuck plot has to be, IMO, the dumbest plot yet. In fact, I am so sick of her, I don't care if I see Katie in another role for 100 years...

Rob

 

[Sheep]

Eh, I tried it a couple of times but it couldn't hold my attention, even when Gina Torres was on.

The Gina Torres storyline was one of the more banal subplots they've done (other than the wham-bang ending, which could have come about in various far more interesting ways) so you really didn't miss much there. That was the first "We have to have a presidential storyline, right?" that teetered on the edge of boredom, but boy oh boy did they find ways to make those plots worse as the years went on.

Yeah the Torres plot in Season 3 was very lame and worse-yet carried no connection with the main story line it was just a distraction. But I'd take it over the Stabuck plot this season.

The sad part is that I don't have any recollection of Gina Torres being on the show. Must've been a very memorable role.

 

[The Evil Dead]

Oh man, I remember.... "Alan Milligan" was trying to blackmail the President or something. What a shitty storyline.

 

[Trekker4747]

Alan was a major campaign contributer to David Palmer, Wayne Palmer -David's brother- had slept with Alan's much younger wife (played by Gina Torres). Alan wanted David to fire Wayne from his cabinet/re-election campaign or Alan wouldn't contribute to the re-election (there may have been some information that Wayne didn't want leaked to, up to and including the affair.)

David and Wayne struggled most of the night to settle things (David didn't want to fire Wayne) and eventualy Sherri was called in. She did the best thing she could think of, goaded the old-man into a heart attack and conviced Gina to withhold the life-saving medication.

Sherri told David about it and convinced him to serve as her alibi should Gina not hold-up her end of the "story" (that she was asleep and had no idea that Alan had been in the kitchen, suffered a heart attack, and died before getting to his meds.) David eventualy refused to let Sherri back into his life (and into his cabinet) and kicked her off the compound he was at, Sherri took her knowledge/evidence of the murder to the rival Keeler campaign to get him to let her into his cabinet (in exchange he would simply use the evidence to force Palmer out, not get him charged as an acsessory for murder). He... took the deal.

Wayne and some other a guy (a PI or just a "mess cleaner") tried to get the evidence back but the PI, Sherri and Gina were all killed in the process. With this heap of a mess going on with his knowledge and under his watch David stopped seeking re-election (presumably putting the DNC in chaos and sweeping Keeler into office) and... somehow four years later Wayne was elected President.

 

[Harvey]

It seems pretty clear that Wayne was elected because his brother was assasinated under orders from Logan, who was removed from office.

 

[Trekker4747]

It seems pretty clear that Wayne was elected because his brother was assasinated under orders from Logan, who was removed from office.

The stuff with Logan was kept secret, the American people never knew about it.

 

[Harvey]

Really? When was that established? The American public must have known that he was removed from office, convicted (of something), and put under house arrest. I mean, things like a President being forcibly removed from office generally don't go under the radar in the U.S...

 

[SlyCardie]

Really? When was that established? The American public must have known that he was removed from office, convicted (of something), and put under house arrest. I mean, things like a President being forcibly removed from office generally don't go under the radar in the U.S...

I thought they told people that he had killed himself? Or am I totally misremembering?

 

[Marten]

I think Jack says something about how the public never found out, but I'm not entirely sure.

Perhaps they were just told that the president resigned for personal reasons, or something. Possibly something less incriminating is also possible as a reason.

 

[Evil Twin]

Wait Trekker4747, in your whole "Milligan Affair" summary you forgot to mention General Juma operating undercover disguised as a police detective as a prelude to his season 7 master plan.

 

[Trekker4747]

Really? When was that established? The American public must have known that he was removed from office, convicted (of something), and put under house arrest. I mean, things like a President being forcibly removed from office generally don't go under the radar in the U.S...

I thought they told people that he had killed himself? Or am I totally misremembering?

I do not fully recall what the "excuse" they came up with was for removing Logan from office, but his actions during the day never became public.

 

[Harvey]

I do not recall that ever being said. Must be part of those episodes of season six I have blocked out (all of them really...about the only thing I like from that year is the final scene between Heller and Jack).

 

[D Man]

^^The final moments of the fourth episode were great stuff, I think. They went way too far though, and couldn't write themselves out of it. Jack v. Curtis then BOOOOOM was really, really epic, and 24 usually doesn't do "epic." Then episode 5 started the asinine "Jack's family is evil!" stuff and never recovered.

 

[RandyS]

The Gina Torres storyline was one of the more banal subplots they've done (other than the wham-bang ending, which could have come about in various far more interesting ways) so you really didn't miss much there. That was the first "We have to have a presidential storyline, right?" that teetered on the edge of boredom, but boy oh boy did they find ways to make those plots worse as the years went on.

Yeah the Torres plot in Season 3 was very lame and worse-yet carried no connection with the main story line it was just a distraction. But I'd take it over the Stabuck plot this season.

^^ me too. This Starbuck plot has to be, IMO, the dumbest plot yet. In fact, I am so sick of her, I don't care if I see Katie in another role for 100 years...

Rob

Sackoff is on 24? Well, that's that then. Glad I found out before I pissed away any money on this show.

 

[SlyCardie]

I do not recall that ever being said. Must be part of those episodes of season six I have blocked out (all of them really...about the only thing I like from that year is the final scene between Heller and Jack).

Yeah, I'm pretty much the same. That was a really poor season IMO. Although I still watched every episode, so I guess I'm the sucker.

 

[Harvey]

You're telling me. I liked Peter MacNicol (probably spelling his name wrong) that year. It's a shame he couldn't have been part of a stronger season.

 

[RobertScorpio]

There was actually a season, and I cant remember, where Jack befriend a middle-eastern agent. I thought for sure he'd become Jack's partner, which would have been cool since middle-eastern plots have been on this show a lot, but no..he died in a phone booth somewhere along the way.

Rob

 

[Harvey]

That was season two, which went a long way towards upending typical roles for middle easterners in this kind of thing.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Yeah..season two. I loved the opening episode, I think, when was brought back to CTU and he shoots, oh I forget his name now, but his boss who eventually risks his life to detonate that Nuclear bomb in the desert...

Rob

 

[Harvey]

The boss doesn't just risk his life, he sacrifices himself. I wish Xander Berkeley had more to do on television these days. Or in movies. Quite an underrated character actor.