His hair has always been white, back to Space: Above and Beyond. He's pretty much oozed badass that whole time too. Which may explain why he's the first CTU head in a while to actually stick around.
24: Day 7 8:00AM - 12:00 PM - Discussion and Spoilers
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His hair has always been white, back to Space: Above and Beyond. He's pretty much oozed badass that whole time too. Which may explain why he's the first CTU head in a while to actually stick around.
Watched a clip from Sci-Fi Wire where they interview the cast & producers on "the red carpet" and noticed this oddity:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that Brannon Braga, not Manny Coto? Is Braga involved with 24?
Sigh, yeah, that is Brannon Braga who is one of 24's many executive producers. Which doesn't inspire me with a lot of hope, other than Many Coto is one of 24's OTHER many EPs and Brannon doesn't do too bad when it comes to creative stuff while working under other people. But I can't help but suspect he was "responsible" for the "[device] is out of phase" line in Sunday's episode(s).
Yeah, Coto has been on the '24' writing staff for a couple of seasons now.
Braga is an ExPro on 24.
No, no...Bill is a DEAD RINGER for Neil Patrick Harris.
You know what would've really worked for this premise? Never mind that making Logan the bad guy was something they made up as they were going along and contradicted much of what came before, but what if season five ended with a cliffhanger of him being the bad guy? And this season's rogue CTU was trying to bring him down?
It was funny, I just rewatched that movie last night and it had the exact same maneuver."This is going to hurt."
Ok, when did Jack stoop to making John McClaine-esque oneliners before doing something stupid?
Jack-yippie kay yay mother trucker
I thought the scene was more "the bourne ultimatum"
Wonder if Nina is as dead as Tony was?
Also, is NakedMandy coming back? For the love of god I hope so. Her season one lesbian escapades were a highlight.
Mandy could come back. I'd buy it, if it made sense.
Nina is dead. She was shot in the face, at point blank range. They kind of made a point about how dead she was at the time. Tony could come back because there was a semi-reasonable way to do so. But Nina isn't ever coming back, and if she does, I'll eat my hat.
Excellent, Excellent, Good, Good
24 is definitely back and the change of venue and loss of "official" CTU is a reinvigorating shot in the arm that it needed. At the same time, there are a lot of veeeery familiar elements (more moles! faux-Chloe! weasely Presidential advisers!), which are either nice continuity or lack of imagination, depending on your perspective. So far, tho, I'll give them a pass because the bottom line was, I was entertained.
It was definitely the right call to bring back Tony, regardless of how hilarious the explanation needed to be, because some new guy who Jack knew way back when simply wouldn't have worked in this role. The parallelism between Tony and Jack's experiences, and how their personalities have led them to different responses (but back around to the same place in the end) is what makes the dynamic between them work. And it highlights just how weird Jack is, because most people who were put through hell would act out, just like Tony, before getting a grip on themselves.
The premise is the usual far-fetched 24 wackiness. I certainly hope no real life President would ever launch some hare-brained invasion that doesn't have anything to do with America's interests. Hell even dummy Bush presumably was after Iraq's oil, right?
That at least is some sort of rationale. What exactly does Madame President hope to achieve but a bunch of dead American soldiers to save a population that will probably start shooting at them, as imperialist invaders, the minute they have the chance?
Why is the President surprised that her war is putting American lives at risk? That would happen anyway - she's putting American soldiers' lives at risk, who volunteered for the military to defend America, not to get killed in somebody else's civil war. Isn't that just as irresponsible as putting American civilians in harm's way?
And the CTU Guerilla Force, come ON! Hey here's a great plan, it won't endanger American lives, honest, as long as everything goes 100% according to plan. Do these clowns live in the fantasy land of unicorns and butterflies? Of course it was going to go wrong! They should have learned from Marwan, always have a plan b...and c...and...
I guess I'm just going to have to side with the FBI party-poopers on this one. They seem like the only people in this show who haven't completely lost their frakkin' minds. I did enjoy Jack snarling at those prissy Senators who dared question his tactics, even though this season seems to be devoted to proving the prissy Senators and FBI party-poopers correct by showing just how insane CTU really is. Even disbanding them won't stop them! But that's wishful thinking, regardless of how mind-bogglingly irresponsible their behavior is, CTU will always be Our Heroes int he end.
Oh yeah, and I thought Janeane Garofolo was really overdoing the faux-Chloe routine. Took me a minute to recognize who Sean the FBI Jerk is...Rhys Coiro, "Billy Walsh" from Entourage. What a difference a bath and a haircut makes!
24 is definitely back and the change of venue and loss of "official" CTU is a reinvigorating shot in the arm that it needed. At the same time, there are a lot of veeeery familiar elements (more moles! faux-Chloe! weasely Presidential advisers!), which are either nice continuity or lack of imagination, depending on your perspective. So far, tho, I'll give them a pass because the bottom line was, I was entertained.
It was definitely the right call to bring back Tony, regardless of how hilarious the explanation needed to be, because some new guy who Jack knew way back when simply wouldn't have worked in this role. The parallelism between Tony and Jack's experiences, and how their personalities have led them to different responses (but back around to the same place in the end) is what makes the dynamic between them work. And it highlights just how weird Jack is, because most people who were put through hell would act out, just like Tony, before getting a grip on themselves.
The premise is the usual far-fetched 24 wackiness. I certainly hope no real life President would ever launch some hare-brained invasion that doesn't have anything to do with America's interests. Hell even dummy Bush presumably was after Iraq's oil, right?
That at least is some sort of rationale. What exactly does Madame President hope to achieve but a bunch of dead American soldiers to save a population that will probably start shooting at them, as imperialist invaders, the minute they have the chance?Why is the President surprised that her war is putting American lives at risk? That would happen anyway - she's putting American soldiers' lives at risk, who volunteered for the military to defend America, not to get killed in somebody else's civil war. Isn't that just as irresponsible as putting American civilians in harm's way?
And the CTU Guerilla Force, come ON!
Hey here's a great plan, it won't endanger American lives, honest, as long as everything goes 100% according to plan. Do these clowns live in the fantasy land of unicorns and butterflies? Of course it was going to go wrong! They should have learned from Marwan, always have a plan b...and c...and...I guess I'm just going to have to side with the FBI party-poopers on this one. They seem like the only people in this show who haven't completely lost their frakkin' minds. I did enjoy Jack snarling at those prissy Senators who dared question his tactics, even though this season seems to be devoted to proving the prissy Senators and FBI party-poopers correct by showing just how insane CTU really is. Even disbanding them won't stop them! But that's wishful thinking, regardless of how mind-bogglingly irresponsible their behavior is, CTU will always be Our Heroes int he end.
It's CTU! Heck, it could be just Jack against the entire US government and he'd win.
Oh yeah, and I thought Janeane Garofolo was really overdoing the faux-Chloe routine. Took me a minute to recognize who Sean the FBI Jerk is...Rhys Coiro, "Billy Walsh" from Entourage. What a difference a bath and a haircut makes!
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Great start thus far. I still wish Chloe and Buchanan hadn't showed up.