24: Day 8: 8:00AM - 9:00AM - Discussion and Spoilers

[DarthPipes]

I hope that "justice" is Bauer's way to saying "violent, brutal torture."

I've seen elsewhere a person posting that 24 has always been a dark show and Jack always ends the season an unappreciated martyr. That might be true but to me this was a pointless decision. It just added more misery. The only justification I can see if wanting to free Jack up for a movie. Fuck whatever character they create in the films to be his love interest.

 

[firehawk12]

Hey, it's Mr. Dominic from Dollhouse as Logan's aide/likely mole. Maybe that's why he wasn't in the finale.

It depends, when would this episode have been filmed? The finale for Dollhouse was filmed was filmed in December 2009. Not disagreeing with you here, I'm just curious. Is kind of lame he didn't show up for the episode when there was an obvious set up for him to. Bah.

Good episode overall, but Rene dying? WTF?

The actor who plays Logan had to be written out of his show, so I imagine a lot of this was filmed ages ago anyway.

Silly ending that's almost as absurd as Chloe being put in charge of CTU. Oh well, I guess they want to go all out anyway.

 

[Yoda]

"Sorry... she didn't make it... and there were like two horseloads of man-goop in her, there was nothing we could do... man that chick got around."

 

[Bad Bishop]

I'm pretty sick to my stomach over the loss of Renee. Die, you Russians, die.

 

[FreezeC77]

Not Agent Freckles noooooooo

This is probably the first 24 death that has really bummed out since maybe David Palmer.

What was with the doctors at the emergency room? They worked on her for what, 45 seconds?

 

[The Habs Fan]

Above Average

I was going to give it an average rating, but the death at the end really surprised me. I had a feeling she was going to die this season, but I didn't expect it this soon.

 

[Marten]

That was unexpected, to say the least. I imagine Bauers revenge will be beyond reasoning.

 

[Bad Bishop]

Not Agent Freckles noooooooo

This is probably the first 24 death that has really bummed out since maybe David Palmer.

What was with the doctors at the emergency room? They worked on her for what, 45 seconds?

She took more than one bullet. She was probably dead already when the hospital staff placed her on the gurney.

 

[Marten]

She had a pulse.

 

[Garak]

Jack Bauer is going to kill some fuckin' Russians. Finally the season gets good.

 

[knine]

I saw the Chole and Renee surprises coming. Having Chole and Jack in charge would guarantee the movie won't be 24 hours since everyone will have to listen to them.

Jack Bauer is going to go Jack Bauer on the Russians.

 

[Base_Delta_Zero]

"...damn it, Renee."

 

[Harvey]

I'm going to say excellent. Okay, so perhaps it's not the greatest hour of TV out there, but the past three hours have been the first time I've been genuinely gripped by 24 since season five.

And, boy, they are sure dismissing main cast members quickly. Two main cast members have been killed, one has been fired (Hastings), and two have committed treason (Dana and Rob Weiss). Dana is at least coming back next week, but it looks the two others who are still alive are gone for good.

 

[Marten]

I saw the Chole and Renee surprises coming. Having Chole and Jack in charge would guarantee the movie won't be 24 hours since everyone will have to listen to them.

Jack Bauer is going to go Jack Bauer on the Russians.

It will be more like fifteen minutes.

Furthermore, wasn't the sex-time with Rene the longest time ever Jack hasn't been on duty, so to say?

 

[DarthPipes]

A day later and I still think it's shit. They finally took a chance last week and did something different with Hassan's death but then pull out one of the oldest cliches in the book by killing Jack's girl. Same old shit.

I suppose we found out one thing this season. Fakistan's men are the real men of 24. Vlad doesn't go more than five minutes with Renee and Jack goes only 15-25 minutes with her. Tarin goes more than an hour of sweaty sex with Kayla and Fredo was in their with the Russian prostitutes for like two hours. The real men are in Fakistan, it's been confirmed.

 

[Servo]

Holy shit. Jack is gonna go fucking sick.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

A day later and I still think it's shit. They finally took a chance last week and did something different with Hassan's death but then pull out one of the oldest cliches in the book by killing Jack's girl. Same old shit.

Yeah, a lot of this ep struck me as writers straining desperately to keep a story going after it's over (then again, that could describe the last few seasons). Renee must die so Jack will have something to do other than stay in bed with Renee till noon, and then saunter out for a nice nosh at the corner deli. Can't let Jack have any fun, huh? Blergh.

So much for Hassan, he wasn't very vital after all if wifey can step in and do his job with zero prior political experience. The Prez was totally off base thinking his life was worth one American's, much less half of NYC. Psycho General and the Disloyal Subordinate have been vindicated. Hope that helps at their trial.

 

[D Man]

I'm going to say excellent. Okay, so perhaps it's not the greatest hour of TV out there, but the past three hours have been the first time I've been genuinely gripped by 24 since season five.

Completely agreed. It may not hold up to the "Excellent" status compared to some of my other favorite shows, but for what 24 is, this episode knocked it out of the park. I honestly can't believe they killed Renee, not to mention a silent clock for the 2nd week in a row. These episodes were surely written and filmed before the cancellation, but I still have to wonder why they couldn't have been putting out eps of this caliber and excitement level for the whole season.

We wasted about 12 hours on Dana's bullshit and Jack driving cars around...none of that was necessary to get to the intensity that last week and this week have managed. Season 6 started out amazing and then immediately fizzled out...season 8 could be the season that started out pretty good, fizzled out VERY fast, then unexpectedly picked it up and sent the show out on a high note. Here's hoping!

 

[StarshipDefiant]

I'd say that a lot of this is the result of not pre-planning a season out. Say what you will about not being able to pre-plan, and allowing for things, etc, but a show with a premise like 24, one would think it'd be planned out and written before filming even began. Especially as such with plotlines and characters suddenly appearing for one hour and disappearing the next, a part of life I suppose, one minute someone or somethings going on the next its gone without a trace, but still... some of this just seems very planned/made up on the get go (Dana's 180 for instance), but I guess this is a part of the "three act" thing? Kind of strange, I think, a show set in one 24 hour period needs multiple storylines and arcs to keep things going? Blah.

 

[Klaus]