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Rate the 24 season ending SCENES

Which season ended with the best final moment?


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I thought this would be a fun idea. Over 7 seasons, we've had the days end with just about every range of emotion you can think of... well, everything except for joyful elation. In 7 years, I don't think we've yet had one ending that we can say ended on a fulfilling, happy note. So, here is a brief summary of the final scenes of the seven seasons to jog your memories. Choose only your favourite in the poll but please rate all 7 in your post! Rate away!

Please compare only your feelings of the final moment of each season - NOT the season as a whole or the final episode.

Day 1: Jack discovers his pregnant wife Terri, shot dead in CTU by the traitor Nina Meyers. Jack cradles his wife as he weeps and tells her how sorry he is for not preventing this.

Day 2: After an outdoor speech informing the public that the crisis is over, President Palmer collapses, his fate uncertain, after being poisoned during a handshake with Mandy.

Day 3: Jack breaks down and weeps alone in his CTU vehicle as the full impact of his actions during the day take hold. This doesn't last long, however, as Jack receives a phone call that one of the captured terrorists is now at CTU waiting to be interrogated. Jack tells them he's on his way and then drives off, determined once more.

Day 4: Having faked his death to prevent further danger from government members wanting him dead, Jack walks out of CTU into the sunset to start a new life.

Day 5: Captured by the Chineese, Jack begs Cheng for death; a fate he is denied. The cargo ship he is a prisioner on speeds off towards China, with Jack's friends having no idea where he is.

Day 6: Having decided he will not take Audrey Raines away with himself for her own good, Jack stands outside the home of James Heller looking at the ocean, wondering what lies ahead for him.

Day 7: Jack is in hospital, critically ill with a deadly pathogen. Kim is informed that it is not too late to attempt an experimental stem cell transplant from herself that could possibly save his life. After asking for this procedure to be performed, she leaves with the doctor to go and prepare.
 
Day 2, by far. Look, we all know that Jack Bauer is NOT going to die, so anything involving his life in the balance can't count. And anything involving Day 6 automatically gets disqualified since that season was a train wreck. None of the others made that big an impression on me...aside from David Palmer down on the ground after being attacked.
 
Actually i thought that last shot from season 6 really redeemed that season for me. With the lighting and the shot of the cliffs, it looked like Jack was contemplating suicide.
 
Season 1 definitely. That was by far the most shocking moment of the entire series. Since Lost began airing we've become used to the "anyone is fair game" approach. It would be surprising but not entirely shocking if a main character died. But back in season 1 of 24 you just did NOT expect that to happen. It was crazy.
 
I'm not sure about my favorite.....Season 1 and 5 probably win for best cliffhanger but I like the quiet moments with Jack that ended season 3 and 6 (And 7, I guess)

My least favorite is 2, not because it was bad at the time it aired but for the horrendous way they dropped that thread in season 3.
 
I'm not sure about my favorite.....Season 1 and 5 probably win for best cliffhanger but I like the quiet moments with Jack that ended season 3 and 6 (And 7, I guess)

My least favorite is 2, not because it was bad at the time it aired but for the horrendous way they dropped that thread in season 3.
Yeah, it was glossed over pretty quickly at the start of season 3, although it at least did have some relevance to season 3 with the Love Doctor and Palmer's needed treatments. Apparently the Playstation 2 24 game focused on the story b/w seasons 2 and 3.
 
Season one ending on a tragedy, season two ending on a cliffhanger (completely glossed over by next season), season four ending with Jack Bauer walking away to sad Incredible Hulk music after faking his death (again completely glossed over when he was right back in the middle of LA and CTU the next season) were the best.
 
Season Two was a mind-blowing shocker (that unfortunately was completely written away the next season!). First we see Naked Mandy for the first time that season; gasp! Then she KILLS Palmer!!! ZOMG!!! Of course they completely retconned the cliffhanger but at the time it was amazing :p
 
^I remember hearing the producers talk on the season 2 DVDs about how they tried to keep that plotline from being revealed as the finale since there were tons of extras involved - they filmed the scene as we saw it but then continued filming showing Palmer get up, say he was alright, then get into his limo and drive away. :lol: That way no one knew that they were ending it with a cliffhanger.
 
Everyone says the S2 cliffhanger was glossed over. Wasn't there a 3 year gap between S2 and S3, precluding a drastic follow up?
 
It was a choice on the part of the producers to skip ahead 3 years, it was shot several months later.

Imagine Star Trek - TNG Best of Both Worlds, Picard is Locutus, Riker orders the Enterprise to fire, aaaaaaaand... Season 4 starts with an offhand remark "Sure is good we saved you from the Borg, Jean-Luc and that the Borg were destroyed over Earth." "Indeed."

That's why I hate the 24 season 2 cliffhanger.
 
Looking at the context of each show, TNG wasn't set up to do a continuous 24-hour story like 24. Simply, doing that kind of cliffhanger wouldn't have worked. On 24, starting Season 3 mere moments after S2 ended would have stretched believability even farther with two huge security issues back to back.

But I do understand the point.
 
Day 4 because it's the only one that didn't end on a cliffhanger.
Umm, that's not true... Seasons 3 and 6 ended with less of a cliffhanger than even season 4.

I thought David Palmer resigned at the end of season 3. I missed the entire second half of season 6 and have no desire to watch it in the future.
How is Palmer resigning any more of a cliffhanger than Jack faking his death and leaving his past life behind? Every season finale of every show leaves details to be followed up later. That does not make it a "cliffhanger".
 
It was a choice on the part of the producers to skip ahead 3 years, it was shot several months later.

Imagine Star Trek - TNG Best of Both Worlds, Picard is Locutus, Riker orders the Enterprise to fire, aaaaaaaand... Season 4 starts with an offhand remark "Sure is good we saved you from the Borg, Jean-Luc and that the Borg were destroyed over Earth." "Indeed."

That's why I hate the 24 season 2 cliffhanger.
Even at the time it first viewed, it was hard to believe that the next season would pick up exactly where season 2 left off. These people have already been without sleep for 24 hours. Jack had been shot and was recovering in hospital. I doubt there was ever any intention of following up immediately after. You are right though that it was greatly minimized in terms of its importance come season 3.

After 7 seasons with all sorts of crazy endings, I've given up on any expectations for large alterations to result in the standard trademark 24 season plotlines. No matter where Jack has been between the seasons, whether he be mourning a dead wife, a junkie, quit CTU and working for the government, living a life as a different man, held captive by the Chineese, or uncertain of what his future holds; within 4 hours (usually less) he is back doing the same thing he always does. And there is no indication season 8 will be any different.
 
I think seasons 2 and 5 were the best. I think we all know that Jack won't die, so that's not really a threat. What's interesting is what exactly WILL happen to him, or the President, or the people around them.

This season? Meh. He's not going to die, and having to tolerate dumbass Kim was a bit much.
 
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