Season 6; Hour Six (11:00AM - 12:00PM)
Air Date: 29 Jan 2007
Reviewer: J
Okay, well let me start out by apologizing for two straight weeks of delayed reviews. The truth is, I’ve spoiled my legions (hundreds? dozens? two or three?) of readers over the years by frequently getting reviews up within a couple of days. That’s not likely to be the average this season for a number of reasons. What I will commit to is this: I will do my best to have the reviews up before the end of the workweek (since I know you all like to read them at work) and if that can’t happen, I pledge to do everything possible to have them up prior to the next hour’s airing on Fox. Fair enough? Cool. Let’s move on.
I hate to start to slide towards the group of people out there who can’t watch 24 because they think it’s just “getting too ridiculous,” but this hour pushed me closer to it. I’ve always thought that was a silly thing to say since 24 tossed the ridiculousness meter out the window early in the first season and never looked back. As all loyal fans, I always liked that about the show – that it would go anywhere and do anything and always surprise us even when we didn’t think we could be surprised anymore. Think of the deaths of major characters… nukes being detonated…Jack having to do and being willing to do the unthinkable in several instances. It got silly sometimes but also seemed to keep us hooked in enough to let the really silly stuff pass (such as nerve gas that can eat through door seals but doesn’t affect your eyes or skin as long as you hold your breath when exposed to it).
But this hour really pushed it. We’re all over the place now. Let’s make no mistake – I’m still enjoying things immensely. But it’s crazy what’s going on with Jack’s family… family we didn’t know existed before now.
But before that, let’s talk about the other wonderful storylines that as of right now aren’t holding my interest at all.
Tom Lennox and Karen Hayes continue to bicker like schoolgirls. Tom wants to be prepared with the detention facilities; Karen thinks he’s subverting the President’s authority. Oh, just screw already.
Tom ends up calling on his Deputy Chief of Staff Reed Pollock (I only know his name and title from the Fox Website) who is played by Jennifer Garner’s ex-husband. And he’s a snake who does underhanded things for the White House Chief of Staff. Wow, I’m sure that’s just what he dreamed about when he was in Law and Society class at Georgetown. Anyway, Pollock digs up some dirt on Karen that Tom uses to get her to resign her post. Yeah, right. I thought it was stupid, too. Even if you’re butting heads with them, asking the National Security Advisor to step down during a crisis such as this is kind of… stupid, to say the least. But anyway, Tom goes ahead with it and Karen backs down, resigning to the President and asking to be transferred to CTU LA so she and Bill can do it in his office up against the glass. Yeah, have fun with that image, everybody.
Oh, and what’s the dirt that is horrible enough to get her to resign? I know you were all hoping Tom had pictures of Karen and Bill doing it on Wayne Palmer’s desk or something but it’s nothing that gasp-worthy. No, it turns out that Abu Fayed was in CTU custody a year earlier and Bill Buchanan signed off on Fayed’s release. You mean Bill’s a terrorist, too?? Oh, no, wait… maybe it was just a case of not having anything to hold him on. Yes, that actually happens all the time. But Karen must feel Lennox has some kind of case because, as I said, she backs down, presumably to protect her hubby. I don’t get this but I’m sure (or hope) we’ll learn more about it. As it happens, it looks like Karen is going to walk to L.A. to join the field office there. Wouldn’t it be funny if she walks out of the White House and the title card then reads, “18 months later” and she’s walking up the I-5 freeway into Los Angeles? No? Okay.
Over at the detention facility where Sandra is still squawking at the FBI for using Walid as a pawn, Walid very artfully pickpockets one of the suspected terrorists of his smuggled cell phone and helps the FBI get a tracker on it. He then is told by the FBI, “Okay, you can return the phone.” Walid, to his credit, doesn’t reply with “Uh, what the fuck?” I mean, how is he supposed to slip it back in the dude’s pocket? By stumbling into him again? If he does that the guy’s going to think Walid is sweet on him. So Walid is standing there with the group, wrestling with this very problem, when Potential Terrorist realizes his phone is gone and immediately accuses Walid. Now, as Walid was denying it, I think it would have been funny if the phone had started ringing with like a Jay-Z ringtone or something. But no, they just manhandle Walid and take the phone and immediately commence beating the living shit out of him. The FBI moves considerably more slowly than they should in breaking up the fight and Sandra cries over Walid’s battered body. I guess this just shows that the President’s sister was right and this was dangerous for Walid. The FBI, of course, will say that they never said it wasn’t dangerous. And shit happens. You can tell this storyline isn’t over, although I have yet to see anything that having Sandra Palmer on the show brings to the table. I love Regina King and find her oddly, fascinatingly attractive… but I think she’s wasted here. No, not wasted in the narcotic sense. Although that would be funny. Of course, in the irony of ironies, it turns out that these clowns have nothing to do with terrorism – they’re just Web-surfing dudes who wish they were cool enough for Fayed’s Myspace page.
Another storyline that will likely amount to nothing is that of Tom Lennox’s security measures against all brown people including those who work for the U.S. Government. This means Hot-ass Nadia at CTU needs to be immediately strip-searched. Oh, she doesn’t? Dammit. She just has some extra layers of security or some such crap. Whatever it is, it slows down her productivity noticeably to where it appears from the exchanges that her computer is actually running slower than others. Hell, mine does that sometimes, too, Nadia. You just have to defragment the hard drive.
Bill is disgusted about it but knows they can’t do much… Milo, who is horribly miscast here by the way – I mean, can you take him seriously as a person of a) authority and b) intelligence? Or, hell, how about c) someone who’d be willing to potentially bone Chloe? Me neither. Anyway, Milo pitches a bitch-fit when he learns how Nadia is being treated by our own government and Bill agrees it’s unfair but there’s not much they can do. Milo looks down at Nadia from Bill’s office and I can’t help noticing that this reminds me of the angle Jack looked at Nina from back in Season One when we weren’t sure about Nina. Just saying.
Among Milo’s exhibits as to why Nadia is undoubtedly above reproach is that she’s “a registered Republican!” Wait, how does that exonerate her? Couldn’t one make the argument that it’s the Republicans who want to blow everything up?
I also enjoyed how Bill tried to blow him off and when Milo asked if there was something Bill wasn’t telling him, Bill responds, “Yes, Milo, there is.” Bill is great when he gets exasperated. Milo ends up going downstairs and logging Nadia in under his username. This can’t end well. And more to the point, I’m assuming Milo will need to be “logged in” at some point during the day, too, and wouldn’t there be some sort of safeguard against two instances of the same counterterrorism agent’s login? I mean, I know it can be done in my office but we’ve never had a noxious gas released here. Except after that lunch at Chevys.
Or maybe Milo’s just hoping he can “log in” to Nadia sometime soon… and let me just say that if they’re taking the show in that direction, there cannot be another Tony and Michelle… are you listening to me producers??
And so that brings us to the storyline that is most ridiculous and yet most entertaining at the same time. The Bauer Boys. Jack evidently strangled Graem (I’ve been spelling it wrong) for a while and Graem agreed to talk. Graem admits to having the nukes in his (and dad’s) company’s possession to disarm them but that this shady McCarthy character sold them on the black market and Graem and Phillip Bauer thought they could take care of it on their own. Graem acknowledges the stupidity but figured the bombs weren’t able to be armed, which Jack responds to by pointing out the ‘shroom cloud in the sky and the 12,000 dead Californians beg to differ. Graem agrees to take Jack to the office where McCarthy and/or their father might be. As they leave the house, the Fox Website says that “Jack and Marilyn trade a look.” From the looks of Graem’s son, I’d say Jack and Marilyn traded more than looks about eighteen years ago.
I did like the interaction where Jack admits he doesn’t ideally want to implicate his family but that what’s done is done and if Graem screwed himself then so be it. They get to McCarthy’s office and Jack herd Graem in, eventually cuffing him to a stationary object to check out a suspicious noise. CTU, meanwhile, has manifested some new CTU agents and parks them outside the building. Strangely, these sure-to-be-dead drones are given a line as they call Jack’s cell and ask where he wants them. Naturally, he tells them to stay outside rather than come in to provide backup. Jack likes the odds stacked against him. So they cool their heels in their CTU-issued SUV.
Jack soon gets jumped by two goons and one appears about ready to execute Jack when his father steps in and calls a halt to the proceedings. It’s James Cromwell, who is likable enough as an actor but am I the only one who wishes this was Donald Sutherland? Keifer’s the GD executive producer and he couldn’t make this happen? I don’t get it.
Anyway, Phillip Bauer stops things and allows Jack his gun back. Jack, to his credit, doesn’t pistol-whip the guy who took it away from him. The guy who gives it back, in fact, is rather magnanimous about it given that Jack got in a couple of good licks on the guy just a minute earlier. Anyway, Jack goes into interrogating his father in a “But daaaaaad!” way. He asks what the hell Phillip was thinking and when Phillip says they’re trying to figure things out Jack elects not to put a bag over his father’s face. But I think it has more to do with the fact that Phillip is about three feet taller than Jack. Jack’s mom must have been tiny to produce Jack and Graem.
Graem is brought in for a family reunion and manages to elicit Jack’s angry side again by referring to his “dead wife” when talking about keeping family safe. Phillip separates his boys probably not for the first time ever and he and Jack negotiate. Jack wants to bring in CTU to help locate this McCarthy character while Phillip initially sides with Graem on doing it themselves. Phillip is worried about Graem’s ass ending up in prison because, you know, the lack of background checking on McCarthy and all. Uh, Phillip? I’d say that ship sailed when the nuke was detonated in the suburbs. It seems that this has already been on Phillip’s mind and he acquiesces to Jack’s request – and big ups to Jack for not just demanding they do things his way, but rather trying to convince dad to go along.
Right after Phillip agrees to have Jack call CTU, Graem turns the tables by commanding the henchmen – previously reporting to Phillip – into action and they take Jack’s phone and gun and frog-march Phillip and Jack out to a waiting van. They walk by the SUV with the now former CTU agents in it and they’ve both been brutally executed by shots through the window of the truck. I guess CTU is cutting its budget lately and not equipping vehicles with bulletproof glass anymore. Remember Chloe’s time in an SUV car? It was bulletproof. Nice continuity, show.
But this is where it really went off the rails. Phillip speaks for the viewers when he asks what the hell Graem has done since Graem evidently has had two more agents murdered and now, wait for it… is giving the death orders for his dad and brother. No teary goodbye from Graem, just a “tell me when it’s done” command and off he goes. Phillip immediately regrets the Christmas when he bought Risk, the game of world domination for Graem. Jack somehow resists the urge to tell Graem he boffed Marilyn. I sure would have announced that at this point.
Is Graem this brutal that he can have his brother and father executed? We'll see shortly.
In the trailer for next hour, we are treated to seeing Jack and Phillip escape from their captors and Jack gets the drop on Graem…again. I guess the folks at Fox know that we all know Jack’s signed for a few more seasons and there’s no way to kill him anyway so they might as well admit it in the previews.
Reviewer: J
Okay, well let me start out by apologizing for two straight weeks of delayed reviews. The truth is, I’ve spoiled my legions (hundreds? dozens? two or three?) of readers over the years by frequently getting reviews up within a couple of days. That’s not likely to be the average this season for a number of reasons. What I will commit to is this: I will do my best to have the reviews up before the end of the workweek (since I know you all like to read them at work) and if that can’t happen, I pledge to do everything possible to have them up prior to the next hour’s airing on Fox. Fair enough? Cool. Let’s move on.
I hate to start to slide towards the group of people out there who can’t watch 24 because they think it’s just “getting too ridiculous,” but this hour pushed me closer to it. I’ve always thought that was a silly thing to say since 24 tossed the ridiculousness meter out the window early in the first season and never looked back. As all loyal fans, I always liked that about the show – that it would go anywhere and do anything and always surprise us even when we didn’t think we could be surprised anymore. Think of the deaths of major characters… nukes being detonated…Jack having to do and being willing to do the unthinkable in several instances. It got silly sometimes but also seemed to keep us hooked in enough to let the really silly stuff pass (such as nerve gas that can eat through door seals but doesn’t affect your eyes or skin as long as you hold your breath when exposed to it).
But this hour really pushed it. We’re all over the place now. Let’s make no mistake – I’m still enjoying things immensely. But it’s crazy what’s going on with Jack’s family… family we didn’t know existed before now.
But before that, let’s talk about the other wonderful storylines that as of right now aren’t holding my interest at all.
Tom Lennox and Karen Hayes continue to bicker like schoolgirls. Tom wants to be prepared with the detention facilities; Karen thinks he’s subverting the President’s authority. Oh, just screw already.
Tom ends up calling on his Deputy Chief of Staff Reed Pollock (I only know his name and title from the Fox Website) who is played by Jennifer Garner’s ex-husband. And he’s a snake who does underhanded things for the White House Chief of Staff. Wow, I’m sure that’s just what he dreamed about when he was in Law and Society class at Georgetown. Anyway, Pollock digs up some dirt on Karen that Tom uses to get her to resign her post. Yeah, right. I thought it was stupid, too. Even if you’re butting heads with them, asking the National Security Advisor to step down during a crisis such as this is kind of… stupid, to say the least. But anyway, Tom goes ahead with it and Karen backs down, resigning to the President and asking to be transferred to CTU LA so she and Bill can do it in his office up against the glass. Yeah, have fun with that image, everybody.
Oh, and what’s the dirt that is horrible enough to get her to resign? I know you were all hoping Tom had pictures of Karen and Bill doing it on Wayne Palmer’s desk or something but it’s nothing that gasp-worthy. No, it turns out that Abu Fayed was in CTU custody a year earlier and Bill Buchanan signed off on Fayed’s release. You mean Bill’s a terrorist, too?? Oh, no, wait… maybe it was just a case of not having anything to hold him on. Yes, that actually happens all the time. But Karen must feel Lennox has some kind of case because, as I said, she backs down, presumably to protect her hubby. I don’t get this but I’m sure (or hope) we’ll learn more about it. As it happens, it looks like Karen is going to walk to L.A. to join the field office there. Wouldn’t it be funny if she walks out of the White House and the title card then reads, “18 months later” and she’s walking up the I-5 freeway into Los Angeles? No? Okay.
Over at the detention facility where Sandra is still squawking at the FBI for using Walid as a pawn, Walid very artfully pickpockets one of the suspected terrorists of his smuggled cell phone and helps the FBI get a tracker on it. He then is told by the FBI, “Okay, you can return the phone.” Walid, to his credit, doesn’t reply with “Uh, what the fuck?” I mean, how is he supposed to slip it back in the dude’s pocket? By stumbling into him again? If he does that the guy’s going to think Walid is sweet on him. So Walid is standing there with the group, wrestling with this very problem, when Potential Terrorist realizes his phone is gone and immediately accuses Walid. Now, as Walid was denying it, I think it would have been funny if the phone had started ringing with like a Jay-Z ringtone or something. But no, they just manhandle Walid and take the phone and immediately commence beating the living shit out of him. The FBI moves considerably more slowly than they should in breaking up the fight and Sandra cries over Walid’s battered body. I guess this just shows that the President’s sister was right and this was dangerous for Walid. The FBI, of course, will say that they never said it wasn’t dangerous. And shit happens. You can tell this storyline isn’t over, although I have yet to see anything that having Sandra Palmer on the show brings to the table. I love Regina King and find her oddly, fascinatingly attractive… but I think she’s wasted here. No, not wasted in the narcotic sense. Although that would be funny. Of course, in the irony of ironies, it turns out that these clowns have nothing to do with terrorism – they’re just Web-surfing dudes who wish they were cool enough for Fayed’s Myspace page.
Another storyline that will likely amount to nothing is that of Tom Lennox’s security measures against all brown people including those who work for the U.S. Government. This means Hot-ass Nadia at CTU needs to be immediately strip-searched. Oh, she doesn’t? Dammit. She just has some extra layers of security or some such crap. Whatever it is, it slows down her productivity noticeably to where it appears from the exchanges that her computer is actually running slower than others. Hell, mine does that sometimes, too, Nadia. You just have to defragment the hard drive.
Bill is disgusted about it but knows they can’t do much… Milo, who is horribly miscast here by the way – I mean, can you take him seriously as a person of a) authority and b) intelligence? Or, hell, how about c) someone who’d be willing to potentially bone Chloe? Me neither. Anyway, Milo pitches a bitch-fit when he learns how Nadia is being treated by our own government and Bill agrees it’s unfair but there’s not much they can do. Milo looks down at Nadia from Bill’s office and I can’t help noticing that this reminds me of the angle Jack looked at Nina from back in Season One when we weren’t sure about Nina. Just saying.
Among Milo’s exhibits as to why Nadia is undoubtedly above reproach is that she’s “a registered Republican!” Wait, how does that exonerate her? Couldn’t one make the argument that it’s the Republicans who want to blow everything up?
I also enjoyed how Bill tried to blow him off and when Milo asked if there was something Bill wasn’t telling him, Bill responds, “Yes, Milo, there is.” Bill is great when he gets exasperated. Milo ends up going downstairs and logging Nadia in under his username. This can’t end well. And more to the point, I’m assuming Milo will need to be “logged in” at some point during the day, too, and wouldn’t there be some sort of safeguard against two instances of the same counterterrorism agent’s login? I mean, I know it can be done in my office but we’ve never had a noxious gas released here. Except after that lunch at Chevys.
Or maybe Milo’s just hoping he can “log in” to Nadia sometime soon… and let me just say that if they’re taking the show in that direction, there cannot be another Tony and Michelle… are you listening to me producers??
And so that brings us to the storyline that is most ridiculous and yet most entertaining at the same time. The Bauer Boys. Jack evidently strangled Graem (I’ve been spelling it wrong) for a while and Graem agreed to talk. Graem admits to having the nukes in his (and dad’s) company’s possession to disarm them but that this shady McCarthy character sold them on the black market and Graem and Phillip Bauer thought they could take care of it on their own. Graem acknowledges the stupidity but figured the bombs weren’t able to be armed, which Jack responds to by pointing out the ‘shroom cloud in the sky and the 12,000 dead Californians beg to differ. Graem agrees to take Jack to the office where McCarthy and/or their father might be. As they leave the house, the Fox Website says that “Jack and Marilyn trade a look.” From the looks of Graem’s son, I’d say Jack and Marilyn traded more than looks about eighteen years ago.
I did like the interaction where Jack admits he doesn’t ideally want to implicate his family but that what’s done is done and if Graem screwed himself then so be it. They get to McCarthy’s office and Jack herd Graem in, eventually cuffing him to a stationary object to check out a suspicious noise. CTU, meanwhile, has manifested some new CTU agents and parks them outside the building. Strangely, these sure-to-be-dead drones are given a line as they call Jack’s cell and ask where he wants them. Naturally, he tells them to stay outside rather than come in to provide backup. Jack likes the odds stacked against him. So they cool their heels in their CTU-issued SUV.
Jack soon gets jumped by two goons and one appears about ready to execute Jack when his father steps in and calls a halt to the proceedings. It’s James Cromwell, who is likable enough as an actor but am I the only one who wishes this was Donald Sutherland? Keifer’s the GD executive producer and he couldn’t make this happen? I don’t get it.
Anyway, Phillip Bauer stops things and allows Jack his gun back. Jack, to his credit, doesn’t pistol-whip the guy who took it away from him. The guy who gives it back, in fact, is rather magnanimous about it given that Jack got in a couple of good licks on the guy just a minute earlier. Anyway, Jack goes into interrogating his father in a “But daaaaaad!” way. He asks what the hell Phillip was thinking and when Phillip says they’re trying to figure things out Jack elects not to put a bag over his father’s face. But I think it has more to do with the fact that Phillip is about three feet taller than Jack. Jack’s mom must have been tiny to produce Jack and Graem.
Graem is brought in for a family reunion and manages to elicit Jack’s angry side again by referring to his “dead wife” when talking about keeping family safe. Phillip separates his boys probably not for the first time ever and he and Jack negotiate. Jack wants to bring in CTU to help locate this McCarthy character while Phillip initially sides with Graem on doing it themselves. Phillip is worried about Graem’s ass ending up in prison because, you know, the lack of background checking on McCarthy and all. Uh, Phillip? I’d say that ship sailed when the nuke was detonated in the suburbs. It seems that this has already been on Phillip’s mind and he acquiesces to Jack’s request – and big ups to Jack for not just demanding they do things his way, but rather trying to convince dad to go along.
Right after Phillip agrees to have Jack call CTU, Graem turns the tables by commanding the henchmen – previously reporting to Phillip – into action and they take Jack’s phone and gun and frog-march Phillip and Jack out to a waiting van. They walk by the SUV with the now former CTU agents in it and they’ve both been brutally executed by shots through the window of the truck. I guess CTU is cutting its budget lately and not equipping vehicles with bulletproof glass anymore. Remember Chloe’s time in an SUV car? It was bulletproof. Nice continuity, show.
But this is where it really went off the rails. Phillip speaks for the viewers when he asks what the hell Graem has done since Graem evidently has had two more agents murdered and now, wait for it… is giving the death orders for his dad and brother. No teary goodbye from Graem, just a “tell me when it’s done” command and off he goes. Phillip immediately regrets the Christmas when he bought Risk, the game of world domination for Graem. Jack somehow resists the urge to tell Graem he boffed Marilyn. I sure would have announced that at this point.
Is Graem this brutal that he can have his brother and father executed? We'll see shortly.
In the trailer for next hour, we are treated to seeing Jack and Phillip escape from their captors and Jack gets the drop on Graem…again. I guess the folks at Fox know that we all know Jack’s signed for a few more seasons and there’s no way to kill him anyway so they might as well admit it in the previews.
Labels: Season Six
posted by J Money at 10:25:00 AM
7 Comments:
I, too, picked up on Milo and Nadia trying to be the new Tony and Michelle...I've been calling her "Michelle Wannabe" from the beginning, actually. Lame. They will never be as appealing as Tony and Michelle. Mostly because Milo sucks.
Oh, and Chad Lowe is actually Hilary Swank's ex-husband...just saying. :-)
I have always loved your comments J, but I have to disagree with you. This season is FAR less ridiculous than anything they attempted in season 5. Gratuitous S5 deaths and obvious lack of plot-planning aside, S5 had a new twist EVERY EPISODE, each not-so-much surprising us as testing our suspension of disbelief.
Jack has never mentioned his brother & dad before? No surprise. When we've seen him, he's been pretty busy. They also don't seem to have the best relationship, & Jack seems like the kind of guy that is willing to ignore/shut out things that make him feel weak or insecure. I understand - that's why I don't talk to my ex-girlfriends.
But even the cartoon universe that was S5 was not without precedent; nothing will ever achieve the ultimate absurdity of 24's 2-headed ridiculous-dragon: Teri's amnesia & Kim's mountain lion.
I really appreciate the writing this season. They seem to have returned to the storytelling style of seasons 1-3 (multiple plots going on at once) while dropping a lot of the low-stakes nonsense (e.g. Palmer's possible affair with aide Patti, Kim's whole ordeal with the Mathesons, etc.). They have dropped a good deal of S5's episode-by-episode self-containment and needless grandiosity (imagine, they actually make a nuclear bomb going off seem less grand than a political conspiracy) in favor of something that has the potential to be more character oriented - Jack may actually GROW as a character for the first time, arguably, since Season 3's finale.
Do I care about Milo & Nadia? Not really. Do I think the National Security Advisor would be willing to be blackmailed so easily without a fight? Probably not. Do I think Wayne Palmer should be president? Definitely not (although it's a reasonably believable plot element that he would be elected after David's death & the collapse of Logan's Republicans). 24 has always dwelt firmly in a reality just-this-side of unfeasible. Season 5 crossed the line far too often; season 6 has taken a step back & revitalized a franchise that threatened to crumble under the weight of its own ambition less than a year ago. That's all.
Great review J. Honestly it was a much better review than I had hoped for given the fact that hour six was nothing more than a very lame filler episode. At least that is my humble opinon. I honestly feel like I could have missed this episode and not even have really noticed.
Good point with the nerve gas from last season...I hadn't even considered that.
I was so disappointed to see how easily Karen Hayes gave her resignation instead of putting up a good fight against Tom Lennox. Maybe she will be better able to help in CTU LA....why she couldn't be of help at CTU Washington, DC or any other one is beyond me. Perhaps she just wants to be close to her hubby Bill should all of LA be incinerated, CTU LA included, with the remaining 4 suitcase nukes.
As for the coming episode... I'll be interested to see just how many episodes James Cromwell (and yes I was hoping they could have gotten Donald Sutherland as well, perhaps he could make an appearance as the surprise bad guy in the end?) lasts.... My money is on that he is shot and killed during the scuffle for the guns we saw in the previews. Jack will then tortures the hell out of Graem before killing him, taking his wife and child as his own, and riding off into the sunset to....wait there are still 4 suitcase nukes that need to be stopped!
We must wait only until tonight to find out.
Hey David H . . . I just posted a reply to your analysis on the 24 HQ, but it hasn't been approved yet. I'd also appreciate your critisisms of my analysis! :)
Can't wait to read J's review of Hour 6.7!!!
Sorry,but this season has lost me as a dedicated follower. I've been embarassed of this brothers' drama from start and end,it's just plain absurd and no amount of retelling the S5 story is going to make me believe it. So far,one single twist has been able to catch me: kidnapping Chloe's husband,because I like spy stories more than action circus. I don't care what going to happen next,frankly. Right now,the only show that leaves me waiting for the next hour is Galactica.
Sorry to use the comment feature as a message board J, but I wanted to response to Phoenician..
I definitely loved your explanation on 24fan.blogspot.com. It was very well done and your research was great. My friends were giving me crap even today about how seriously I take 24, so it's good to know I'm not the only one.
I still have to say that it must be 2000 in which the first season of 24 takes place. Mainly because of the whole Operation Nightfall taking place in 1998. It just seems to make a lot more sense that it would be like that...covert ops before NATO and the UN get involved and what not. As for the Declassified book series...I have stayed away from them. Mainly because they make me think of those Star Wars novels writen by other people that I liked so much. I don't know how much stock you can put into that.
However, there is some merit to your idea. According to the 24 spinoff miniseries on the Degree website (the one with the the main character who played the sailor on the nuclear sub from last season, www.cturookie.com) CTU LA was started by an Alton Maxwell. And apparently CTU wasn't supposed to be known to the public back then, at least according to the videos. So maybe you are onto something.
Great research!
Not so much research, my friend, just being the obsessive fan that I am. But yes, the evidence is out there.
While I do admit that the Declassified series aren't as written as well as they could be (but trust me, they are a great thing to have during the 7-month Hiatus!) -- they do allow you to know some fun stuff:
That Palmer's General Election opponent was 1-term Incumbent President Harold Barnes, who apparently did nothing after 9-11 except that he tried to pass a "Patriot Act" like Bill which actually got defeated, basically portraying him as a failure of a President.
Also, that Jack was very much haunted about the Drazen mission, often thinking about similar situations from current events and thinking about the man he supposedly assassinated.
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