'24' - Season 7 on FOX HD - Page 63

weak season finale. Anybody else have problems with audio drop outs?? Its been happening with me on fox hd shows the last few weeks its killing me.

Whoohoo, up the creek with all you naysayers. That was an awesome 2 hrs!!!

Yep, just flat out aweful finale. Infact, the last 6 episodes or so of this season dragged on and were boring. Ever since Tony turne and Jack got infected the season went downhill quick.

The Tony ending came out of left field for me since I havent seen season 5 and 6(?) in a while I thought they wrapped that all up between Logan and Jack's family. But it actually explains all the retardedly erratic behavior pretty well and made the character make sense in context of the season again. I will say they did a good job there.

I thought they did a pretty good job overall in the finale, they put themselves in a lousy position setting the episode up with a ****** second half of the season, but they got out of it as good as could be expected.

Sutherland has been hinting for several years about a "replacement". This season is a kind-of "test" to see if people take to Rene positively. Although Jack was not "gone" this season, he was disabled and the hard core interrogation was sort of passed on to Rene as an apprentice.

I'm not sure it will stick, though. I think the idea is to have Rene take over for Jack and Sutherland will slowly move behind the scenes as producer. I'm not convinced the series will be as popular without Sutherland playing the role of Jack, however.

The advantage for doing that will be that Sutherland would then be free to drink and drive or assault people and get arrested without delaying the series. It looks like another delay is around the corner since Sutherland was just arrested again for assault which is a violation of his probation, so I think he'll be spending the whole summer behind bars. But the head-butt he did was a great "Jack" move in real life.

Just when I thought I couldn't hate the Tony story any more they go and do this ...




So the best thing tony could think of over three years to get close to Alan Wilson and get revenge for Michelle, was to crash two passenger jets, help an armed takeover of the White House by a foreign power, kill the president, import a deadly toxin and then kill hundreds of thousands of people in co-ordinated attacks on civilians? Has he not seen Man On Fire? Denzel could have got revenge in a month.

And the Kim Bauer plot was thankfully wrapped up pretty quickly (and the guard who got shot but still returned fire on the floor was pretty kickass) but did anyone else laugh hysterically when Kim came out of the car with her sleeve on fire? Waving it around frantically like a chicken? No matter how they write her, her stories still come across like "Adventures of Blond. Dumb Blond." I also thought it was pretty funny how she just stood next to the burning vehicle instead of running away in case the whole thing blew up.

That said when Tony got taken away I thought the last thirty minutes were great. Jack's "you have to make the choice you can live with" speech was great and his death bed scene was touching even if it did come across as reparations for previous seasons of Muslim terrorists. Even the White house stuff was well played.

I almost want Jack to die. His closing scenes were so good and Walker has now become pretty kick ass. Especially this episode with her mean streak coming out and riding the running boards picking off bad guys and rolling into cover. I would watch her in 24. I'd rather watch her as a Bauer/Walker team but I think I could live with just her.

If they had taken the first 3/4 of this season up until the Tony twist and then attached the first quarter of last season up until the nuke it would have made a perfect run.

But at least it was better than the last season.

and what happens?

He gets killed off again!

Poor Carson. He should stay out of medicine. It's bad for his lifespan.

LOL even his lack of accent couldn't disguise him. WAY OT, but did anyone else notice James Callis on Numbers last week? I totally didn't recognize HIM until he stood up and gave one of those perplexed anguished looks. Then I couldn't help but see him. But he used a southern accent and the character was so spot on crazy that he was actually unrecognizable to me at first.

Our government sure gets a lot done in 24 hours.

When the President walked in the Situation Room with all the military brass, I thought, "Didn't we invade Sangala like 18 hours ago." I realize it was a cake walk, but still.

I think people should spare a thought for the unsung heroes of 24. They never stop, they have to work to ridiculous deadlines, cope with rapidly changing events and have to do it in secret.

Who am I talking about?

The media department at the White House.

When they aren't assembling the many large, spiral bound color briefings about the latest continuously changing plan for meetings, they are producing sweet Powerpoint-style presentations with graphics that swipe left and right, zoom in and out, highlight copy as the president speaks, make nice collages of dead African warlords with the word "Deceased" stamped across them and they do it all so it can run in the background for no reason.

How many print room technicians and graphics people died today in the assault? How many of those will be remembered with a star on the wall?

Is Tony really bad?

No, but he's really, really mad.

Which has turned him into a crazed sociopath, so it would probably be safer for everyone if he really was just another EvilCo soldier.

Thats what I thought they were prepping Chase for in season three but then they had to go make him a mall security guard or something. I think they realized they overkilled the dead coworker story and they want to start establishing costars for the series again. One of the reasons why Season Six was so bad was that there were no real good Tony/Michelle/Chase/'good' Nina characters to play off of, Curtis but they killed him off pretty early on. Chloe is a good character but she is just a plot device to get Jack the information he needs. most of the time when she has a side plot of her own it can get tedious.

I think they need to find a way to bring back Peter MacNicol, he was the only good thing about season 6... but I digress...

The other thing season 8 needs... is Mandy... and if they ever do kill jack, Mandy should do it...

i miss the days when 24 had a real shocking cliffhanger...

Define "directly." By the time next season starts, Jack will have already been cured.

exactly, remember how season 2 ended and how season 3 started?? david palmer emerging from the limo completely fine.

"It's all been done....It's all been done....It's all been dooone befooore"

Terrific finale. Wrapped everything up nicely imo.

Good - glad we won't have to comments about next season.

I'm not happy they left everything up in the air, but they really did.

We don't know anything at this point, aside from Jack will probably survive.

Did Renee torture? We don't know.

What happens to Tony? We don't know.

The Imam? We don't know.

The President? We don't know.

Aaron absolutely, positively rocked, though.

Quite frankly I think people would have been disappointed had anything been resolved, but I wasn't expect so many people being upset at nothing having been.

I agree the naysayers here, bad writing and worse direction, just a real let down. Leaves me wanting less, not more. Very sloppily done. But the picture and sound were awesome!

I agree with the "naysayers". IMO the Star Trek boys[Berman/Braga] ruined this season. Jack asks forgiveness through a muslim cleric? Did "president giggles" wrote that scene?
And what was that big twist at the end I was bombarded about on the radio all week?
There was nothing shocking or unpredictable at all. This was the lamest season finale of all times. Sorry but freckles don't cut it, it has to be Jack for me to tune in for future seasons, and hopefully they lose the ST boys, let them destroy some other show, with their metrosexual PC crap.

Nuff said!!

Yeah that's what ruined this season. I don't care for the "current political shift". If I did I would watch C-Span.

You know, I think you can buy anything if it's intelligently done and presented; you strike the right tone and maintain tension and suspense and it's all good. But last night's finale -- as opposed to, for example, last week's episode, for me anyway -- just seemed very rushed and not believable -- even for 24 -- and almost toally without dramitc tension. So, for me, whether they make it more or less "realistic" next year isn't really relevant: just tell a good story in an involving way, where you can totally suspend your disbelief, and I'm there. Easier said than done, I guess.

While not a complete goodie two shoes, I knew Tony would come around. He also stole my line.

Glad the Prez did the right thing and sent Olivia away.

Next season could be as much as two years from the end of this season so I’m not looking for teamwork with Jack and Renee.

I think this show really suffers when Jack isn't out in the field doing what he does best. As soon as they gave him the disease and stuck him at FBI headquarters, the show slowed to a crawl. They better fix it before next season.

They spent to much time on the whole President's daughter story line. That was pretty weak.

I think this is the first season of 24 where I wasn't at the edge of my seat during the finale.

I hope they mean what they said about season 8, I want them to go back to the formula they had in the first season. By that I mean using the 'realtime' concept again, I think it worked to the shows advantage because things could play out over a series of episodes instead of just one.

I was cracking up as 1 second after she waved her arm around like a chicken, Walker tells her she's hurt or something and Kim barely flinches saying something like, "yeah, if you use an inverse 11 router we can find the location of the guys who have my father". I'm going to search for for that at BB.

I was a little disappointed in the finale. After 2 hours, I want SEE Walker go after Wilson, not just go in the room and have the door close. I want to SEE Jack open his eyes after the procedure, turn to Kim and say, "nice call with the inverse 11 router, sweetheart.". I want to SEE, Olivia in handcuffs, not just walking with Agent Pierce like she's been doing for 2 months.

Question: Who thought Jack was trying to kill himself and destroy the pathogen in the process when Tony bursted in when Jack was doing the C4/oil thing near the cab?

nah, what I wanted to SEE was this rewrite of the Kim Bauer scene:

Kim looks into the car, and sees the laptop that was used to spy on her. As she reaches into grab it, the man reaches over and grabs her blouse. As he erupts in flames, both sleeves are also in flames, and spreads to her pants. Kim grabs the laptop, gets out of the car, places the laptop on the ground, and proceeds to strip down out of her suit into her underwear. At that point a thunderstorm breaks out, drenching Kim, and the FBI discovers the wet Kim in her bra and panties...

I'll let the rest of you fill in the rest...

First, I thought this season was very enjoyable, but i think they could have done a better job wrapping up some of the loose ends and there def could have been a better cliff hanger, I agree with who ever suggested Jack Flat lining would have been better, it could have been more suspenseful, even though everyone knows there is a season 8 coming and Jack would survive.

Wondering about these:

Tony was arrested, no idea what will happen to him and realistically he unraveled the entire plot
Rene may or may not use illegal interrogation tactics
Alan Wilson was arrested, he may or may not get convicted
Jack is in a coma (obviously will come out of it for season 8)
In the end How did the FBI find out where they were holding Jack so quickly, all other times during the season they would have crack this code or decrypt this email, but this time, they all of a sudden just show up.

I also wonder why they felt the need to announce another season so early into this season, once they did that it kind of made the dragging out of Jack being poisoned useless. If they had held out that announcement until after the season, IMO that plot line would have been better, because no one would have known if there was going to be another season.