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Post by chip on Mar 2, 2007 19:18:42 GMT -5
Dr. Janosz
Who?
Jesse McKenna
Who?
(sorry, I whiffed on those pop culture references.)
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Post by ayizan on Mar 5, 2007 20:22:23 GMT -5
Dr. Janosz is the character Peter MacNichol (Tom Lennox in the 24-verse) plays in Ghostbusters 2.
Jesse McKenna is the character Chad Lowe (Reed Pollack in the 24-verse) plays in Life Goes On.
And let's keep our good and bad terrorists straight - Assad got blowed up with the president, Fayed is the bad guy with the nukes.
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Post by dimarco on Mar 13, 2007 11:48:21 GMT -5
Yes on both counts... and thanks for the correction on terrorists. Vice President Curly Bill has convinced me that all terrorists are bad, so I got Assad and Fayed mixed up.
As for last night...
Man, little Ricky Stratton sure grew up to be an a-hole. Now maybe Gabe Dimas and Morris (who I actually don't recognize from anything else) will stop sniping at each other so much.
And how cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs has the "Designing Women lady" gotten? While I wouldn't call it (as FOX tried to) the "MOST SHOCKING MOMENT IN 24 HISTORY", I sure was surprised when she skewered the ex-pres.
I'm also glad to finally know that the wife and I wasn't the only people watching Invasion last year. Apparently FOX executives were too, as both Sheriff and Doctor Underlay have resurfaced on Prison Break and 24 this year.
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Post by Hendo the Showman on Mar 13, 2007 12:32:18 GMT -5
Megan called the FLOTUS (formerly the FLEETUS) stabbing the Prez right away.
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Post by dimarco on Mar 13, 2007 13:59:16 GMT -5
Rome Spoiler in case anyone is watching that show:
I really liked that she did it in much the same manner that Cicero was eliminated on Rome a week or two before. Only with a much smaller knife.
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Post by chip on Mar 13, 2007 13:59:40 GMT -5
I haven't even seen the episode yet, but I already knew that was gonna happen just from the teaser after last week's episode.
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Post by ayizan on Mar 13, 2007 15:35:54 GMT -5
I called that stabbing from a mile away (though, admittedly, when she went nutso chopping up those kiwi fruit, I was a little concerned for her fingers). I loved how it was in super-psycho slo-mo too - like you could hear the screechy crazy going on in her head as that knife went all stabby-stabby. Crazy FLOTUS rocks. This and her running around hiding in the stables last season (aka the FLETUS) are my favorite crazy FLOTUS moments.
It was nice to Aaron again, even if only in passing. Aaron rules.
One observation that Mark and I both seemed to have simultaneously last night was that trampy Russian ladies seem to favor see-thru fashions. Why is that?
I am waiting for the inevitable phallic symbol measuring contest between Jack Bauer and li'l Ricky Schroeder. I believe I can predict the winner of that one.
Episodes that don't focus on Jack Bauer blowing stuff up or shooting people in kneecaps really aren't as exciting to watch. BLOW"D up is the best. Please do that more, Fox. Stick to your strengths.
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Post by chip on Mar 14, 2007 11:28:24 GMT -5
Listening to NPR yesterday, they did a story about how the Army or Pentagon or someone has actually approached the writers of 24 and asked them to stop showing torture scenes, or at least not show them working, because they don't want their interrogators using what they see on the show as a basis for interrogation techniques. It was a confusing piece, because they seemed to imply that there was no set doctrine when it comes to interrogation, which is why the interrogators might turn to 24 for inspiration.
Also, I did eventually see this episode. It was preceded by House, during which an ad for 24 proclaimed "the most shocking event in the history of 24". I'm calling bullshit on that one. I'm gonna proclaim the opening of last season as the most shocking moment - President Palmer, Tony, and Michelle taken out in a matter of minutes? That was crazy!
-Chip
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Post by hixx on Mar 14, 2007 14:49:58 GMT -5
There was a long article in the New Yorker too about that Chip. That soldiers are actually starting to think that Jack Bauer does it the right way.
And how right wing the show is basically, the producer- Surnow I think?- is a big right wing guy, has Limbaugh over for lunch and stuff, and how Jack Bauer is basically what GW wishes he was. All "taking matters into your own hands" and "anything is is moral to do as long as you're right". All that kind of cowboy stuff.
And the craziest thing on 24 was when Jack chopped off Chase's hand.
Hixx
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Post by chip on Mar 20, 2007 1:27:37 GMT -5
OK, I'm pretty disappointed with the crazy Vice President Powers Boothe.
Tom: Sir, there's absolutely no evidence tying the terrorist threat with this country.
VP: make sweet love it, bomb 'em.
Tom: This isn't what President Palmer wanted.
VP: make sweet love it, bomb 'em.
Tom: Sir, the bomb didn't go off.
VP: make sweet love it, bomb 'em.
It's a little too cavalier to be believable. The only way it makes sense is if the VP has a secret reason he wants to bomb the country, like he's tied to the terrorists and that's what they were after all along or something. But to just be that gung ho about setting off a NUCLEAR WEAPON...well, it's just too irrational for someone whose played the political game long enough to get himself the Vice Presidency.
Also, anyone else think Milo was the leak?
Also also, anyone else thing Audrey Raines is really not dead?
Also also also, Hixx, the craziest thing on 24 was Kim Bauer going from being a nanny one season to being a CTU computer genius the next.
-Chip
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Post by hixx on Mar 20, 2007 11:56:19 GMT -5
Chip, you're awesome.
I don't know, I love Powers Boothe, I think he's got this really great GW thing going on. I think he's scary. Although, it just can't be that easy to nuke some muslims, can it?
I totally think milo was the leak. that's why he got hottie on his puter. If you know what I mean.
And I do think VP has something up his sleeve. He's a pretty evil dude, I just don't know why Peter McNichol doesn't go on the news and say whatup!
But I did like boring his eyes into whatshername, wishing for her to stand up to the president. That was kind of fun.
I don't much care about Wayne and whether he can come out of his skull or not.
And it's fun to watch Ricky Schroeder being the "bad Jack".
Hixx
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Post by dimarco on Mar 20, 2007 12:13:05 GMT -5
Not only did Milo get hottie on his puter. He also put up the "Let's not be racist and do her first" speech to try to buy just enough time for his plane flying cohorts to get the nuke in range.
Also, he wanted Morris off the job so they'd be more shorthanded and there'd be less of chance of the leak being discovered.
Oh, and I really knew he was the leak when it didn't work and Milo yelled "Damn it! My terrorist leanings have been foiled and they killed my friend Kumar!!!!"
I agree with the Audrey ain't dead thing. She had to be dead this year because she was signed on to that now canceled ABC show "The Nine." Since that show didn't make it and her "death" is suspicious I think the next season of 24 may very well be Jack returning to China to find her/get revenge.
Vice-President Curly Bill is hilarious in his cavalierness. Good thing no real president would ever act like that.
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Post by chip on Mar 20, 2007 13:06:38 GMT -5
Matt, I agree that next season will probably be Jack rescuing Audrey. But, I'll bet that somehow, someway, the people responsible are all conveniently found in LA.
-Chip
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Post by dimarco on Apr 12, 2007 13:23:44 GMT -5
Ugh, yuck. This season is Jack rescuing Audrey. Chip you were completely right, shockingly they're in LA!
Here's why that annoys the hell out of me and has me ready to give up on this season:
Audrey was doing another show on another network at the beginning of the year. I can't imagine if that show had succeeded that she would also be allowed to be on 24. But the show wasn't canceled until November meaning there's no way the writers could have known with 100% certainty that she would be available this year.
Seems to me that means they didn't have a real plan for this season. If "The Nine" had been successful and Audrey wasn't available, what would these last 8 hours be about? As it is the major threat for this season is apparently over and I really don't care enough about Audrey as a character to see Jack run off and save her.
Blah.
Oh and I was totally right about that Milo thing. Milo just didn't know he was the leak. That still counts, right?
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Post by hixx on Apr 12, 2007 15:31:05 GMT -5
I don't know. I seem to have hazy recollections of past seasons where they seemed to figure out the problem right around this time period, with like...8 shows left or so? Hasn't this happened before?
I mean, if they (the writers) saw that what they were doing was sucky, why not stop in the middle? Who knows what will come out of this? Maybe it'll be the best 8 hours of television EVER. But I doubt it.
I will say this about 24. What 24 does best is something they've had very little of in this season. And that thing is, someone doing something bad and sweating it out. Watching Chad Lowe sweat it out while everyone was looking for Tom was the best two episodes of the season.
Watching Jack struggle with heroin addiction while trying to hide it was a nail biter.
Watching President Logan lie over and over and watching him sweat it out, best thing ever.
This season we should have had a broken Jack. Totally broken. Not able to do what he could before. A Jack who failed at every turn, who thought he was done, over, finito. All we're getting this season is torture and forceful whispering. No sweating it out, no lying to America, no tottering wife going crazy in the corner.
boo.
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