Comments on: 24′s Season 5 Body Count

By: AGM

AGM — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:41:52 +0000

Lost has it’s moments, but is nothing suspense-wise compared to 24, and falls off the scale of acting and storytelling completely when compared to Battlestar Galactica.

By: Strange Forces

Strange Forces — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 00:01:58 +0000

Pfft.

The only show on TV is Lost.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:01:25 +0000

Maybe the baggage claim guy was a more central villian. That is, he was committed to the cause and not just an independent contracter like the Palmer assassin. Come to think of it, the very fact that he had a suicide pill probably supports my theory even more (why leave open the option of suicide if all you care about is money?).

By: Auguste

Auguste — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:29:27 +0000

To be fair, punkinsmom, it was in two hours, not one.

By: Jack of None

Jack of None — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:16:34 +0000

And for that, we can be thankful that there are people like Jack Bauer somewhere out there who are protecting us.

How true that is. Why, if not for the efforts of fictional characters in a TV show, I would not feel safe sleeping in my own bed, much less outside! Thanks, TV heroes!

By: cowalker

cowalker — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:39:32 +0000

“And for that, we can be thankful that there are people like Jack Bauer somewhere out there who are protecting us.”

Somebody is having trouble distinguishing between TV and real life. In real life the people with Jack Bauer’s mission sometimes shoot missiles where there was supposed to be a terrorist leader, but actually kill only a couple of his subordinates and innocent men, women and children.

http://tinyurl.com/e49d3

I don’t watch 24, so I don’t know if Jack Bauer agrees that it’s worth killing any number of innocent foreigners in the name of “protecting” Americans, even if it turns out not to protect them.

http://www.foxtrot.com/

By: punkinsmom

punkinsmom — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:59:05 +0000

He kills 4 men and beats 3 all within the confines of one hour? How does one keep the willing suspension of disbelief needed for this ridiculous fiction?

By: GuinnessGuy

GuinnessGuy — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:33:50 +0000

Huh- I get two PBS channels as well (Illinois and Iowa) and Comedy Central and SciFi and both C-SPANs, plus a bunch of other crap (GameShowNetwork, that NASA channel).
Makes my Room costs totally almost worth the 2000 I’m paying to live in this damned crackerbox.

By: D. Sidhe

D. Sidhe — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 05:43:00 +0000

It is with great difficulty that I resist some sort of lewd joke about precious bodily fluids and Rick Mercer.

Anyway, my cable company loves me enough to give me CBC. (Well, not *give*….)
I figure it makes up for the four years of my life during the first Bush administration that my cable company wouldn’t let me have Comedy Central *or* the SciFi Channel.
(Also I now get two PBS channels. Talk about commie-coddling!)

By: GuinnessGuy

GuinnessGuy — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 04:10:21 +0000

Plot trumps reality…

By: Brad R.

Brad R. — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:43:35 +0000

If baggage handler man was willing to take a cyanide pill rather than talk to Jack – why did the GUY WHO KILLED PALMER want to go to a hospital badly enough to talk?!?!??!

Because they needed JAck to learn why he killed Palmer?

But yeah, it’s a fair point. Idiot assassins.

By: Auguste

Auguste — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 03:40:44 +0000

Okay, dammit. I realized something late last night, and now I’m angry: I was sucked into 24 again but they let me down.

***TiVo? SPOILERS***

If baggage handler man was willing to take a cyanide pill rather than talk to Jack – why did the GUY WHO KILLED PALMER want to go to a hospital badly enough to talk?!?!??!

You’d think the assassin himself would pretty much know that if he goes to the hospital, he’s up for the needle anyway, not to mention retribution from his colleagues – and yet some dude who works in an airport takes the black capsule right away?

Damnit.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:45:38 +0000

“Let’s keep in mind that we’re watching fiction here, people.”

You forgot “poorly written, and acted” in that sentence.

By: Jillian

Jillian — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:35:19 +0000

No, Sidhe, the reason we don’t see Canadian TV down on this side of the border is because Canadians are Communists, albeit mightily polite Communists – and the gubmint don’t allow the import of Communism into America. It might taint our precious bodily fluids.

By: D. Sidhe

D. Sidhe — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 21:33:48 +0000

My partner watches 24 loudly in the other room while I’m trying to quietly have a migraine in mine.
(Disclaimer: I find the show nauseating on a number of levels, but then Lethal Weapon made me ill, too.)

I’d rather see Mr Sutherland in a story called The Lost Bay Boys which would center around a group of fishermen, all of whom are unemployed, that become vampires. We’re not exactly sure yet how they become vampires, but they do. It’d be basically a group of good-looking guys. Kiefer would play a character whose name was Dylan, who is also a waiter, and, oh, every week they’d blow something up, a few buildings, a car here and there.
I think it’d be terribly exciting.*

* program title and description taken from television-industry satire Made in Canada, which you’ve never seen, because you’re convinced Canadian TV is all Hockey Night and educational shorts about beavers.

By: GuinnessGuy

GuinnessGuy — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:24:04 +0000

What, you don’t think Laura Bush is in cahoots with Serbian assassins? ;-)

Only on weekends…

By: VKW

VKW — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 15:11:31 +0000

“a place populated by some really nasty thugs who donâ€™t even blink at the idea of murdering hundreds of thousands of people.”

Cleverly, some of those thugs have learned not to keep track of how many thousands of people they have ‘murdered’. Plausible deniability!

By: norbizness

norbizness — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:16:06 +0000

Brief trivia: Mary Lynn Rajskub (Chloe) was in the first two seasons of Mr. Show. She was also hilarious in The Larry Sanders Show. An inspired bit of casting for the 24 folks.

By: Auguste

Auguste — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:12:32 +0000

*the middle of tonights two-parter, that is.

By: Auguste

Auguste — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:12:09 +0000

Okay, I haven’t watched this show in a few seasons now, and I’m still in the middle, but did they choose the actress that plays Chloe specifically for her ability to look both angrily competent and scared shitless at the same time?

I mean, seriously, I don’t know how she does it.