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post #101 of 760
1/26/10 at 12:12pm
We've had plenty of seasons where the first four hours are OMG FUCKING AWESOME and then slide into shit for the next 12...I kinda like how this one is starting off at a slow burn, putting the pieces in place for something really big that will probably take place around episode 12.
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post #102 of 760
1/26/10 at 12:13pm
Really hate the redneck storyline. Although it is hilarious that Starbuck keeps randomly slipping in and out of the Southern Accent.
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post #103 of 760
1/26/10 at 12:27pm
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Originally Posted by Paul755 View Post
Really hate the redneck storyline. Although it is hilarious that Starbuck keeps randomly slipping in and out of the Southern Accent.
Yeah, that needs to end soon. Give us our crisis moment between the rednecks and Prinze and move on.

I like how everything else is developing, though.
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post #104 of 760
1/26/10 at 12:37pm
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Query: why don't bad guys ever check for earpieces?
Yeah, I kept waiting for for the Russian dude (Ashby from CALIFORNICATION -- nice casting!) to jam a finger in her ear and rip it out. Is the fucking thing invisible or microscopic?
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post #105 of 760
1/28/10 at 9:12pm
All the accents are all over the place. Specially the Russian ones. Just terrible.

Now, these episodes so far.. BORING as fuck. Slow slow slow with way too much b and c storyline that's not interesting at all.
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post #106 of 760
1/29/10 at 10:53am
Starbuck needs to go... by the way, she would have been hauled in and questioned as a mole by now in the old CTU. I miss soul patch Tony.

Little disappointed so far but I have confidence things are going to develop in the next hour or two to make things a little more interesting.
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post #107 of 760
1/29/10 at 12:07pm
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Originally Posted by Snaieke View Post
Starbuck needs to go... by the way, she would have been hauled in and questioned as a mole by now in the old CTU. I miss soul patch Tony.

Little disappointed so far but I have confidence things are going to develop in the next hour or two to make things a little more interesting.
True. Last season really took a solid 6-7 episodes to take off.
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post #108 of 760
1/29/10 at 12:08pm
You have to be kidding. Last season we had Tony as the bad guy for the first 2 episodes, then episode 3 where Jack breaks him out of FBI was one of the best of the series and episode 4 we had mini CTU team of Tony, Jack and Bill going in to raid a place.

It was pretty awesome.
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post #109 of 760
1/29/10 at 8:58pm
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You have to be kidding. Last season we had Tony as the bad guy for the first 2 episodes, then episode 3 where Jack breaks him out of FBI was one of the best of the series and episode 4 we had mini CTU team of Tony, Jack and Bill going in to raid a place.

It was pretty awesome.
Yep, that's what made me so excited about this season and why I'm let down. The only reason I'm optimistic is because they always have a mid-season lul and I'm thinking they tried to write around it and make the mid more interesting... otherwise ????

Starbucks storyline is worse then the fucking cougar.
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post #110 of 760
1/29/10 at 9:54pm
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You have to be kidding. Last season we had Tony as the bad guy for the first 2 episodes, then episode 3 where Jack breaks him out of FBI was one of the best of the series and episode 4 we had mini CTU team of Tony, Jack and Bill going in to raid a place.

It was pretty awesome.
But then we had four or five episodes of them chasing lame-o African terrorist with the clueless girlfriend.
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post #111 of 760
1/30/10 at 7:48am
It's the weakest start since Season 4, certainly.

But then, I thought Season 4 turned out to be pretty awesome, so I have faith. I'm digging the Renee/Bauer dynamic a lot.
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post #112 of 760
1/31/10 at 3:08am
There's no excuse for a season of a show to have a weak beginning, middle or end, especially after eight seasons.

EDIT: Which is to say, that after eight seasons, if they don't know how to make an entire season, not just PARTS of a season, exciting and dynamic, then well...fire your writers and hire new ones.
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post #113 of 760
2/2/10 at 1:08am
Not much change yet. Except for the surplus of rape.
It got better towards the end, i have hopes for next episode.
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post #114 of 760
2/2/10 at 3:05am
Thread Starter 
Oh it's so bad. Did laugh at Chloe's ass line though.
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post #115 of 760
2/2/10 at 3:07am
This season has been most appalling. Every week I tune back in to see some quality Bauer Power and every episode so far (except the first one where he threw a guy down some stairs) has disappointed. Do the writers honestly think that their stupid CTU characters and russian drama is interesting? Next episode looks like its cranking up the heat something fierce! I think I caught a glimpse of Jack shooting at a wall.
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post #116 of 760
2/2/10 at 3:15am
Radiation doctor -- another glorious addition to the Hall of Fame of utterly-screwed 24 red shirts.

I'm truly sick of CTU's sleazy, goateed Jay Baruchal clone already. Maybe Starbuck will have to shoot him.
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post #117 of 760
2/2/10 at 3:25am
I am hoping he sacrifices himself, yet is somehow able to take out redneck from redneck's past and redneck accomplice in some twisted gesture of tech geek chivalry. Kind of like when Milo ate a bullet for the CTU director voted prettiest hair three years running, but deadlier.
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post #118 of 760
2/2/10 at 7:16am
Lame except for the last minute and a half.

I've given up on this show... I'll catch up after I've buffered several hours in the DVR.
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post #119 of 760
2/2/10 at 1:18pm
Caught up this season of 24, and I agree that its been mostly lackluster. Hopefully its building to something, but the flow has been working so far. It just sucks Jack Bauer is still in grandpa mode, I hope he goes crazy and flips out and takes the whole situation in his hands.

I was really hoping for Kiefer to pull a Ford from Blade Runner and act all sleezy as the buyer. Still it was pretty neat to see Buffy's husband as backup and I'm slowly buying him as credible here.

The whole CTU drama is shit, I hope mannish blond dies, or at least sets up her ex and has him get caught.

Oh and I'm going with Arab Dimitri Martin with Hassan's brother as well. I swear he was going to pull out a chart to explain how bad it would be to spill the beans on his relationship with the reporter. I might be a little biased with being Indian, but I like how Anil Kapoor's Hassan is a little more complex than he at first seemed to be. I chuckle every time his Indian accent pronounces "mahduhm president."
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post #120 of 760
2/2/10 at 2:35pm
Katee Sackhoff is "mannish?" Man, we're going to have to agree to disagree, you certifiably insane person.

Did anyone else expect Russian Dude to find Renee's earpiece when he was nuzzling her neck?
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post #121 of 760
2/2/10 at 9:33pm
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Katee Sackhoff is "mannish?" Man, we're going to have to agree to disagree, you certifiably insane person.

Did anyone else expect Russian Dude to find Renee's earpiece when he was nuzzling her neck?
she is very boyish... the only time I've ever seen her in a feminine light was on ONE very brief scene in her guest stint on The Bionic Woman.

Edited mannish to boyish, since I 100% agree with Bailey on the proper word.
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post #122 of 760
2/2/10 at 10:12pm
She's a bit boyish, not mannish.
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post #123 of 760
2/2/10 at 11:45pm
I hope that this season is a slow, sloooow burner that's getting ready to explode. Otherwise, I cannot explain why it's been such a snoozer so far. I'm interested in seeing just how nutty Renee really is, and Prinze is actually not annoying me like I feared (his sniper assistance to Jack was pretty damn cool), but I turn the channel or mute the TV whenever Starbuck pops up. It's stupid as hell to risk your job to look up whatever the hell it was that she looked up for her white trash ex when they can trace it right back to your fucking workstation. No matter what, you're shit out of luck. Just tell your fiancee what's up, hope he doesn't leave you, and get this shit off my tv.

And the fact that they would allow a former criminal with a name change to work in CTU at all is fucking ABSURD. There has to be a qualified person with a clean record that could perform her job. Jeez, these people are just begging to be infiltrated again.
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post #124 of 760
2/3/10 at 12:01am
Yep, that episode was a snoozer. Actually picked up my iPod to check my email and some other stuff while watching. Not good.

Sad thing is I could have fixed this shitty-beyond-all-reason Sackhoff storyline. They needed to just ditch the redneck ex-boyfriend and make Sackhoff a high-tech thief. She could have acted all sneaky and suspicious during the first few episodes. No one would have known what she was up to, and we would have been fighting about whether she's the mole or too obvious to be the mole. Then we would have all shit our pants when it was revealed she was actually a Hans Gruber wannabe. That would have worked.
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post #125 of 760
2/8/10 at 11:46pm
Renee doesn't get mad. She gets stabby.
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post #126 of 760
2/8/10 at 11:49pm
Holy shit. GO RENEE!
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post #127 of 760
2/8/10 at 11:52pm
He recovers from a stab wound pretty fast... but pulling a knife out of your own stomach and throwing it across the room into a henchmens neck is a classic Bauer moment.
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post #128 of 760
2/9/10 at 12:08am
Yeah, that's definitely the best kill in the show since I don't know when.
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post #129 of 760
2/9/10 at 12:12am
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Yeah, that's definitely the best kill in the show since I don't know when.
Since Jack pulled a Lost Boys and took a nibble out of a baddie's neck a few seasons ago.
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post #130 of 760
2/9/10 at 12:16am
Nice to see the tradition of "the darkened CTU computer room that is only used for nefarious purposes" lives on.

True story: The dude who played Endo in LETHAL WEAPON already showed up on 24, way back in season one. From the looks of it, they should have saved him for next week.
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post #131 of 760
2/9/10 at 1:14am
Best scene from tonight's episode: Jack fucking that dude up by throwing the knife he just got stabbed with...to...the...NECK.
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post #132 of 760
2/9/10 at 1:19am
If it weren't for the subplot with Starbuck's ex, I'd say this season was ramping up pretty nicely.
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post #133 of 760
2/9/10 at 3:13am
Thread Starter 
All the knife-play was great. The 40 minutes leading up to it were deplorable.
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post #134 of 760
2/9/10 at 5:26am
This episode was an astonishing mix of retarded and awesome. The bi-polar Slumdog and redneck stuff was terrible television but Renee stabbing the Cylon to death and Jack disappearing made up for it. I'm still on board for this season but I don't think we're going to get anything on par with Voight killing dudes with a decanter or the White House siege.

I wonder if David Fury ever regrets throwing the Lost writers under the bus when he hears someone pitch "what if the rednecks spend half the episode throwing all the evidence on the floor?"
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post #135 of 760
2/9/10 at 9:49am
Am I the only one really enjoying the Slumdog story? Helps he's a great actor, but I am liking his personal battle over doing the wrong things to protect the prospect of peace.
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post #136 of 760
2/9/10 at 10:03am
If anyone happens to come across a .gif of the whole knife going from stomach to throat event, please feel free to not keep it to yourself.
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post #137 of 760
2/9/10 at 10:49am
The knife event was great, and the retarded rednecks made me laugh. Worst criminals EVER! Can't wait till they die.
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post #138 of 760
2/9/10 at 10:55am
The 60 seconds of the show that contained stabbin' action were fun. The rest was awful crap.
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post #139 of 760
2/9/10 at 11:06am
Cannot believe I forgot about Voight's decanter kill. Still, it was the best Bauer kill in recent memory.

It would be so great if they had Starbuck lead the rednecks into an ambush where she just mows them down with a couple of silenced pistols and then the show never mentions the storyline again.
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post #140 of 760
2/9/10 at 3:03pm
It will only work if she's the villain in the second half of the season and was doing this crap to avoid blowing her cover. But then why didn't she just kill them? And why did they touch everything in the building without wearing gloves?
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post #141 of 760
2/9/10 at 4:10pm
You're thinking of it from a logical writer's point of view. Why else would someone who was able to create a new identity and get a relatively high level job allow a couple of rednecks to walk all over her so easily unless she had something bigger to hide? I'm thinking of it from a comical wish fulfillment point of view. No investigation. No pangs of conscience. No eventual need for redemption. Just wrap that shit up with a pair of double taps and move on.
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post #142 of 760
2/9/10 at 6:45pm
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It would be so great if they had Starbuck lead the rednecks into an ambush where she just mows them down with a couple of silenced pistols and then the show never mentions the storyline again.
This would have worked. The rest of the season she tries to cover it up, maybe even saves the day, so we all feel bad at the end of the terrorist threat when she's hauled away in chains.
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post #143 of 760
2/10/10 at 4:07pm
Renee Walker: "I . . . AM . . . A . . . STABBING ROBOT!"

70% of this season is already full-on boredom. Need a new, guest-star villian to punch things up. Prochnow is just not cutting it.

I may be crazy for saying this but Prinze is getting underutilized. He should be getting groomed as the next Curtis (RIP).
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post #144 of 760
2/10/10 at 4:40pm
Throwing and stabbing knives was good. I liked the Slumdog story so far. The rednecks made me laugh, and I hope Starbuck grows a brain soon and leads them off a cliff. I can see it now. "Follows my directions exactly..." You just know they would, the idjits.
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post #145 of 760
2/10/10 at 5:52pm
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The rednecks made me laugh, and I hope Starbuck grows a brain soon and leads them off a cliff. I can see it now. "Follows my directions exactly..." You just know they would, the idjits.
If Dana pulls a Bugs Bunny and actually does just that, it would redeem the season.
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post #146 of 760
2/15/10 at 4:32pm
So they've had to halt production so Keifer can undergo an elective surgery, but don't expect any delays. I guess since he's an exec producer that makes sense, but he's barely even on the show it feels like. You'd think they could shoot more of the retarded CTU chick and her bad ex storyline while Keifer recovers.
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post #147 of 760
2/15/10 at 11:56pm
I really hate Starbuck.

I was watching this with a friend who commented that it looks like the show is potentially grooming Prinze to take over the reins should Kiefer step aside. I'm not sure he's going to survive the season, and no one can touch Jack in my eyes, but he's doing a much better job than I anticipated.

Hope Kiefer's surgey goes well.
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post #148 of 760
2/16/10 at 12:43am
I'd torture myself with my own car battery before I'd believe they're grooming anybody. People said the same thing about Bernard, and he would have made a lot more sense than Prinze. Even Renee would make more sense. They'll go to movies if they can, or do a ninth season.
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post #149 of 760
2/16/10 at 1:15am
I know it's not saying much, but tonight's was easily the most bad ass power hour of the season.
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post #150 of 760
2/16/10 at 2:15am
Remember when Jack Bauer was on national television becaus he was being tried by some congressional tribunal for torturing suspected terrorists in interogation. Thank goodness no one watches the news in 24's world either.
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