24: Season Eight - Page 5

Believe me, I'm hoping it picks up. I just can't help but being a little disappointed in the way it has started.

When Palmer was assassinated, we were given a couple clues that all might not what be what it seems, just in cast Dennis' THE UNIT series wasn't picked up by CBS.  But CBS did, and Palmer became history.

Well, THE UNIT bit the dust last year...

Tonight's episode ...  I can't believe that the brother didn't try to take the medicine with him.  It was just there for the taking.  He didn't even say anything about it.

I also can't believe that Dana is going along with the blackmail.  That never works out.  Now if she is just setting them up to get shot in the robbery attempt, that might be a plan.

While I was glad to see things pick up once the doctor got pumped with a few rounds, the episode leading up to that point was pretty boring, even as set-up material, or that truly life-less Dana Walsh subplot.

Well, at least is Jack has gotten out of his car and is involved in things again. 

Prediction...

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This season is just a borefest out of the gate.

Don't like any of these russian characters, and
the story is just moving at a snail's pace.

I hope something better is in store for us in
the next few hours.

This episode was as dreadful as all the others.  Jack as a pseudo-German was comical at best and would have worked better as an SNL skit.

You know a season of '24' is bad when people aren't even complaining about the technical absurdities of specific events (and there are plenty of them).

I don't know Travis.  I think up until last season I at least enjoyed watching it (bad as it was).  I'm not feeling that this season at all...but I guess it's hard to let go after 7 seasons.

Agreed.

I'd much rather "look the other way" when Jack gets the snot beat out of him by an angry police officer and then shows up ten minutes later with an unblemished face than be bored by this rather obtuse plot line that doesn't seem to be going anywhere...yet. 

This show needs more cowbell, and soon.

I enjoyed this episode a little more than the previous few hours. It wasn't a knockout by any means, but a small improvement IMHO.

Maybe I just liked Jack posing as a German guy named Ernst.

Last year they added Walker and it was OK until the even-ludicrous-for-24 White House "invasion"; but in for a penny and all that and I stuck through to the end.

But then the again-mentioned incident with the "police" happened and I did something I never did before: I skipped over it on the DVR. It was that stupid. (I wonder if there will be any long-term effects, because apparently there were absolutely no short-term ones, except for wasting twenty minutes of the lives of millions of viewers; and waylaying Jack to fill out the episode.)

Once I did that, I felt free to skip over the dull subplot with Starbuck, and skipped all the way to the end of the fourth hour, where Walker was not quite crazy enough to get me to care any more, and I have stopped watching.

I still record it just in case (thanks, dual tuners) but based on the comments here, or lack thereof, I'm not missing anything.

Does anyone else have wide, w-i-d-e swings of opinion as to where Renee resides on the Hot-O-Meter?

Cleaned up, she can look exceedingly attractive. But she can really ugly herself up right quick. She gets that greasy, stringy-hair thing going, scrunches up her hyper-freckled, pig-nosed face into an angry scowl, and looks...well...ugly.

There. I said it.

Yeah, as George Constanza would say, "She's a Two-Face"

But in general, I find here a little to ginger for my tastes.

I haven't found Renee attractive at all this season, and can't remember finding her attractive last season. Either I've forgotten, or I never found her particularly attractive. That said, I don't much care as long as she's not fugly and can act the role. I'd say she passes both tests.

There's an unwritten HTF rule that says you can't have these types of discussions without pictures.    Not to derail the thread on this one issue.  I'm just sayin'...

I am not particularly attracted to redheads
so right away I don't find her terribly attractive.
However, she makes up for faults in other ways. 

My wife hasn't been able to watch any of the episodes yet.  They sad thing about this season is I could sum up the six hours she missed into two minutes and she would be completely caught up.

I'm not really on the Renee bang wagon as far as attraction goes, she's okay but nothing great.

If fact there isn't really any eye candy this season, at least for me, Elisha Cuthbert appearing briefly in the season opener not withstanding.

"Bang" wagon...  I dig the Renee look.  I don't think she's a very good actor though.

That's my typo for the year right there!

Hell I'm not even going to bother correcting it.

For 42 minutes, this evening's 24 was pretty ho-hum, even with the stupidity of Dana's subplot, but Renee officially gets the "TBIC" award for going off the deep end once again.  Only Jack can just put a quick bandage for a knife wound in the abdomen and still be at almost peak killing efficiency.

That was some crazy knife action. One dude gets it in the eye and another in the throat. Then there's Jack with a small flesh wound to the gut. 

I think the Hassan subplot is now officially more annoying to me than Dana and her psycho ex. I hate everything going on with the U.N. situation at this point! 

He did say that due to the policital instability of where he is from, that kind of plot against his life would have to be swifty and decisively dealt with. So yeah, for him that could be overriding his pledge of Peace with the President. Also, it's completely possible his motives are not at all what they seem.


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Confirmation of a 24 movie:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/s9/24/news/a202212/fox-confirms-europe-set-24-movie.html