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This week in 24 - Season 7, Episode 17 TV - 24
Mon, Apr 6th, 2009 | 9:55pm | TV - 24
Ok, I may have said it before, but I think I seriously plan to stop watching 24 once this season is over. Despite all the promise of the "rebirth of 24" after the lackluster Season 6, it feels like things are really going off the rails since this Season is not only lackluster as well, but there's no characters worth getting invested in. Tony's a wildcard and always seems foolish/unconvincing when he's running around on his own as he was in this episode. Jack has become the anti-Jack Bauer, all vulnerable and not part of any serious action this episode. Renee is annoying and I don't know if it's the makeup, the big eyes, or the empty expression, but she seems like a ghost floating around. And her interactions with Jack are always stupid. Now she's telling him about what to do with his daughter without knowing anything about them?

The whole Starkwood situation has also been without any real compelling suspense or surprises, as they've been setting up what's going on for a while and they have so few characters going around on the base that as soon as they give someone a backstory (i.e. the chairman guy) you know where they're going with it before they get there. They also claimed there were SWAT teams at Starkwood, and that it would take several hours to mobilize troops to get there?!? How is that possible? Also, if Tony could get to the other end of the base so quickly, isn't it small enough that they could just carpetbomb the whole place and have the whole ordeal over with? While I'm pointing out plot holes, Starkwood has managed to jam communications at least a couple of times in previous episodes, but now that Tony is running around on their base, he can communicate freely with the FBI, even when he goes underground in one of their buildings. And don't get me started on Larry's disruption and Jonas's sudden inability to notice Tony wasn't boarding the helicopters with everyone else and leaving the base.


Jack is forced to watch this season of 24

At least next week's preview shows that it's all action. With the amount of stuff they cover, I hope they can't possibly have enough time for more crap with Allison and the reporter. That whole story was dumb and I hope it doesn't affect the overall plot, though it wouldn't make any sense to have so much of it in there if they're not going somewhere with it.

This was a review of Season 7, Episode 17. Here's my previous 24 reviews. And here's the character countdown.

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    Posted by: dave on Apr 7th, 2009 | 9:17am

    You'll never stop. I've enjoyed this season on the whole, but agree that it's not any different than before. FBI has turned into CTU.

    It's funny because the formula for the show is Jack + Tony solve everything with tech support from 1 or 2 people in an office. They've never shown what the other hundreds of CTU/FBI employees are doing. So why even have them? They could have made the whole season with just Jack/Bill/Tony/Chloe on the outside as their own vigilante group. I don't know if that would have worked any better, but it would have been different.

    But I've always liked 24, even when it's not as good as it used to be. Funny picture though.


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      Posted by: niraj on Apr 7th, 2009 | 3:40pm

      I like that idea because yes, they turned the FBI into CTU, but at least with CTU there were other fun or interesting characters. In this season, Billy Walsh was gone in no time, and Janis, Larry, Renee, etc. are stupid.

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    Posted by: junosand on Apr 7th, 2009 | 3:21pm

    excellent screen grab. that was the funniest part of the episode. although it was funny at the end when the president ran back into the room. i miss david palmer. without him, there is no barack obama.

    i'm going to keep watching 24, even though it obviously isn't what it used to be. i like dave's idea about just having jack/bill/tony/chloe as a vigilante group.

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      Posted by: niraj on Apr 7th, 2009 | 3:38pm

      Yeah, for about an episode it seemed like they were going to go that vigilante group route.

      And the screengrab was great because I took a picture of the image on my TV :)

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        Posted by: junosand on Apr 7th, 2009 | 3:42pm

        you got the exact right frame, it seems

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          Posted by: niraj on Apr 7th, 2009 | 3:52pm

          That was no accident :) The Comcast DVR lets you step frame-by-frame, which you can probably imagine, was pretty hilarious with that sequence.

  • what the hell?
    Posted by: Anonymous on May 18th, 2009 | 9:25pm

    this season is still bloody awesome, even if it is the same as others, its still surprising and unpredictable. and whats wrong with renee? shes totally awesome - a female jack bauer in the making. plus theyre in love so get over it!



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