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| 24; Best Season so far? | |
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| Topic Started: 4 Mar 2009, 09:00 PM (308 Views) | |
| fred_the_red | 4 Mar 2009, 09:00 PM Post #1 |
 
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Just wondering if anyone else is watching the latest season (7) of 24 and whether you think it's the best of the lot? Just finished watching episode 12 - cracking program. From memory, Season 5 was pretty bloody good. Posted Image |
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| bradybunch | 4 Mar 2009, 09:13 PM Post #2 |
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Girly reply, but I think Jack Bauer is quite simply the sexiest thing on two legs! I have watched all the series and am a real 24 fan. I know sometimes it gets pretty daft (usually about on the 14th hour I find), but I still find it cracking entertainment and full of suspense. I liked the nuclear bomb one though am not sure which one it was. I also got very protective when he was imprisoned by the Chinese and was muttering things like 'leave him alone' much to OH's amusement. Sad I know. |
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| bigAPE | 5 Mar 2009, 07:18 AM Post #3 |
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What a double episode. Definitely the best so far. I can't wait for next week to find out how the hell they get out of this situation. Do they storm the building or not ? What will happen the daughter, etc. Gripping stuff... in a silly unbelievable way of course. |
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| fred_the_red | 5 Mar 2009, 09:22 AM Post #4 |
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With so many of the 'good guys' otherwise disposed, it will be interesting to see who comes to the rescue - Tony Almeda is the obvious one I assume. Or perhaps Audrey :Grin: I don't watch an US TV, but 24 is a must see. |
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| bigAPE | 5 Mar 2009, 05:33 PM Post #5 |
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The US version of Life on Mars is staggeringly good. Harvey Keitel is brilliant! Sadly it was announced yesterday that it has been cancelled due to the rising costs of filming in NY. I hope that someone else picks it up because it truly pisses over the UK version (which I have on DVD I should add) Fringe has already left NY for Canada to complete it's first Season and to start filming Season 2. |
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| fred_the_red | 5 Mar 2009, 06:15 PM Post #6 |
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Having said that 24 is the only US program I watch, I did enjoy Fringe although found it really frustrating when CH9 couldn't decide on a usual slot to air it. CSI Miami and The Mentalist are both watchable but again it's frustrating not being able to watch them at set times each week. Life on Mars (UK) was great and much better than Ashes to Ashes IMHO. May have to watch an episode of the US version, but I've never seen a US show, copy a UK one, and be better. Surprised the Yanks didn't try Only Fools & Horses :pmsl: |
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| bigAPE | 5 Mar 2009, 06:34 PM Post #7 |
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Which is why I download them all after they air in the US. No waiting and I can watch the TV I want to watch when I want to watch it. Not reliance to the shit scheduling and careless attitude of the Aussie broadcasters. |
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| Jimma | 5 Mar 2009, 06:47 PM Post #8 |
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24 is awesome! Problem is, the arial in our rental is shite, and can't get a decent picture. The scheduling is weird here, what the hell are they thinking? We have sky+, but that gets cocked up too with the change of program times. Will probably have to get the box-set I suppose. The first few seasons were great when it was on the BBC, 'cause it went straight through (although missed season one, but caught up in 3 days). Sky killed the tension a bit with there 6 adverts a show - especially with the ad about 2 minutes from the end. Perhaps a "most memorable moment from 24" thread should appear. |
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| fred_the_red | 5 Mar 2009, 07:37 PM Post #9 |
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Not quite a "Best 24 moment", but his is a pretty good game What would Jack do? I've been downloading the lasted 24 series, they're usually available a couple of days before being TV, so no dramas about the quality. You can watch (although not sure about being able to download) previous episodes from the official website - 24 |
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| bradybunch | 8 Mar 2009, 02:03 AM Post #10 |
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What a great link, thanks. It brought back some memories and, more importantly, let me lust after Jack again - made my day (mind you , it has been a bit rubbish). Lorraine |
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| Ses | 11 Mar 2009, 04:50 PM Post #11 |
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Hi Lorraine - Bradybunch - I am so with you on the Jack Bauer front!! I am a mad 24 fan and have all the DVD's can't watch it weekly it would drive me mad - so waiting for the DVD then we have a 24 and nothing else for the week!! |
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| fred_the_red | 11 Mar 2009, 08:02 PM Post #12 |
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Just watched episode 13 - pretty sad (without wanting to sound too girly!). What's the name of the old grey haired actor who's playing the 'baddie'? |
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| gary 'n' wendy | 15 Mar 2009, 08:06 PM Post #13 |
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I was thoroughly engrossed with 24 for the first two seasons,but got fed up with it during the third season,mainly due to irritating characters.Jacks daughter for example,how many times was she going to get kidnapped ? I am thinking about getting back into it,but will someone tell me she got hit by a bus or something since then :pray: Just another bit on annoying characters,from Dexter.Not Dexter himself,its that bloody girfriend of his.I wont say why she gets on my nerves for plot spoiling reasons,but were three eps into season three,and she is really really begining to grate.He would have been better off sticking with the hot english chick for my liking. :tartan: Gary :tartan: |
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| fred_the_red | 15 Mar 2009, 08:30 PM Post #14 |
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I know what you mean about Jacks annoying daughter, and thankfully she's not featured in the series. Can't remember what was supposed to have happened to her so there's always the chance that she could re-appear, and there's still enough episodes left for another kidnapping. 24 was a bit pants after season 1. Season 5 was suburb and this current season I would say is one of the best, if not the best. |
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| fred_the_red | 16 Apr 2009, 11:44 AM Post #15 |
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This series just gets better. Just watched E18 (I think) and unfortunately Kim is back, albeit briefly. |
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| hevs | 15 May 2009, 11:58 PM Post #16 |
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I am a total 24 fan, but this series has pushed the boundries with the unbelievable and I just can't watch it. Same with Heros. :dur: Who said CSI Miami is watchable?! WTF? The smug ginger twat is enough to make me want to throw the TV out of the window, you need to beat yourself. A lot. :whistle: |
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| Amanda & Simon | 16 May 2009, 07:15 AM Post #17 |
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What was believable about a flying politician, a time travelling teleporter Japanese wage slave and an indestructible cheerleader? :wink: I know what you mean though. The first season was very good and the second almost as good, but the third lost it's way a bit and has gone a bit X-Files IMO. That might have been okay if the X-Files hadn't already been there and done it to death, but... :shrug: Only ever watched the first season of 24. It's one of those ones where I thought the whole concept was original, clever and unrepeatable, and then they got such good ratings that they went and repeated it :dur: There is such a thing as overdoing the sequels and I reckon some things shouldn't have sequels at all. It's the TV version of an author prostituting themselves and IMO puts a lot of crap on TV - stringing a show out with more series than the idea can really support (Friends being the worst), poor US/UK remakes of shows that have done well in their original country, and lightweight clones and spin-offs of successful shows that have just been churned out to fill another time slot without much thought given to it. On the subject of which... Woohoo, someone else who shares my views about the epitome of self love Bore-atio Kane, a man thoroughly deserving of one of Gary's pineapple enemas if you ask me. "Smug ginger twat" is exactly how I've described him more than once. Pose, pose, adjust sunglasses, pose, tilt head at supposedly inquisitive angle (but just makes him look like he's got a bad neck and needs a chiropractor), deliver cheesy line cheesily with extra cheese, put hands on hips and pose a bit more, move sunglasses again Posted Image You notice how he always gets a confession? Because the poor crims would rather go to prison for life than be stuck in a room with the unbearable bastard. Amanda doesn't mind but he makes the show unwatchable for me, unlike the original CSI which I quite like and CSI: NY which is my favourite of the three (mainly because of Gary Sinise - how the hell did they manage to get him?). On a slight tangent, anyone else see Harper's Island? Best new show on TV at the moment IMO. Not just because of the story, which to be honest has a couple of holes in it that require a certain amount of suspension of disbelief, or the fact that it's very nicely shot in good looking locations, but because I don't think anyone's done the psychotic stalker killer thing on a three month TV series before. They got our attention with the ads announcing the original idea of killing off at least one character every week starting with the very first show, and since they can't keep that up for long before they run out of characters to kill there's no danger of "over sequelling" it. In fact they've said there'll only ever be this one season, though I have an idea for a one off special at the end. It involves an annoying red haired crime scene investigator from Florida who goes to Seattle for a conference or something and inexplicably finds himself on a ferry to Harper's Island, only to find when he gets there that John Wakefield is having so much fun wiping out the wedding guests that he invited his friends Jason Voohees, Freddy Kreuger, Norman Bates and Gordon Brown to come and join him, but they're all overwhelmed with the urge to shred the annoying git from Miami into tiny pieces, which allows all the survivors to escape to the mainland. Meanwhile the irritating ranga turns out to be so irritating that Wakefield, Freddy, and Jason hack their own heads off so they don't have to watch the laughable wooden acting anymore, and Norman gives himself away by yelling "mother" as he stalks the ginger ponce through the trees who shoots the cross dressing loony just in time leaving himself and Gordon Brown as the last people alive on the island. Which sinks. |
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| hevs | 20 May 2009, 12:46 PM Post #18 |
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You forgot the two most boring brothers in the world who will save you all of the drama and work out the probability of someONE actually being murdered each week and why it seem to be that THREE people get the chop..And indeed the longevity of such a show when they are polishing them off so quickly. Yes, with a few simple sums it seems that the NUMBERS bros will be able to work out just "who dun it" without us needing real police or anything! Hmmmmm, theres some crap about thats for sure :mah: |
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| Amanda & Simon | 20 May 2009, 01:11 PM Post #19 |
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Heh, had a sneak peek - I'll just say that after five deaths between the first two shows (which is still much less than the average episode of Midsomer Murders :rofl: ) the body count settles down a bit in the next two or three. As for longevity by Yank standards it's closer to being a mini series really. Twelve or thirteen episodes and it's all wrapped up and over forever... or so they say at the moment. I'll be disappointed if they sell out and give us Harper's Island Revisited next year. Oh, and about DUMB3RS? Shh, Amanda likes that too and if I'm caught taking the piss out of it I'm brown bread :shhh: Quick, someone post summat before she comes back. :Grin: |
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