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24: Live Another Day. Hype thread.
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The reason why I'm so excited for this is because it will be utterly completely fresh, yet still undoubtedly 24.
- Jack, Heller, Audrey, Chloe are all back
- Cochran, Fury, Callery, Cassar and Gordon are all back (like, the entire OG production team)
- Set in a completely different country, no links to USA and therefore completely different look to the show
- New rules (no guns in the uk, although that doesn't look like it's stopping Bauer!)
- God tier casting (Stephen Fry in a major role as the Prime Minister)
and best of all
- a neat, concise 12 hour season of non stop balls to the wall ass kicking action. It will be 24 on steroids - the true return of the Jack Bauer Power Hour with no unnessecary filler!
- Jack, Heller, Audrey, Chloe are all back
- Cochran, Fury, Callery, Cassar and Gordon are all back (like, the entire OG production team)
- Set in a completely different country, no links to USA and therefore completely different look to the show
- New rules (no guns in the uk, although that doesn't look like it's stopping Bauer!)
- God tier casting (Stephen Fry in a major role as the Prime Minister)
and best of all
- a neat, concise 12 hour season of non stop balls to the wall ass kicking action. It will be 24 on steroids - the true return of the Jack Bauer Power Hour with no unnessecary filler!
heliosRAzi
Banned
The best part. It'll be high octane the entire season.
Grover Cleveland
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(S8 spoilers ahead)
Is there any chance at all that Yvonne Strahovski isn't a
only to help him stop some dastardly plot.
Is there any chance at all that Yvonne Strahovski isn't a
US CIA/FBI/CTU agent who's in London to arrest Jack and bring him back home for his litany of crimes
not for a long time have been updated?
just checked i like the news, also Agent Pierce any info?
Edag Plata
Banned
Season 8 still hits so low on my list ranking the seasons simply because they left Pierce out. There were a hundred opportunities to write him in, hell, even better than they did in season 6.
...I updated it a few days ago - the casting info is fully up to date. I'm on about a certain Twitter conversation which is listed in the OP.
Not a chance.
Tesseract
Banned
heliosRAzi
Banned
I miss her.
Fun fact: She played Tess in the Last of Us
Didn't know that, awesome.
I miss her.
So pissed in S8 when they killer her off, it was just more proof that 24 had really slipped in terms of quality rehashing the same tired plots to keep up suspense.
TheSinkingKnight
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No, just the promo stuff that they shot is probably what will air.
Also, http://www.24spoilers.com/2014/01/31/fox-gives-big-promo-spotlight-24-live-another-day-super-bowl/
SJRB
Gold Member
I guess it was necessary to force the "Jack has finally lost it" revenge plot. I thought Season 8 was pretty awful.
I'm currently rewatching season 7, the first 12 episodes are so brilliant. The pacing, the story, character development, the twists. Almost nonstop action and suspense, practically no filler and the typical White House dilemma actually ties in perfectly with what Jack and the rest are doing, which keeps the overall story nice and compact. Everything is excellent. If they can nail the same pacing for the upcoming season it'll be an awesome ride.
Holy shit that sounds awesome!
My dick wouldn't be able to handle all that nude.
brandonh83
Banned
Yeah... they look amazing.
I'm currently re watching too on S8 ep 7
The second half is also great, it could have been really the series finally with Jack dying in the end. S7 after re watching really grow on me as one of my favourites.
S8 has a very weak beginning, but the second half from what i recall is amazing with Jack loose canon mode, going against all he stand for.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
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Man, season 7 had me really happy for awhile. We had that great team of Jack, Tony, Bill, and Chloe, but then...
Timan
Developer
I miss her.
The guy that runs 24spoilers also runs her fan site... www.awesomeannie.com
Has all her kills etc on that site.
Yup, S7 had a really great start and then just devolved into non-sense.
BigJonsson
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Jason's Ultimatum
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She looks like a freckled face cartoon.
I miss her.
She literally ruined the show single-handedly.
Justify that claim.
Yeah no
That sounds awesome.
She corroded the Jack Bauer character. Jack is now meaningless, nothing but a groundless rabid dog, and as a direct result 24 is now meaningless.
Yeah, we're gonna have to just disagree on this one.
Wiktor
Member
Meh, I was hoping you were going for a pun with that "single-handely" bit, seeing as she cut that dude's hand off.
Arkos
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Meh, I was hoping you were going for a pun with that "single-handely" bit, seeing as she cut that dude's hand off.
Haha what a wasted opportunity
I actually agree it felt like the romance was shoe-horned a little bit, although Jack understandably is probably prone to pretty volatile emotions. I'm just glad that Audrey, the one and only true woman for Jack, is returning.
SJRB
Gold Member
What do you mean? They're constantly clashing the first half of season 7 but Jack clearly respects her because she knows she needs to do what is necessary to complete the mission.
I think the romance is more of an "two emotional trainwrecks finding comfort with each other" kind of thing instead of true love.
To each their own I guess, but I can't see how what happened in Season 8 ruined the show or Jack's character.
Renee's death wasn't the only reason why he acted like that. Anyone who has watched all the seasons should know all the shit Jack has been through, and how much he sacrificed for his country in exchange for nothing.
This has made him become increasingly jaded over the years, to a point where he just doesn't give a fuck anymore. In season 8 he didn't even want to get involved, and the only reason he did was because his daughter convinced him to. Then he gets involved and not only he fails at rescuing Hassan, but also Renee is killed as soon as they got laid, the President tries to cover up the Russian conspiracy and locks Jack down, and of top of that he finds out that Charles Logan might be behind everything. All in a span of just a few hours. You can't blame Jack for snapping after all that happened (if anything, it took too long for him to do so)
It's not like Renee died and Jack suddenly entered rage mode and started killing people left and right. If the President had listened to Jack in CTU none of that would have happened; instead, she decided to listen to Logan and everything started to snowball into a huge mess.
This has made him become increasingly jaded over the years, to a point where he just doesn't give a fuck anymore. In season 8 he didn't even want to get involved, and the only reason he did was because his daughter convinced him to. Then he gets involved and not only he fails at rescuing Hassan, but also Renee is killed as soon as they got laid, the President tries to cover up the Russian conspiracy and locks Jack down, and of top of that he finds out that Charles Logan might be behind everything. All in a span of just a few hours. You can't blame Jack for snapping after all that happened (if anything, it took too long for him to do so)
It's not like Renee died and Jack suddenly entered rage mode and started killing people left and right. If the President had listened to Jack in CTU none of that would have happened; instead, she decided to listen to Logan and everything started to snowball into a huge mess.
Arkos
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Absolutely, I agree with this. Still a little weird, but not exactly implausible. I also don't have a problem with Jack going ape shit, but at the same time his rage could have been better focused by the writers. It's good, not great, they had hit a wall with the format I think.
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