Watched the first season on DVD. I was so on board with this!
Until noon. After which everything starts getting silly. She’s captured, she escapes, she’s captured, she escapes, she’s captured, she escapes, now he’s captured. I knew the amnesia was coming, but I didn’t realize it was the result of failing to use the parking break. After noon, character development takes a back seat to the contrived plot twists, some really weak writing kicks in, and then the painful guest appearances from Lou Diamond and Dennis Hopper happen. And, yes, Kim Bauer is hot, but isn’t she supposed to be, like, 16 or something? Why are they encouraging 16-year-old girls to dress like that? For Pete’s sake, missy, cover up your cleavage for at least a couple more years!
I have no interest in watching the second season, so whenever Oppressor comes to Shoot Club, I’m just going to let him spoil everything that happens. I now know about George Mason’s glorious Brunnhilde finale and I didn’t even have to watch however many episodes it took to get there! You go, Xander Berkeley!
This probably won’t convince you, but the creators admitted that they only plotted the first twelve hours of Day 1, in case the show got cancelled in mid-season. Once they heard they were going for the full season, they started making up stuff on the fly after noon.
Also, amnesia was something forced on the writers by the producer, or something like that. The writers hated the amnesia also.
The Kim thing: Granted. Dennis Hopper had possibly the worst accent I have ever heard. Period. Well, maybe, next to Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood accent which ranged from poorly done to fading in and out to non-existant.
But the Keifer=badass factor trumped most of that. For me at least. If there was an over-abundance of decent dramatic programming on TV, then I could side with you. This is about the best we have and I watch precious little because of that fact.
This season has some of the same formulaic failings (The Kim subplot is worse, if you can imagine), but as a whole, I am still enjoying it.
I hope you are not about to have Sparky create a FUCK TWENTY-FOUR banner.
Keannu Reeves in BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA
John Wayne in THE CONQUEROR
Mickey Rooney in BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S
Leonard Nimoy in his rendition of “Proud Mary,” where he enjoins Proud Mary to “keep on boynin!”
Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins… but after seeing the film again, for the first time since childhood, 'is horrid haccent hasiiiide, I’d say he was fantastic and irreplaceable in the part.
Fuck 24 – I like that. It also makes for a good 80s synth-band name, like Haircut 100, Level 42 or Heaven 17.
As for bad accents, the evil Julia Roberts in Michael Collins, trying desperately to sound Irish but ending up more like a chorus member in a community-theater production of Finian’s Rainbow. [size=2]How are things in Glocca Morra, bitch?[/size]
Yeah, I figured that’s what they were doing. They needed to be able to wrap it up for a mid-season replacement. But couldn’t they have shown some of the same creative initiative for the latter 12 hours that went into the first 12 hours? Sakes alive.
I guess that’s the best thing I came away with: a renewed appreciation for Keifer Sutherland as a leading man. I’ve recently watched some of Donald Sutherland’s earlier leading man roles (Klute, Don’t Look Now) and it’s great to see his son living up to that potential. C’mon, Keifer, get out of TV and do some action movies to fill the void of Vin Diesel’s rapidly deflating career!
Fair enough. However, I don’t get any television reception, so for me, 24 is competing for movie time. Actually, I was torn between watching the first season of The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, or 24. When someone loaned me her 24 DVDs, that sort of clinched the deal.
To make a show thats supposed to show a single day hour by hour their is obviously going to be allot more plots twists than normal to keep the pace up. If they went reality then we would see people having a 30 minute conversation played out in real time about what they saw on TV last night. Not exactly exciting.
I would tell you to give season 2 a chance. It has been really well done except for the F*@*&ing daughter. I think it is time to kill off or get rid of her. if she gets captured or beaten or anything else, I will bust my tv.
Spoiler for season 3 ahead
In season 3 Kim wil uncover a plot to start WW3 only to be captured by Iraq. She gets away by having sex with her guard and escapes only to be captured by a group of remmant nazis, who will use ww3 as means to come back into power. One of the nazis will have a change of heart and let her go. She makes her way home till she is captured by French special forces who think she is a spy and condem her to death. She laughs and walks out of the special forces camp taunting the french soldiers all the way. She falls down a hill a breaks her leg only. She happens to fall right next to the hidden command center for US forces that noone knows about. Finally, Kim makes it into the hidden command center, where Jack and the president are about to start WW3 (all because Kim had been kidnapped). She say everythings alright. everyone relaxes and Kim. jumps up and sits on the computer console accidently hitting the red button which launches all the U.S. 's nuclear weapons at America’s Hat, Canada. This all takes place during the first 6 hours 12 hours of the show.
My only real complaint with season 2 so far is… you guessed it, the Kim storyline. It just isn’t that interesting besides the booby (she has them and she is one) factor. I’ve had no desire to see season 1 again but I can definately see me buying this seasons dvds when they come out.
