>one of the most popular TV series in the peak of the prestige era of television
>as critically acclaimed as The Wire, The Sopranos or Breaking Bad
>completely forgotten about and buried by zoomers
Why did this happen? Jack Bauer was a household name like Tony Soprano in the 2000s.
>as critically acclaimed as The Wire, The Sopranos or Breaking Bad
You mean the Elisha Cuthbert show?
CuthBEST
Yes. Zoomers are to gay to appreciate her feminine wiles.
>Confirmed for not watching the show.
It is Elisha Coomthbert but her storylines were always a slog. The cougar is a meme for good reason.
That's Happy Endings.
because the average viewer was 80+ years old
It was pretty good
It's very post 9/11 in tone, feel, everything; so much so that it comes across as alien to the average zoomer.
was this game good?
yeah the shooting is janky but the interrogation stuff is kino
Gameplay is all over the place but the story is solid and cutscnes look great for the time
Back when games where still trying to be stylistic and try out new things and styles. Better than literally every homogenized modern slop of the past 15 years.
shut up nerd
even bad games in that era had soul
Videogames died in 2008 with the release of GTA IV. At least they died with a bang.
>And the trannies! Well, don't even get me started on the trannies. It's science run amok. Okay? It's very confusing. I'm looking at a woman, I'm talking to a woman, I see the woman's penis - now I'm confused! I don't know what's going on!
>The government is turning into a confused transgender prostitute. I mean, it really is! You know, they don't know who to serve!
9/11 happened and this show dropped. So when Jack was torturing literally everyone for information the country was like FRICK YEAH! Then liberal softies grew a conscience and Jack Bauer was seen as a shitty person for all the torture. Suddenly it wasn't as cool to like Jack Bauer. The man is on a time crunch, it's the premise of the show, how else in the frick is he supposed to get information from people quickly?
>The man is on a time crunch, it's the premise of the show, how else in the frick is he supposed to get information from people quickly?
torture doesn't work because people just lie to make it stop. then bauer runs off in the wrong direction chasing bad info and the world gets nuked (or whatever the premise was)
Left b***h is hot the rest not so much.
kino
They don't need to be, genius. And we're all sure you're Brad Pitt level attractive.
it's too based for zoomers, they can only into skibidi toilet and homosexual shit
literally one of the best shows ever made. jannies hate 24 though because jack is a chud
We're running out of time OP!
CHLOE WE HAVE TO REPOSITION THE SATELLITE
Bootleg Denzel Washington
You know why it's buried - it's pro law and order and anti-terrorist. The ruling elites of today are the opposite.
24 is possibly the best TV drama of all time. Certainly in the top 10.
its copslop
>as critically acclaimed as law and order
this is closer to the truth.
Gib Nina gf
24 was fricking garbage. It was a perfect example of how npcs are bad judges of quality tv.
>ANOTHER mole in CTU
>Kim gets kidnapped twice in 24 hours
>every fricking season they never listen to Jack Bauer. He is right about every situation every single year and they never listen to him.
>"we don't negotiate with terrorists". "this terrorist want us to kill this gov't employee" "ok, he has to die"
>Jack was born with a silver spoon up his ass
All of them are kino albeit.
>Albeit
I'm going to kill you
name some better yak
The never listening to Jack thing is the one that truly started pissing me off as it went on. He singlehandedly saved the planet like 50 times and everyone in the government knows in hindsight that if they had just listened to him from the start it all would've been resolved in 4 hours instead of 24, with 1% of the casualties. And yet still they still just keep on sidelining or arresting him.
That's what made the final season so great. That black dude director after one frickup from not listening to Jack started following his lead (which of course got him fired), and then Jack became a rogue element and finally got to go on the rampage he always wanted. Gets his nemesis killed and then disappears into the sunset.
.........and then they made another season
They are government workers. They have to follow to chain of command. Just because a man is right doesn't mean he doesn't has to follow the chain of command.
The dude had every president on speed dial, the top of said chain. They were the ones more often than not shutting him down all the goddamn time with full knowledge of his track record. Palmer was the only one that could somewhat be relied on to let Jack do Jack
It's how lazy writers create artificial drama. Same way how on House, they always disagree with Dr. House but he's correct 99.999% of the time.
Unironically Gene Rodenberry got it right. On Star Trek TNG Picard 99.999% of the time listened to the suggestions of Data, Riker and Geordi without question. He knew they were great at their jobs and trying to do what was best. We never got a "Number 1 you're a hot head and I won't have you risk the lives of blah blah" every fricking episode.
That can easily be explained by being the future and society have learned to listen to their best people and not be so strict about chain of command. 24 takes place in the modern world where its most important you do your job by the rules than to get results. In there even the president is not free to do his will, he is even more constrained by circumstances and people's expectations of him. As we can see time and time again when the president stops following the play book the second in command will try to do a coup against him, claiming he is unfit for office.
>That can easily be explained by being the future and society have learned to listen to their best people and not be so strict about chain of command.
If it weren't for Roddenberry the writers would have written TNG just like 24 with constant bickering.
>24 takes place in the modern world where its most important you do your job by the rules than to get results.
Which Jack always does. But it never seems to matter.
It's a garbage show for morons.
Here is a typical 24 scene
>Jack on the phone: "Mr. President, this is Agent Jack Bauer. Please listen to me, the bomb is not on the plane, it's on the boat!"
>President: "End the call. As of right now Jack Bauer is a rogue agent and I want him arrested on sight".
Literally moron tier writing.
Kino
>he didn't watch the next episode where it was revealed the president wants the bomb to go off to be reelected on a terrorist hunt rhetoric and put in place a orweillian spying machine on us citizens and start a war with a middle eastern nation on the behalf of the secret banker man on a yacht that appears in the final scene of the last episode
I didn't watch every season. But the point remains. They created artificial "Jack Bauer is le bad" drama just to fill time.
It is 24 episodes for one day/situation they had to fill it with something
>It is 24 episodes for one day/situation they had to fill it with something
Not my problem. Star Trek did hundreds of eps without constant "Zomg Dr. Crusher you are out of control and must be stopped!" shit. It was a dumb show that very easily could have been a smart show.
Star trek doesn't take place during a single day/event
>Star trek doesn't take place during a single day/event
Doesn't matter. Shit writing is shit writing. House did the same thing and that was shit writing and didn't take place over a single day.
Its realistic. 24 wanted to be the ultimate realistic spy/cop/action show and it did that. In the real world people follow the chain of command and are more afraid of loosing their jobs than having a nuclear bomb explode in manhattan, which probably just means increase in funding and job promotions. The unrealistic part is when Chloe or Aceveda listen to Jack in the first place in detriment of their job/position.
You're moronic. Most of the drama is just "guy in charge rejects Jack for no reason even though Jack is correct every fricking time".
You're autistic because you don't understand the goddamned chain of command. Good writing is not just disregarding the chain of command and pretending to live in fantasy world where things are efficient and logical.
>You're autistic because you don't understand the goddamned chain of command.
Ok moron.
>President rejects Jack because of chain of command even though he is commander in chief
based black and white thinking autist
Ok moron. These are literal things that happened in the show. And lots of times other higher ups would reject Jack for literally no reason. In the real world if an agent on the ground gives you up to date intel they will normally listen to that agent. kys homosexual
The president is constrained by circumstances more than most people. He has bosses, lobbyists, staff and has to balance the power dynamics of all of them to get the job done (assuming he wants to get the job done). Jack is a small fish so he has very little care for the rules and gets away with it because he is a hero and just saved the country. If the president did that they would be gunning for him in a second. Like sharks when they smell blood in the water.
>The president is constrained by circumstances more than most people.
Lol ok moron.
>. He has bosses,
Literally who is that? Explain.
>lobbyists
So a lobbyist that is trying to get a President to cut taxes for corporations cares is involved in a President discussing national security issues with a field agent? Bro, fricking stop.
>24 wanted to be the ultimate realistic spy/cop/action show
lmao no it did fricking not at any point ever
When will AI evolve to the point where I can plug in the prompt "What if they just listened to Jack?" and it spits out the entire series again and it's...22 episodes
Ok moron. They very easily could have written it without the same, tired "Guy in charge is against protagonist for no reason at all" shit.
I would say this show consumed my life until season 6. My dad always made fun of it after never watching season 1 and predicting Nina was the mole by just watching the season 1 finale with me.
I can't watch 24 because I'm hyper-aware that because of the real-time gimmick, I know that when a scene jumps from one of the characters to the next one, it means the previous character is shitting or pissing or jerking off as I'm watching the current character.
They were pretty clever about factoring commercial breaks into the real time setting of the series. Everything that happens during that span occurs offscreen which is probably when Jack is taking a piss break
I would honestly prefer a version of the show without commercial breaks where they show the pissing and shitting. If I'm not seeing it but know it's happening in real-time, my mind goes crazy and imagines it as far more grotesque than it must be, all I can think about is the characters having bowl paintjobs, taking a long time to wipe (goes from brown to red), fistulas, etc.
My first email address was jackbauer and a bunch of random numbers. Good times swallowing propaganda. But at least it was good propaganda.
24 was fricking garbage, if you want to watch a good spy show it's all about Spooks, but sadly Amerilardishartifarties get confused when the white people don't all have American accents so it languishes in obscurity.
People talk about 24 like it's a serious show and not indistinguishable from NCIS. It makes me feel insane.
it was fun for the qts that got tied up every other episode
tru
The show went on too long. The ten billionth time they don't believe Jack, it gets tired.
You had to be there
Do they do these types cast photoshoot promos anymore like they used to?
they did it as part of the marketing and the pictures would appear only in magazines or tv guide. now marketing is just spamming Cinemaphile/reddit/twitter
Sad.