5, the sentox nerve gas season. Pretty corny season but some true kino scenes like the Henderson wife leg shoot and the bad guy dropping a nerve gas canister into a submarine. Plus Jack is able to stop nerve gas using a hoodie, and also carries a manbag which contains unlimited guns and ammo kek
It was pretty violent for Fox. Plus wouldn't being on HBO have just meant there was more swearing? Wouldn't have added anything and it allowed Kiefer to riff on "dammit" and "son of a b***h" for 9 seasons.
Yeah but those things aren't why people watch 24. James Bond films are the same. They don't need excessive nudity, blood or swearing because the characters and storylines are so fun. Would definitely like to see HBO do a hardcore anti-terrorism series though, like The Shield.
Loved how they made the guy totally irredeemable. People love jack so I doubt they'd care about the head removal even if Goren's only crime was a speeding ticket.
6 is generally considered the worst of the entire series, although I rewatched the whole show recently and it wasn't nearly as bad as people have made it out to be in the years since.
>Some nice guy CTU employee greets Jack and says how nice it is to have him back. >Jack is pissed off from something else, ignores the formalities, and gets to the point.
Kino
After the murder of Michelle, Tony, in a fit of rage, attempted to kill Christopher Henderson, a high-ranking conspirator; but Henderson (intentionally not killing Tony) seriously injured Almeida, sending him into a state of unconsciousness. Henderson successfully fooled nearby paramedics/Jack into thinking that Tony was dead; his body was covertly switched as he regained consciousness.
You guys remember the 24 spinoff “The Rookie”? Would the 24 series be any good if they had spinoffs taking place during/before/ or after jack Bauer’s mission? It’s clear that other characters had things happen outside of the main story, But weren’t really said.
It was intriguing and it kept my interest, sucks how it wasn’t turned into a full on series instead its a webisode spinoff series.
All episodes are on YouTube, though I feel like some are lost since the episode were only on the 24 The rookie website but it got shutdown long ago.
Didn’t like 24 legacy It begins off like in the middle of the show past it’s 12 episodes, wasn’t really interesting, didn’t care about any of the characters, skimmed through the episodes, tony almeida randomly comes in. I’ve seen 24 solidarity but I wish they extended it to a few episodes to explain more of his escape and his associates that helped him. Overall 24 is a mess with its story and 24 legacy was not needed.
Hey I remember that one. I think 24 works outside of Jack Bauer being the main character but the story has to be written tight. Season 6 had a lot of problems after a very memorable start.
I should watch it really seeing as I'm from London. I'm guessing though, that like literally every other program filmed in London, the vast majority of it is going to be set around Bank/City as that's the easiest place to get roads shut down at weekends for filming.
If you have seen the other seasons I would say that London is worth seeing as well. Bauer has a great sidekick and even all these years later I still remember the finale very well. The weirdest thing to me though is that the prime minister is played by Stephen Fry.
I will forever be pissed that we never got a satisfying conclusion to the cliffhanger at the end of s2. They finished that storyline in the fricking video game. I was so confused in the s3 premiere seeing how Palmer was fine and the bio attack on him at the end of s2 was never acknowledged
If I'm not mistaken, it actually pioneered the targeting system that GTA games use on console today with the autotarget that defaults to center mass but allows for aiming within the lock on to go for headshots and such.
Think they used The Getaway engine but totally overhauled it and made it do way more than it was meant to do. YouTuber made a good video on it a while ago.
>That random wedding subplot in season 2 along with Kim's batshit adventures >Obviously made just to cater to any women watching the show
Still fairly kino. Billy Burke played a great douchebag.
>chased by psycho dad >car crash >hostage at a gas station robbery >stuck with a schizo in a bunker
It just never ended, her killing the dad was satisfying though >shoot him again
>strong, independent woman who need no man and can take men twice her size in close combat: the character
She was miserable and emblematic of the show becoming more leftist after season 4-5.
One of the best episodes of the series. Managed to make people sob over a character that everyone hated with every fiber of their being just a couple episodes earlier.
This was the only thing that really bothered me after a few seasons.
At that point all he's been through for his county and lost I'd trust him as much as my own fricking father.
It's moronic.
1- 3. All based
4. Bit shit, mainly ruined by that fricking BEHROOTS BEHROOTS MY SON BEHROOTZ woman
5. Weapons Grade A Robocop Kino
6. Fricking shit
7. Much better than 6 and has qt Renee
8. Pretty shit, all the new characters are awful
Never watched the last one.
9 is at least better than 6. Plus it's in LAAANDAN TOWN so that's something. Fun to see the writers edit London for plot convenience. Being a bong I would never clock how much the writers probably edit LA for plot purposes.
Also the Secretary of Offense is the actual president in 9, and he's always fun to watch.
I should watch it really seeing as I'm from London. I'm guessing though, that like literally every other program filmed in London, the vast majority of it is going to be set around Bank/City as that's the easiest place to get roads shut down at weekends for filming.
>1- 3. All based
Eh...3 is when it gets good.
1 is suspenseful but laughable (amnesia plot) and embarrassing at times
2 is about the same as 1.
4 is kino
5 is giga kino.
>mainly ruined by that fricking BEHROOTS BEHROOTS MY SON BEHROOTZ woman
She was hot as frick, I hadn't seen her as anything other than an old lady in The Expanse before
Really nice guy and a talented actor. There's even an interview where he talks about how disappointing season 6 was, and that he enjoyed season 7 much more. You rarely hear stuff like that from the actors.
>Rewatched the show recently >Found Chloe's absolutely autistic behaviour hilarious
I did not expect that, and then she looked moronic in the London season.
Season 2 my favorite. SPOILERS:
I enjoyed Kim's misadventures. The two sisters. The hand to hand fight in the LA Forum. The racist redneck episode. The Jack torture and subsequent naked assassin mode. Etc. Etc.
To all you guys that say Kim is annoying, I agree but she deserves an Emmy for this scene alone. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7qR_djU5f1I
Tear jerk kino. She nails it.
To me this is what makes the show so good. The acting.
If you actually just read the dialogue it's obvious they didn't have script writers, they story boarded the seasons and had place holder dialogue that never got rewritten. (This scene Jack says blank)
And the acting from the main cast was good enough to carry the 7th grader tear dialogue to scenes like that post.
the writing (except seasons 2+5) could have had more substance, but the filler dialogue was more realistic, what interesting things do people really say during a terrorist crisis?
Season 6 has issues with pacing and some of the plot is bad but I think borderline unwatchable is a bit unfair. The first 4 episodes are incredibly good besides the good character that gets killed for no reason. The rest of the season has it's moments, definitely not as good as previous seasons but not absolutely unwatchable.
I think people criticize it unfairly because it directly followed season 5 which is universally considered the greatest season of the show. I think if seasons 7 or season 3 or season 4 came after season 5 in terms of plot they'd be just as unfairly judged.
Idk man. Never really paid attention to 24 threads cuz I hadn't watched the show. Watch it with reservations, hate a lot of stuff but give it a chance and it pays off big time.
Get to season 6. Then completely drop the show cuz it fricking sucks.
Something major happened. Not sure what but I couldn't give it a pass. Btw I love the idea of punished Jack. It just sucked.
>I think people criticize it unfairly because it directly followed season 5 which is universally considered the greatest season of the show.
It's definitely the worst season, but I think people see it as much worse because of this. Whenever I rewatch 24, I usually take a break of about half a year after S5 and then I appreciate S6 much more.
>that scream of terror right before they all get obliterated
Gets me every time. I wish the rest of the season was this good.
Also, Jack. Jack came back from fricking China getting chopsticks shoved up his dick for 2 years straight and returns a broken man, unable to even speak because he hadn't for so long, and immediately gets tossed back into events like nothing happened. The result is a Jack who keeps on making mistakes and slipping up here or there, and it culminates in him having to shoot someone he was close with, which broke him again, and it took a fricking nuclear bomb vaporizing 10,000 people to snap him out of it
If that's not peak 24 I don't know what is. It's just a shame the rest of the season couldn't follow up on that level of kino
I always get to the 24 threads late wtf.. I just wish we can get one last movie or something showing Jack Bauer getting out of Russia. We got the tragic ending for the guy.
the one whee his own agency turns against him, but it turns out that he was the good guy all along the entire time after all in the end
I loved that one
Boop
Beep
Season 2 or 5. Or 3.
season 1 has the annoying wife and daughter
season 2 has the annoying daughter
so season 3 or 4
5 is what most ppl go with, and it's good, but for me it's day 2
THEY'RE SHOOTING AT US
RUN
>could have just shot in the air or in the ground
>decided to knee cap some random guy instead
What the frick Jack
The golden age of television
What's the season when Jack shoots that dudes wife in the leg to get him to talk
5, the sentox nerve gas season. Pretty corny season but some true kino scenes like the Henderson wife leg shoot and the bad guy dropping a nerve gas canister into a submarine. Plus Jack is able to stop nerve gas using a hoodie, and also carries a manbag which contains unlimited guns and ammo kek
>the ctu evacuation episode
my dick
Yeah I do as well. Especially because of the Cordilla virus and Stephen Saunders.
>Stephen Saunders.
Actor is a local to me. Newspaper did an article about him making it in Hollywood.
The part where Jack threatens to drag Saunders' daughter into the virus contaminated building is kino.
I don't remember enough but still remember too much to watch it again, is there a word for that feel?
would have been better on HBO
It was pretty violent for Fox. Plus wouldn't being on HBO have just meant there was more swearing? Wouldn't have added anything and it allowed Kiefer to riff on "dammit" and "son of a b***h" for 9 seasons.
the violence could have been turned up a notch or 2, more swearing, yes.. + nudity..
Yeah but those things aren't why people watch 24. James Bond films are the same. They don't need excessive nudity, blood or swearing because the characters and storylines are so fun. Would definitely like to see HBO do a hardcore anti-terrorism series though, like The Shield.
strikeback on cinemax was solid
Season 5 is pretty much always touted as the best, but I also really love season 3.
the one where there's a mole
Kim Bauer single handedly ruined the series. I wish there was a Kimless edit.
misogyny has no place here
I agree with you on the later seasons where she stopped wearing t-shirts.
Horse face wife and potato face were much worse.
24 (season 3) is the best except the very last ending.
kino
Loved how they made the guy totally irredeemable. People love jack so I doubt they'd care about the head removal even if Goren's only crime was a speeding ticket.
i'm up to season 8 episode 8. i enjoyed the first 7 seasons but i'm just not able to get into season 8.
1st half is the weakest run of the entire show, with the stupid dana ex bf subplot. 2nd half gets good and the last 7 episodes are pure kino
This. Keep watching, because you're almost done with the boring part.
i have a soft spot for 3 and 4, but like aspects of all of them (except 8) and agree that 5 is the best
The Snuke episode.
the season when george mason flies the plane. KINO
He's actually married to Nina Myers irl
president palmer greatest tv president
was directly responsible for obama though
For me, it's 5, 2 or 6. I never see 6 being recognized as one of the good seasons in these threads for some reason.
6 is generally considered the worst of the entire series, although I rewatched the whole show recently and it wasn't nearly as bad as people have made it out to be in the years since.
6 is pretty bad, plus they nuked LA too early. And the "reveal" that Jack's father and brother are super-terrorists was ridiculous.
6 killed the show right after they had their best season that brought everyone back.
I think that was the fault of the writers strike though. I remember some shenanigans that crippled it.
That fricking writers strike fricked up so many kino shows.
6 was bad.
On the TV they always look so smol.
>Some nice guy CTU employee greets Jack and says how nice it is to have him back.
>Jack is pissed off from something else, ignores the formalities, and gets to the point.
Kino
>>Jack is pissed off from something else, ignores the formalities, and gets to the point.
This is why him and Chloe work so well together.
Which season did Almeida become a bad guy?
7 I think. Never watched 7 or 8.
How did they write him back after he "died" never got that far.
Wew lad. Apparently he didn't die in season 5. It's pretty stupid and one of the reasons I stopped watching the show.
Did he fake his death or what? I don't care about spoilers s6 was unwatchable for me so I'll never watch it.
From the wiki. Sage.
After the murder of Michelle, Tony, in a fit of rage, attempted to kill Christopher Henderson, a high-ranking conspirator; but Henderson (intentionally not killing Tony) seriously injured Almeida, sending him into a state of unconsciousness. Henderson successfully fooled nearby paramedics/Jack into thinking that Tony was dead; his body was covertly switched as he regained consciousness.
But 7 and 8 are both significantly better than 6. Watch them.
I've heard that, I have to get through season 6 though. Ugh!!!
You guys remember the 24 spinoff “The Rookie”? Would the 24 series be any good if they had spinoffs taking place during/before/ or after jack Bauer’s mission? It’s clear that other characters had things happen outside of the main story, But weren’t really said.
Never heard of it, any good?
It was intriguing and it kept my interest, sucks how it wasn’t turned into a full on series instead its a webisode spinoff series.
All episodes are on YouTube, though I feel like some are lost since the episode were only on the 24 The rookie website but it got shutdown long ago.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdHCq3-lnoxYimWQidy8MGabtZjSB8KjF
Cool I'll check it out. You ever watch the 24 series with the black guy?
Didn’t like 24 legacy It begins off like in the middle of the show past it’s 12 episodes, wasn’t really interesting, didn’t care about any of the characters, skimmed through the episodes, tony almeida randomly comes in. I’ve seen 24 solidarity but I wish they extended it to a few episodes to explain more of his escape and his associates that helped him. Overall 24 is a mess with its story and 24 legacy was not needed.
That was a wretched abomination sacrilege blasphemy
Hey I remember that one. I think 24 works outside of Jack Bauer being the main character but the story has to be written tight. Season 6 had a lot of problems after a very memorable start.
If you have seen the other seasons I would say that London is worth seeing as well. Bauer has a great sidekick and even all these years later I still remember the finale very well. The weirdest thing to me though is that the prime minister is played by Stephen Fry.
The one where Jack has to cut his partner's arm with an axe.
Best TV couple.
I like the one in which jack robs a gas station to delay the bad guy, and he's too good at it, which makes the baddy suspicious.
> Robs gas station
> Immediately takes off balaclava
He only takes it off in the car afterwards, I'm pretty sure.
Nah bro, they spend a whole episode in the convenience store. Think Kiefer is going to have his face covered for the whole ep?
>What's your favorite season?
Yes
5
I will forever be pissed that we never got a satisfying conclusion to the cliffhanger at the end of s2. They finished that storyline in the fricking video game. I was so confused in the s3 premiere seeing how Palmer was fine and the bio attack on him at the end of s2 was never acknowledged
Video game was way better than it should have been. Kino ragdoll physics and realistic torture scenes. TELL ME WHERE THE BOMB IS!!!
If I'm not mistaken, it actually pioneered the targeting system that GTA games use on console today with the autotarget that defaults to center mass but allows for aiming within the lock on to go for headshots and such.
Think they used The Getaway engine but totally overhauled it and made it do way more than it was meant to do. YouTuber made a good video on it a while ago.
Interesting, I'll have to check that out, thanks.
>That random wedding subplot in season 2 along with Kim's batshit adventures
>Obviously made just to cater to any women watching the show
Still fairly kino. Billy Burke played a great douchebag.
was it for women or was it just to fill in time
Never forget that Kim dragged her boyfriend in the chase from the crazy dad and then proceeded to get him in a car crash which made him lose his leg
>chased by psycho dad
>car crash
>hostage at a gas station robbery
>stuck with a schizo in a bunker
It just never ended, her killing the dad was satisfying though
>shoot him again
The show was originally going to be about 24 hours before a wedding. Imagine if that actually happened. This world would be a very different place.
agent freckles was awesome.
>strong, independent woman who need no man and can take men twice her size in close combat: the character
She was miserable and emblematic of the show becoming more leftist after season 4-5.
my guy.. it was mid 2000's she was fricking eye candy with a gun. you're trying to place to much of todays bullshit on an older show.
She got the shit kicked out of her and raped, you're crazy.
I wish Kiefer was in more stuff.
5 I think not that I remember what was in them
Palmer’s wife was sorta based but also a massive fricking b***h.
is there a compilation of kino moments? i don't want to watch it all again
Links earlier in the thread are to a 24 mega fan who clips kino moments, such as Goren's decapitation scene.
We all the agree that the amnesia shit in s1 was the worst subplot, right?
No. I liked it. Crash crash plus emotional trauma can do that.
I only went through the show once so I don't remember it perfectly but that episode where Jack has to shoot Ryan Chappelle in the head was kino.
>I'm sorry we let you down Ryan
One of the best episodes of the series. Managed to make people sob over a character that everyone hated with every fiber of their being just a couple episodes earlier.
He had no-one to call at the end. And no-one at CTU cared. Sorry Ryan.
daily reminder charles logans actor died the other day
RIP shitty president.
frick.. I did not know that
Season 5 edgy homosexual opening ruins it for me. Season 1-4 are a nice complete story with Jack walking off into the sunset like a fricking cowboy.
>Season 5 edgy homosexual opening ruins it for me.
What? Explain why it's cringe
Yeah it's a pretty great opening episode.
The opening is just Jack getting turned down for work at a construction site and talking to his new "family"
Why is it cringe and edgy?
The premiere of s5 is Palmer and Michelle getting killed and Tony going in a coma.
Yes... and?
They have never been shy about killing off main characters. Why is it edgy?
>it's a no one believes jack even though he's always right about everything episode
This was the only thing that really bothered me after a few seasons.
At that point all he's been through for his county and lost I'd trust him as much as my own fricking father.
It's moronic.
1- 3. All based
4. Bit shit, mainly ruined by that fricking BEHROOTS BEHROOTS MY SON BEHROOTZ woman
5. Weapons Grade A Robocop Kino
6. Fricking shit
7. Much better than 6 and has qt Renee
8. Pretty shit, all the new characters are awful
Never watched the last one.
9 is at least better than 6. Plus it's in LAAANDAN TOWN so that's something. Fun to see the writers edit London for plot convenience. Being a bong I would never clock how much the writers probably edit LA for plot purposes.
Also the Secretary of Offense is the actual president in 9, and he's always fun to watch.
I should watch it really seeing as I'm from London. I'm guessing though, that like literally every other program filmed in London, the vast majority of it is going to be set around Bank/City as that's the easiest place to get roads shut down at weekends for filming.
The first thing you'll notice is they didn't film anywhere near London
Like that Hobbes and Shaw film where I could tell instantly it wasn't london. Tried to pass off some shithole like Glasgow as London.
>1- 3. All based
Eh...3 is when it gets good.
1 is suspenseful but laughable (amnesia plot) and embarrassing at times
2 is about the same as 1.
4 is kino
5 is giga kino.
The writers fricked up in season 3 and spent way too long on the Mexico plot. Virus plot is over way too quick. Season 2 is perfect in that regard.
>mainly ruined by that fricking BEHROOTS BEHROOTS MY SON BEHROOTZ woman
She was hot as frick, I hadn't seen her as anything other than an old lady in The Expanse before
>mainly ruined by that fricking BEHROOTS BEHROOTS MY SON BEHROOTZ woman
Sexiest voice of all time.
Her voice is horrid, but she's still hot
chloe is hot
The 2nd half of season 3 was nonstop operator kino. James Badge Dale should have been a show regular
Mia Kirshner was the GOAT waifu on this show. And from what I can tell, she seems relatively unwalled which is a surprise as she's pushing 50.
>died a few weeks ago
>didn't get a sticky
I'm still mad.
Good call. And everyone said what a nice guy he is.
Really nice guy and a talented actor. There's even an interview where he talks about how disappointing season 6 was, and that he enjoyed season 7 much more. You rarely hear stuff like that from the actors.
5 and it's not even very close.
Five, it has everything.
>Rewatched the show recently
>Found Chloe's absolutely autistic behaviour hilarious
I did not expect that, and then she looked moronic in the London season.
Season 3 is by far the beast season.
Some crazy high points of the entire series
Major long term character deaths
Ace villains
A phenomenal finale
Kim sidelined at last
The emergence of Chase and his amputation
Chase was based.
>You look like hell, Jack
TH-THAT'S JACK BAUER
As weak as season 8(?) was, that was one of the all time greatest 24 moments.
5 > 9 > 1 > 7 > 3 > 2 > 8 > 4 > 6
>4 that low
Granted I haven't seen after 6 but it's up there with 5 for me. Mainly because it's a s5 prequel.
Habeeb marwan season. Imhotep is always great with his leer.
Marwan was based. They tried to recreate him in season 6 and 8, but those guys just turned out generic.
Marwan and Henderson best villains of the series
And Gaines.
Henderson because Peter Weller has a voice like silk
The one where he throws Catelyn Stark out the window for fun
Who the frick has time to watch this whole shit
where do you think you are
Thanks for a 24 thread, OP.
Season 2 my favorite. SPOILERS:
I enjoyed Kim's misadventures. The two sisters. The hand to hand fight in the LA Forum. The racist redneck episode. The Jack torture and subsequent naked assassin mode. Etc. Etc.
To all you guys that say Kim is annoying, I agree but she deserves an Emmy for this scene alone. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7qR_djU5f1I
Tear jerk kino. She nails it.
To me this is what makes the show so good. The acting.
If you actually just read the dialogue it's obvious they didn't have script writers, they story boarded the seasons and had place holder dialogue that never got rewritten. (This scene Jack says blank)
And the acting from the main cast was good enough to carry the 7th grader tear dialogue to scenes like that post.
the writing (except seasons 2+5) could have had more substance, but the filler dialogue was more realistic, what interesting things do people really say during a terrorist crisis?
the one where they get him back from china and he's biting out throats and sticking knives under kneecaps
Bait
Season 6 is borderline unwatchable.
Season 6 has issues with pacing and some of the plot is bad but I think borderline unwatchable is a bit unfair. The first 4 episodes are incredibly good besides the good character that gets killed for no reason. The rest of the season has it's moments, definitely not as good as previous seasons but not absolutely unwatchable.
I think people criticize it unfairly because it directly followed season 5 which is universally considered the greatest season of the show. I think if seasons 7 or season 3 or season 4 came after season 5 in terms of plot they'd be just as unfairly judged.
Idk man. Never really paid attention to 24 threads cuz I hadn't watched the show. Watch it with reservations, hate a lot of stuff but give it a chance and it pays off big time.
Get to season 6. Then completely drop the show cuz it fricking sucks.
Something major happened. Not sure what but I couldn't give it a pass. Btw I love the idea of punished Jack. It just sucked.
>I think people criticize it unfairly because it directly followed season 5 which is universally considered the greatest season of the show.
It's definitely the worst season, but I think people see it as much worse because of this. Whenever I rewatch 24, I usually take a break of about half a year after S5 and then I appreciate S6 much more.
the one where the F117 shoots down AF1
5 > 2 > 4 > 3 >1 > 7 > LAD > 8 > Redemption > 6 > Legacy
>that scream of terror right before they all get obliterated
Gets me every time. I wish the rest of the season was this good.
Also, Jack. Jack came back from fricking China getting chopsticks shoved up his dick for 2 years straight and returns a broken man, unable to even speak because he hadn't for so long, and immediately gets tossed back into events like nothing happened. The result is a Jack who keeps on making mistakes and slipping up here or there, and it culminates in him having to shoot someone he was close with, which broke him again, and it took a fricking nuclear bomb vaporizing 10,000 people to snap him out of it
If that's not peak 24 I don't know what is. It's just a shame the rest of the season couldn't follow up on that level of kino
Kim Raver (the chick who plays Audrey) has gorgeous feet and she knows it.
I always get to the 24 threads late wtf.. I just wish we can get one last movie or something showing Jack Bauer getting out of Russia. We got the tragic ending for the guy.