24

[shmeep]

I thought I'd start a 24 thread since several of us watch it and two former Blind Justice stars are now on it.

It always cracks me up that 24 is filmed in The Valley but that anyone can get to CTU in downtown Los Angeles in fifteen minutes from wherever they are. Heh. But all the familiar scenery sort of weirded me out when I saw a mushroom cloud coming from Valencia. I used to work in Valencia and it's just a few miles from where I grew up in Granada Hills, which is where Jack was when he saw the mushroom cloud. Yikes! It makes me want to call my parents in Granada Hills and tell them to get to safety.

The street names they gave for Jack's Granada Hills location were fake. There are no numbered streets there. One season Jack was at the corner of Tampa and Reseda. Real streets...but parallel. I think all the locations and the street names are my favorite thing about 24. That, and the fact that Jack is able to get anywhere through the traffic of a post-bomb panic. There's more traffic than that on an average day so I don't buy that he can get anywhere. The location of his brother's house, Indian Springs? Indian...something...has to be made up. I've never heard of it and it's apparently five minutes from Granada Hills (but that shouldn't mean anything on this show).

It looks like Marisol Nichols is still in that cookie-cutter CTU employee role (we didn't even get to see her interrogate Assad), but Rena Sofer has one of those meaty family-life roles! And she looks gorgeous. Christie should have had that hair. I was shocked to find that the bad guy apparently behind all that happened last season is Jack's brother and I'm very curious about Jack's past with his sister-in-law. Gray said she wasn't over Jack when she married him. VERY interesting. And Jack gave his "nephew" an extra hard look when he saw him. Does anyone else think Kim may have a brother?

This season is very dark, even for 24, but I'm in.

[inuvik]

I don't watch 24 (surprise! didn't this show start the current serialized trend? ) but I have an interesting anecdote about it.

Later this season, a Canadian comedian named Shaun Majumder will be on the show as a terrorist. He is one of the stars of our show "This Hour Has 22 Minutes".

Earlier this year they were doing a promo for both shows. Keifer and Shaun were talking and Shaun was saying:

"You're on 24 and I'm on 22. Maybe we could get together and start a new show, 23. " And Keifer shakes his head and walks away. And Shaun shouts after him--"Or i could come on 24 and be your partner! (fading and dejected) Or the guy you kill or something. "

It was a very funny promo, shown a lot. I guess the producers decided to take him up on it!

[hoosier]

Is Jack's brother named Gray I thought is was Greg? Oh well, our Fox channel is not the best in the world. I was shocked to find out his brother was the nasty guy from last season. Talk about opposites!!! And where they left them the other night, there is definitely no love lost between the two of them!

Yes, it appears that Jack and his sister-in-law have some kind of "history". It will be interesting to see how that plays out. She sure gave Jack the cold shoulder.

Well, Curtis bit the dust. Hopefully the body count won't be as high as last season. It doesn't pay to be too close to Jack! You might as well paint a target on your back...or front...or head.

Isn't this the second nuke to go off near LA I can't remember? They have them being stolen and set off practically everywhere. That or biological weapons.

Last season when Jack came into the Midwest after the terrorists they made a few mistakes as to topography. Like the mountain that popped up in central Indiana in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, it makes for good story but is far from the truth.

[hoosier]

24 really hit its stride with the return of disgraced President Charles Logan last week and then this week the return of his now ex-wife Martha. I loved them last season and it was great that they found a way to bring them back. Logan, saying that he would be able to help find the location of the suitcase nuclear bombs by his connections with the Russian ambassador, secured a temporary release from his prison (his own home complete with swimming pool etc.) supervised by Jack. He was however unable to get the information (since the ambassador is a supporter and colleague of the bad guys) and was as unsuccessful at getting the Russian president to force the ambassador to cooperate. The vice-president (Powers Booth) who is acting president due to the assassination attempt on President Palmer, has two choices: either let Logan continue to try or allow CTU to storm the Russian embassy and forcibly bring the ambassador in for interrogation. Logan is forced to turn to his ex-wife to ask her to talk to the Russian president's wife and get her to give her husband a little back bone. Martha who has been institutionalized but is seen living in a cute little bungalow with Aaron, her (apparently) ex-Secret Service guard and has not spoken to her ex in over two years. She refuses at first to even speak with him and then reluctantly agrees to make the call. She then has a major meltdown and ends up stabbing Logan with a paring knife. Why someone in an mental institution, even one that looks like that, would have a knife is beyond me. Logan is rushed off in an ambulance (she appears to have hit either an artery or vein) and Martha, in handcuffs, calls Anya, wife of the president, and Anya succeeds in giving her hubby the necessary backbone to bring the ambassador to heel. The ambassador warns the bad guys and then commits suicide rather than be taken by the CTU assault team led by new character Doyle, played by child star Ricky Schroder.

Next week, there is a mole in CTU relaying information to the bad guys. Is it Nadia, played by Marisol Nichols??? Say it isn't so!

[anna]

hoosier said:

24 really hit its stride with the return of disgraced President Charles Logan last week and then this week the return of his now ex-wife Martha. I loved them last season and it was great that they found a way to bring them back. Logan, saying that he would be able to help find the location of the suitcase nuclear bombs by his connections with the Russian ambassador, secured a temporary release from his prison (his own home complete with swimming pool etc.) supervised by Jack. He was however unable to get the information (since the ambassador is a supporter and colleague of the bad guys) and was as unsuccessful at getting the Russian president to force the ambassador to cooperate. The vice-president (Powers Booth) who is acting president due to the assassination attempt on President Palmer, has two choices: either let Logan continue to try or allow CTU to storm the Russian embassy and forcibly bring the ambassador in for interrogation. Logan is forced to turn to his ex-wife to ask her to talk to the Russian president's wife and get her to give her husband a little back bone. Martha who has been institutionalized but is seen living in a cute little bungalow with Aaron, her (apparently) ex-Secret Service guard and has not spoken to her ex in over two years. She refuses at first to even speak with him and then reluctantly agrees to make the call. She then has a major meltdown and ends up stabbing Logan with a paring knife. Why someone in an mental institution, even one that looks like that, would have a knife is beyond me. Logan is rushed off in an ambulance (she appears to have hit either an artery or vein) and Martha, in handcuffs, calls Anya, wife of the president, and Anya succeeds in giving her hubby the necessary backbone to bring the ambassador to heel. The ambassador warns the bad guys and then commits suicide rather than be taken by the CTU assault team led by new character Doyle, played by child star Ricky Schroder.

Next week, there is a mole in CTU relaying information to the bad guys. Is it Nadia, played by Marisol Nichols??? Say it isn't so!

Wow, you got all of that! I'm afraid that I spent most of the show trying to decide if Rick Schroeder is getting better looking as he gets older, or if he still looks too much like an aging kid.

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I love this show, but I have two weeks to catch up on. I'm in rehearsals on Mondays and THANK GOD I have a DVR!

[shmeep]

Karma to Hoosier for the great recap! Very well said.

And I also have to give karma to anna for this:

anna said:

Wow, you got all of that! I'm afraid that I spent most of the show trying to decide if Rick Schroeder is getting better looking as he gets older, or if he still looks too much like an aging kid.

It cracks me up because I was wondering the exact same thing. I kept seeing the same little-boy pie face, but then there were a few signs of age that seemed just wrong on that face. Then I started wondering how I would have perceived his looks had the younger version of him not been so prominent in my mind and I decided I would probably think he was an attractive man. Then I reconsidered because he still looked absurdly the same but just different enough to seem like an older guy dressing up as Ricky Schroeder for Halloween.

Hee. Ricky Shroeder came into my Sears Portrait studio with his wife and kid way back in 1992. My friend took the portraits. We thought it was funny.

This Ricky Shroeder (yes, he's apparently "Ricky" again) thing reminds me of the first time I watched The Dead Zone on USA network. I failed to recognize Anthony Michael Hall and thought him very attractive. Then, at the end of that episode, it hit me that that was who he was and suddenly the image of the "Geek" in Sixteen Candles came to mind and merged with the cute guy on my screen and he has always seemed a bit off to me since.

[hoosier]

Thanks for the karma , Shmeep

Ricky Shroeder always looks so young but what impressed me about his character was that he was no-nonsense, lets get it done! Refreshing after all the back stabbing and nit-picking that seems to have gone on this season.

And Rena Sofer seems to have disappeared. She really hasn't had much to do except look angry or anguished or be terrorized by everyone from the bad guys to her father-in-law. Will it turn out that Jack is the father of her son? Weigh the difference between the late and hardly lamented Graeme and stalwart and honorable Jack. No contest. My only question, how did she get hooked up with evil brother in the first place? Hopefully they will clue us in.

[inuvik]

For all 24 fans, you may want to watch The Simpsons tonight. The season finale (and 400th episode! 21 years! ) is a parody of 24.