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24 Season 3
Yes, the end is near, my brothers and sisters. For nine years we have been on the roller coaster ride we call 24. We have followed brother Bauer through torture, life and death and back to life many times. And now the time is come to reflect on what a ride it has been. And all I can say is, holy fuck…
I started out by renting through Netflix season one. Before you can say terrorist alert I’m scouring my local Target stores, buying up all the seasons for $20 each because Netflix can’t ship ‘em out fast enough. Shit, I even watched Season 4 in real time, one right after the other for 24 hours. Now, mind you, after that I had some major aggression issues, like twisting the head off the local supermarket clerk because they didn’t have our ice cream bars in stock…
To be honest, there’s no fucking way all this shit could happen in one day, but that’s what makes it a blast. Let’s reflect on the past seasons:
SEASON 1- Starts out with Jack Bauer’s wife and daughter getting kidnapped by terrorists while a plot to kill the first African-American presidential candidate unfolds, framing Jack for it. It ends with Jacks ex-love interest being a mole and Jack’s wife getting killed.
SEASON 2- Starts out with Jack shooting a witness protection witness and sawing his head off and winds it’s way through terrorists trying to nuke Los Angeles.
SEASON 3- Starts out with Jack mounting a deadly prison riot to break a drug lord out and ends up with a hotel of people dying from a deadly virus. Not the best season. But it did introduce a whiney-ass creepy character named Chloe O’Brien, who would worm her way into our hearts for the next 5 seasons to come.
SEASON 4- Has the guy who played Im Ho Tep in the 90s Mummy trilogy as the bad guy who starts out by melting down nuclear reactors and winds shooting a nuclear missile at Los Angeles (yes, all the terrorists want to destroy LA).
SEASON 5- Kicked a major amount of ass, probably the best of all the seasons. Within the first few minutes President Palmer gets assassinated, Tony and Michelle get blown up, Jack (who’s supposed to be dead because he staged a raid on the Chinese Embassy in season 4 resulting in Chinese deaths and grounds for war) kidnapping a teenaged boy and dragging him around while terrorists hold an entire airport hostage. Nerve gas floods through a shopping mall and through CTU Los Angeles, killing lotsa people, finding out that the President of the USA was behind it all and ends with Jack getting Shanghai’d (literally) to China.
SEASON 6- was about suitcase nukes and Jack Bauer’s bad daddy issues…not a good season.
SEASON 7- Was set in Washington DC, about american militia funding a war in Africa and terrorism in the U.S. Tony comes back from the dead as a bad guy, and, in the end, Jack is dying after being exposed to nerve gas.
SEASON 8- Is a lame-ass plot to assassinate the president of Iran to start a world war, which stars Freddie Prinze Jr. and Katie Sackhoff (Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica, whom I understand critics are saying has single-handedly killed the 24 franchise). I don’t think anyone ever mentioned how Jack got cured.
Yeah, all the stuff is implausible and ridiculous at times, but it’s an adrenaline shot that keeps you wanting more. The characters are likeable and engaging and each episode ends on a cliff-hanger. The only major thorn was the Kim Bauer subplots, which most times verged on the ridiculous (even though she’s gorgeous to look at), I mean, how many times can you get kidnapped in a day???
So, let’s see if we get a feature film out of all this at the end.
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