24 Season 6 (NO SPOILERS)

[TheMatrix31]

Re: 24 Season 6 (NO SPOILERS)

I LOVE the Vice President's character.

[Karlos05]

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I think I'm the only one who likes Milo. It's pretty lonely up here in his bandwagon.

[marino13]

Re: 24 Season 6 (NO SPOILERS)

This season started out great and went downhill very fast. Same **** happenning over and over again. This should be their last season, the writers just ran out of idea's/

[neovsmatrix]

Re: 24 Season 6 (NO SPOILERS)

A separate thread is ridiculous. I guess the best solution would be to avoid the thread if you don't want to hear about the previews.

Or not talk about the previews and speculations at all. Previews count as spoilers, because there are people who just don't want to see them and will avoid them as much as possible (though Fox makes this rather hard to do). Maybe people should just warn others before going on and discussing previews and speculation.

I generally avoid this thread, simply because I don't want to spoil any of the surprises for myself, but I was curious as to everybody's reaction to this past ep.

Personally, I think 24 is really reaching in trying to surprise people, and this season has been rather weak. First four eps were great, but it has been downhill since then. There was this great plot about suicide bombers, and now it turns into a nuclear war plot again. I can somewhat understand the cause of this, since 24 only covers one day (which is a big reason why the show is so limited in its plotlines), but having a really decentralized threat was so intriguing and innovative for the show. It would have been a great plotline for the show if they could have figured out a way to address the issue with greater substance than they've done, while still involving Jack.

[bkfount]

Re: 24 Season 6 (NO SPOILERS)

This is my first season watching the show, and I've caught every episode but one so far. All I have to say is, this show is absolutely ridiculous. In a good way.

Seeing as I'm a 24 newb, how do previous seasons compare to this one?

previous seasons are definitely better. I'm at a point where 24 is no longer addicting. I've missed gaps this season just because it feels like I don't even miss much.

Previous seasons had much more substance going on, this season is just full of trash. Shows eventually fail to live up to the standard they set, but it doesn't take away what 24 has done in previou seasons.

[rudyjuly2]

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I have watched a total of 20 minutes the last three weeks. I don't want to watch anymore and I haven't missed it. I read up on some of the things that are happening and my wife still watches it a bit and I just shake my head at some of the stuff they are doing or rehashing. I'm simply finished with a show that used to be #1 on my much watch list. I won't bother posting here anymore and you guys won't have to worry about me being negative anymore lol.

[dagger55]

Re: 24 Season 6 (NO SPOILERS)

Im trying to figure out what happened to the prez? All of a sudden he sends a nuke off without consulting the cabinent? The reason he risked his life and took that shot second shot was to prevent this from happeneing...

So

He took a shot that his doctor said would probably have bad long term effects, but its cool because he is doing it to prevent firing off a nuke.

One minute later, they catch Fayed.

2 minutes later, lets shoot a nuke.




????

[23]

Re: 24 Season 6 (NO SPOILERS)

Im trying to figure out what happened to the prez? All of a sudden he sends a nuke off without consulting the cabinent? The reason he risked his life and took that shot second shot was to prevent this from happeneing...

So

He took a shot that his doctor said would probably have bad long term effects, but its cool because he is doing it to prevent firing off a nuke.

One minute later, they catch Fayed.

2 minutes later, lets shoot a nuke.




????

Exactly dagger. There was no in between correlation whatsoever. It jumped from one extreme to the next with no explanation period.

A spike in blood pressure wont give you a drastic rush of "just nuke em".

The less Jack you see in the show, the worse off it is, and if you want to kill Tony and Michele and Edgar, etc.. at least replace them with characters that don't bring the show down when they're on camera.

[BatsareBugs]

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Firing the nukes as a political play isn't out of the question for Wayne Palmer, he has always been trying to grapple things politically. However, and this is just speculation on my part, the reason why he called off the strike is that should the VP have fired the nuke as an act of revenge and power and whatever he's been preaching, the Americans would've rallied behind him, not Wayne. It seems to me that Wayne, who has been struggling so far in his first couple of months in office, needs to do something to gain the confidence of the Americans. He wanted the recognition of taking revenge for the attacks and wanted to show that he is capable of being firm and whatever the VP said he wasn't.

Wayne Palmer probably only intended for the nuclear strike to be called off for that reason.

[Beantown]

Re: 24 Season 6 (NO SPOILERS)

Wayne Palmer never said he was against the nukes throughout the entire time he was against the Vice President. Not that I can remember, he just argued that he was fit for duty. It was Karen, Tom and Sandra that were fighting against the idea the VP was pushing, Palmer was just fighting against the VP.

[23]

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If I remember correctly he was always for peace and diplomacy and indeed had friendly relations with the ambassador in which he is about to launch the nukes against.

The only explanation... "Im tired of the VP calling me weak"

ummm ok, alrighty then it's Wayne's world I guess.

[BatsareBugs]

Re: 24 Season 6 (NO SPOILERS)

If I remember correctly he was always for peace and diplomacy and indeed had friendly relations with the ambassador in which he is about to launch the nukes against.

The only explanation... "Im tired of the VP calling me weak"

ummm ok, alrighty then it's Wayne's world I guess.

You're going to have to look in past seasons for Wayne's character. Wayne has been more aggressive and more about playing the political cards than his brother.

The only reason he was going for peace and diplomacy was because he was trying to find a way to gain support of his people. After seeing how much support the VP got with his decision to retaliation, he sought to prevent the VP from stealing his light as the commander in chief.

Look at it this way, he has steadily lost the faith of the Americans leading up to Day 6 because of what has happened since he became President with all these attacks. He's looking for anything to gain their support.

[NYJets]

Re: 24 Season 6 (NO SPOILERS)

Is Palmer under the assumption that Assad is the one who tried to kill him?

If he is, then perhaps he's rethinking his peaceful and diplomatic approach. That, plus the fact that he's feeling weak physically, many of the cabinet members feel that he's to weak to be president, and there's many that feel his policies are too weak. So now he's going to the extreme to try and prove he isn't weak.

We'll see where they go with this but I think it could make sense.

[23]

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I don't think so, especially considering Assad was the one helping him in the process. Or trying to warn him I should say that someone would come after him for his peace treaty. Palmer also punked Assad into giving the exact speech he wanted him to give, so I doubt it.

When you say many thought he was weak though, the cabinet was split half in half, and Tom and Karen weren't really ever against him, so I can't understand that.

You see how shocked Tom was to the news that Palmer was launching at an eyes bat.

[BatsareBugs]

Re: 24 Season 6 (NO SPOILERS)

I don't think so, especially considering Assad was the one helping him in the process. Or trying to warn him I should say that someone would come after him for his peace treaty. Palmer also punked Assad into giving the exact speech he wanted him to give, so I doubt it.

When you say many thought he was weak though, the cabinet was split half in half, and Tom and Karen weren't really ever against him, so I can't understand that.

You see how shocked Tom was to the news that Palmer was launching at an eyes bat.

Think beyond the cabinet and how the American people would feel about their President not having done much to stop the terrorists.