24:
Live Another Day is done and I'm not quite sure if there needs to be
another season of the show. This season was different than previous
ones in that instead of twenty four one hour episodes they did
twelve, having the last episode take place during the last thirteen
hours which made me actually say “Come on!” when I heard Jack say
it. This will have spoilers so if you get mad because something was
ruined that means you are a silly person that doesn't read the title
of things.
There
are two main parts of the series which would have been fine if given
a full season. There are just far too many people and plot points
going on and very important things that change characters lives that
are thrown out here without enough development.
I had
not seen 24 in a while and forgot how violent this show was. This
season Jack Bauer played by Kiefer Sutherland is a fugitive and is
trying to stop this evil woman from using drones to blow things up.
But Jack can't do it alone so he finds Chloe O'Brian played by Mary Lynn Rajskub who this season has tattoos and a Gothic look that
changed the shape of my pants. Since this takes place in twenty hours
I had issues with a lot of people getting hurt and recovering in an
hour or two. By the end of this season everyone should've been
limping. Chloe is brought back by Jack with a needle in her heart and
up and movie moments later. Even after jumping from a moving vehicle
and rolling down a hill she manages to escape through a forest! Pain?
Ain't nobody got time for that!
CIA
agent Kate Morgan played by Yvonne Strahovski is after Jack but
eventually realizes that she is wrong and starts helping him out. It
seems really obvious that she is going to get her own show at some
point and she should just because she recovers faster than Wolverine.
At one point she is drugged to trick some guys, gets tortured,
escapes, kills some guys, and has no after effects of this. Even her
busted mouth heals a couple hours later. I know its TV and I'm
supposed to suspend disbelief but even the things that happened on
here were just too much for me to forget.
The
villain this time is Michelle Fairlay who is controlling the drones
with the help of her children. Her son flies them remotely and her
daughter is just evil as shit but tries to do good when the weather
changes. Oh, at one point she gets hit by a bus, survives, brought
back to life twice at the hospital, and makes it through a high speed
chase where rockets are shot at her. Hell, even when you thought the
president who is suffering from Alzheimer's is dead it turns out they
used a trick from Speed to save him! This is a show where I can say
no one dies but then randomly someone will. Like the evil woman when
she gets tossed out the window by Jack.
The
other villain is Cheng Zhi played by Tzi Ma who wants to start a war
with America even though everyone thought he was dead. His plan makes
sense if this were a comic book but even his followers would've been
like “Sir, this is...no.” There is more to this but I'm not gonna
get into all of it. Out of twelve episodes I would say the best were
the last four or so.
I also complained about the camera work during
the season. At times it was cool like in previous seasons and other
times it was like someone just discovered what the zoom button did
and was gonna use it as many times as he could. The sound would drop
and I'd have to turn my volume way up and when the beeping for the
commercial break started my neighbors had no doubt what show I was
watching. This season ended leaving room for another season but they
should just let Jack either have a happy ending or die heroically.
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