Day 5, 7:00-8:00 pm **SPOILERS**

[Penfold]

Will Edgar rise again? Will Chloe go Jack Bauer on some Robocop butt? Or will Tony beat her to it? Will Samwise the Brave come to terms with the fact that Edgar never did the Truffle Shuffle for him, and finally give Rudy a chance?

All these questions and many more...on the next 24!

[Alpha]

oh. my. goodness. This show is more capable of making me cry than a lot of the supposed tear jerker movies out there. What's Jack gonna do at the end of this day. I don't know how any person can be functional after all of the physical and mental torture our tragic hero's been through. He has officially lost EVERYONE closest to him this season, except perhaps Audrey. And with Tony goes the last remnant from season one, the last friend that knew him from way back when.

[DarkJedi]

What the ruddy fuck. Yes, that's how I currently feel after two nights in a row where a show ends and I yell, "TONNNYYYYYYYYY!!!"

"I love you dad......but people around you die. It's not your fault but...."

Another heartwrenching, stomach churning episode where my sister breaks down in tears(the moment was when some nobody guard has to make a very sad phone call to his daughter telling her goodbye....she said it reminded her of George Mason saying goodbye to his son.) ....Also, another episode where I'm close to getting teared up. Those fucking writers! :angry

"I love you dad......but people around you die. It's not your fault but...."

We have to finally see where the Kim-Jack angle has gone...There is really nothing that can be done there.

It was funny though when Chloe offered to "find" Chase for Kim...but that's not going anywhere.

Hell, knowing these writers, Chloe is next. After all, besides Kim, she is now LLCTJ(Longest Living Companion To Jack) now....

And yes.....I did scream "TONYYYYY" at the end.

Watching Lyn go out like a hero to make up for his ultimate fuckup I could take.....even watching the security guard say goodbye I could take.....but.....but....


Robocop has to DIE now for what he has done.....HE HAS TO DIE!

I think everytime I watch Robocop and he's getting tortured at the beginning, I may just smile a little and think to myself...."That's what you get, you Syracuse-Teaching-Tony-Killing ASSHOLE! "

Oh yes, that scene in Robocop has all new meaning to me now.

Jack in tears...holding Tony in his arms......what do you think was going through his mind...

"I love you dad......but people around you die. It's not your fault but...."


Tony whispering "She's gone, man.....She's gone...."


I think I will end my thoughts with this:

















The writers of 24 are some sick motherfuckers.:angry

[Penfold]

Bleah. I wish they knew how to get rid of people on this show without killing them all. Very frustrating. At the end of last night's episode my friend threw up his hands and yelle "That's it. I'm done. There's nothing left for me now. Nothing except Chloe picking up a semiautomatic and going huntin' for Russians."

Robocop is a cool villain because he's just like an evil version of Jack. Too bad he won't last past this season.

I can see a possible place the Kim thing is going from here, I don't think they'd introduce her back to the show if she wasn't going to play some role. I also don't think they'd talk about Chase so much if he isn't going to be around at least some.

I'm interested in seeing what happens now that Homeland Security is taking over CTU. Things are going to be problematic now, but it's inevitable, as ineffective as CTU has been this season. It'll all end with Jack and Chloe going rogue (sounds familiar) and single-handedly destroying the terrorists themselves.

[CaptPike]

"Hey! The air is ok! I feel fine!

ACK....gfftt.ppffftt.....blehhshflhslfjs.......... ..


Classic "red shirt" moment. I do so love how CTU has red shirts.

Lynn's death was warranted, he was the "mad scientist" who always MUST die for his transgressions. But the collateral damage is pretty high this season. I'm not even sure where a season six could go from here...

And yes, Robocop must suffer now. And you KNOW he will. Jack will take out so much aggression and rage on him.....I hope. I thought Jack might just break "Pony Boy's" wrist or finger or something.

I think that was the most intense episode yet. Of any season.

There certainly were some after life reunions last night. Tony and Michelle. The Hobbit and the Crackwhore. The key card thing still bugs me. I don't see how Lynn returned to CTU after his card was stolen. I also think it was a stretch to think the bad guys knew Lynn would take over CTU and that he had a crackwhore sister with a loser boyfriend and they could get the card from Lynn to give to them.

But, I'll let that pass. You can do that on a show this wild.

[magiccarpet]

There certainly were some after life reunions last night. Tony and Michelle. The Hobbit and the Crackwhore.


HAHA

I hear you on the keycard thing. also my gf, who works in teh capital commented that she couldnt believe they didnt have gas masks at CTU. Every person working in the captial is allowed to have a mask in their desk, but this place doesnt have any?...come on

[neglet]

I knew it was coming...

And yet I couldn't stop myself from yelling out loud:

"Noooooo! Not Hot Tony!"

Damn. Just--damn.

[Trazalca]

I am SO depressed right now. :(

My wife is STILL preggers, and so her emotional balance is ever so sensitive at the moment. Thanks to that, that last episode damn near put her
in a straight jacket.

What got me was how much weeping I've done in the last two episodes.
Hell. Even the part with Logan asking if he'd lost his wife or not TO his wife got me.

But the biggest tore ups for me was the security guard saying goodbye
to his little girl, and Jack begging Tony to hold on.

I'll be needing a vacation to Myrtle Beach, SC after this is over.
Some place quiet and pretty to look at. Some place STRESS FREE.

My wife and I were talking last night that with 24, there are no good endings,
and I was trying to remember how each season has ended so far.

Day 1 ended with Jack's wife getting whacked by Nina.
Day 2 ended with President Palmer getting attacked with acid.
Day 3 ended with Jack breaking down with all he had gone through.
Day 4 ended with Jack going underground from all life as he knew it- not necessarily a bad ending, but a definite setup for some bad things to come
as Day 5 progresses.

I can only imagine what a happy ending in 24 would look like. :(

[Jakester]

I liked that Edgar got whacked. But Samwise and Soul-Patch just smacked of "show," especially Tony's death. How did Robocop recover that quickly?

[DarkJedi]

That's just it though, Jakester. That asshole Robocop is as close to Jack as can be....a shitload of will power and strength to fight off any torture techniques...or questions. He was strong willed enough to fake a coma waiting to strike.

Hell, did you see Jack's face when he shot Robocops wife and that trick still didn't work? He knew then that this asshat wasn't going to talk.

Like it was said above, Weller's character is exact opposite of Jack yet holds all his strengths.

Though it was said above Weller is going to of course die. I dunno, if the writers keep setting up the fact that he's as tough as Jack, he may live on to the next day....much like Nina.

Old characters are dying now, but, we may have Weller and China to deal with on Day 6 or Day 7.


TONNNYYYYYYYY.

[Trazalca]

Um, would someone be so kind as to explain this to me?

Click here, and tell me what this means to you. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0076167/)

:smirk:

And- ahem, if you didn't catch that. Check the episode list. See anything interesting?

[Jakester]

It's IMDB. They're wrong a lot.
Or...maybe he's just in a coma.

Personally, I'm going with dead.

[CaptPike]

Jakester is right. IMDb is often wrong. They had Elisha Cuthbert appearing several eps before she finally did.

[neglet]

Or maybe it's a flashback, and we finally get a butt-shot from Tony!




Nahhhh, IMDb is just full of crap again. But a girl can dream, can't she? :D

[magiccarpet]

Jakester is right. IMDb is often wrong. They had Elisha Cuthbert appearing several eps before she finally did.

very true

[Jakester]

Here's a bit from the New York Times:
24" has such a rotating cast that Mr. Bernard has not had to defend himself from false conjecture. In fact, Tony wasn't even the only one killed in last night's episode — Sean Astin's Lynn McGill, a new character this season, fell prey to the deadly nerve gas that leaked into the Counter Terrorist Unit office at the heart of the show. (As did Edgar (Louis Lombardi), the loveable computer geek, in the previous episode.)

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In playing Tony for five years, Mr. Bernard always wondered when his number would come up. "My feeling every year going into the next year was, listen, if there's an interesting story line, great, let's do it," he said on the telephone last week. "But if there's not, it's time to move on, really. Creatively, I didn't get into acting to play one character my whole life."

Tony was supposed to die in the season premiere, along with his wife, Michelle, who blew up in a car, and former President David Palmer, who was shot. Howard Gordon, an executive producer of "24," said that Mr. Bernard suggested that Tony last longer into the season to try to avenge Michelle's death. He and the writers agreed it was a good idea, partly because the idea of killing three popular characters in the season opener seemed risky. "It was just so depressing that it felt overwhelming," Mr. Gordon said.

The communication between the writers and the cast hasn't always worked as well as the give-and-take with Mr. Bernard. There have been times, Mr. Gordon said, when actors have found out their characters were dying from reading the scripts, rather than being told beforehand. To remedy that mistake, Mr. Gordon has grown practiced in his, as he put it, "Don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger" role.

"I think there's really nothing better on this show than a well-earned death," he said. "Which doesn't mean they're not disappointed. And sometimes a little angry."

Mr. Gordon agreed with the suggestion that reality television might have influenced the ever-shortening lives of characters on scripted television. "There is absolutely a 'Survivor'-fication of television at some level," he said. "All these shows, whether it's 'Survivor' or 'American Idol,' are always about somebody leaving the show. It's always about a symbolic death."

This season of "24" began with Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) returning from the dead after he had to disappear in the finale last May. The actual death of Jack is where Mr. Gordon said he would like the series to end, whenever that may be. "He's a tragic character, and tragedy ends in death," he said.

But for now, it is Jack's companions who are at risk. Mr. Gordon said, "The irony is that he comes back to life, and everyone around him dies."

[shaq]

Oh my giddy Aunt!

I can't cope! :eek: