[US] 24 Day 6, Hour 1 (0600-0700) [Spoilers]

Ste.phen

So, what did those of us who travelled into the future think of this episode?

I hadn't seen any of the previews for this episode so I hadn't any preconceptions which was nice!

Looking forward to the rest of this season now!

Jack's a Vampire! :O

Good to see them putting in 'twists' in even the first episode, sets the bar fairly high

Previous spoiler is actually related to the episode, not just a joke.

Sparky

Nice, Nice... (4*)

Wtf. Where have you seen this episode?


ohhhhhhhhhhh

daveirl

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Sparky

Nice, Nice... (4*)

Just to note to users that if I even see a link to a torrent or site containing this leak, your ass will be banned!

daveirl

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Sparky

Nice, Nice... (4*)

>_>

Fighting Irish

Downloading.....

Heres a link to the torrent LINK

nickcave

Great episode. Alexander Siddig is an excellent addition. Watch out for the Stephen Merchant (The Office) cameo at 7:00 minutes in. wtf?

Art_Wolf

Was not what I was expecting for Season 6 - I was hoping for something involving China and escaping

Sparky

Nice, Nice... (4*)

Fighting Irish wrote:

Downloading.....

Heres a link to the torrent LINK

banned!

kaimera

Nice, Nice... (4*)

Excellent surprise when I got home last night indeed

Brilliant ep. Like others, I was expecting

Jack to be back differently but I suppose I don't know how they could have showed an escape

I found the issues the Gov facing funny, just cos it's so topical. Not sure how it's going to go down with the general public.

is everyone going to need to second guess their neighbours now?!

Good ole Chloe. Nothings changed.

New president in Wayne P.
Karen & Bill together I assumed.
and Jacks escape, *chomp*

Top marks for an opening ep.

Bus explosion was very nice I must say..

btw, any chance of keeping the polls to a 1-5 scale?

Sparky

Nice, Nice... (4*)

I knew Jack must have been starving!

I wonder what they paid for Jack?

kaimera

Nice, Nice... (4*)

I wonder what they paid for Jack?

spoiler tags

and I wonder if it'll come up again in Day6.

Mossy Monk

Nice, Nice... (4*)

holy ****

all plans for the evening are now cancelled

kaimera

Nice, Nice... (4*)

Biggest problem, a two week wait for ep05

Correct?

Mossy Monk

Nice, Nice... (4*)

i waited months for episode 1 so i think i will cope

lol

Mossy Monk

Nice, Nice... (4*)

really enjoyed it

knew the guy who wasnt allowed on the bus wasnt a terrorist but damn what an explosion. that was Hollywood scale :eek: brilliant for a tv show. best escape ever by Jack Bauer. i guess you have to do what you can to get out. sets it up nicely for episode 2. does Jack get word to CTU to stop them blowing up the wrong man? can't wait

Aquos76

Nice, Nice... (4*)

Fantastic episode to start of day 6

ixoy

Good start and I like the twist that

the terorrist attacks have already begun

. Anyone care to hazard a guess as to what year it is now given that

two years have passed since S5?

Aquos76

Nice, Nice... (4*)

Looks like some of the small retailers in the states have started to sell the first 4 episode on DVD early. This would explain the early release date.

http://www.dvdslimited.com/detail.asp?id=62515

radiospan

Stephen Merchant working in CTU!

Funny cameo alright.

godtabh

plazzTT wrote:

Stephen Merchant working in CTU!

Funny cameo alright.

Missed him, Will have to have another look at it!

Whats the story about it being leaked? Was it on perpouse or is some one gona lose their jobs over this?

Mossy Monk

Nice, Nice... (4*)

wasnt a leak as such. some shop decided to sell the dvd earlier than they should have

godtabh

Mossy Monk wrote:

wasnt a leak as such. some shop decided to sell the dvd earlier than they should have

Were they doing something like lost were there is season 6 part 1 DVD produced all ready?

daveirl

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Mossy Monk

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dont think they will be doing it next year

unkel

Nice, Nice... (4*)

Super start! Exceeding my expectations

Basq

I knew it was Stephen Merchant.. thought i was going nuts when i saw it.

Only watched Hour 1.. the rest are on PC at home so going to pick them up tomorrow and have a back-to-back viewing of Hours 2 - 4 (plus Hour 5: Act 1).

Anyways.. knew Chloe's hubby Maurice would now be in CTU given the sudden introduction of his character at the end of Day 5. Still, they both annoyed the arse off me. I, for one, don't think Chloe can carry the action in CTU. We need a Michelle or Tony to show an intense facial expression at what's going on, not Chloe's constantly irritated face or occassionally weepy face.

Good to see Milo back.. mentioned his character would be coming back to a friend of mine who's a massive 24 fan to which he replied 'Who?!".. it was 5 years ago since we last saw the guy assisting Jamey. How'd he suddenly arrive in as boss?

Oh.. and i'd say Peter MacNicol will be a great addition to the season.

Jack looked all a bit shaken at the ordeal. And as for the ending... g'wan Kiefer... he's had a taste for blood ever since Lost Boys. And that escape just confirmed the blood lust which has encompassed his soul.

All in all... a good episode with 1 or 2 loose ends i'd like to see tied up.

lukin

The vampire scene was tops alright, great to see Fox letting the writers push the boat out as regards violence, it was fairly hardcore for a TV show I thought.

IrishEmperor

the Slate: One Nation, Under 24
Can Jack Bauer exist only in a decadent superpower?
By Troy Patterson
Posted Friday, Jan. 12, 2007, at 6:07 PM ET

Four hours, two nights, one-dimensional—the season debut of 24 (Fox, Sunday and Monday at 8 p.m. ET) is a curiously effective system for delivering high suspense and low thrills. The producers of the counterterrorism action hit make a virtue of the show's preposterous narrative, setting up plotlines more byzantine than Rube Goldberg contraptions and then rigging things such that the very contrivance becomes an object of wonder and an essential part of the fun. There's no surface whimsy, of course; any trace of levity would throw light on the show's ludicrousness.

Consider the scene, airing Monday night, in which Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) and an ally tail an Islamic terrorist back to Terrorist Headquarters. They realize that the baddie is driving from the city of Los Angeles out to its suburbs, where the traffic will be thinner and their car more obvious. Bauer decides it will be far less conspicuous to hop out, commandeer a vehicle, take a separate route, smash his ride into the terrorist's as if it were a regular auto accident, and have the ally—in the guise of a witness to the crash who'd just been minding his own business—give the guy a lift, a situation then milked for a good five minutes of tight-focus tension. You have to give 24 points for the flair it brings to its outlandish action, and you can't take away any for its silliness. That would be like pointing out that the bite of a radioactive spider wouldn't really endow a man with special powers.

The end of the fifth season found Bauer abducted by the Chinese government, which was cheesed off that duty obliged him to make a mess of its L.A. consulate. This season begins with Jack's release; 10 minutes in, the haggard hero is trudging off a plane in handcuffs. Looks like the Chinese have been working Jack over pretty hard, foremost by assailing his face with a bad fake beard. "Please convey to your president that Mr. Bauer never broke his silence," a representative of Beijing says with a note of solemn admiration. "He hasn't spoken a word in nearly two years." (You would think that, given the chance to rest his larynx, Bauer might have lost the gravel in his voice, but Sutherland still draws you in with his hushed bark.) "The President has paid a high price for Mr. Bauer's freedom," the Chinese functionary continues, now just sounding like he's got a new crush. "What he wants from him must be very important."

That it is: In short, the United States is on red alert; people are afraid to leave their houses; public buses get violated on a regular schedule, as do the civil rights of Muslims; and Jack must risk sacrificing himself to thwart Armageddon. You don't want me to tell you the exact nature of this risk, and neither does 24's executive producer, Howard Gordon, who sent critics a note asking us to refrain, which strikes me as fair. The letter also refers to Jack as "our Everyman," which is rather bizarre. Everyman isn't the first term most people would reach for to describe an unkillable supercop who often takes his orders straight from the president. If Jack Bauer is an everyman, then so is James Bond. Does Gordon mean to say that Jack is every regular guy's ideal of courage? The empowering fantasy of all-American male rage?

It looks a lot like that whenever Jack interacts with us homely civilians. There's the moment, Sunday night, when Jack, intending to bust up a plot against L.A.'s subway, boards a train without a ticket. Before he can pummel the baddie, he must put the ticket taker in his place. "My name is Jack Bauer," he says in his best bedroom growl. "I'm a federal agent. You have a terrorist on this train with a bomb. I need you to walk away. If he notices anything unusual, he will detonate his bomb. Now move away." And the man moves away, and I start thinking about trying this the next time I'm on New Jersey Transit.

There's depth to 24, but it's all in the violence—the sight of an actual everyman who, unwillingly drawn into the terror plot, beats a man to protect his family; the sound of a terrorist explaining himself to a former friend: "It's not what I want to do, it's what I have to do. I'm a soldier." Other people hold that the show has substance to it just because it makes regular twitches in the direction of the Fourth and Sixth Amendments. The coming season will keep the president's sister, Sandra, busy as the nation's conscience: "I'm not some idealistic flag-burner … but once you start ethnic profiling, it's a slippery slope," and, "I wanna fight this, bring attention to the civil liberties that your administration has allowed to be violated," and "Blah blah blah blah blah." This talk is tedious but essential to the drama's success—not because 24 wants to entertain actual consideration of the issues, but because Jack's got to be fighting for something. The show is so dense with incident and relentless in its momentum that you don't get to see much of the actual America, just its passenger cars and cellular phones. Sandra shoulders the responsibility for hauling out the cardboard signs that evoke its principles. The faux seriousness also provides cover for fans looking to dignify the fact that they get their jollies watching explosions and bloodshed.

Meanwhile, I'm curious: How many other cultures have shows on the order of 24 and Sleeper Cell—programs that convert blasts of terror into pops of corn? Does it happen in places where things blow up with some regularity? Do they unwind with such stuff in Tel Aviv or Thailand? Has Penélope Cruz ever slipped into a cat suit to battle Basque separatists? Or can an everyman like Jack exist only in this decadent superpower?

Elmo

Expected Better (2*)

I didn't think it made a great opening episode.

Am I the only one who thinks that 24 could do without Jack and let him appear futher into the series.

It raises the following question: -

What did Wayne Plamer get in return for Jack?

It just wasn't that great, I would have like to have seen more about Plamer, CTU and the Terrorists and let Jack have a rest.

But happy to see it again.

Also the real time aspect of the show has gone out the window. Now prehaps there was an ad break during which Jack shaved of that beard but I still don't think he had enough time. I had pretty much dissappeared in Day 5 when Martha was "distracting" Logan.

Also Jack wouldn't be happy with that poll.

L31mr0d

More like "Twenty-Snore" (1*)

I'm with Elmo. Not a good 1st episode imo. I gritted my teeth when I realised I was in for another season set in LA with Jack fighting his existential dilemmas and terrorists akimbo ad nauseum. Why couldn't they of set it in China, I was looking forward to 24 set on a different platform in a different country.

However I'll still be watching the season, regardless of how repetitive or predictable it is, because the action and bloodshed make it worth it Although, like Elmo, I hope they start to make it more real time again. The amount of stuff that is supposed to happen during the ad breaks is ridiculous.

podge3

Didn't Jack look well fed after spending 2 years in a Chinese prison?

Prison guards must have been torturing him with takeaways from the local Chinese.

The Denouncer

More like "Twenty-Snore" (1*)

Not a great episode.

He escaped way to easily, biting someone then robbing the key, then the terrorists just say "we have bigger fish to fry" or something and leave him be..makes no sense. After all the trouble they go through to get him, they don't even put in an effort to catch him after he escapes. They know he can pinpoint them, he can save Hamri Al-Assad (who was within such easy driving distance Jack gets there before the best in American military aircraft). Jack can be a huge danger to them - yet they don't even put an effort in to find him. Either bad plotting or very clever plotting - it was deliberate. The knew Jack was going to bite the terrorist and escape when he did, just in time to save Al-Assad.

There seemed to be extra violence to compensate for the lack of a decent story - the plot seems recycled. "I knew we should have listened to Jack Bauer" cries President Palmer.

I know it was the next hour episode but the whole "kick the bomber out the back of a metro train and the explosive handily waits until the train has moved a safe distance away" was completely stupid. Ah well, a tired and battered Jack Bauer saves the day for Fox TV.

Kojak

So/So (3*)

podge3 wrote:

Didn't Jack look well fed after spending 2 years in a Chinese prison?

I was thinking that myself.

A reasonably good episode, although I thought it strange that the terrorists go to all that work to capture Bauer and then let him escape that easily

Gillie

Nice, Nice... (4*)

Quality stuff! Welcome Back Jack!

KeithM89_old

Sorry to bump an old thread, but how the hell this get 242,437 votes? :D

Basq

Keithm89 wrote: »

Sorry to bump an old thread, but how the hell this get 242,437 votes? :D

That's actually Jack Bauer's kill-count for the hour..

Turtwig

KeithM89 wrote: »

Sorry to bump an old thread, but how the hell this get 242,437 votes? :D

It was an awesome episode?:)

cooker3

Malty_T wrote: »

It was an awesome episode?:)

Pity about the rest of the series

ucdmike

cooker3 wrote: »

Pity about the rest of the series

It wasnt that bad. The first 4 episodes were great. Episode 17 was amazing, one of the best episodes of the series and the finale was very good too. I also liked the Russian Consulate episodes.