Does 24 need aliens ~spoiler alert~

SAVE_ME.222

It seems every season they just pick the plot from some of the following

-President assassination attempt
-Nuclear/chemical/biological terrorist attack in LA
-Jack going rogue
-Kidnap

And I am pretty sure season 7 will be exactly the same. I'll bump this after s07e24 airs to prove my point. I think the format is becoming stale so does anyone think what it needs is something crazy like a UFO attack on america with aliens trying to take over. Or maybe have Fayed come back as a Dracula.. I vant to suck your bloood BLEH...

I dunno.

Ron DMC

I can imagine it now.

Jack beating some 4 foot tall martian to bits to get him to snitch on the location of their mothership.

And then a season later, the aliens hold Earth to ransom for Jack trepassing on their embassy (the moon) and killing their ambassador, the Pope.

For the second season mentioned above, the aliens destroy one US city per hour until Jack is handed over to them.

Yep, that'd make it dramatic. And crap.


It's fine as it is, but I reckon this season might just be the whole thing finally winding up.

Mossy Monk

Aliens? Good God no. Leave that to the X Files and Indiana Jones.

Conor108

You want aliens? In 24?

You've been smoking some bad granola, my friend.

Mr Freeze

Mossy Monk wrote: »

Aliens? Good God no. Leave that to the X Files and Indiana Jones.

Aliens shouldnt even have been in Indiana Jones, never mind 24!!

SAVE_ME.222

SAVE_ME.222 wrote: »

It seems every season they just pick the plot from some of the following

-President assassination attempt -Nuclear/chemical/biological terrorist attack in LA
-Jack going rogue
-Kidnap

And I am pretty sure season 7 will be exactly the same. I'll bump this after s07e24 airs to prove my point. I think the format is becoming stale so does anyone think what it needs is something crazy like a UFO attack on america with aliens trying to take over. Or maybe have Fayed come back as a Dracula.. I vant to suck your bloood BLEH...

I dunno.

-President assassination attempt - She was nearly killed by the sengala terrorists when they took over the white house - Check

-Nuclear/chemical/biological terrorist attack in LA - Biological attack in the subway - Check

-Jack going rogue - In the police station towards the start of the season - Check

-Kidnap - Attempt on kim, Jack towards the end, etc etc. - Check


You can't say aliens/draculas wouldn't have been more interesting come on!

Leprachaun

I agree. Your man Wilson should be an alien,sent here to try and weaken us before a full scale invasion. :pac:

Sherifu

Do the aliens have stolen nukes, a deadly virus or plans to kill the president?

lukin

The show has to be about terrorism, that's what 24 is about, full stop.
I think some people got the idea they were going to bring aliens into it when one of the producers or writers made an of-hand joke about it in an interview.
The trouble with terrorism is there is only really a short list of types of terrorism:

• Assassinations
• Nuclear bombs
• Viruses
• Hostage-taking
• Biological weapons

And 24 has done all of the above, some more than once in fact.

Bill-e

Terrorist Aliens...

J-blk

Sherifu wrote: »

Do the aliens have stolen nukes, a deadly virus or plans to kill the president?

Maybe they're a bunch of shape-shifting aliens, that kill the president and replace her with one of their own. Olivia is then eaten by the alien president but at that stage, most of the secret service have also been replaced by the aliens and the American public is none-the-wiser. Aaron Pierce manages to avoid the aliens and teams up with Jack, to go America on the aliens a**es in the climactic season finale...