Executive Producer Admits Season 6 Was Muck

zimovain

Let us never speak of that abomination of a season again.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/s9/24/news/a219349/24-exec-season-six-made-wrong-turn.html

The executive producer of 24 has admitted that he is unhappy with the sixth season of the show.

Speaking to Zap2It, Howard Gordon explained that he would like to change the way Jack Bauer's family was explored.

"I feel as though the story made a very wrong turn in season six," he said. "I don't think the idea of Jack's family was a wrong turn, but I think the way we accelerated the story was wrong, and we paid for it the balance of the year."

He added: "That, to me, is one of the narrative gaps I don't think we ever quite recovered from. We did on an episode-by-episode basis, or on a certain arc-by-arc basis, but the DNA of the season never really recovered from it."

However, Gordon insisted that "other than that", he is pleased with 24.

He said: "I'm remarkably free of regrets, because even the moments that one would imagine we'd regret - like the cougar or amnesia or shooting JoBeth Williams [Miriam Henderson] in the leg, the moments that people would point to as being gaffes - I have to say, they occurred in moments when the story needed them to happen. They were really just collateral damage of the real-time conceit."

cooker3

Who is Miriam?

And how can he talk about having regrets for season 6 and not mention making Wayne Palmer as president. That was the worst plot decision of the lot.

zimovain

cooker3 wrote: »

Any can he talk about having regrets about season 6 and not mention making Wayne Palmer as president. That was the worst plot decision of the lot.

Good point.

Turtwig

cooker3 wrote: »

Who is Miriam?

Any can he talk about having regrets about season 6 and not mention making Wayne Palmer as president. That was the worst plot decision of the lot.

I thought that miriam moment was excellent. Showed how loyal Henderson was to his "cause".
Season 6 produced, in my view, the best four episodes in a row of 24. Quite simply I thought the first four episodes of season 6 rocked. In preparation for season 8 I recapped all seasons on DVD once I'd finishing watching the first four of season 6 I switched straight to my season 7 DVD.

KeithM89_old

As 'Bad' as Day 6 was, i still enjoyed parts of it
The action as all very well done and cool like Jack jumping through the window as the house blew up and the oil rig shootout/explosion
It also had Jacks coolest kill -the little slide on the floor, kill a guy and get back up all in one motion

pah

I missed the part where 24 exec admits season 6 was muck

You seem to be taking some poetic licence in what gordon says "Accelerating Jacks Family Story was wrong" and using this to title your thread and label the whole season as Muck

He only spoke about one aspect of the season, while I agree it is the weakest season by far, it was still a good watch.

silvine

Yeah but it really was muck though. Jack's Dad and bro terrorists? Come on.

Eight hours to go and the crisis is over. Oh wait here's China on the phone for you Jack.

Terrible stuff.

noodler

Thought the shooting in the leg of Henderson's wife was epic.

6 was much but the producer is hardly going to use such undiplomatic words, is he?


One amazing thing about 6 was that gung-ho moment.

unreggd

I always thought the miriam scene was excellent. Cant' see why they reference it as a negative thing

Mr. K

I agree about the Miriam scene. Jack had been having a particularly extreme day, it didn't seem such a stretch at the time. And he made a point of not crippling her! Season 5 FTW!

Season 6 was pretty bad though.

niallon

I can;t say I had a problem with Season Six. It was the series where things got horribly Hollywood but it lead to embracing of the ridiculousness that has produced the epic Season Seven and Eight. Without Jack leaping from exploding buildings, shooting people in the leg so callously and escaping from an exploding oil rig via helicopter and ladder we wouldn't have had "BatJack" in Season Eight. I for one am happy with the turn Season Six created, it was where the writers accepted the lunacy of 24 and gave us what we really want.