24, S6

[fightingthecage]

So, I just finished watching S6 of 24, which I have blitzed over the last three days after buying the DVD's. Fuck yeah! And...I like it! Not as gripping as some seasons bu I don't know why everyone has been slating it as much as they have. Perhaps it stands up better on DVD watching, rather than as a weekly thing.

Anyway, some thoughts:

It cracks me up that Jack can speak Russian. I don't know why.

James Cromwell is a great actor. I don't like his style much and his voice kind of grates on me, but he's still a great actor. Hell though, he looks old now. Anyhow, how weird is it that Jack comes from such a messed up family? I've always pictured him as coming from a good home - not just privileged, which he clearly was, but a good one, with good parents. So that was a little weird to me but not necessarily bad. I still kind of think he had a great mother though. Maybe she died and that explains the importantance of Phillip in the boys' lives.

The thing with Marilyn confuses me a little. If she's been hung up on Jack for '20 years' as Graem said, then that doesn't fit at all with the Teri-Kim timeline. Jack's supposed to be in his mid to late 40's now, right? Given Kim's age, he would have had to have been married with a child and boffing Marilyn at the same time. I don't see that happening really (despite his history of affairs...well, one anyway), so Graem must really have meant 25 years or so...which would have made them teenagers when they were going out. Which seems odd. Hmmm.

Josh is cool. I like him. Annnd was anyone else expecting him to turn out to be Jack's son really? I kept waiting for that and am kinda disappointed that it didn't transpire, actually, even if it would have been trite. Josh is so blonde! He must be Jack's.

Didn't buy Curtis dying at all. It looked like he got shot in the shoulder. Maybe the bullet hit an artery.

I loved that the writers didn't do what they usually do and write off all effects of the interim between seasons after the first tewnty minutes of the first episode. They did a little bit, in that Jack got back into the swing of being an agent pretty fast (but I imagine all that training is pretty ingrained by now) but he did show weakness this season and an awareness of his limitations after what he'd suffered in China. That was good.

Possible mole in CTU storyline? Done to death. Enough already.

MILO! HI! Uhhh...bye! :(

Love Chloe, as ever. Love Morris too! In fact, I possibly love Morris most of all. Hassad was freakin' hot (what have I seen that guy in before?) while he lasted, and I love the way the storyline had Palmer trying to reach out to the Middle East. Nadia was good too. Bill is love and so is Karen, actually.

Doyle? I find very hot. I don't know why. I don't usually like blondes much but I could bite off a chunk of that, anyday. Rowr!

Powers Boothe is an actor I really can't stand. Nothing's really changed. Perhaps it's because he's called 'Powers' - wtf is with that? I'm not sure I like DB Woodside all that much either - his acting, I mean, not him personally but whatever.

That's all I have. Looking forward to S7! I should go find the trailer for that now.

ETA: How could I forget to mention the torture? Omg! They stepped it up a notch this year for sure. Drill through the shoulder and a knife in the knee? OW! I can normally watch torture impassively but those two made me flinch.

Also, criminal underuse of Logan, simply because I utterly adore him and love Gregory Itzin to pieces. It does feel that 24 just kills people for the sake of it sometimes, and this was one of those times. It was very sweet that his last word was 'Martha' though, I thought - although he should have said 'Marty' because the use of his pet name for her would have been even sweeter. Ah well. Jean Smart is love but Martha kind of pissed me off by being that nuts. Aaron! I love Aaron. Who doesn't?

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Oh,w as going to ask - 2009 must be because of the writer's strike, yes? Does that mean that they won't be showing the episodes they've already shot. Would make sense I guess but ugh, suck.

Makes me wonder what all the actors are going to do. I mean, loads of movies will still be released because they will heaps in post-production already. But TV actors will be out of a job virtually straight away. I feel the duration of the strike will be pretty bizarre in terms of entertainment.