There would be a buzz, but at the same time the ratings would probably cut in half in about two weeks.
Yeah, I've thought about this. It would be a die-hard, 24 watcher and moviegoer fantasy. The movie would be shown in 2 or 3 hours intervals with intermissions. Of course the experience would last about 36-48 hours total and the audience would be "special" to say the least. But I might check it out.
No comments tonight, guys? It was a decent episode, imo. Jack was alive (of course), and there was a lot of shooting. That's pretty much all I need to be satisfied. Also, Wayne was badass.
I was surprised only because it doesn't make much sense. The writers have some major explaining to do, cuz Logan's been a spineless wimp since last season. Now he's freaking Emperor Palpatine?
Typical BS 24 episode last night. Jack and Palmer take out some bad guys. Jack gets in prime position with sniper rifle to get the person he's after with Palmer in support. When the hostage/evidence exchange takes place, they shoot every bad guy except the main guy they want who hops in a car and drives off. Why couldn't jack shoot that guy in the knee cap or something? It looked like he was shooting to kill. Jack couldn't shoot that sniper rifle worth a darn. I liked how they showed it through the scope, however. It felt a little like Counterstrike. But, I think that episode sucked ass personally.
You have to remember their main priority was getting the daughter safe to hear what the lady had to say about what was going on. They already know that Henderson won't talk so getting him isn't as important as getting the information and evidence to prove who all is "in" on it. Palmer and Jack where out-numbered 2-1, and I think they did pretty well making sure they got the chick and her kid back... so now we can see just how far the the rabbit hole goes
I don't think that's very much of a stretch. In most cases, the lead "bad guy" makes himself much harder to take out than his subordinates. Also, if it's unbelievable, it's not any more unrealistic than the terrorist at Palmer's breakfast in S1 just "getting away" after Jack yelled the word "gun!". It's not any more unrealistic than Marwan breaking what was supposedly an airtight perimeter after ambushing Jack's team at the compound in S4 last year. It's not any more unrealistic than dozens of events in this show. It's television - it's not going to be completely realistic, and a slight degree of realism is always dropped for dramatic effect. That's TV. To me, it's the greatest show on television, by far, and it's as good as it's ever been. The complaints a couple of you make are weird... not in the sense that they're wrong, but they can be applied to essentially every season in the history of the show.
I think it was explained before. The priority was getting the little girl back. I assume they were okay with letting Henderson run because they could track the SUV...rather than interrogating him and getting nowhere. He will probably lead them to the next round of bad guys. Therefore, I think Jack was probably missing him on purpose with the sniper rifle but making Henderson think he was a target by shooting up the SUV pretty good. Therefore, my initial analysis was incorrect. Obviously, if Jack wanted to target Henderson, then he would have taken him out. Jack doesn't miss unless it's on purpose(which I failed to figure earlier). As far as realism, that isn't really where I was going. I'm sure if there was a real-life CTU dealing with a similar situation...they would make a bunch of stupid mistakes as well. Then, you could go back and make a TV show based on the real-life events. Then, everyone would be b****ing about how unrealistic it was when it actually happened that way in real life. lol Hell...look at the Iraq war...thousands of mistakes happened there according to Condi but don't take that literally(whatever that means). I would hate to see that made-for-TV mini-series.
I'm curious if they'll figure out a reasonable way for the President to be involved here. As it stands, it looks like they are making stuff up as they go. "We've already filmed half the season, but let's turn the President evil now". If you know the President is bad, and go back and watch from episode 1, his actions don't fit what he realistically would have done. That was one of the cool things about this show - especially season 1. If you went back knowing Nina was evil and watched it, you could see her actions making perfect sense. That doesn't appear to be the case here right now - it will be interesting to see if there's an explanation that fits it all together.
So did the chief of staff know the president was involved too? I think it was the chief of staff, the guy who killed himself.
