Hey guys along the lines of being a weirdo fan does anybody know where you can locate any of those incredible season 4 blue leather CTU chairs? I would give a useful body part for a couple of those

Currently rewatching 24 Season 4. I’m mostly enjoying it. The opening few episodes rescuing Heller were excellent, interest started to dwindle with the afternoon episodes and interest is going further with these early evening episodes. But I know it gets excellent once Palmer is reintroduced and Logan arrives, and can’t wait to watch that stretch again.

Mainly got some HUGE issues with characters and logistics

Edgar Stiles loses his mother but continues work the episode after showing zero emotions and no one comforts him. Compeltely unrealistic

Same with Driscoll losing her daughter. I know she broke down but no way could anybody call the President and discuss Marwan five minutes after. Also the way Heller hugged her and said ‘I’m sorry’ was so terribly delivered and patronising

I know Heller is the Secretary of Defence but he shows zero post trauma after getting abducted, tortured and nearly executed

Sarah’s exit is terribly handled. She was defintiely abrupt but Michelle fires her because she wanted money and expunged for a false accusation of treason? Absolutely terrible; I know she was abrupt with Michelle but inhuman to fire her. I really felt for Sarah getting tortured and felt disgusted at CTU for the way they treated her. Horrible character exit.

No fucking way would Tony be made Director of CTU after a couple of hours back on the field and still having connotations of treason orbiting and it’s absolutely ridiculous that Heller hires him over Curtis. So unrealistic. I really felt for Curtis getting shoved over, Curtis definitely should have got the role. Nothing against Tony, he’s mint, but it’s completely unrealistic in the working world

Conclusions? CTU is a horrific place to work, you never catch a break and you were treated like a robot. It’s why I (controversially?) really like the character of Erin Driscoll, it’s really enjoyable seeing how much the CTU workplace has disintegrated her into a robot and it’s satisfying seeing her humanity slowly emanate through after Maya enters CTU, and it’s also satisfying seeing her warm towards Jack and Tony. She made some poor decisions but I weirdly really liked her, I liked her no shit attitude. I think 24 really lost touch with how fatiguing a 24 hour day is on a person. Series 1 absolutely nails the gradual emotional, physical and sleep deprivation exhaustion and it’s very immersive watching the characters clearly becoming more physically dishevelled as the season progresses. Season 3 gets that dishevellement nailed too, especially with Jack’s heroin habit. There’s just barely any emotional fallout in 4 and characters just move on like something minor has happened.

Twenty Four is such a great show. Everything about is great. I would love for them to come back. What do you guys think ?

For a split second there, I thought “oh cool, there’s something 24 related”…. I then remembered I was in the deli section of the supermarket.

Who is more annoying between Sandra Palmer and Cole Ortiz?

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[Sandra Palmer was the sister of David and Wayne Palmer, on day 6. Cole Oritz was the lead CTU field agent on day 8]

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Who is more annoying between Miles Papazian and Lynn McGill?

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[Miles Papazian was Karen Hayes' weaselly assistant on day 5. Lynn McGill was the stuffy Division suit on the same day]

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Who is more annoying between Gary Matheson and Janis Gold?

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[Gary Matheson was creepy psycho dad on day 2. Janis Gold was the FBI's version of Chloe.]

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Who is more annoying between Olivia Taylor and the mountain lion?

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[Olivia Taylor was the president's obnoxious and conniving daughter. The mountain lion failed to eat Kim Bauer]

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Who is more annoying between Alberta Green and Mark Boudreau?

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Who is more annoying between Charles Solenz and Ryan Chappelle?

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[Solenz was the "The U.N. is neutral!" guy in 24: Redemption.]

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Who is more annoying between Adrian Cross and Marianne Taylor?

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Who is more annoying between Lonnie McRae and Bridgit?

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[Lonnie was the prepper with the survival bunker on day 2. Bridgit was Mandy the assassin's greedy girlfriend on day 1.]

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24 is the greatest television ever created in my opinion. The writing, the concept of it being in real time, and each season being a full day was very innovative and groundbreaking. 24 has set the bar so high for me, I have not been able to enjoy shows as much anymore because they fall short of my expectations. Even the least compelling seasons (season 6) was this still better and more entertaining than anything else on tv at the time. Maybe it’s just the fanboy in me lol. What are your thoughts?

I just wrapped up my first ever full rewatch of the 24 franchise, and honestly I feel like 24: Legacy is 1) unnecessarily ragged on by the 24 community and 2) it should have been renewed for at least one more season. I don't think it has the legs to last more than 3 or 4 seasons with Eric Carter as the main character, but the show really should not have been cancelled.

24: Live Another Day ages poorly in comparison to the other seasons. It tries to stuff a long of things that were trendy into the season that didn't belong there in an attempt to appear modern but just make it feel dated in comparison. The entire season focused on current (at the time) fears of the use of military drones, as well as revolving around an Anonymous-style group. Both drone warfare fears and the prevalence of Anonymous have sort of faded away over the years, as they were a bit unique to their time. On top of that, the way the blast radius of the drones shifted to allow certain characters to survive their blasts just made the whole season come off as more goofy than most previous seasons of the show.

24: Legacy, on the other hand, ditches these sorts of efforts in a season that goes back to the basics of what makes 24 work. Sure, it does seem to play a little fast a loose with the "real time" conceit (I noticed multiple times that people did more during cutaways than they should have been able to do), the iteration of Tony in this season is neutered, and some might consider things like workplace retaliation over a homosexual relationship or the multiple times our protagonists shoehorn dialogue seemingly targeted at the audience about Islam being a religion of peace to be "woke" (even though IMHO they more or less work with the story and at the very least they don't bog it down too much), in general it's way better than whatever 24: Live Another Day was doing.

I feel like if the franchise was going to continue airing on TV, it'd make more sense to ask for more of 24: Legacy than 24. The way they wrote that plot for 24: Live Another Day doesn't give me a ton of faith that FOX can return Jack to the small screen in modern times without making him or the show cringe and bad, and with Eric in 24: Legacy not only do we get most of what makes 24 great, but a brand new character with a unique personality and set of relationships, which means instead of getting the same old Jack and Chloe routine (not that it's bad), we get a protagonist who we can get to know more about in real time, as he's growing as a person, >!alongside a wife who's actually alive for more than just one season.!<

Am I mad that people want Jack back? No, Jack is great, and I'm looking forward to seeing him take the real-time 24 format to the big screen if the production gets that far (although I would prefer to see Tony become the lead in the next iteration of 24, personally). However, I hate to see 24: Legacy so unfairly maligned, especially considering how much better than 24: Live Another Day it is.

Who is more annoying between Dan Mounts and Walt Cummings?

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Who is more annoying between Kevin Wade and Milo Pressman?

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Who is more annoying between Eric Rayburn and Barry Landes?

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Who is more annoying between Carrie Turner and Kim Bauer?

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I'd guess. 3 - 6 as a range

So I'm listening to Slow Burn season 1, a podcast by Slate about Watergate and the first episode is about Martha Mitchell - John Mitchell's wife (John was Nixon's Attorney General) - and the description made me realize she was the inspiration for Martha Logan character in season 5. I was wondering if other characters were based on other real people?

I'm not american by the way so I'm learning Watergate's story just about now lol

I’m midway through my 4th rewatch and, unpopular opinion, I really like season 6. Yes, there are a lot of tropes / recycled storylines, and the fact it’s Jack’s family is a bit stupid - but it’s bloody entertaining to watch. Not much to choose between seasons 5 and 6 in terms of entertainment factor for me. Anyone with me?

Who is more annoying between Sean Hillinger and Sherry Palmer?

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Who is more annoying between Jenny McGill and Dalia Hassan?

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