Here we go...

Posted: Nov 23, 2008 8:50 pm

Who's going to be on here during the show???

Damian

Posted: Nov 23, 2008 9:31 pm

I'm lurking and watching. So far, it's good.

Posted: Nov 23, 2008 11:06 pm

ZOMG!! JUST WATCHED IT!! IT ROCKED!!!

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Posted: Nov 23, 2008 11:37 pm

OMG IT WAS AMAZING!!

Why did Benton have to die??? He was so cool and I was hoping he would be in the whole season!

Posted: Nov 23, 2008 11:38 pm

I KNOW!! And what a way to go... Poor guy! Ugh. I guess we should have seen it coming though, it is 24... Sad

Posted: Nov 23, 2008 11:48 pm

The only 2 things I didn't like were:

1. Jack whispered way too much. Can't he use a normal tone of voice??
2. Jack should've put up more of a fight to try and keep Benton alive. He let him go waaayy too easily... that's not very Bauer-like.

Posted: Nov 23, 2008 11:50 pm

I hear you there! He did give up Benton far to easy... And he cracked under torture! Like wtf?? Come on Jack!! Get back in the game!

Posted: Nov 23, 2008 11:57 pm

I hear you there! He did give up Benton far to easy... And he cracked under torture! Like wtf?? Come on Jack!! Get back in the game!

Posted: Nov 23, 2008 11:58 pm

Oh! *slaps self* I get it! Damn real life was distracting me! I need to buy the DvD on Tuesday for a re-watch.

Posted: Nov 24, 2008 2:04 am

I loved how Benton psyched out the bad guys....
They're at the..........
They're at........
They're....

GO TO H*LL!!!

CLASSIC!!!

It was REALLY good. Very different than I expected, but it sets up the new season perfectly. New characters, new intrigue...new moles?

And...what's 24 without a good ol' fashioned torture? Wink

A nice moment was when the boy Willie put his hand on Jack--THAT was nice. The kids were great!

All in all, it was worth the wait.

Posted: Nov 24, 2008 6:00 pm

Don't buy the DVD. It's right on the Fox website.

Also I think the prequel was great!!

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Posted: Nov 24, 2008 8:03 pm

Here we go:

I think it was bloody awful. As a unique piece of action drama, it was good. It was hard hitting and made some very good points about issues that are really going on in the world today. Troubles in Africa, a new president in the USA and even highlighting perhaps shortfalls in the UN, but that's all irrelevant.

24 has historically been Jack kicking Muslim terrorist ass, and for that reason alone I can't possibly imagine where they're hoping to go with it. It's not a seventh day of 24, it's the first day of something new.

I was a little disappointed to meet a whole lot of new charectars which are obviously going to be around for the majority of the next 24 episodes, without seeing any old faces. Although seeing Daniels and Lennox was deffinatley good, but even they were portrayed in different lights. No more double crossing from Lennox and Daniels appeared somewhat upset.

Perhaps it's time for 24 to move on to something else, maybe the market for kicking the "traditional" terrorist in the butt is gone. Maybe I'm old fashioned and even more sad for writing this, however, I fear the 24 we love is changing dramatically if not gone all together.

I really would like to know what's going on with this culture that everyone in television and cinema feels it so deeply necessary to change things. What's wrong with the good old way?

Come on, we've had 6 series of pretty good stuff - they have the right recipe in their hands and they're choosing to ignore it. It's like adding a slab of butter to a delicate souflee.

End of grumpy old man rant. lol

Josh

Posted: Nov 24, 2008 11:36 pm

Of course this wasn't going to be vintage 24. But for what it was, a TV movie i thought it was awesome

They only had 2 hours so they didn't want to pack too much into it. Afterall it's basically just an intro to season 7.

Loved the character of Benton. Shame they killed him off but they did that well.

And I'm just waiting for the scene where some low-level thugs try torture Jack and then they see his body and Jack makes some sort of crack about how it wont work. Very Happy

Posted: Nov 26, 2008 2:34 pm

I liked the movie and I think we gonna have an interesting season 7 Smile

Posted: Nov 26, 2008 3:19 pm

Indeed we are.

Posted: Nov 27, 2008 5:13 am

I thought it was ok, it was easily a lot different to regular 24. Jack had his regular awesomeness though, but it was just all building up to the seasons return, and the gap wasn't that big to fill, but was still a good job.

Posted: Nov 27, 2008 2:38 pm

I love how he finally got some fighting action without weapons. That was cool.

Posted: Nov 27, 2008 2:45 pm

I think the story to bridge the gap was very good.

Posted: Dec 02, 2008 12:04 am

I'm sorry but I wholeheartedly disagree.

24 is about Jack Bauer, not about terrorism per-sé. Remember Season 1? You could say that the Drazens were terrorists but they probably fit better under the description of "Serbian Paramilitary" or something like that, when Jack and Palmer intervened, then they tried to retaliate for that. But did we get threats to the entire LA population? no we didn't, it was an assassination attempt.

I love Season 2, and it's probably my favorite. We get the muslim terrorists for the first time, but you can't keep recycling the same old stuff. It gets weary and boring. Season 6 for example has so many stories rehashed for the sake of it and it ultimately doesn't work. I still like it a lot but let's see...

Muslim Terrorists? Check (S2, S4, S6)
Nuclear Threat? Check (S2, S4, S6)
25th Amendment? Check (S2, S4, S6)
CTU Mole (or assumption)? Check (S1, S3, S4, S5, S6)
Attack on CTU? Check (S2, S5, S6)
Comatose President? Check (S4, S6)

Anyway, Redemption's rebels are going to be part of the bad guys of S7, so one could say that there's some terrorism in that. Also Tony was going to smash some planes onto anothers, guess that's pretty terrorist-like too.

Anyway, I loved Redemption. It's a fresh start which finally puts Bauer somewhere else than Los Angeles for a change and introduces us to a lot of new and interesting characters. The story is well written and involving and in the end, Jonas Hodges is starting to shape up to be a hell of a bad guy, Edward Vossler, the Secret Service mole could be interesting (even if they're reusing plots), I suppose that Roger Taylor is going to have a bit of trouble later due to Vossler, maybe Samantha Roth will too.

We'll see soon enough. January 13th seems so far away Sad

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Posted: Dec 05, 2008 11:38 pm

Don't buy the DVD. It's right on the Fox website.

Also I think the prequel was great!!

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Posted: Dec 27, 2008 1:19 am

I liked the deeper, more thoughtful Jack in Redemption. I'll miss CTU, but, in the past few seasons, a lot of the best action has been in Washington, anyway.

Posted: Jan 02, 2009 12:45 pm

You've gotta remember, jack is nothing nlike the Jack in seasons 5-6, he's more thoughtful.

Posted: Jan 03, 2009 12:10 pm

I noticed that too. He seems to be more emotional, almost. And he really is to the point of having nothing to lose.

Posted: Jan 03, 2009 12:17 pm

True. It was really clever when he gave Kim's present away. It shows he's beyond everything.

Posted: Jan 03, 2009 12:42 pm

I was really wondering about that part... I mean, he got it for Kim, it means he is still thinking about her, and apparently some part of his mind still wants to reconnect and make things right, but maybe the other part of him knows it's all too far gone now. Giving the scarf away, is surely a way of showing he is entering a whole new aspect of his mindset. I wonder if that thought and action will be mentioned when/if he encounters her in S7...