24: SEASON EIGHT
24Sep
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Hang on for the adrenaline pour out of a lifetime as Jack Bauer (Keifer Sutherland) unveils darker secrets, faces deadlier conspiracies, and is bearing in to some-more impassioned movement than ever prior to in Season 8 of 24! As Day Eight unfolds, Bauer races opposite the time to forestall the gangland slaying of a Middle Eastern personality on a critical peace-making mission. Meanwhile, a lethal militant hazard opposite New York City intensifies and builds towards an bomb climax. Relive the electrifying last deteriorate of TV’s many groundbreaking array ever, together with a warn finale you simply contingency see.
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I think it is the right time finally for Jack to get a chance at a good nights sleep. Until the last couple of weeks, this wasn’t a very good season(way too chatty, not enough stuff blowing up) but the show has picked up the slack of late and hopefully will finish strong. Will Tony resurface?
Rating: 4 / 5
Here’s my mini review of the season. I’m not rating the DVD because it doesn’t come out until 6 months after the show ends (smart move Fox?). Beware of spoilers:
Overall Grade: D
Season Ratings from best to worse: 1, 5, 3, 7, 2, 4, with 8 a distant last.
Positives:
+ Few characters
+ Hassan: great actor, loved his character and role.
+ Rob Weiss: liked his character, wish he could have stuck around the whole season, he seemed to add energy to the role rather than snoozing through it
+ Ethan Kanin: as w/ last season, seems like a rock solid actor, brings credibility and morality to the team
+ Hassan’s daughter: seemed genuine, nice person
+ Liked the poor White trash subplot (Dana Walsh, Wade), seemed believable and kept it tense
+ Liked the Middle East bad guys, subplot, seemed credible and kept it tense
+ Jack’s Cobra Viper mask!
Dislikes:
- Most people were unlikable: Jack (psychopath revenge killer), President Taylor (mean spirited), CTU Boss (incompetent), Dana Walsh (evil), Arlo (sleazy), Rene Walker (crazy), Cole Ortiz (naive, clueless grunt)
- Nothing new for season 8: another mole, really??? Romantically involved characters at CTU, really? Jack’s love interest ruined? Jack torturing people? CTU being attacked? Nothing new, glad they are putting this dog to pasture!
- CTU Boss seemed like a twit, seemed to snooze through his role, how in the hell did he keep his job, he seemed incompetent and slightly retarded. (also unlikable)
- For the first time, I thought Jack wasn’t doing the right thing. After Renee got killed he became psychopathic revenge killer and just went on a killing spree. Whether the Russians (or others had it coming) is besides the point. There was no justification for how he handled himself after Renee died, whether it was random ear biting, or shooting agents while doing their sworn duty. In fact, in previous seasons he’s stood against revenge (ie. Tony) and now he’s a hypocrite. Same when he tells the Air Force operative that they should follow the Prez orders no matter what, or it’s treason. Yet he does the same thing towards the end of the season!
- Disregarded Season 7, no resolution: What happened to Alan Wilson? Tony Almeida? What about his peace w/ himself, Quran?
- Ending left open, no closure for last season of the show
- Unrealistic:
- Granted, Jack has got away w/ some pretty silly things over the past 7 seasons, but they went too far this season. He took on way too many people in the various episodes and came out relatively unharmed.
- President Taylor going along w/ Logan’s ideas full throttle was completely out of character. Understand her being driven to get the agreement signed, but how easily she crosses the line didn’t rhyme w/ reason. Last season her sole defining characteristic and story arc was her unwavering adherence to principle, she sent her own daughter to prison last season which led to also the divorce of her husband, yet she accepts a publicly disgraced criminal ex-president as a trusted advisor in a few hours?
- Chloe being promoted to CTU head made no sense, she had 0 gravitas for the role. I loved her in her first couple of seasons as the quirky/ tactless techy, but I don’t like what she’s become and her shtick has gotten really old.
-Air Force Leader going drastically against the President wasn’t handled well
- Russians: they were portrayed poorly, they gave up info way too easy and the henchman got taken out too easily.
- Got rid of the few likable characters too quickly (Hassan & Rob Weiss)
- No main/established characters died, what happened? That was one of the main draws of the show, to see who’d they take out? Hassan was kinda edgy, but he wasn’t established before this season and w/ Middle East folks involved, wasn’t completely a shocker.
- Product placement: C’mon guys, tone it down or at least try to make it fit (ie. Sprint, Genesis, Cisco, etc.)
- NY: Didn’t bring a lot of NY subtleties to the show (i.e. subways, landmarks, etc)
- Logan plastic surgery: Botox treatment looks TERRIBLE! Distracting!
- Michael Madsen felt awkward in the show, too much baggage from big movies.
- Season 7 was a good ending point, he seemed to find peace w/ himself, family, and come to terms w/ his missteps in life. Season 8 just trampled on that.
Those are my thoughts. Based on what I’ve seen online it looks like 24 fans are split about 50/50 on this season, with some people liking it (especially last few hours) and others really disappointed(myself included).
Rating: 2 / 5
just love the characters and the show itself. realistic and very daring. good plot as always and nerve racking, i am always on the egde as to what happens next. absolutely incredible.
Rating: 5 / 5
We love this series of ’24′. I just read where this is the last season of 24 and it makes me very sad. We always looked forward to “Jack Bower” and especially Chloe. She is the greatest! Keifer Sutherland may be making ’24′ into a movie. Something to look forward to.
Rating: 5 / 5
Beware of Spoilers in the review:
first it is ironically not too sad that this is really the final (8th) season of 24. Jack is back and in the beginning he
just wants to go home with his family (Kim, her husband and his cute grand daughter). A lot had happened since the last
season and Jack is fortunately cured (we could not imagine). Now, in New York he’s facing a new threat by terrorists from a country “something” like Iran (it is been altered for television reason not to mention Iran directly) so they changed it to the Republic of Kamistan.
Their prime minister Omar Hassan is negotiated a peace treaty between their countries, also involves a third party: Russia.
We all remember President Yuri Suvarov from the fifth season and “bad man” former president Charles Logan will also return for this final season: and something will be final for him, too.
As Jack uncovers the whole plot behind the killing of his partner and relationship: Agent Rene Walker (Anne Wirsching) he gone beserk. He’s following the people behind the assassination, torturing them and finally killing them all.
Until one point in this season he is against everybody: even President Taylor (but for good reasons). Otherwise nothing justifies the carnage he executes!
Taylor is extremely manipulated by Charles Logan, who’s willing to make this peace agreement happen, at all costs.
Watching this final season shows some old friends again, like Chloe (she has some vital scenes with Jack), Kim Bauer (unfortunately only some scence with this beauty, but ok. many scences in the previous seasons where really boring sometimes: nobody runs that bad luck all the time!!)
Tony Almeida is never present in the eighth season, recalling the amount of body parts he’s left in the last seasons, he’s in prison this time for sure…
But Jack does similar in this, he’s really a madman who wants revenge at all costs, even he is unwilling to see or admit it.
In the end you always thinking is this really wrong what Jack does or is it justice. Well, first of all this is a televison drama, so not for real. But sometimes it seems like a big computer game and you are Jack Bauer.
Don’t get me wrong, but what Jack does is not right! Finally the President makes up her mind and does the right thing at the end, Jack gets finally shot by a killing squad, but Taylor saves him the last second.
Sometimes this episode is a little bit like season 5, because of many Logan scences in the second half, otherwise Jack Bauer is on the run again, with no hope of getting away with all the crimes, he commited in his rage…
At the end Chloe and he look at each other (he in New York somewhere/she at the CTU New York) with a videoline/camera, he thanks her for stopping this maniac tour before it’s too late. Chloe cries and wishes him good look and for the first and last time the clock is seen and runs backwards: 003 … 002 … 001
The end of 24 !
jw
Rating: 4 / 5