Jump the shark...
Posted on 05/22/2007 2:05:22 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Jack Bauer Doesn't Jump - More's the Pity
Previously on "24' the show made sense.
But Monday night's finale, when we sat through 90 minutes of set-up, waiting for the usual slam bang finish, only to have a touchy-feely episode of "Grey's Anatomy'' break out, was the end.
The big finish, with Jack Bauer standing on coast, looking moodily out to sea, was some kind of weird Hallmark card for secret agents. I kept waiting for the cliff to blow up, or a black helicopter to appear on the horizon, but no, it was just our Jack, alone with his thoughts. And fade out.
Oh c'mon, you've noticed it. Jack Bauer has changed. And this was preceded by half an hour of some of the most tedious speechifying and long-winded monologues since the worst days of "Studio 60.'' Guys, if we wanted hand-holding and repressed true love we'd rent "Pride and Prejudice'' again.
We loyal viewers have put up with a lot of improbable nonsense over the years: convenient comas, sudden amnesia, and the fact that Jack Bauer could escape from bad guys by biting one of them to death. We stuck around through annoying antics of Kim Bauer, Jack's ditz daughter, and the death of beloved Edgar, who should never have been offed.
There were problems, sure. Even the show's creators admitted that they thought things had off track. So apparently, their solution was to take everything we liked about the show, everything that created the culture and premise of the Jack Bauer universe, and blow it up.
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The finale of last night's "24" was a snoozer.
This might go down as the season in which 24 "jumped the shark."
Jump the shark...
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24 ping to the 24 pingmaster.
I disagree - I thought the last ten minutes were very powerful and well acted. The cliff hanger is more cerebral and nuanced than in the past, sure, but we are still left wondering - where will Jack go, what will he do? I don’t think it’s any less of an ending than when he walks down the tracks into the sunset at the end of season Day4. (it was Day4 right?)
It can happen.
Seriously.
Next year, Jack opens a surf shop named “Hang 10” And the season is Jack on the beach reminisicing about the past six seasons.
Haven’t seen it yet. I have it on DVR, but if its like the first part of the season.... It started off great and then progressively sucked. Whats real funny is the fact that the shows own producers seemed to forget that 24 was supposed to be about 24 consecutive hours. They would have scenes like Miles gets his shoulder drilled out and an episode later (equaling 1 hour) its like nothing happened. I slam my finger in a car and I’m in pain for a day! These guys get shot, tortured and the hell beat out of them and shake it off like a road runner cartoon! Also how many times is CTU going to be compromised before they realize they suck at protecting themselves?
This season sucked...just say it.
Slow...drawn out...nowhere near the suspense of previous seasons, especially #2-5
chuckle
I’d like to see Vic Mackey partner up with Tony Soprano.
Or better yet...Vic Mackey vs. Tony Soprano (who’s the baddest mofo?!?!)
My money’s on Mackey. He doesn’t need any of that wimpy psychotherapy to get in touch with his “feelings.”
The security breeches at CTU has become a cliche.
The agency should be shut down...it leaks worse than the New York Times and the CIA combined!
House wouldn’t treat them. Being blown up and/or shot isn’t a mysterious infectious illness.
Nobody saw Bauer Sr. die - he was last seen alive a few feet away from a boat......... Nobody recovered The Component.........
Sopranos jumped the shark long ago, and it is still going strong.
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