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Jack Bauer Doesn't Jump - More's the Pity
SFGate.com ^ | May 22, 2007 | C.W. Nevius

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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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 24; ctu; hellbeback; jackbauer; jumptheshark; lostmojo; notnews; popularculture; tv; wgas; whosgotmymojo; wrongforum
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Yep...I have to agree with this blogger.

The finale of last night's "24" was a snoozer.

This might go down as the season in which 24 "jumped the shark."

1 posted on 05/22/2007 2:05:22 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
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To: DogByte6RER
Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket Jump the shark...
2 posted on 05/22/2007 2:06:12 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER
Homer demonstates how to "jump the shark" Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
3 posted on 05/22/2007 2:06:54 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER
Not related to the article, but if the French had their own version of 24, would it be called 6 to be in tune with the work day?
4 posted on 05/22/2007 2:07:59 PM PDT by verum ago (The Iranian Space Agency: set phasers to jihad!)
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Feedback about “24” on the “Jump The Shark” website:

http://www.jumptheshark.com/topic/24-general-comments/1924


5 posted on 05/22/2007 2:08:08 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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Jack Bauer...has he lost his "mojo?" Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
6 posted on 05/22/2007 2:10:12 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: OXENinFLA

24 ping to the 24 pingmaster.


7 posted on 05/22/2007 2:10:14 PM PDT by secret garden (Dubiety reigns here)
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To: DogByte6RER

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?)


8 posted on 05/22/2007 2:12:10 PM PDT by Squidpup ("Fight the Good Fight")
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To: DogByte6RER
Don't laugh me out of the room: I'm thinking that the networks, who are ALL losing viewership, might start "cross-marketing" some of their stars---Vic Mackey and Jack Bauer end up battling terrorist Cryps and Bloods in LA! House treats them as they both get wounded. And they need to bring in the "Heroes" to defuse the human bomb.

It can happen.

Seriously.

9 posted on 05/22/2007 2:12:31 PM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: DogByte6RER

Next year, Jack opens a surf shop named “Hang 10” And the season is Jack on the beach reminisicing about the past six seasons.


10 posted on 05/22/2007 2:13:55 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: DogByte6RER

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?


11 posted on 05/22/2007 2:15:07 PM PDT by Bommer (Global Warming: The only warming phenomena that occurs in the Summer and ends in the Winter!)
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To: DogByte6RER

This season sucked...just say it.

Slow...drawn out...nowhere near the suspense of previous seasons, especially #2-5


12 posted on 05/22/2007 2:16:16 PM PDT by Silverbug
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13 posted on 05/22/2007 2:17:31 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: LS

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.”


14 posted on 05/22/2007 2:17:57 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER
Jumping the shark...Jack Bauer-style:


15 posted on 05/22/2007 2:19:10 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Bommer

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!


16 posted on 05/22/2007 2:20:03 PM PDT by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: LS

House wouldn’t treat them. Being blown up and/or shot isn’t a mysterious infectious illness.


17 posted on 05/22/2007 2:20:55 PM PDT by Terpfen (It's your fault, not Pelosi's.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Heyyyy....what's a little drama?

Sad to say, I hated the ending and thought...how anticlimactic, especially for '24'.
18 posted on 05/22/2007 2:21:18 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Those that fail to learn from history, are doomed to repeat it.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Nobody saw Bauer Sr. die - he was last seen alive a few feet away from a boat......... Nobody recovered The Component.........


19 posted on 05/22/2007 2:21:27 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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To: DogByte6RER

Sopranos jumped the shark long ago, and it is still going strong.


20 posted on 05/22/2007 2:21:51 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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