24 Series Finale thread...

Brandon Rice

Brandon Rice

Distributed Producer
Here we go... it ends tonight....

Was able to get caught up on Season 8 last week (watched 14 episodes...) and am very impressed with this season... it's one of the more realistic seasons, and has a natural progression of intensity.

THoughts?
 
I didn't like the turn with Katee Sackhoff's character. Seemed made up on the spot. Her reactions as a character previous to that (as well as her impending wedding) didn't seem to jibe with being a mole. But they nearly redeemed themselves with Jack going Batman on Logan in that full riot gear get up. That was badass. I was hoping Jack would die a glorious death but with a movie in the works that doesn't seem likely.
 
Amazing scene in the tunnel, I agree.

See, I liked Dana's "turn" because up to that point, I hated her character... didn't believe her or buy her... then when it turned out she was a baddie, I realized why I hadn't believed her... she was faking it the whole time anyway...
 
Brandon Rice said:
Amazing scene in the tunnel, I agree.

See, I liked Dana's "turn" because up to that point, I hated her character... didn't believe her or buy her... then when it turned out she was a baddie, I realized why I hadn't believed her... she was faking it the whole time anyway...
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But really, if you were an undercover mole, why get so intimate with another agent to the point of marriage and risk blowing your cover? I can see dating, but THAT serious of a relationship?
 
Being a mole was her way out... remember she said she did it so she wouldn't have to go back to jail... she got emotionally involved... and her character was emotional anyway. I believed it.

Threw me for a loop too, which I loved :)
 
I got a little misty at the end despite the hamfisted shmaltz. Nice ending. My only question...did they ever find that body of the parole officer Katee Sachoff hid in the vent? Will probably start to smell soon.
 
I got misty as well... beautiful character ending for Jack and Chloe... I didn't care that things weren't tied up "completely" I didn't mind at all...
 
Looking at the season as a whole it was clear that the whole point of the season was to have President Taylor make a moral decision with enormous consequences and ended up making the wrong one. It's not a bad idea in itself but the writers ended up putting the cart before the horse but not coming up with a solid story that logically builds up to that ending. Instead we have a lot of inconsistent character choices and padding that ended up sucking a lot of dramatic weight out it. I never bought for a second that it was really that important that the peace treaty gets signed; we're TOLD over and over again how historic and crucial this is but we seldom get to SEE why it's so important to the president since most of the season weren't even about that. So the whole treaty ends up being a McGuffin to move the plot forward instead of a deeply personal thing for the character, which is what a story like this needs. It's like the writers says "Look, we need these things to happen, so who cares whether it makes sense for these established characters to act this way or not?" The scene where President Taylor actually threatens to attack the IRK if Dahlia Hassan refuses to sign the treaty just makes it impossible to sympathize with anything she does later. The 24 producers are lucky that Cherry Jones is such a good actress and managed to sell a lot of these scenes, or else this season would have been truly painful.
 
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Hm. see when a politician works for years on something like that, especially on an international level, it IS important... for their career, administration, etc. I believed it.
 
Brandon Rice said:
Hm. see when a politician works for years on something like that, especially on an international level, it IS important... for their career, administration, etc. I believed it.
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Still, show, not tell. Obviously something like that is of great significance, but the writers need to make that clear to the audience and have them feel that it's important. Otherwise it's simply an abstraction. It's like the difference between hearing about hurricane Katrina on the news and actually being there to see the devastation first hand. On one hand, you know that it's sad and you sympathize with the victims, but there's no personal connection because it's happening "over there." Same thing with this peace treaty. We don't get to see the years of effort and the sacrifices that President Taylor made first hand and so when we're TOLD how important it is to her and the world, there's no emotional impact.
 
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