Well, After few dreadful episodes, the season finale actualy deliverd. It wasnt the greatest 24 hour ever, but it was solid, for almost of of its lenght.
Good things first:
Very cool endin moments with Jack, alone in the car. They show that he actually still human, and he can be tortured by memories of things he's done, and lost. At first I thought he rushes to his car to get his fix, then when camera focuses on his face, I was expecting for him to start nosebleeding at the last second, but writers took different route, and just given us another side of Jack.
Jacks actions with Fire axe were badass. I am glad they actually went through with it, and made Jack chop Chases hand. Sure, its a bit of striving for happy ending to give Chase the hand back, (was the hand actually attached back, or it's just my imagination?). Plus it was the same hand that Chase was already shot through in Mexico.
Bad guy beat the shit out of Chase. It was nicely done brutal. Most of the action this episode was done in a good way.
Kim's Boyfriend Curse RETURNS :) Even poor Chase gets affected. Last season its leg, this time its arm :p
Very goos scene with Tony and Michele. Poor Tony accepts that he is screwed, and shares one final goodbye kiss with Michelle. Very good scene, but I still think that they should have killed Michelle at the hotel.
Bad things:
But WTF was with introduction of Gael's wife, just for one REASON. To close Saunders storyarch, and plus give heroes some more run for their money, right before Raben could be identified. And GUNS apparently are everywhere at CTU, since this civilian charcter is able to score one and perform assassination of major player right in the middle of CTU.
Plus its Damn Chloe fault as always, since she moves Kim who was supposed to guard Mrs Ortega to do whatever Kim does for her.
CTU ONCE AGAIN screws things up. I mean they trying to capture Extremely dangerous terrorist in the closed subway station, and who they post to guard the exit? 2 Friggin LA cops. Not even some of CTU personel. Its 2nd dumbest thing this season after Tony sending 5 people guarding back of Saunders hideout. Just stupid. But I guess, if Rabens didnt escape, we wouldnt have school showdown.
Hmm, The Palmer brothers. Whining, groaning, whimping. Good thing that Palmer is stepping down from the president role, maybe he will be actually GOOD next season, or maybe they wont even show him, which will be a good idea. Keep Wayne away too.
Since Sherry is dead and embarrasingly bad Milliken storyine is closed, there are no more need for Palmer.
Just concentrate on Jack kicking ass.
More 24 News about next season:
"24" will open and close with two-hour installments as well as feature a two-hour special event episode in the middle of the season. Said moves are designed so that "24" will be able to run for 21 consecutive weeks beginning in January and close by the end of May sweeps. In addition, several cast changes are in store for the drama. Both Reiko Aylesworth and James Badge Dale have been informed their options for the show's fourth season have not been picked up while Carlos Bernard, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Zachary Quinto and Daniel Dae Kim's futures remain up in the air (Kim is currently attached to the ABC drama "Lost"). As for regulars Kiefer Sutherland, Dennis Haysbert and Elisha Cuthbert, all three are expected to return with Cuthbert more than likely being demoted to recurring status due to her feature commitments. Nevertheless, fans of the series should take note that in previous seasons Sarah Clarke and Penny Johnson Jerald's options weren't picked up however each went on to play critical roles in both this season and last season
And funny commentary :)
Chloe manages to pull Kim off the one job she might have managed competently, watching a wife who's husband died just hours earlier clean out his fucking desk for some reason. His body isn't even cold yet, but his civilian wife is allowed into CTU to clean out his desk in the middle of a crisis, where he apparantly keeps an emergency pistol, probably for shooting Chloe when she starts spouting employee handbook rules.
"We've got two guys on every exit. The place is sealed tight!"
"Uh, didn't we let an unarmed teenage kid escape from the fucking mall just yesterday afternoon?"
One man with a knife kills two armed L.A. policemen who are guarding the exits and looking for bad guys trying to escape with no one hearing or seeing a thing.
I've seen the Hall County, Georgia, police department trap a fleeing automobile faster and better than the CTU guys.
Chase gets his hand cut off, and is in surgery two minutes later.
Then Jack, who is now free from a heroin addiction he had earlier in the day, has a little crying jag and gets back to work.
- Supervillan, in a time frame of 10 seconds the last carrier was able to elude the lineup without anyone noticing, kill two officers without either one going to the radio for backup and carjack someone. I wonder why he took the car, clearly he could use powers of flight
- CTU and their spealism. Apparently having Chloe the only one to work radio wasn't bad enough. They also decide the Tony is the only person who can tell backup "now take a left on main". If a bad guy ever find out which CTU member turns the lightbulbs they are so dead.
- President decides not to seek another term. Am I suppose to think that this completly redeems him? On the good side we may see a president that knows things like "that pill bottle isn't enough to charge me with murder" (sorry for harping on the pill bottle its just for me that the worst plotline in television history).
