nemuren (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} nemuren) wrote,@ 2008-11-24 15:52:00 |
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24: Redemption
The original title was 24: Exile, but the change makes sense. Just about everyone agrees that Season 6 sucked, so a little redemption for the franchise was in order.
Redemption is mildly entertaining, if mostly familiar. The story finds Jack Bauer doing humanitarian work at a school in Africa with an old Special Forces buddy while dodging federal subpoenas from back home for torturing terrorists. This being 24, and still being in real-time, it doesn't take long for things to go crazy-go-nuts in the form of a military coup that rolls by Jack's school to kidnap children for their army. Jack Bauer, of course, won't let any ruthless warlord, slimy bureaucrat or pansy U.N. representative stop him from bringing the kids to safety at the U.S. embassy, which will be evacuated... in less than two hours. BOOP BEEP BOOP BEEP
Meanwhile, 24 swears in its first female president, and makes it pretty obvious her son will become a liability at some point in Season 7. As a promo to whet our appetites for Season 7, especially since this is the first new 24 in 18 months(!), it's not bad, but we've seen it all before. The showrunners appear to understand the show needs a jumpstart, and thus CTU is no more, and the action will be centered around Washington D.C. instead of L.A. It's a start but then again, we're being asked to swallow that Tony Almeida didn't really die in Season 5. Oh, and he's now a bad guy too.
I guess the good news is that I'm not dreading Season 7 as much, though my expectations remain low. Sutherland still brings it as Jack and I liked Robert Carlyle as Jack's friend Benton. I wish they could've brought him into the series proper. But of course, Jack can't have friends, THERE'S NO TIME!
The original title was 24: Exile, but the change makes sense. Just about everyone agrees that Season 6 sucked, so a little redemption for the franchise was in order.
Redemption is mildly entertaining, if mostly familiar. The story finds Jack Bauer doing humanitarian work at a school in Africa with an old Special Forces buddy while dodging federal subpoenas from back home for torturing terrorists. This being 24, and still being in real-time, it doesn't take long for things to go crazy-go-nuts in the form of a military coup that rolls by Jack's school to kidnap children for their army. Jack Bauer, of course, won't let any ruthless warlord, slimy bureaucrat or pansy U.N. representative stop him from bringing the kids to safety at the U.S. embassy, which will be evacuated... in less than two hours. BOOP BEEP BOOP BEEP
Meanwhile, 24 swears in its first female president, and makes it pretty obvious her son will become a liability at some point in Season 7. As a promo to whet our appetites for Season 7, especially since this is the first new 24 in 18 months(!), it's not bad, but we've seen it all before. The showrunners appear to understand the show needs a jumpstart, and thus CTU is no more, and the action will be centered around Washington D.C. instead of L.A. It's a start but then again, we're being asked to swallow that Tony Almeida didn't really die in Season 5. Oh, and he's now a bad guy too.
I guess the good news is that I'm not dreading Season 7 as much, though my expectations remain low. Sutherland still brings it as Jack and I liked Robert Carlyle as Jack's friend Benton. I wish they could've brought him into the series proper. But of course, Jack can't have friends, THERE'S NO TIME!
