I'm recording all the "24" episodes so that once I have them all, I'm can watch them how they were meant to be watched. Staying up for 24 hours should be a blast. :-)

I don't know if you should say that too loud, the mpaa might try and get you and bring up the whole recording stuff with VCR's all over again or their digital counterparts now.

fortunately it won't take you 24 hours to watch it - only (well not really only) 17.2 - 17.6 hours plus snacks and bathroom breaks.

Good luck on the endeavour!

I finally "discovered" '24' when the Second Season premiered in 2002/2003. I was so stoked and thrilled that I went out and bought Season One on DVD, which I had not seen before.

I watched Season One over a long weekend.

The problem is, after you finish one episode--you just have to see what happens in the next episode. And so instead of watching just one or two episodes...you watch like four in a row. It was sick. I felt ashamed to watch that much tv in two days.

Still, this is my favorite show on TV currently.

You should try to watch a couple seasons back to back Frank.

My wife just told me (on Monday night at 10:00pm actually) that we should buy the first seasons on DVD and "24" marathons.



I told her to wake me up when it was over...lol

Frank, you need to hurry and catch up because this current season tops all of the others.

Have you got to the cougar episode yet?

This is my first season to watch 24. Man it is good.

I loved Jimmy Kimmels line when he introduced Keifer Sutherland on a guest appearance:

"And here he is, the man who never goes to the bathroom, the star of "24"..............."

Been watching this since season 1 over here in the UK, and have all the DVD box sets. Although, I've never actually watched any of the DVD's since I bought them.

I guess they'll stay in pristine condition until I'm about 60, and will need to watch them again. Crikey, by that time I won't remember what I've had for my breakfast by noon.

Have you guys looked at the trailers for "The Sentinel"?[Opens Friday]

It stars Michael Douglas and Kiefer Sutherland.

It's weird seeing Kiefer in the second banana role after seeing him as Super Agent Jack Bauer. Kiefer is kind of "typecast" now...

It is kind of weird timing.

It also looks like a retread of Harrison Ford in "The Fugitive" with Kiefer playing the Tommy Lee Jones role and Douglas playing Richard Gimble.

Age before beauty, I guess. Sutherland's been in lots of leading movie roles. A Saskachewan boy, you know. :-)

PS: I've seen all the former 24 seasons. Besides Dr. Who, that's what I watch---and Dr. Who had better be here soon! I record that too.

I watched all 3 LOTR DVDs one Sunday Afternoon. I refused to watch 2&3 after the way 1 ended.

I don't know if I can still stay awake long enough to watch all 24 episodes, but it's a good idea for a short movie.

Just keep the coffee on the burner.

I'm recording this year's shows and after all the ads, repeat scenes on the intro and the preview are subtracted, there's only about 39 minutes of actual new programming each week. I'm getting 8 shows on each 6-hour tape. The chances are good that no one will ever watch the tapes, but of course, the object is to hoard as many useless tapes as the house can hold. If everyone had used as many videotapes as I, TDK would have been one of the hottest stocks on the market, until we would have completely run out of petroleum.

Best Season Ever

3 episodes to go!

O.K., it looks like they've fumbled the ball again, with that incriminating audio recording. Has anyone else wondered why the deuce they haven't just re-recorded it when they've had it and spread backup copies around?

It wasn't in the script?

O.K., it looks like they've fumbled the ball again, with that incriminating audio recording. Has anyone else wondered why the deuce they haven't just re-recorded it when they've had it and spread backup copies around?

You may as well ask what is this magical digital signaturing was that Chloe was going to put on the audio recording.

I understand that Sutherland has signed on for 3 more seasons, which gives me conflicted feelings. I love the series and am excited that it will continue on for a while... (It is only 1 of 2 shows I watch regularly - There is so much crap and misery on television that I don't even watch the news anymore, so 24 gives me a nice condensed dose of anguish, turmoil, and misery in less than 1 hour and I can get on with my week)....but I am mystified at the producers ability to keep up the momentum of such an intense show - and I hope that at the end of the run, fans are not 24'd out, making the series go out with a whimper.

This has been among the best of the seasons IMO (partly due to impressive acting among the presidential staff) and maybe even slightly more realistic scenarios than a couple of the previous seasons. However, once you get past the implausibility that every address within the greater LA area is within an 8 minute drive of CTU, (Let's not forget that LA traffic is a 24/7 phenomena) it's always fun to enjoy the ride towards the cliffhanger of each episode.

The one gripe I have about this season is that there just seems like too many threads of bad guys....while I understand it serves as a vehicle to keep the momentum going as they slowly reveal the chain of command, it makes it very difficult to wrap my mind around the fact this one 24-hour period reaches all the way back to the beginning of the season, when I can vaguely remember the scenes involving Jack's floater job, Cloe's rescue, the assassin capture, the airport scene, the Russian treaty, or even that Sean Astin has both taken and lost command of CTU all within the last 'day'. Some of this feels like it was a previous seaon by this time.

Perhaps it is because I am watching it week-by-week as opposed to all at once. I remember that I missed the first 2 weeks of season 3, so I just avoided that whole season, and waited a year to watch it on rented DVD's, which resulted in watching the whole season in 5 nights....at least that felt like a much more realistic pace.

As a side note: My wife stopped watching 24 after season 2 because she couldn't deal with the anxiety, and hasn't seen it since...I respect that, however, the local company she works for has had an interesting (but subtle) product placement in the show over the last 2 episodes, so she has been watching it again because the way the scenes have been formulated, it makes it appear that the product may provide an interesting although subliminal impact on the scene - so she is once again watching 24, sitting on pins and needles. Just a few episodes left before it all plays out.
-Jon

I like the current season but I agree that the whole recording thing is getting
absurd. They could've easily played it back over a phone and recorded it on
the other end like 10 times already. They always have these tools to transfer
whatever they request to the other side instantly. This just feels like dragging
the story out to fill the 24 episodes....

Have you heard about the doco. that the Keifer's in?? Follows his favorite indie band as he helps them out and acts as their tour manager.

Yeah, I know ya think I'm joking, here's the scoop:

http://tinyurl.com/g9q9u

Or just google the phrase "I trust you to kill me"

I don't know if you should say that too loud, the mpaa might try and get you and bring up the whole recording stuff with VCR's all over again or their digital counterparts now.

I seriously doubt that the crooks^H^H^H^H fine folks at the MPAA would be successful at suing somebody for recording a TV show that is licensed in their area for later personal use. I believe that falls sqarely in the area of fair use.

Apparently the bad fictional President tonight is being preempted 20 minutes so that the real President can make some stupid speech.

It won't be over till then? Bush can't even talk that long. Sounds like a media feeding frenzy after the speech.....

I hope your wrong

From Fox's 24 website (http://www.fox.com/24/):


WARNING!
Because of the President's speech on Monday, May 15th the start times for 24 in certain time zones will be affected.
Take note for your taping schedules. 24 will be shown in its entirety:

Eastern - Approx. 9:20pm
Central - Approx. 8:20pm
Mountain - 8:00pm
Pacific - 9:00pm


So us westerners can successfully miss the very important Bush episode and continue setting our PVRs for Jack Bauer.

And everything was good.

Thanks, Keith.

There are only 2 episides left!

Thanks for helping us avert a possible disaster. I'll have to punch in the following hour on the DVR, just to be safe.

Go Martha... go Martha ;)

p.s. you'll only understand that if you saw the latest episode

24 is now on iTunes

Martha's drug withdrawal happened in like, half an hour? Now she's clean?

What I heard is that Kiefer signed on as producer, but maybe not as Jack. that could be interesting 3 more seasons but maybe not with Jack. This is the first seasom that I have watched on T.V. and waiting a week is killing me, that and the fact that they killed T-dogg.

Go Martha... go Martha ;)

I wish somehow in the 24verse Martha could kill the President, making her the Queen of America and then once she marries Aaron, that would make Aaron the King.

It only took Martha 10 seconds to beat her drug habit. What was she taking anyway? I can't recall. Okay, another Holsten down the hatch. :-)

Frank, Martha has obviously had experience getting on and off the wagon. So she probably has a built-in mutant ability to go blotto or not.

It was great the way Martha rose to the occasion and took out that humanoid rottweiler. I wonder what her public-approval rating would be, compared to that of her husband, if their characters were the ones in the real-life positions?

Anyone catch that finale wow-man!

I wish somehow in the 24verse Martha could kill the President, making her the Queen of America and then once she marries Aaron, that would make Aaron the King.

I was thinking only about the idea of Martha and Aaron getting together... seems I'm not the only one... but I wasn't thinking about the queen of America...

The idea of Keifer only being a producer... it could be... but I think that if they do kill Jack off... it won't be in the first show... maybe in the movie... that's being talked about... the creators are working on that... plus they have a stroy line...

The thing I find funny... is that I've always liked Keifer Sutherland as an actor... thought he was perfect for a film I wrote years... a friend told me... no way... he makes a better bad guy... well maybe we're both right... Jack is a hero... but he has sort of that bad streak in him... but the good always wins out...

That was quite the denoument and guarantees everyone comes back for next season. I can't wait. Jack takes on an entire country!

Yeah..., a country with 1.2 billion kung fu masters. ;-)

I know for economic reasons it's not possible for the whole of S6 to be set in China but I hope we get at least one or two episodes where it's just Jack breaking out, taking on wave after wave of martial artists. It would be such a lame incredible tease if he gets busted out or exchanged at the beginning of the season.

Each season seems to be improved. I bet the next season will be no exception. So I'm sure they'll keep in plausible. Besides, Jack is America's 007 but without the cheeks. Hmmm, maybe that will change. :-)

Anyone catch that finale wow-man!

I found the final scenes of the President's downfall to be thinly-plotted and not very credible. Who'd believe that brief and uncertified recording would move the Attorney General and others to immediately order the President to be arrested and that the Secret Service agents would carry that out on the basis of a cell-phone call? The whole thing was too weak and anticlimactic, after all the buildup it had gotten.

I wonder why the producers have such a penchant for killing off so many of the featured characters, both heroes and villains? There's such a list of casualties, they could hold a convention. Maybe they could invite them to appear on talk shows, the way they do with the latest "Survivor" rejects.

How many fans will die of old age during the 8 months before the next season starts?

I too think the ending felt a bit "rushed". I can believe they would arrest the
president after a call (certain procedures must surely exist), but the recording
and everything is a bit flaky. It didn't feel that spectacular after all that's
happened.

I doubt the next season will see something like Jack being exchanged. He is
"dead", after all.

Is there any news of a new season? They do have a pretty good start if they
decide to do a movie first.

Yes, they did kill off a lot of characters. That definitely added to the suspense
in the first half of the season I thought. It could be that those people them-
selves wanted out (that does happen) or they it could've been done for suspense.

The series Lost has killed off a pretty large group of people by now as well...

Dennis Haysbert had to go work on "The Unit" as the central character so good for him, bad for "24".

The biggest shock after that was Edgar being killed off since he was so harmless and likeable. Poor Chloe.

Dennis Haysbert had to go work on "The Unit" as the central character so good for him, bad for "24".

The biggest shock after that was Edgar being killed off since he was so harmless and likeable. Poor Chloe.

I believe they continually alter at least the minor parts of the plot and cast lineup, as they procede through the season's production. Several actors from the series have said they usually don't know from one episode to the next, what their character will be doing or even if they will survive. In pro football training camps, they notify players that they have been cut, by emptying out their lockers after their last practice. When they come in the next day, all their equipment is gone. I wonder if they do something similar on this type of series, when a character is scheduled to be killed in the next week's show?

Has anyone else noticed how many actors are being quickly recycled after being killed or otherwise dumped off other series? One of the women on "CSI-NY" assassinated a President of an African country on the street in NYC last June, on another show. Come September, she was a sweet and righteous CSI on the new show. The actor who plays the disabled sergeant on "The Unit", appeared in 4 different primetime shows in the last 2 weeks. There's about a dozen character actors who get passed around on half a dozen different shows each, every year. Remember how Jack Webb had his own stable of bit actors who appeared many times in different parts on "Dragnet"? There certainly isn't any shortage of other willing and underemployed actors they could use, instead. Maybe this could be a new thread, about how many shows there are, in which certain actors can be spotted. Perhaps the rule is, that if a bit actor has no name recognition, then they can be used repeatedly.

A few actors have become so entrenched and identified in longterm roles, they have a great difficulty moving into a new one. I haven't seen Dennis Franz in anything after "NYPD". Jimmy Smits and what's-his-name, now on "CSI-Miami", had long, mostly-dry spells after leaving that show. It took Alan Alda a decade and a half after "M.A.S.H.", to fit into another continuing dramatic TV role.

I just started watching the new "Apocalypse" TV movie tonight, and the late
"Tony" has already switched from "24" to "10.5", re-emerging as "Dr. Miguel".

I believe they continually alter at least the minor parts of the plot and cast lineup, as they procede through the season's production.

From what I've read they are very much seat of their pants. Except where Kiefer is concerned.

Has anyone else noticed how many actors are being quickly recycled after being killed or otherwise dumped off other series?

All the time. People gotta eat.
Perhaps the rule is, that if a bit actor has no name recognition, then they can be used repeatedly.

I always enjoy remembering people who reappear in Law & Order shows. "Hey! That murderer from that episode is now the judge!"

From the TV ads it seems the next season will have some silly new shows. What ever happened to Data's, "Threshold?" Than one was a real loser. Hopefully, 24 will just get better. :-)

The attorney general wouldn't do that for just any call, but since it was from CTU which obviously would verify the recording before playing it for him, also those were U.S. Marshalls that arrested Logan.

But the prez confessed on tape that he was involved with KILLING the former prez---who I see doing ads (so he's not really dead).