Official '24' Season 5 Discussion Thread!

[Master Chief]

Man, yer getting my hopes up.

 

[Matt]

Man, yer getting my hopes up.

Well, the time was never really opportune to bring Chase back into the picture in the past 2 years...next year though...its perfect.

 

[Golgo-13]

You think it was the German guy? I tend to agree, and I imagine there will be a deleted scene on the DVD with him making the call. They just dropped him after he swore revenge. I'm also guessing we'll have a deleted scene showing Martha's aide and her daughter's corpse. Possibly even Miles getting whats coming to him. There should be some damn good deleted scenes this year.

Logan gave up Bauer to the chinese. Remember he said to the guy on the phone "Bauers being taken care of"....?

 

[rdh007]

Good point. We didn't see any action against Jack after that point. (Until the Chinese got to him)

 

[Matt]

Logan gave up Bauer to the chinese. Remember he said to the guy on the phone "Bauers being taken care of"....?

But Logan had nothing to gain by selling out Jack. Don't forget, Logan believed what he was doing was right. He believed himself a patriot...selling out Jack would create a security threat to the US.

 

[Golgo-13]

But Logan had nothing to gain by selling out Jack. Don't forget, Logan believed what he was doing was right. He believed himself a patriot...selling out Jack would create a security threat to the US.

Nothing to gain? He had everything to loose if Bauer 'wasn't taken care of'! Remember after Henderson was killed, Bauer was the last piece of loose thread in Logans plot.

Also i can't see the Chinese 'breaking Jack. Remember in season 2. Jack was tortured pretty badly for the microchip(?), and his heart stopped....

 

[Matt]

Nothing to gain? He had everything to loose if Bauer 'wasn't taken care of'! Remember after Henderson was killed, Bauer was the last piece of loose thread in Logans plot.

Also i can't see the Chinese 'breaking Jack. Remember in season 2. Jack was tortured pretty badly for the microchip(?), and his heart stopped....

Thats true.

 

[pspring5]

guys chase isnt going to china man. if there was movie maybe, but this show is called 24 for a reason. its about a days flite

 

[rdh007]

According to that, Jack's got to get off that boat quick. Unless the season takes place months afterward. Then he can't even start off in China or on that boat.

 

[Matt]

guys chase isnt going to china man. if there was movie maybe, but this show is called 24 for a reason. its about a days flite

LA to China...not as long as you'd think.

At any rate, I'm going to make a bold prediction....this will be a lot like Palmer's assassination. We'll get a brief explanation of it, but other than that, Jack will be back in LA, alive and well when the next season begins.

 

[Matt]

According to that, Jack's got to get off that boat quick. Unless the season takes place months afterward. Then he can't even start off in China or on that boat.

I think they could do a flight from LA to China in about 3 hours...24 time. They'd have to fly across the Pacific.

 

[DarKush]

Not a bad season finale. I am glad that the writers remembered the Chinese from S4.

Hopefully the Hellfire Club working behind the scenes with Logan will factor into S6. But I do hope they get an intimidating leader or two.

Since Alias is over, perhaps they could bring on Ron Rifkin, Lena Olin, Gina Torres, or Amy Acker. Or Michael Vartan, Carl Lumbly, or the dude that played Sark.

 

[Spider-Gamer]

LA to China...not as long as you'd think.

At any rate, I'm going to make a bold prediction....this will be a lot like Palmer's assassination. We'll get a brief explanation of it, but other than that, Jack will be back in LA, alive and well when the next season begins.

But I want to see Jack in China killing dozens of people.

 

[Carter]

I highly doubt S6 will not take place in China.

 

[SsM]

man... I'm psyched about Season 6... Time to rewatch seasons 1-4 and 5 when it comes out on dvd :x

 

[Shifty]

But it will get to the point where it is a bit redundant. Perhaps Vice President Prescott will have taken a shot at the Oval Office?
.

Most likely he already did. When Palmer stepped out of the race in October, the VP was thrown into the race and of course Keeler won.

I don't see any problem, they can bring in Gardner and we're familar with him but they can do anything with him; just like they did with President Logan.

Season six filming begins in July. The writers have an idea for how to start to the sixth season and will go from there. I'll declare season five the best of all of them. It wasn't the best finale simply because we were waiting for the Chinese to show up (since last year), so the shock factor was pretty short.

Kim Raver is a castmember of the new fall show, "The Nine". So Audrey may be gone for the start of season six. Depends how the show does.

Also, John Allen Nelson aka Walt Cummings looks good in Fox's "Vanished".

 

[SsM]

Yeah he does look good in vanished.

Which network is the nine on??? Is it on fox?? because thats how heller got screwed over :/

 

[Shifty]

I just went on AA.com to see what the travel time is between LA and Shanghai. It is only 11 hours between the two cities. So 24 could take a risk and have Jack on a plane for 11 hours and have other characters handle a crisis in America. Of course even if they do rescue Jack, that's going to piss of China more.

Yeah he does look good in vanished.

Which network is the nine on??? Is it on fox?? because thats how heller got screwed over :/

William Devane's sitcom has been cancelled so that frees him up. Why he left 24 and went for a sitcom is beyond me. Sure he wasn't guaranteed to return and they very well could've killed him off but its 24 and he was Secretary of Defense James Heller.

Thrillers, Mysteries Fill Fall TV Schedule
May 22, 2006
By AP

By David Bauder

Judging by what's coming up next season, Kiefer Sutherland may now be the most influential man in television. The success of Fox's "24," and to a certain extent ABC's "Lost," is fueling an insatiable taste for thrillers and mysteries evident in the fall schedule announcements made this past week by the five biggest broadcast networks.


Evidently, TV executives feel the surest route to success is to get your adrenaline pumping.

Titles alone tell the story: "Kidnapped." "Vanished." "Standoff." An NBC serial will track a rich kid's abduction, while a Fox mystery will try to figure out why a senator's wife disappeared. Fox's "Standoff" will follow an elite team of FBI hostage negotiators and ABC's "The Nine" is about the lives of nine people caught up in a hostage situation. ABC's "Traveler" tracks youths trying to prove they didn't set off a terrorist bomb, while the CW's "Runaway" follows a man who disappears with his family to prove he didn't commit a murder. ABC's "Day Break" borrows from the movie "Groundhog Day," with a detective repeating the day he was framed for murder in order to solve the case.

Even several non-serials promise to keep nerves on edge. Both Fox and CBS have promising legal dramas on tap. Because of a plum Thursday time slot and a star, James Woods, who plays a brilliant defense lawyer who becomes a prosecutor (and works for Jeri Ryan), CBS's "Shark" seems primed for success. Another CBS drama features Ray Liotta as a crook pulling off high-tech heists.

Prime-time TV next fall will often feel like CNN gone haywire.

In a quieter way, "24" is also influencing the television calendar. Fox schedules it as a limited-run series, letting a season unfold from start to finish with no repeats or interruptions.

Next season, NBC has committed to not running repeats of "ER," breaking its run in midseason with another drama. ABC will be doing the same thing with "Lost," whose devotees grew furious when repeats were sprinkled in.

"We really listened to the fans," said Steve McPherson, ABC entertainment president.

This tests the traditional economics of television, where the advertising revenue from repeats has been crucial to paying for a series' production. But DVD sales are helping to bring in extra money. Besides, McPherson said, the audience is growing far less tolerant of repeats, particularly for shows with ongoing story lines.

That's one of the reasons CBS favors dramas with stories that begin and end with each episode. "`CSI' is a far more profitable show than `Desperate Housewives,'" said CBS Corp. chief executive Leslie Moonves.

Don't look for a resurgence in television comedy next fall. CBS is introducing only one new sitcom, with two each for NBC and Fox. None are pushing any envelopes in terms of subject matter and production.

Based on short previews screened for advertisers last week, the most promising are ABC's "Let's Rob...," about a group of misfits determined to burgle Mick Jagger's home, and Fox's "`Til Death," with Brad Garrett and Joely Fisher as a married couple influencing the newlyweds next door.

NBC's "30 Rock" pilot had some belly laughs, and Alec Baldwin is perfectly cast as a venal TV executive. But together with Aaron Sorkin's "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," NBC is asking a lot of viewers to embrace two shows about the backstage world behind a thinly disguised "Saturday Night Live."

The Sorkin series quickly became the subject of television insiders' favorite parlor game.

As its most-touted new show, NBC was already testing "Studio 60" by giving it a Thursday time slot opposite "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation." But when ABC scheduled "Grey's Anatomy" at the same time, the Sorkin show was put in danger of becoming roadkill unless NBC moves it.

Where will it go? That's the guessing game. Asked if he's burning up the phones trying to get the show moved, Peter Roth, head of the Warner Bros. studio that is producing "Studio 60," answered: "Is the pope German?"

With one notable exception, the broadcast networks were conservative last week.

Fox and CBS both made a point of stressing stability. CBS is only adding four new series in the fall. The CW, a blend of UPN and the WB, is picking up one new drama and a comedy spinoff.

"We don't have huge highs and huge lows," CBS' Moonves said. "We are not the manic depressive network."

His reference was to ABC, which has a frightfully thin bench. Despite three sensations in "Grey's Anatomy," "Lost" and "Desperate Housewives," ABC somehow managed to finish fourth in the ratings one recent week. As a result, McPherson committed to introducing a staggering 15 new programs next season.

During his presentation to thousands of advertisers last week at New York's Lincoln Center, the black-clad McPherson said he had lost a bet to Jimmy Kimmel about "Dancing With the Stars." He had to pay up onstage, when a sequined professional dancer joined him for a cha-cha routine to AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long."

As the slightly stiff executive made his moves, the audience held its breath, then laughed uproariously. McPherson pulled it off. He was rewarded with a standing ovation.

Subtly, a more important message was delivered: this was a network not afraid to take chances and have some fun.

ABC will undoubtedly have the most flops next season, but also stands the best chance of launching a show that captures the public's imagination. Considering it has comedies about pregnancy and a wedding day, a remade Latin American telenovela and a series about a single relationship counselor set loose in Alaska, women will likely lead the way.

"You never know where your big hits are going to come from," McPherson said.

 

[SsM]

Hmm.. a rival network.. That sucks. She better have in her contract that she can be on 24 still :/ if not they should have killed her off midseason when henderson stabbed her artery

 

[Shifty]

From TV Guide

This season was supposed to be the end of Pierce. I'd gotten a call from Executive Producer Howard Gordon telling me they were killing me off. I shed some tears but then somehow I got the nerve to call Howard back and plead for Pierce's life. I've never felt so closely connected to a character. This guy is me! And i strongly believed Pierce needed a scene where he was telling off President Logan. If nothing else, we owed it to the shows fans. I was cheering right along with everybody when Pierce calls Logan a traitor and a disgrace to his office.

The beauty of that scene was that it was partly ad-libbed. I suddenly thought, " How cool would it be if I addressed the president as 'Charles?'" What insubordination! We didn't tell Greg Itzin ( who plays Logan). We shot it, and his face.... you can see the indignation. I'm really looking forward to Day 6. Pierce will be reassigned but there's a beautiful bond now between him and the first lady (Jean Smart). They've saved each other's lives, and thats bound to stir some delicious emotions between them next season.

 

[SsM]

awesome man.. Mike Aaron and jack all the way

 

[Matt]

From TV Guide

That is awesome, it sounds like not only did he save Aaron's life, he got him a bigger role for next season.

 

[SsM]

Let's hope so. I want mike and aaron to save jack maybe. Did they ever mention where wayne went???

 

[Lt. Figgnuts]

President Logan - He is alive and from the sound of things not going to face any jail time for his actions. One must assume he will have some role in things to come.

If I were a writer on 24, which I will admit I am not, I would have Logan killed by the Illuminati. Do you think they're just going to let him walk when he can possibly implicate him? They should have him killed in such a way that it looks like sucide or an assassination by a fanatic or something. That way they can get rid of Logan and wash their hands of the matter, considering that nobody else really knew about them (I don't think?).

 

[Gamma Ray]

Aaron was awesome throughout the season. From the time that the limo was attacked and he took out the shooters until the end! He was on fire!