Alright so unless you’ve been under a rock for the past few years you’re realize one of two things. One being that America has been more involved in global terrorism than ever, and that Jack Bauer is one tought mother fucker. Yes Jack Bauer, the hero portrayed by Keifer Sutherland on the FOX show 24. The show has been around since the time of the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the U.S. and has hit hard with American culture, which has never been more apparent than in the four hour season 6 start of the show.
A few weeks back 24′s first four season six episodes were released via Bit Torrent thanks to a DVD release of the episodes getting into the wrong(right?) hands. For those of you who haven’t seen the episodes before last night then you were in for a treat. The season starts with America basically into a hell whole. There have been numerous attacks on the country, in malls, on buses, and in almost every major city or state. The current President Wayne Palmer, the brother of the recently killed off David Palmer, has no choice but to free the imprisoned Jack Bauer who was in a Chinese prison for 20 months since season 5′s end. The President does give them something, which wasn’t ever told on the show but you can expect it to be revealed later on. Within the Presidential cabinet you can see turmoil, which is going to open up future storylines, building up already with the idea of prison camps in America. This is one of the parallels of today’s America to the show. A terrorist, by the name of Fahad(sp?) wants Jack dead because Jack murdered his brother through torture back in ’99. Jack agrees to being handed over to the terrorist in exchange for the location of another man named Asaad who is believed to be behind the terrorist attacks on the U.S. Jack gives himself up because he feels that he would be dying for something, which is why he wanted to stay alive in China because he didn’t want to die for nothing. It truly reminds the audience that Jack is a bold true Patriot once again.
That’s how the season began, but only for the first few minutes of the first episode. The rest of the four hours goes off with a bang, which I don’t want to spoil a lot of. All I will say is that a main character dies, Jack Bauer handles himself in an extremely dark way, Jack breaks down, the worst fear of anyone in the history of the show is met with reality at the end of the fourth episode, people lie, people join sides for good and bad, and much more happens. I’ll start to post more in depth reviews but since this was a four hour opener I figured I would instead spare my hands the cramping of typing what could easily be a ten page essay, into just giving you some insight and saying go pick up the DVD when it comes out tommorow. It includes future scenes as well, I think 15 minutes of next weeks episode too.
January 16, 2007 at 10:34 pm
I was one of the ones who began watching it Sunday. However, due to me not finishing my homework on the Monday break, I had to do it at night and missed the 2nd one. XD
It pissed me off, and the 50 point art project turned out like crap, which gives my first assignment, a drawing of a man holding his mother, disrespect. We’ve done two assignment now, the art project that looked like crap, and the drawing. My drawing was the best in the class, but my project literally looked like paper put on a shoe box with sloppy sketches…
Anyway, 24 was addicting and kept me on my seat. However, BSG (Battlestar Galactica still pwns it).