Monday, September 13, 2010

The Best and Worst of the Eighth Season of 24

Best Moments:

5. Chloe O'Brian CTU Director

Well that had to happen.

4. Omar Hassan's Execution

Is it weird that I'm listing this as "Best Moment"? I've read that Fox was never comfortable with having the President on 24 killed but, shit, do whatever you want to the Muslim President of a fake country. In a show that has done it all, the camera panning to Hassan's violently slit throat actually shocked me.

3. Charles Logan in a devil costume sitting on Alison Taylor's shoulder

What better use of Charles Logan's speechifying skills than to wind him up and let him go off and explain why President Taylor must make another awful choice. It was just more phenomenal work done by Gregory Itzin.

2. Jack Bauer uses his final free moment to thank Chloe O'Brian

*cries for 5 minutes*

1. Jack Bauer's path of destruction

I didn't think it would be fair to separate Jack's actions in the final third of the season. After the President tried to detain him, each hour contained another fantastic Jack Bauer moment until the bitter end. You had torture, execution, ambushes, massacres, etc. Jack Bauer is a bad man.

Worst Moments

5. New York cop beats on Jack Bauer

What a truly awful waste of time. If it made any sort of sense, maybe I could have accepted it. Instead, this was clearly there as a way to delay Jack from calling in the assassination attempt Hassan.

4. Dark Renee Walker

I'm sorry ... I can't stand Renee Walker.

3. Ethan Kanin's heart attack

We did this in season 3 and it was awful then! Why repeat it?

2. President Taylor listens to Charles Logan

This was completely unbelievable. Each option that Logan offered Taylor was worse than the next but she kept agreeing with him because we needed to keep Jack Bauer in the wrong. This was a complete 180 from the President Taylor we had been seeing since Redemption.

1. Dana Walsh

I'm done complaining. Just an awful character and a waste of Katee Sackhoff.

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