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Proud to Say We Loved 24
May 25, 2010 - 02:40 PM
Hearing Kiefer Sutherland say the words “events
occur in real time” for the final time last night
drove home that 24 is over. What started as
a TV gimmick (one that I’d originally rolled my
eyes at) lasted eight action packed
seasons. I’ll admit that when the show
began I hadn’t planned on watching but my husband
had to see it. Now, when he sees me
enjoying 24, I hear, “who told you to watch this
show?” Yes, you did dear. Ugh.
I hate it when he’s right. He never lets me
forget it.
24 was a roller coaster ride from day one. It was a concept unique to TV but the real time gimmick isn’t what I’ll remember. The show has given us characters and moments that have been burned into TV history. I’ll never be able to list them all but as I look back at this amazing show, here are some of my favorite 24 memories…
-The death of Teri Bauer. Any other show would have had Jack ride in at the end of season one and save his long suffering wife. It’s an action show and that is what we expect from our TV action shows. Not here. Teri’s death was shocking. It told viewers that anything could happen in the world of 24. No character was ever safe.
-Nina Myers was undoubtedly the best villain on the show. She was a cautionary tale to Jack. She was the affair that would come back to haunt him in so many ways. Nina who started the show as Jack’s former lover, friend, and co-worker ended up as a mole, traitor to her country, terrorist, and the murderer of Jack’s wife. She lasted three seasons and created more havoc that any other villain on the show. I still miss Nina.
-The Presidents. In only eight seasons 24 seemed to go through quite a few Presidents but who was better than President David Palmer. He was the epitome of what a President should be: strong, honest, and heroic when necessary. Palmer fought threats to the country and to him personally both from outside forces and from within his own administration and even his own family. President Palmer was Jack Bauer’s staunchest ally and with his assassination 24 managed to surprise me yet again. I didn’t see it coming.
Although President Taylor flipped flopped from being willing to lose her family for her principles last season to selling her soul for a peace agreement in this one and then finding said soul once again and turning herself in, President Logan never waivered. A selfish bastard from moment one, Logan never disappointed. He was the first to take credit when things went right and the first to find a scape goat when they didn’t. Logan was an embarrassment to the Office but he was so much fun to watch. Gregory Itzin played him as unrepentant in his failings as a President and human being. I half expected the weasel to find a dark hole to jump down at the end of last night’s episode but his cowardly exit was a fitting end to an entertaining character.
-Jack’s lovers. (We’ll just hit the hightlights.) Being romantically linked to Jack Bauer is hazardous to your health. First we have Teri his wife who was murdered by Jack’s ex-lover Nina who was then murdered by Jack (but can you blame him.) Then there is Audrey Raines who ends up being tortured and last seen in a catatonic state. Then this season we had Renee Walker. Poor Jack. He has on-screen sex once in eight years. He gets up to get a drink of water and comes back to find Renee bleeding out from a sniper’s bullet. That was just cruel. It had me yelling at my TV screen. It was so very 24.
I could continue this article indefinitely with characters that left an impression. From crazy First Ladies such as Martha Logan and Sherry Palmer (well, she was an almost First Lady), to Secret Service agent Aaron Pierce, to all of Jack’s CTU co-workers: Tony, Michelle, George Mason, Edgar, etc., etc but this article might never end.
My favorite character of the series (other than Jack) has to be Chloe O’Brian. Snarky, sarcastic, computer geek Chloe. As she once said herself “I was inappropriately blunt. Sorry. I do that a lot.” And I always loved her for it. As Jack said in the finale, who would have thought that she’d be the one Jack could count on to have his back all of these years. Yet she did. Every time. Somehow it seemed right for Chloe to have the last words on 24. “Shut it down.” And now…we wait for the movie.
Share you comments here!
Sean 5/25/10 6:39pm
--I hated that they killed Renee. It ruined the whole season for me. I almost stopped watching.
__________
24Fanatic 5/26/10 2:13am
--So I wasn't the only one yelling at the screen. But I really wanted them to bring Audrey back for the end.
24 was a roller coaster ride from day one. It was a concept unique to TV but the real time gimmick isn’t what I’ll remember. The show has given us characters and moments that have been burned into TV history. I’ll never be able to list them all but as I look back at this amazing show, here are some of my favorite 24 memories…
-The death of Teri Bauer. Any other show would have had Jack ride in at the end of season one and save his long suffering wife. It’s an action show and that is what we expect from our TV action shows. Not here. Teri’s death was shocking. It told viewers that anything could happen in the world of 24. No character was ever safe.
-Nina Myers was undoubtedly the best villain on the show. She was a cautionary tale to Jack. She was the affair that would come back to haunt him in so many ways. Nina who started the show as Jack’s former lover, friend, and co-worker ended up as a mole, traitor to her country, terrorist, and the murderer of Jack’s wife. She lasted three seasons and created more havoc that any other villain on the show. I still miss Nina.
-The Presidents. In only eight seasons 24 seemed to go through quite a few Presidents but who was better than President David Palmer. He was the epitome of what a President should be: strong, honest, and heroic when necessary. Palmer fought threats to the country and to him personally both from outside forces and from within his own administration and even his own family. President Palmer was Jack Bauer’s staunchest ally and with his assassination 24 managed to surprise me yet again. I didn’t see it coming.
Although President Taylor flipped flopped from being willing to lose her family for her principles last season to selling her soul for a peace agreement in this one and then finding said soul once again and turning herself in, President Logan never waivered. A selfish bastard from moment one, Logan never disappointed. He was the first to take credit when things went right and the first to find a scape goat when they didn’t. Logan was an embarrassment to the Office but he was so much fun to watch. Gregory Itzin played him as unrepentant in his failings as a President and human being. I half expected the weasel to find a dark hole to jump down at the end of last night’s episode but his cowardly exit was a fitting end to an entertaining character.
-Jack’s lovers. (We’ll just hit the hightlights.) Being romantically linked to Jack Bauer is hazardous to your health. First we have Teri his wife who was murdered by Jack’s ex-lover Nina who was then murdered by Jack (but can you blame him.) Then there is Audrey Raines who ends up being tortured and last seen in a catatonic state. Then this season we had Renee Walker. Poor Jack. He has on-screen sex once in eight years. He gets up to get a drink of water and comes back to find Renee bleeding out from a sniper’s bullet. That was just cruel. It had me yelling at my TV screen. It was so very 24.
I could continue this article indefinitely with characters that left an impression. From crazy First Ladies such as Martha Logan and Sherry Palmer (well, she was an almost First Lady), to Secret Service agent Aaron Pierce, to all of Jack’s CTU co-workers: Tony, Michelle, George Mason, Edgar, etc., etc but this article might never end.
My favorite character of the series (other than Jack) has to be Chloe O’Brian. Snarky, sarcastic, computer geek Chloe. As she once said herself “I was inappropriately blunt. Sorry. I do that a lot.” And I always loved her for it. As Jack said in the finale, who would have thought that she’d be the one Jack could count on to have his back all of these years. Yet she did. Every time. Somehow it seemed right for Chloe to have the last words on 24. “Shut it down.” And now…we wait for the movie.
Share you comments here!
Sean 5/25/10 6:39pm
--I hated that they killed Renee. It ruined the whole season for me. I almost stopped watching.
__________
24Fanatic 5/26/10 2:13am
--So I wasn't the only one yelling at the screen. But I really wanted them to bring Audrey back for the end.