7 Responses to “3 and 4”

1. thorleywinston Says:
   January 16th, 2007 at 10:34 am

   Isn’t this supposed to be the last season of 24?

   Random thoughts about last night’s episode(s): SPOILER WARNING

   Morris and Milo are fighting and Chloe thinks it’s all about her as opposed to the fact that working as a CTU analyst is usually prima facia evidence that you’re going to have some major problems in the area of social skills.

   Jack is back and all it took was a nuclear weapon detonating on American soil (again).

   When Jack killed Curtis, did anyone catch whether they had a silent “countdown” with the clock as they went to commercial?

   I find myself warming up to Thomas Lennox (Peter MacNicol’s character). Others referred to him as a “weasel” but I think he’s going to turn out to be more like Mike Novick – a hard edge no-nonsense type that if focused on doing what he has to do to keep the country safe. This is the first time I’ve seen Peter MacNicol in a dramatic role (I remember him largely from Alley McBeal) and I’ve been impressed so far.

   Speaking of impressive performances, Alexander Siddig (who many remember as Dr Bashir on DS9 and who played a similar role as a guest star on MI5) is OUTSTANDING as Hamri Al-Assad. Some of the performances by the actors on 24 come off as somewhat wooden and forced (Curtis Manning was completely unsympathetic and when he died I found myself saying “whatever”) but Siddig really seems to have captured all of the complexities the part of a “former terrorist leader who now wants to work for peace and stop his former associates but doesn’t trust the West” down well.

   Looking forward to Hour 5 next Monday.

2. Mitch Says:
   January 16th, 2007 at 11:32 am

   I heard last year that Sutherland signed for three seasons – up through Day 8.

   Ditto re Lennox and Siddig. And Manning, too – the character was always very one-dimensional. It’s amazing, frankly, that there’s time to develop sympathy for more than one character, given the crush of names and places and *stuff*. Actually, one thing I love about 24 is they’ll spend several seasons developing a character – Chloe, Almeida, Almeida’s eventual wife (name eludes me), Mason, even Meyers – if it warrants the depth. But it takes some serious work to squeeze a character arc into such a tight story, and it’s been interesting seeing the ones where it seemed like the writers tried and, eventually, figured they’d failed (Manning, Kim, Jack’s Orlando-Bloom-lookalike sidekick who went on to be Kim’s boyfriend, the George Costanza lookalike CTU analyst, etc).

3. Colleen Says:
   January 16th, 2007 at 12:19 pm

   Agree on Curtis-just his facial expressions alone were off-putting. I like Assad a lot-there’s depth to the man.

4. The Lady Logician Says:
   January 16th, 2007 at 1:41 pm

   The Junior Logician is hooked on Numb3rs so we are well familiar with Peter MacNicol in a dramatic role (although his character on numbers is a bit “quirky”).

   I have to admit I was shocked last night to a) see Curtis be the CTU member that went down and b) see it happen in hour 4! Which makes me wonder if more than one CTU member will eventually go down for the count!

   Mitch – after setting off a suitcase nuke in the LA environs, anything the do in upcoming seasons is going to be a bit of a let down, don’t you think?

   LL

5. flash Says:
   January 16th, 2007 at 3:06 pm

   For the Number junkey in us:

   http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman/publish/cat_index_31.asp

   There was no sixth-season slump for Jack Bauer. The season premiere of Fox’s “24” Sunday night, airing opposite CBS’s NFL playoff-plumped lineup and ABC’s “Desperate Housewives,” drew more total viewers than last year while matching the season five premiere among adults 18-49. That’s according to Nielsen overnights.

   “24” averaged a 6.1 in 18-49s and drew 15.7 million total viewers, up 6 percent over last year’s 14.8 million and the show’s best-ever debut without a football lead-in. The two-hour show began at 8 p.m. and grew from a 5.8 in its first hour to a 6.3 in its second.

   “24” also seemed to have a draining effect on NBC and ABC’s lineups. “Housewives,” while still winning its 9 p.m. timeslot, posted its lowest-ever 18-49 rating for an original episode, a 6.8. And NBC’s second week of the new show “Grease: You’re the One That I Want” plunged 37 percent from last week’s premiere to a 2.7. Lead-out “The Apprentice” also dipped 32 percent from last week, to a 2.8.
   —

   And Monday’s overnights:
   http://www.medialifemagazine.com/artman/publish/article_9543.asp

   Airing opposite the Globes, Fox’s “24” held up quite well in the second night of its two-part, four-hour season premiere. It averaged a 5.9 in adults 18-49, equaling last year’s rating against the Globes though down a tad from Sunday’s debut.

   It also drew 15.7 million total viewers, equal to Sunday and up over last year.

   The Globes kept NBC ahead of Fox for first place for the night among 18-49s, as the network averaged a 6.5 rating and a 15 share. Fox was second at 5.9/13, ABC third at 3.3/8, CBS fourth at 3.2/7, Univision fifth at 1.9/5 and CW sixth at 0.8/2.

6. Mitch Says:
   January 16th, 2007 at 3:34 pm

   I am SO happy to see 24 beating “Apprentice”.

7. thorleywinston Says:
   January 17th, 2007 at 10:43 am

   I’m all for anything that speeds the demise of reality TV and game shows in general.

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