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• 1. Jason P  |  May 2nd, 2007 at 8:25 am

  Well, I don’t know who over at the “24″ writing staff thought repeating the exact same plotline from Season 2 would be a good thing, but I guess low ratings is the result.

• 2. Don Taylor  |  May 2nd, 2007 at 8:43 am

  Like Cory, it’s still on my DVR list, but it’s no longer a MUST watch and a talk about at work. I now watch a day or two later so that I can breeze through most of it.

  Story arcs and characters come and go too quickly and without explanation while the big picture plots plod along and rehash past seasons. President in a coma one minute and out the next, Jack’s dad there and suddenly disappears, Audrey gone and now she’s back, etc.

  Well, at least I still have LOST.

• 3. coffee  |  May 2nd, 2007 at 9:19 am

  24 always worked as an escalating series of improbable dilemmas. I seem to recall that there is no breaking of seasonal story arcs - which in the past made the show unpredictable; however, having explored the most extreme scenarios, now makes the show a bit listless. There are some more absurd places to take the show that might be fun (post-apocalyptic Bauer anyone? Insane Kim and her mountain lion?) - but that seems unlikely with a film coming.

  It doesn’t help that “Heroes” occupies the same timeslot.

• 4. Steve Safran  |  May 2nd, 2007 at 9:30 am

  Not to mention the fact that you have a very limited life expectancy on that show if you’re a current or former president of the U.S.

• 5. Charles  |  May 2nd, 2007 at 9:39 am

  The show is pretty much in the same place it was following the massive snooze that was Season 3. And they “revamped” the show following that season by bringing in an almost completely new cast. Now they’re promising to revamp again, but the language indicates they may be thinking outside of CTU.

  It’s definately too late for THIS season, because, well, it just plain sucks. But the great/horrible thing about 24 is that it starts completely anew every season. So they can, in theory, fix upon and improve upon mistakes made easily enough.

  Just as long as next season they have clear, coherant storylines for the WHOLE season…

• 6. Aaron  |  May 2nd, 2007 at 12:25 pm

  Politically, the nation has shifted since 24 premiered in the aftermath of 9/11.

  24 was a show about heroes and villains, and it didn’t deal in shades of gray. It flourished as The West Wing, a show that was all about gray, floundered.

  Now, we’re shifting back, and 24 tried to insert shades of gray, but they didn’t commit fully to turning Jack the hero into Jack the anti-hero. They only managed to turn Jack into a pu**y. (And we’re not talking silly putty.)

  If the producers of 24 want to shake things up, they’ll need to turn CTU into the bad guys. Let VP Daniels win and install an authoritarian state that’s just a little too reminiscent of the Bush administration.

  Jack and Chloe and whoever else is still alive from the earlier seasons can operate underground, fighting without all the toys they had. Much like Star Trek after 14 seasons, the gizmo factor is worn out anyway. Turn Jack into a 21st century MacGyver with a political axe to grind. Then I’ll tune back in.

• 7. ohigotchya  |  May 2nd, 2007 at 12:26 pm

  heroes shmeroes

  they came in with more attention than hiroshima… and let hiroshima happen in the season premiere.

  shouldnt u save the first-ever-television-broadcast-of-a-nuke-blasting-on-american-soil for a bit later?

  i stopped watching after episode 6. I was a devoted fan BEFORE this season. Believability is always a stretch on this show, but when I saw Jack’s dad and brother had shady involvement… come on, thats just sad.

• 8. adm  |  May 2nd, 2007 at 1:15 pm

  this has always been the most frustrating show on television. so much unmet potential. i think the format is really just not sustainable. they should change the name to “12″ or even “6″ and do two slices of two different days per season.

  have you all seen showtime’s “sleeper cell”? not perfect, but WAY better than 24.

• 9. Tim  |  May 2nd, 2007 at 6:48 pm

  Progammers for networks should, but probably never will, take note of two themes:

  1) people hate it when their shows get repetitive (or worse, derivative of other shows)
  2) people get interested in new things (we’re curious apes after all)

  People switched to Heroes because it was new and different, and 24 was getting old and repetetive

• 10. Steve Safran  |  May 2nd, 2007 at 7:52 pm

  What you really have here is the fundamental problem with American broadcast television mentality: the inability to have only a few seasons of a successful show. There are shows for which a 1-2 season story arc would be perfect, yet because of our system, the networks will always insist on running those shows into the ground. Every successful show will eventually collapse (with a few rare, rare exceptions) because of this.

  I don’t care about a show being realistic. I watch TV to escape reality. I care about good storylines. And you can’t watch shows like “Lost,” “Prison Break,” and “24″ without thinking “They’re not really going to give us a satisfying conclusion until the end of the show’s run,” and we don’t know when that will be.

  I don’t blame the show’s creators - I blame a system that takes a perfectly good idea for a one-season show and says “Great - can you give us 7 more just like it?”

  The more we insist on crap, the more they’ll give us.

• 11. Hussman  |  May 3rd, 2007 at 6:40 am

  As a devoted ‘24′ who even liked Season 3, I will admit this season is a bit weak and even repetative, but after Season 4 & 5 being as incredible as they were, it would be very hard to top that. Remember, this show won the Emmy for Season 5… odds are it’ll be back like gangbusters next season, though I think season 8 should be their last.

• 12. The Tony  |  May 3rd, 2007 at 6:49 am

  I hear a lot of reports about how conservative types are pulling the string behind the scenes at 24.

  Clearly, they’re just out of touch with what America cares about right now — Cliff Clavin dancing and Sanjaya Malakar.

  Oh, and Heroes is amazing. 24’s just another day…

• 13. Brian  |  May 3rd, 2007 at 7:12 am

  Here’s what turned me off 24, after watching every episode, every season and the first few episodes this season.

  Several weeks ago, I attended a night of short films at a bar in Hollywood, and one of the films shown was by a recurring cast member of 24. The film involved kidnapping and torture of people with foreign accents. It was just like 24, but without the jokes.

  I’ve always had difficulty with the torture scenes in the show–I intellectualized them as necessary for furthering the plot in this type of drama. But after seeing someone who works on the show internalize the show’s paranoid worldview (and I generally mean paranoid in a good way–until now it’s been a positive for me as a fan of the show) to the point where this worldview is the basis for said person’s(expensive) personal project, I haven’t been able to watch the show again.

  My DVR still records it, but I’ve begun deleting them.

• 14. Mitch  |  May 3rd, 2007 at 12:03 pm

  Time slot? Good one.

• 15. Anonymous  |  September 23rd, 2007 at 8:58 pm

  when does the 7th season of “24″ start? and when is the timeslot?

• 16. Sonny  |  November 16th, 2007 at 7:21 pm

  “24″ is one of my favorite series on an otherwise boring and inane medium. The only comment I have with the show is to suggest CTU do a better job of screening its employees. There are too many whose background should have been investigated more carefully.

  I can hardly wait for Season #7.

• 17. zanna  |  February 18th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

  I loved season 4 and 5. I thought they were AMAZING. (i thought 4 was better) Season 6 was good…..but is was soooooo predictable! I figured out what was going to happen….I watch LOST also and what i love about that show is that it is soooo UNpredictable. Anyone could die at any time. With 24 you know who will live and die. I thought the characters were so weak in season 6. the relationships within CTU was all the same. I can’t wait for season 7. I watched a preview for it…..what does it mean CTU is gone???????
  People always say that 24 is not relistic but thats not what TV is for.

• 18. Janet Thwaits  |  April 6th, 2008 at 3:53 pm

  I liked to watch 24.It was tense and exciting and the good guys won. Iwish that were true in the real world

• 19. Sali  |  May 9th, 2008 at 7:46 pm

  Get this show up and running soon! I came in on the last 2 seasons, so no repeats for me. I love this show…

• 20. rkg  |  May 20th, 2008 at 6:01 pm

  and it doesn’t help that most networks are liberal and run by Jews

• 21. howard hannum  |  May 28th, 2008 at 9:36 am

  too many good people killed off for no other reason than to just prove that no one’s job is safe and to be unpredictable; and that could be the show’s down fall….edgar and tony and curtis should never have been killed off and we were just starting to warm up to dessler and they kill her off…….perhaps the most annoying part of the show is that they send in 2 crews to converge on a suspect and go through this elaborate scheme with satalite back up and roof top guards and a chopper and all exits covered and then you see the bad guy escape through the floor to an underneath tunnel and outside the perimeter; that’s the completely bogus part of it!!!

• 22. Cheryl  |  July 5th, 2008 at 10:05 pm

  I didn’t see a single commercial advertising the beginning of this year’s season. I didn’t know if it was on or had been cancelled. Last season was a bit lame and I was hoping to see a revamped season this year.

• 23. race  |  July 24th, 2008 at 5:54 am

  yeah, wtf is going on with 24,, if you go to youtube, you can see un-aired shows that are from next season and are showing in other countries

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