Michael Corvin

I forgot where I read it and this is definitely a paraphrase but his response was he was undecided right now, but as long as the fans want him back, he will more than likely be back.

Luds

Wow, that axe shot to the guts for the kill was awesome, pure badass and I didn't expect that to happen!
Seeing Tooms again was very nice, I was a major fan of his performances in the X-Files

New season is good so far, I'll reserve judgement on Cole/Freddy after a few episodes, but for now it looks good: He has conflict with the stubborn head of CTU who won't listen to Jack, that's a good start. He kinda questioned him after Jack was about to blackmail him about the info he held out on, another good sign.

I'm not sure what the deal is with blondie, if her name change is going to be a tool used by the baddies to make her a mole or it it's unrelated, but I'm not crazy about the idea. I mean, CTU would have done background checks right? LAME!

Chloe is the very worst thing about 24. Her annoying bitchy character was funny in season 3 when she started iirc, then kinda grew on you during 4 and peaked during season 5 around the possible love storyline with Edgar. Since then, she has been the same annoying bitch with major people issues. Yeah we know that she's good at her job, but hell, they've killed off so many good characters, it's time for the bitch to get a bullet in the head and move on to something new. If not, it's the same old repeated stuff. Being a total bitch with coworkers, insinuating that they're dumb and slow, complaining about every little thing her superior asks for because she's too busy, etc. It's beyond tiring.

Ropes Pierre

Freckles...

Matthew Ackerly

Pretty solid start.

I have to admit, Freddie Prinze Jr. played his part pretty damn good.

cdollaz

I guess Starbuck is reading a different employee handbook re: the dress code.

macnorton

Well, color me dissappointed. Those two hours were kind of lame. Granted they needed to setup the whole season, but it really fell flat for me:

- Hastings is another in a long line of CTU morons, and I give him until mid-season
- Chloe has been completely dumbed down...a slap in the face to the fans
- If Freddie Prinze was any stiffer he would be a block of wood
- I did like how Jack was brought back in and not that lame, "Dad please don't leave again" cliche we have seen way too many times
- Didn't we all see who was trying to kill Hassan from the first few seconds of the episode?
- Katie Shackoff's character sub-plot is going to be lame, cougar lame
- Also enjoyed the end of episode two...that was really slick who the main bad guy was revealed

The action was good, everything else kind of sucked. But 24 usually has about 4 episodes a season that kind of suck, so if it gets out of the way early, I am all for it.

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chuckd21

I get what they're going for with the Hastings character. He got the job at CTU because he said he could do things cheaply and quickly. And now it looks as though this is the first real incident he's had to deal with, and it's not going to go by the book. And so he does what all middle management types do, he pushes back on everyone else. I'm okay with his character.

I mean, hell... all it took was Jack even mentioning that he would expose Hastings' pencil pushing ways and Jack got a free pass to set up a little mini-CTU within the real CTU. Erin Driscoll would have locked Jack in a cell anyway.

Goldberg74

Was it just me, or are there other BSG fans that kept looking for big ol' should tatts on Katie?

Good start to the season... and I have to say that FPjr is doing a pretty good job.

Groucho

He may have also bribed his superiors with several varieties of shrimp.

Michael Corvin

I was hoping he was a dip user.

chuckd21

He also revitalized a small radio station in Cincinnati.

Charlie Goose

Seemed very much same-old-same-old to me.

Luds

I agree with this, he clearly plays politics and is a huge budget type guy, he'll learn to listen to Jack in time

What I don't get is if they make Chloe to be some dumbass idiot who can't learn new software and protocols, why don't they just fire her?

And the same as previously mentioned, she can't run a search but can hack her way into the system?

OldBoy

i loved Jennifer in "Kissing Jessica Stein" but she really is a terrible actress (with that lilty, breathy voice and actions) and am positive only got this gig because of how big Jon is now.

OldBoy

does 24 go back to 9pm EST on 1/25 or 8? i believe that is how it was last year and i was able to tape Chuck, then 24.

DJariya

House returns to 8pm on the 25th and 24 moves to 9pm.

Gunde

Not a good start to the season. It was pretty boring.
The exact same plot devices as always.
Katee Sackhoff's character is already terrible.
The new CTU looks incredibly stupid.

Only good thing was the axe kill.

skatefan20

Yeah this soap opera with guns is treading on familiar ground here in a new city -- I'm getting a Chase's baby/Erin Driscoll's daughter/Michelle's brother type subplot vibe already with the Dana Walsh character -- but that still was an entertaining 2 hours.

Chloe simply rocked last nite! Her last remark to the new CTU head about efficiency -- ZING!!

Michael Corvin

Merkin Muffley

Who cast Indian Jason Schwartzman as the President Hassan's advisor? It's hard to take him seriously when he looks so goofy.

whoopdido

To me it seems like they're setting up something with him. I mean other CTU directors have been portrayed as pretty crappy, but they seem to be making Bubba out to be the absolute worst. Pretty much every decision he made was wrong, got people killed, trying to coverup stuff, etc. Why introduce a character that's so incompetent? I have no idea where they might be going with Hastings, but I checked imdb and he's in every episode this season so it's going to get pretty old if every week he does something wrong.

Gilgamesh1082

yes!

Tarantino

I'm pretty sure that was Aladdin just trying to get in some 'after Disney' work.

ardathbey

I loved it all but my favorite part had to be when Jack's granddaughter requested better cartoons
and Jack immediately put on Fox News.