firteen88

I think that's the problem. For those who have seen every season prior (like me) It's starting to get a bit old. I'm just not surprised at anything that happens anymore because I feel I've seen it all. I love the show but it doesnt have that edge of the seat feeling it once did for me. Dare I say I'm enjoying prison break more than 24 so far.

Depression

That stuff irks me. The writers sacrifice character for the convenience of the plot. They create the guy to be a machine, yet he has to be captured so two rent a cops take him out by blindsiding him?

Miami Joe

Reminded me of those old Miami Vice episodes where you see only quick moments at the beginning of the episode of Crockett & Tubbs and the rest of the episode is all about Zito and Swytek... not very interesting. (But I'll still watch it all)

Lara Means

This is so true.

aynrandgirl

Rather odd that Karen didn't tell the President she was being blackmailed. After that, even if those "witnesses" come forward Palmer would make sure nobody would listen to them.

Shannon Nutt

I agree with most of you here...pretty sad epsiode.

How many administrations are we going to go through where either the guy in charge is being manipulated by one of his aides; or the guy in charge is manipulating everyone else?! Hey - how about an administration where everyone is working together and all the tension/drama comes from outside sources? The show is starting to become a mockery of itself. Karen being "forced" to resign was really poor and desperate writing.

I do think the Jack & Family storyline has some potential - only because I know what a good actor Cromwell can be. I got the sense that Poppa Bauer might be "playing along" with Bluetooth Brotha last night...but that's probably because Cromwell has played a number of "heavies" before. But this IS 24...characters change totally mid-way through seasons all the time.

GatorDeb

Why do you all keep calling him Biscuit?

Jadzia

He was known as the Biscuit on Ally McBeal.

GatorDeb

Which begs the question why was he called the Biscuit on Ally McBeal?

Jadzia

Good question. I could not remember so this is what I was able to find out:

Doughboy

I prefer calling him Janosz Poha.

El Scorcho

Filler?

You want filler? Wait til they write an episode where Jack Bauer sits in LA traffic for the entire hour.

Jadzia

Hey at least we didn't get the obligatory fallout episode where the rain washed away all the radiation a la Jericho.

wmansir

There didn't seem to be too much filler to me, but perhaps it was because I FF'd thru most of the interment camp scenes. That being said, let me make sure I have this straight: The suspicious arab guys were completely innocent, and were just repeating rumors posted on a public website. Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't these random arab guys the primary source for the feds know there were 4 more nukes? So it was just a fortuitous coincidence that the BS they were repeating was correct?

Also, did they explain why this group of terrorist wanna-bes were debating whether they could trust the muslim center guy? "We can't trust that guy with our DailyJihad.com rumors. It's too risky!"

C-Mart

It was a private site that they somehow infiltrated to get information... but it does seem odd that they would pick and choose who to trust, unless they didn't want everyone to know that they were terrorist sympathizers. I liked Graem's switch at the end of the episode... we all knew he was buying time for something, I guess it was to get daddy into the ground with Jack.

auto

Depression

Its the same way with M Night movies. Sixth Sense caught us off balance but after going for the shocker everytime we're smart enough to stand on guard anytime we see one of his movies.

In 24 we now watch with the mindset to expect the unexpected.

juanmgonzalez

So TRUE

riley_dude

And in Sophie's Choice and in The Dragonslayer eons ago.
The whole Karen thing and her having to resign was very frustrating and please, now that the girl has full security access at CTU, don't let her be a trader.

Baron Of Hell

How are you people defining filler? A filler episode is an episode that is not required to understand the the story. It doesn't move the story in any way. Fillers are mostly used to give minor characters a chance to shine or give backstory. They are always self contained. If the the basic story of what you are calling a filler episodes continues past one episode then it is story arc.

Bad writing, a boring story is not what makes an episode filler. There can be great episodes that are more or less filler episodes.

I don't believe 24 has ever had an episode that can be described as filler. Each episode advances the story along.

On a different note it finally came to me where I have seen that FBI guy from. He played the slow guy on OZ, the long haired O'reily brother. This show has the biggest cast of "I know that guy from somewhere actors".

TGM

Anyone know if they even approached Donald Sutherland about playing Jack's dad? Seems like such a waste!

Michael Corvin

Palmer did say he would have the military get her there ASAP. So it won't be long. 2 hours tops.

Definitely a snoozer.

movie diva

who knows?

Deftones

Who is playing that hooker/whore that is with the English guy that is trying to find the tech to program the nuke? I know I've seen her before, but just can't remember where.

DRG

Yeah, the Arab camp thing didn't make a lick of sense. If you're innocent, is it really a good idea to be sneakily accessing Islamic terrorist websites while being held under suspicion of being a terrorist? Even if you're a wannabe sympathizer, you wouldn't want to go down like that... what use are you to the 'cause' that way?

I didn't think the episode was filler as much as it was a boring "table setting" episode. It basically just switched all the gears in the storylines... take Karen away from Palmer, introduce Papa Bauer, wrap up the Arab camp undercover plotline...