Customer Rating: Summary: Whine Whine Comment: I spoiled myself by starting off watching season 6. I have just watched the first 4 episodes of season 1 and there is a huge difference. The bad guys are just as clever but there is very little in the way of the blockbuster action in season 6. Also Jack's wife is a whiner from hell and his daughter is nothing special. The old cliche of kidnapped wife and daughter does not help. Customer Rating: Summary: Hooked after 1 Episode of Season 6 Comment: I heard my co-workers talking about this show and watched the Season 6 opener about three years later because it was a slow night and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Before the season ended, I bought, borrowed or stole (not really stole) each preceeding season. Season 1 and 3 I could have missed but 2,4,5,and 6 are FANTASTIC. Special mention to Season 2. Best show ever. My feeling is that it's critics feel a general need to criticize. If you enjoy action and very intelligent stories, this is a show for you. Customer Rating: Summary: Last Episode Comment: It's been 3 weeks since the last episode of season 6 was broadcasted. I haven't see it yet, first dissapointment from the Unbox of Amazon, other than that, good quality, good sound, is worth to download from the unbox, good stuff!!!! Customer Rating: Summary: Such a disappointtment! Comment: Watch seasons 2-5 and you have an incredible portrayal of the man and the community that surrounds him. And you have great plot (with the dumb "override" section of season 4 a sorry exception). Maybe there was nowhere to go after season 5 but down. Season 6 so far takes the hoakiness to a new level. The new CTU characters are more unlikable than ever, even O'Brian's makeover seems to have really distorted her character. And Morris? Why should I care if he drinks or not? The potential of Karen Hayes to become a full-fledged character - as Michelle or the other female CTU head did - has so far been shelved and she now plays a one-dimensional 2nd fiddle to Peter McNichol's patented grimaces and ticks. Nadia and her boyfriend are absolutely sickening to watch. The scene of them making out in CTU was the most insulting and shallow moment I've ever seen on the show!
Mr. Sutherland has expressed concerns abou the freshness of the show. We've seen so many of these plot elements before! Nuclear threat, presidential threat, CTU tortures its own, Jack tortures an always-guilty suspect. Oh God, PLEASE don't let Kim appear again in another "Perils of Pauline" subplot!
There is no change in the tone. It's all at "11" all the time. That's fine for Casino Royale, but not for a series.
The few plusses I can think of: Bill Buchanan, Aaron Pierce, the Logans. Really almost every other character except Jack now either leaves me flat, annoyed, or angry.
The New Yorker published an in-depth article on Joel Surnow and 24 awhile ago. The political ideology and neo-con programming are really surfacing, as if the run-up to the November election was really on their minds during writing. Palmer's sister is pathethic--the most charactured bleeding-heart I've ever seen played straight.
Mr. Sutherland's concerns about the show, as expressed on Charlie Rose, are really not evident. I hope that those involved in the show are examining their consciences. Members of the military have reported to the production company that the show is glorifying torture and has itself contributed to problematic attitudes and practices in the armed forces. We can try to distance ourselves by assertig it's fantasy, but through the media, it is now shaping reality to its image. When will that start to gnaw at you, the audience member? When we know that we let ourselves get scared and tricked by that BS into starting a war that now is wasting a hundred civilians a day, can we celebreate a show that now pounds that rhetoric in as relentlessly as Rumsfield and Chency?
The show has reached the tipping point asthetically and culturally. Unless it can reinvent itself and put characters ahead of jingoism, it's time to end that beautiful dream and grow up. Customer Rating: Summary: watch episodes of 24 for FREE & legal! Comment: I don't have TV so I have been missing out on watching 24! I came across Amazon's Video Unbox Downloads and I thought I had found my answer. Sadly, Mac users are not supported at this time. Since I don't want to mess around with torrents, I thought I would just have to wait for this season to be over and the boxset to be released. After some hunting on the internet I found that the Fox Network videostreams the current season using myspace dot com! YAY! So there is no need to buy the current season's episodes! I'd rather save my money and buy the boxsets & now I also don't have to wait to see the episodes until that faraway boxset release date!
Fox's myspace page lets you watch the current season's episodes of many different Fox shows for FREE!
The new episodes for 24 are posted weekly (tuesday at 12am). This is especially nice for mac users since video unbox is still not compatible for mac users and the best part: it's FREE!!! Not only that, there are usually only 2 commercial breaks lasting less than 30 seconds each instead of the 3min30sec commerical breaks you have to endure over and over while watching the program on network television! It's free & it's legal; no hunting for torrents or waiting forever for the download to finish!
The quality of the video streaming on myspace (for FOX shows) is very good & I have not experienced any lagtime during playback. The screen size is decent (you can choose from two settings but have to select the smaller one to pause the videostream) & I've haven't experienced any audio synchronization problems either.
The systems requirement to watch the episodes on myspace are (for mac):
you must be running at least OSX & the following browsers are supported on at this time: Safari 1.3.2 (build 312.5) or later & Firefox/Mozilla 1.5 or later
watch them at: myspace dot com /24
Listing of Fox shows on myspace:
24, Prison Break, The War at Home, American Dad, Standoff, The Wedding Bells, Are you Smarter...?, Talk Show, The Winner, Bones, 'Til Death, The Loop, Vanished
For people who want to OWN the episodes: I recommend buying the boxsets new or used instead of downloading the videos and making backups.
I'm not writing a review regarding *actually using* Amazon's Unbox Video Downloads because it doesn't work for me (Mac User). My alternative suggestion of watching the episodes on myspace dot com are crossplatform user-friendly. As for the show: doesn't everyone already know it's terrific?! The most exciting hour on television (or myspace for that matter;>)! You also do NOT need to sign up for a myspace account to watch the videostreams.
ENJOY!
5 stars for the show & no stars at this time for un-mac-friendly-Amazon!
watch them at: myspace dot com /24
P.S. I don't work for, nor is this review endorsed by, [...].
