24 Character Countdown (Episode 24)
Tom Lennox (115)
-Stood up for Josh when the air strike was announced (+5)
-Totally turned his character around 180 degrees (+10)
Net Gain/Loss: +15
Current Total: 130
Bill Buchanan (179)
-Can fly helicopters, who knew? (+6)
-Perfect ladder placement for Jack when he had to jump off of the exploding oil rig (+9)
Net Gain/Loss: +15
Current Total: 194
Nadia Yassir (105)
-Still is pretty good looking even though she has a humongous scar on her face (+2)
Net Gain/Loss: +2
Current Total: 107
Jack Bauer (620)
-Commandeered CTU helicopter (+5)
-Took out tons of people on the oil rig platform by blowing up flammable canisters (+8)
-Made it awfully hard to tally the final kill count (-3)
-How do you like your Cheng? Regular or extra crispy? (+8)
-Didn’t put a bullet in Phillip Bauer’s head when he had a chance (-6)
-Jumped off an exploding oil rig, all in a day’s work for Jack Bauer (+5)
-Took a swim in the ocean (+2)
-Can kill countless people and save the world a dozen times, but he still got totally owned by a wave (-4)
-Showed up at Heller’s house unannounced, it’s a great thing that Heller lives about five minutes away, walking distance (+3)
-Gave a rousing “Jason Bourne-esque� speech to Heller (+5)
-Said goodbye to Audrey even though he didn’t want to (+6)
-Stared out into the ocean and thought about nothing in particular (-1)
Net Gain/Loss: +28
Current Total: 648
Chloe O’Brian (217)
-Is pregnant (-8)
Net Gain/Loss: -8
Current Total: 209
Morris O’Brian (114)
-Felt bad for Chloe’s “Pale�-ness (+2)
-Is out of the medical knowledge loop because he’s the Ex Husband (-2)
-Found out that his “boys� can swim (+9)
Net Gain/Loss: +9
Current Total: 123
Vice President Powers Boothe (-21)
-Confirmed the air strike on the oil rig (+2)
-Dropped the charges against Bill and Karen (+15)
Net Gain/Loss: +17
Current Total: -4
Karen Hayes (130)
-Got the charges against her dropped (+5)
Net Gain/Loss: +5
Current Total: 135
Rick “Mikey Doyle� Schroder (94)
-The terrible acting continued even with the Blind Doyle “Get the kid Jack. Get the kid.� Uggg! (-5)
Net Gain/Loss: -5
Current Total: 89
FINAL LEADERBOARD:
Jack Bauer—648
Chloe O’Brian—209
Bill Buchanan—194
Karen Hayes—135
Tom Lennox—130
Morris O’Brian—123
Nadia Yassir—107
Rick “Mikey Doyle� Schroder—89
Charles Logan—Good thing he made his peace with God, because he’s dead, dead, dead!
President Wayne Palmer—72
Milo—0
Vice President Powers Boothe—(-4)
Sandra Palmer—(-7)
Special Awards:
Pointless Storyline #2 Award: Goes to Chloe being pregnant. That’s all we need for next season, an entire subplot of Chloe managing her baby. All around the pregnancy was just a stupid idea more suited for Grey’s Anatomny.
Take That Grandpa Award: Goes to Josh. Nailed his gramps with a wrench then shot him in the shoulder. Now that’s some good old fashion family love there. Way to go Josh!
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Well looking at the final leaderboard you basically got it right. I reckon Nadia deserved more than a mid-table spot though. she handled the season pretty well for a newbie.
Also, shouldn’t Logan have the same amount of points as Milo, what with being dead and all?
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:48 pm
You know, it’s possible that Chloe’s pregnancy was introduced as a way to quietly write her out of the show and not to set up a subplot for next season.
Also, no mention of Morris’s line “with a child?”
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:45 pm
I think i am the only one who thinks Chloe getting preggers isn’t a pointless storyline
It is possible for this to turn into Chloe’s reason to leave CTU next season or in the future. I’m really surprised no one else has thought of this.
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:51 pm
hahaha i love how after i say “im surprised no one else has thought of this” the poster before me did 1 hour befor hahahahha..
stupid me.. go figure
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Well it would make a change from the normal killing off method.
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Great work on the countdown, Aaron!
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Good job for the season! I’m pretty new to 24, so I’ll be spending the next few months goin’ at 24 “star wars style”. Time to hit up Amazon for Season 1-5 discs!
Looking forward to next January!
Cheers!
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Can you imagine the faces that Chloe is going to be giving while she is pregnant! Now she can blame her snappy remarks and stupid comments on her hormonal imbalance because of her pregnancy. What was her excuse for all the other seasons?
May 24th, 2007 at 4:32 am
Ya that Josh,
He is a true Bauer isn’t he, His Dad must be proud…..Oh ya he’s dead…OR IS HE????
The writers needed to have a line for everyone to know why the heck Chloe had that all pissed off look all season….HORMONES!!!
Gonna miss ol’ Mickey Doyle….Uh no I’m not, same crappy acting that drove me from that New York Cop show he made his sorta comeback on. I can’t even remember the name of the show.
Aaron +150
great job keeping all interested all season with your listings and countdown,
but remember when Chloe tells Morris the kid is not his. I CALLED IT FIRST!!!
May 24th, 2007 at 5:01 am
The only thing sad about Chloe being pregnant is now she won’t be able to help Jack in the capacity that has made her a favorite (i.e. always on his side). Now who’s Jack gonna depend on to help him get around the idiots who don’t know any better?
May 24th, 2007 at 5:23 am
Chloe’s baby is Jack’s son. The prequel to next season will be Morris and Chloe looking at the Sonogram (or whatever you call it) in a few months and realizing that their baby is a cross between a cougar and a wolverine, the inescapable sign of Bauer blood.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:04 am
How much longer until I can buy Season 6 and watch it in a day?
May 24th, 2007 at 7:30 am
What about those F-18’s? Where were they coming from? At a cruising speed of 660 miles per hour, that means they’d be coming from at least around 250 miles away… couldn’t they find any closer?
May 24th, 2007 at 8:49 am
^ And why did Bill’s helicopter take longer to reach the oil rig than it took the boat?
Jack should get an award for going through 5 different sets of clothes in a single day, although wikipedia reckons Sherri had 6 in Day 1, so it’s not a new record.
May 24th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Remember in season 3 or 4 when Chase got someone pregnant. Do we see him anymore? Maybe that means Chloe is no longer on =(
And I think that Philip Bauer is still alive.
May 24th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
I agree with Ethan - Philip Bauer is alive, and was picked up by the submarine sent by the Chinese. He was just shot in the shoulder; he could easily survive. After Jack ran away from his pops, Philip jumped off the boat and into the water where the submarine picked him (and the chip) up. DUN DUN DUN!
although I hope that didn’t happen because I don’t like the mullet (or his character)
May 24th, 2007 at 5:08 pm
And the final KILL-O-METER(tm) tally reads: 49 kills, a new record! Congratulations to Jack Bauer for being a homicidal maniac in every sense of the word… good thing he’s on our side!
FunFact: Jack killed 7 people in the first 13 hours and 42 people in the last 11 hours, a blistering KILL-OCITY(tm) of 3.18 kills per hour!
May 24th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Okay, you gotta give Jack some of those special “Bill Buchanan Recap Points” for recapping his whole 6 season career in 2 lines:
“I can disappear. I’m good at that.”
“I’ll kill you. I’m good at that too!”
May 24th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Hey…
how do ya know it’s Morris’ boys that are swimmin’?
Just think of all of the Morris-sulking and Nadia scowls Chloe can wring out of next season. You think you could give her +10 right now for the inevitible “Get over it” speech she’s gonna give ‘em?
President Tom Lennox, anyone?
I’m gonna go out on a limb here, and say that Kim is gonna be next season’s uber-villain– Can you imagine how P.O.’d she’d be if she found out her dad reappeared twice and didn’t tell her?
As for Mikey Doyle, I expect him to ditch his NYPD Blue Silver Spoon for the Nick Fury look (or at least Spencer Trilby) as the new head of CTU, muttering his David-Caruso-under-his-breath ‘Dammit Jack’s for whenever Jack breaks protocol!
May 25th, 2007 at 11:51 am
what the fuck did doyal do in denver?!
May 26th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
Ya gotta give Bill some points for telling Nadia that “We’ll never find him (Jack) if he doesn’t want us to”. Apparently Bill is one of about 3 people alive that know Jack is SuperMan.
For all of Bill’s “Jack Bauer’s gone rogue, and getting Doyle to “bring Jack in” earlier in the day, he really came through (like last season) when push came to shove and helped Jack save the day. Would’ve like to have seen Bill put a bullet in Cheng just for good measure though when it was clear that Jack wasn’t going to. You know, just shoot him in the knee or something. Slow him down, at least.
And God help them if that was Schroder’s best take on “Get the kid Jack. Get the kid.â€? They should’ve saved that scene in editing by just making Doyle unconscious or at least incoherent. That was an all new low since the absence of Sandra Palmer’s character.
And yeah, Jack’s dad could still be alive and the component could have survived, etc., etc., but let’s hope his character and that storyline died the fiery death it should have.
May 27th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
holy crap Im missing 24 so much! Great Jack blowing up at Heller scene. When he said “If you send anyone after us, ill kill them, pretty good at that too.”, my friends and I cheered and watched it like 10 times. Dont get why Chloe lost points for being pregnant… What’s wrong with that?
May 27th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
@chase:
Apparently all “doyal” did in denver was get some pretty bad training. Whatever it was, it did not involve “acting” lessons.
And yeah, @Almeidaisgod: Jack’s speech to Heller was long overdue. How he managed to walk by that guy whose life he saved over and over and not at least give him an elbow to the throat is beyond me.
Heller’s main function seems to be to piss on Jack’s parade and then walk off like he owns the place only to be proven to be an idiot later. Remember last season when he took the tape from Jack and threatened Logan only to end up driving off a cliff because he “betrayed” Jack and his own daughter. For a guy that’s supposed to be on the “good” side, he manages to mess up everything he touches.
Or maybe it’s just me.
May 27th, 2007 at 9:07 pm
Hey Aaron,
Great, great work this year with the entire blog. It’s been a fun ride, and I hope to catch it again in January!
–mar
May 28th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
Aaron,
It’s been really entertaining to visit here every week. The Character Countdown, the Graveyard and the contests. Thanks for enhancing the “24″ experience in such a smart and entertaining way.
May 29th, 2007 at 10:15 am
It was a blast chatting with everybody about the show. You did a great job, Aaron. I actually visited this site more than I did digg during the 24 season…haha. Anyway, I hope the site keeps going, and I hope we get to see more things like the countdown next season.
Oh, Almeidaisgod, by the way, you and I need to start a campaign to bring Tony back. I’m sure other people from here would join…haha.
May 29th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
OMG thats a frickin good idea, Tom!
Tony is so amazing. I cant even begin to understand it.
But yeah, Aaron, good job being amazing and making an amazing site full of 24-ish things!! It has been so fun and I have looked forward to your countdowns each week! Thanks so much! Hope you do it again next January! BTW, (this is totally random) I think Kiefer Sutherland is pretty hot in season 1! OMG. lol. he’s not tony, but still, who is? Anyway Tony’s like over 30 years older than me! lol he’s perfect for Michelle. I know they are happy and in love in Hawaii away from all the crap going on in LA. Of course Jack helped them stage their deaths. They are on the beach sipping virgin pina coolatas! Yum! And floating on rafts on the ocean. And getting amazing sun tans! Well that is my amazing prediction.
~Almeidaisgod out ’til 08!~ Tootles everyone! Lotz of love!
June 18th, 2007 at 12:04 am
Thanks for everything Aaron. The 24 character countdown has made me enjoy the show twice as it would have without it!
Keep up the good work, and hope to see this going on for season 7!
August 17th, 2007 at 6:57 am
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