Watching 24

According to this Access Hollywood article ‘24′ will be “Going Green” for the upcoming season.

In other words it’s becoming environmentally friendly, by offsetting their carbon emissions produced during the show. How they are going to offset all those carbon emissions from all the guns that are fired is anyones guess.

According to TV Squad 24 director Jon Cassar and producer/writers David Fury, Evan Katz and Manny Coto spent an hour answering questions about the upcoming season of 24.

The interesting tidbits are that CTU will be disbanded by the US government at the beginning of season 7 and Jack is facing a barrage of Senate Hearings.

The season will take place in Washington D.C. and not in L.A. Seems that terrorists do attack other places. But, unlucky for them Jack Bauer will be in that exact city to stop them once again.

Also, it seems that the whole “Tony coming back” rumor wasn’t as much a bluff as I thought it was. There was an alternate ending that was “discussed” but never “filmed.” That alternate ending supposedly had Tony returning at the very end and telling Jack something to the effect of “We have a lot to talk about.”

I hope this is enough to wet your appetites. I know it is for me. 24 being taken out of L.A. is desperately what the series needs. And with no CTU breathing down Jack’s neck it would seem that Jack will play more of a ‘John McClane’ character. That is what Jack needs. Put him out there on his own and let him do what he does best.

I’m excited!

Man, I’m really slacking on these summer posts. I promise when the show starts back up everything you love about this site will be there. Especially the Character Countdown.

But, for now let’s get straight into the winner of the last contest.

I have to give props to the person that first used our little inside joke here on Watching24.com. As you know throughout the season, Ricky “Mikey Doyle” Schroder was loving referred to as “Scrotum Face” by a few of us.

The first, and only, person to use the “Scrotum Face” joke was

Nil Thacker:

Nadia: (disgusted) “Wow, it really does look like a scrotum!”

Congrats Nil you’ve won a pack of free 24 Jolt Energy Gum. I’ll e-mail you and sort out the details. Also, Tom who won last time I haven’t gotten an email back from you. I’ll try and email you again.

This week’s photo:

Well, I’m back to announce the winner of last week’s Jolt Energy Gum Contest.

Last week, if you remember, the picture was of little Josh holding a gun up to his grandpa. There were some great entries, and I was surprised by the number. I’m glad that so many of you are sticking around with the site. Thanks!

I looked over all the entries and there were 3 that made me laugh pretty hard. These were the 3 entires:

Tom–Philip: “Put the gun down…you don’t know how to use it.”

Josh: “Sure I do, Jack taught me. Point…” *fires gun* “and shoot.”

Mr. Aaron Pierce (Hawkeye’s Uncle)–For the last time, I am NOT Ricky Schroder, Jr.!!!

Tom–Josh: “That’ll do, pops…that’ll do.”

But, I’m going to have to go with the first one. Congratulations Tom on great usage of corny dialogue that was used this season. For that you win a free pack of 24 Jolt Energy Gum. I’ll email you later to get your details so I can send you a pack.

As for the rest of you your chance of winning is coming up right now. Here’s your new picture to play with:

Alright everyone we’re going to get back into the swing of things here. It’s been rough getting used to going to a 9-5 job everyday. This site would be updated a lot more if I had computer access at my job, which I most sadly do not.

Anyway, I thought the best way to kick off the summer season of Watching24.com would be to continue on with the Energy Gum Contest.

For those of you that are new, or simply don’t remember, this is a simple contest. Just put a clever caption in the comment section pertaining to the following picture that has been taken from a screen capture of an episode of 24.

I pick the winner and that person will receive a free packet of 24 sponsored Jolt Energy Gum. The gum that equals to cups of coffee!

So here’s your picture for this week’s contest:

Have fun everyone!

Hey everyone that loved coming here I just wanted to say thank you for making this site the success that it was. I couldn’t have done it without you guys and gals!

I just wanted to say now that summer is here I won’t be gone forever. It is harder to update the site now that I’m working a 9-5 job. But, don’t go too far away because I’m planning on doing 1-2 updates a week. I don’t know what they’ll be about but I’m planning on doing them.

So sit back and enjoy the summer, but stop in at Watching24.com every now and then and see if I’ve put something new up.

Well, as many of you might or might not know. Watching24.com has been down a lot today. So, I’m sorry to announce that the Character Countdown will not be up today. It’ll be up tomorrow. Also, I’ll do a catch up Graveyard for last week. I totally forgot to do it.

Thanks for your patience.
Aaron.

There are a few certainties in life…Death, taxes, and the fact that CTU is quite possibly the biggest workers compensation nightmare ever.

I must admit I was afraid that we’d be relegated to another episode of Jack sitting in a CTU holding cell, which we were for the first half hour. Good thing the second half hour of Jack taking out half the Chinese strike team was completely worth it.

I totally didn’t see Milo biting the dust like he did. That was so sudden, I just stared at the TV not believing what I was seeing. But, it happened. Milo gave his life for Nadia, the woman he loves right after finding out that she may indeed like Mikey Doyle (quite possibly because he reads the Koran).

I did have a problem with how easy Cheng’s Strike Force was able to get into CTU. A sewer grate right into the building? I find it hard to believe a government building would have such an accessible entry into the building.

But I was right, Phillip Bauer is calling the shots. That guy is completely insane. It would seem that before this season is over Jack will kill both Cheng and his own Father.

Overall this was a lot better episode than last. I still don’t really see how the whole Season 1 plot of a Presidential aide being used for information is going anywhere that really matters. It seems kind of like a little time filler so we’re not at CTU the entire time. But, maybe it will pan out to something with more substance, but I doubt it.

Didn’t you just love the quote from Tom Lennox as he’s sitting in his incognito van down the street as he’s watching Lisa and the Russian spy? “Come on, just get him alone with that PDA.”

Well, rest in peace Milo. We all have fond memories of Jack spilling your nuts in the first season. But, there is a ray of light at this long dark tunnel of Milo’s death. We don’t have to listen and watch him be jealous every time Nadia talks to Doyle.

Man, sorry for the lack of getting this post up for the Gum contest this week. College finals are wreaking havoc with my ability to remember what I need to be doing with this site.

I’ve just been reading over all the entries from last week. They’re hilarious! It’s hard to pick a clear cut winner. So, here’s what I’m going to do. The READERS get to choose! I’m going to put up a few that made me laugh out loud, and everyone can vote for them. The person with the most votes by Monday will win.

Here’s how to vote. After you’ve entered your clever caption for this week’s picture, just put “Vote: (name of person)”

Here’s the picture from last week:

Here are the ones that I thought were the best:

The first one to go for the Kool-Aid man reference, Mark: “Oooooooh yeahhhh”

Mike B:“Chloe!! Where the hell did the Kool-aid man go!!…Dammit I’m Thirsty!”

Willy: “He’s been dead three times, a fugitive from the U.S. Government, and tortured by the Chinese for 18 months. His wife was killed, and he’s estranged from his daughter. His name is Jack Bauer. Let’s see if we can help him out. Next week, on Extreme Makeover, Home Edition!”

Eric: “Damn it! Why did none of you think to cover the big hole in the wall for Fayed’s escape route?!”

m00n3r: Shrug off gunshot wounds and tear through walls for 24 hours straight with the “Bauer 209″ crime fighting exoskeleton!

Okay now that you know the ones that I loved, you can vote for them.

Here’s the picture for this week from season 1:

Alright, get your caption on, and don’t forget to vote for your week 3 favorite!

Sorry I didn’t have this post up right after the episode aired. I was too busy watching my Utah Jazz lose game 2.

Okay, let’s get down to business…

Overall this was a strange episode, but I did like it.

But what in the world is up with Audrey? She’s been all sorts of brainwashed. But, I’m getting ahead of myself.

It looks like Tom is aligning himself with the VP for the time being, but that tape recording isn’t in the closet just yet that’s for sure. Especially with the VP’s aide, Lisa, playing him like a fiddle, there’s going to be some point where something’s going to have to happen to get the VP out of office.

Karen is deciding to not stand side by side with her husband Bill. That’s just a shame. Bill has now stepped down and Nadia is in charge…let me repeat Nadia is IN CHARGE. Who in the world knew she actually knew enough to take control of CTU. And once she stepped into the head of CTU role it seemed like she is going to turn into one of those annoying female CTU supervisors that drives me up the wall like Alberta Green and Erin Driscoll. I sure hope she doesn’t go the way of those two ladies or we’re all in for a very long last few episodes.

Well, Doyle managed to screw things up royally didn’t he? Jack had that whole place wired to blow and Doyle messed up the entire thing.

Here’s one thing I didn’t understand at all. Cheng came with his buddies in one limo right? (Sorry I was watching this on my computer and the screen was pretty dark) But, then they are able to get away in 3 black hummers? Where did those things come from? If anyone has an answer to that I’d love to know. I’ll re-watch the episode tomorrow to find out.

Now we can talk about Audrey. What the heck did those crazy Chinese do to her? She’s completely insane. Maybe it’s not actually Audrey, but just a very life-like Audrey-bot. But, in all seriousness that was pretty freaky seeing her like that. How come she wasn’t like that when Jack talked to her on the phone? She seemed fine on the phone.

There’s a lot of questions that need answering, and mark my words Jack’s Dad is the one with all the answers!

I know a lot of people don’t like spoilers and for those people this post isn’t for you.

With that said, this is the kind of spoiler that doesn’t give anything huge away, but it gives us just enough to wonder what in the world is going on.

So, if you want to remain spoiler free, then don’t click on the jump…(But you should know that this isn’t a specific spoiler):

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I apologize for not posting yesterday. I didn’t want to take away from the network wide post about the Virgina Tech shootings and the ability to donate if you wanted to.

Plus regarding 24, there was nothing really to post about. I don’t have to do a Graveyard because no one died.

So in this post I would like to hear everyone’s predictions for the last 6 episodes, what do you think is going to happen?

My Predictions:
For me I think that Jack’s Dad is far from actually being gone, and will reappear sometime in these last few episodes to play a major role.

I think Charles Logan has joined Edgar in 24 heaven and will never be back.

Jack and Doyle will have to team up and work together to save the world from one last threat. I’m betting the Chinese have some sort of thing going on that when they are able to get their hands on that chip they will be able to launch a nuke of their own.

Oh and here’s something very interesting. In the new TV Guide this is how it describes Monday’s episode:

Just wait until the midnight hour. That’s when things start to come crumbling down around CTU’s resident silver fox, Bill Buchanan.

Could it be that finally Bill is going to have a much more major role to play than just the re-capper?

Well, I can’t wait until Monday.

How about you, what are your predictions?

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Hey everyone, welcome back to the Jolt Energy Contest for the 3rd straight week. We had a staggering number of entries this week, 45 to be exact. All the entries were great, but I think I narrowed it down to the 3 I liked best.

Here was the picture from last week:

1st Lucas (and winner of a pack of Jolt Energy Gum): Voiceover: “Accidents happen all the time. Accident forgiveness only at Allstate”

2nd S.a.m.: “Yet another Palmer takes one too many shots of Adrenaline.”

3rd Dusty: Girl standing over him: “Sir, excuse me sir, now may not be the best time to tell you this, but…*whispers* I just saved 15% on my car insurance by switching to Geico.”

Here’s this week’s photo:

I found this photo on the internet. You can tell it’s from this season of 24, but I don’t think it was actually used in the show, but I could be wrong. I just liked it a lot, and thought that there could be some great captions to go along with it.

Good luck everyone!

We’re coming off the best episode of the season, and it can only get better right? Fayed, Gredenko, and the suitcase nukes are out of the picture. Jack has saved the world once again.

But, now the Chinese are back and I think we’re all waiting to see what Jack has in store for them.

I loved last week’s episode. Jack is Jack again, and it would seem that these last 7 episodes will be full of Jack.

We have a new episode tonight, that I’m really excited for. Check out the promo and we’ll discuss it after…

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