Character Countdown 9 PM to 10 PM (Episode 14)
Hello, again! It’s time to score em again for last week. As always, be sure to tell me what you would’ve given people. Thanks go out to Aaron.
Jack Bauer (404)
Being good enough at multi-tasking to operate a computer AND a car +25
Finding Burnett’s real killer +27
Admitting he regrets some of the things he’s had to do +30
Figuring out what Starkwood is probably up to +20
Stopping Quinn +20
Gain/Loss: +122
New Score: 526
Renee Walker (497)
IDing Quinn +30
Uncovering the Starkwood link +28
Doing what she feels has to be done +24
Getting caught by Larry and Janis -15
Gain/Loss: +67
New Score: 564
Larry Moss (137)
Being one step ahead of Jack and Co a couple of times +25
Ultimately getting in the way of saving the day -20
Trying to save the Senator +18
Admitting Jack is better than then at the job +20
Gain/Loss: +43
New Score: 180
President Taylor (286)
Questioning the leak +20
Possibly falling for the ‘you can call and ask them yourself’ routine -10
Giving a good speech +15
Gain/Loss: +25
New Score: 311
Ethan (100)
Believing that pretty obvious Bauer set up (-15)
Screwing up yet again -10
Standing up to Olivia +30
Gain/Loss: +5
New Score: 105
Olivia (130)
Convincing Taylor she’s innocent of leaking that info +30
Calling Ethan on his mistakes +23
Gain/Loss: +53
New Score: 183
Senator Mayer (aka: Senator Hardass) (50)
Having sympathy for Bauer and actually seeing his point +20
Stating his own case well +18
Helping Jack with the investigation +20
Almost getting Jack to trust his +30 (ya know this is a superhuman feat)
Not checking before he opened the door -10
Gain/Loss: +78
Final Score: 128
Hodges (100)
Having an actually organized and so far capable group of baddies +20
Having a conscience +10
Giving Jack an actual challange again +17
Gain/Loss: +47
New Score: 147
March 19th, 2009 at 5:21 am
OK, Jack deserves some major negative points for not checking who was at the door - he is the highly trained agent, he should have done that and not relied on the senator for that task - very un-Jacklike, and a poor job on the writers’ part if you ask me.
Jamie B: True. I just couldn’t help but hold Mayer more responsible, though, since it is his home. Plus, you’d think that having been held hostage would’ve mae him a little more cautious.
Renee - +30 for IDing Quinn??? I am sorry, but running a search using a facial recognition software against a government database you have access to already and do not need to hack into using a picture provided by someone else does not warrant that high of a bonus - I could accept +5 or maybe +10 since she was doing it somewhat on the sly, but no more than that
Jamie B: I guess I should probably explain myself here. I’m overall trying to give some higher vaules just because a bunch of 5’s, 10s, and all seem a bit low considering all the stakes involved in this show. I valued this kinda high just based on the huge risk that was being taken. Larry’s on the warpath and he’s furious she went over his head, so getting caught doing this was going to have serious consequences. Plus, her ID was a huge breakthrough for the case, considering it exposed the Starkwood connection (loving Voight by the way!)
(serious suspicions that Jaime has a major Renee bias)
I have noticed a penchant for handing out really high points for lots of things and rare on the negatives across the board.
Jamie B: I do enjoy Renee a lot. I think she’s one of the better female characters to come along in awhile (Chloe excepted, of course). Still, I do think that the high stakes need high scores. What does everyone else think?
March 23rd, 2009 at 1:42 pm
While I can see high stake moves getting higher scores, I think the difficulty of the task achieved should carry much more weight then the situation carries. I mean it might be very high stakes for Renee to do the ID but really, anyone in FBI could have done it. Her job is to perform under pressure so no, I wouldn’t give her points just for doing what she was trained to do which is perform under pressure. If she had done it while tied up without access to a computer or cell phone, then I would have given her high scores.