Character Countdown, Episode 9
You know what time it is…. break out those score pads and let’s see how everyone did this week. Did I miss something? Would you have given different point totals? Let me know about it!
Jack Bauer (324)
-Handling delivering the bad news to Taylor well +20
-Managing to once again take charge of what was once Bill’s operation +12
-Finding the address for Dubaku +10 (split with Renee)
-Convincing Marika to meet the driver (+12)
-The ‘one job’ speech +15
Gain/Loss: +69
Total: 393
Bill Buchanan (174)-
Offering to escort the President to the Hospital +20
-Bringing in Chloe to help with the search for Dubaku +17
-Bringing Aaron back +18
Gain/Loss: +35
New Total: 209
President Taylor (40)
-Managing to go another episode without using the word ‘Sangala’ or giving some big speech about the importance of the mission there +20
-Insisting on being with Henry at the hospital +20
-Allowing Bill and Chloe to take more of a role in things +15
-Actually showing an interesting personality +17
-Getting Bill to contact her daughter +10
Gain/Loss: 82
New Total: 122
Renee Walker (201)
-Pointing out that Jack’s idea regarding the Vosslers worked +18
-‘She has no idea her husband is a killer and a traitor to his country , and she’s looking at me like I’m the monster’ +25
-‘I didn’t say it didn’t bother me, I said it worked’ +17
-Trying to look out for Marika’s safety +8
Gain/Loss: 68
New Total: 269
Larry Moss (171)
-Setting up that ‘backwards computer network’ -19
-Once again, trying to protect Renee from getting herself into a bad situation +15
Gain/Loss: -4
New Total: 167
Chloe (164)
-‘That’s inefficient… whoever set up your network that way didn’t know what they were doing’ +25
-Defending Jack to Moss +12
Gain/Loss: +37
New Total: 201
Dubaku (91)
-Convincing Marika to run off with him +14
-Figuring out the other bad guys were going to do away with him +20
-Blackmailing them to get them to back off +15
-Being willing to get caught just to confront Marika about turning on him -13
Gain/Loss: +36
New Total: 127
Special Awards:
The Dummy of the Week Award goes to: Sean for letting Janis use that device. He’s the mole and he’s letting someone do something suspicious on his equiptment just to keep from being busted to his wife? He deserves to get caught.
The Most Useless Award goes to: Janis for spending the whole hour trying to spy on Chloe to see if she is gonna get replaced. She deserves to if she keep this up.
The Computer Geek of the Week Award: goes to Chloe for obvious reasons.
February 19th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Tony -50 for not doing anything worth filming in the last 2 hours.
February 20th, 2009 at 1:19 pm
LOL! true. I wonder what he’s been doing all this time. I have this odd feeling it’s not anything good, though.
February 21st, 2009 at 7:18 am
I disagree with Sean’s Dummy award and think he deserves points. He’s now set up Janis as the mole and can say she’s blackmailing him. He only gets a divorce for cheating, he gets the death penalty for treason. So +20 for that and another +10 for hacking Larry’s cell phone ( even Chloe didn’t catch that!)
February 21st, 2009 at 7:10 pm
You’ve got a point there… especially being able to hack the phone w/o Chloe noticing it. Still, if I were him, I’d have serious concerns about giving a device like that away if I was a mole. He’d have to say Janis stole it without him knowing, which would probably open him up to an investigation anyway. Of course, if Dubaku doesn’t get out safely, he won’t have to worry about any of that.
February 24th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I almost didn’t catch the one about Tony. Why wasn’t he running the second car in the tail? That’s SOP on tailing cars. But i have to admit i love that this season because i live in dc.
March 6th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
I avoided watching Season 7 until I had enough episodes TIVO’d to make it worthwhile. What a marathon today has been! Of course, I couldn’t read any of these blog posts till I started watching either. I’m surprised I didn’t see any mention of what I thought has been one of the best lines (exchanges) so far…Jack to Renee: “Then maybe you should get out.” Renee: “Maybe I will. Tomorrow.”
I like watching lots of episodes back to back, I think I get a better feel for the stories that way. And I have to say that Season 7 is a huge improvement after Season 6. It’s very lean and focused. The writers have done a great job…except that the decision to incorporate more verbalizing over the moral ambiguities is just a wee bit too obvious. Or maybe it just seems that way because I’m aware of the criticisms of the show in that area.
JAMIE: Hi, Gwen! Welcome! I agree that I am definitely enjoying this year more than last, even thought there are some issues this year (the torture debate you mentioned being one of them). By the way… I love that exchange, too.