Season 7: not quite as bad, but more complicated
Dear writers/directors/producers of 24,
I don't know if you know this, but making your plot even more complicated than before is not necessarily the way to a better show. In fact, right now, about 3/4 of the way through the show, you are dangerously close to what's known as a Thirty-Xanatos Pileup.
Jesus, people, HOW MANY TIMES is Tony Almeida going to switch sides? Right now he's at five and counting. This is CRAPPY WRITING.
Also, way to fail AGAIN at writing convincing strong female characters. Sure, you added in like sixty-gazillion of them, but they're all essentially as ineffective as they always have been.
The only redeeming features were that scene between Jack and Senator Mayer, in which the latter actually seems to have got through to him about due process and not going outside the bounds of the law and trusting the very institutions he defends. Too bad you had to go and undermine it by then having Senator Mayer's act of trust proven to be TOTALLY WRONG because he opens the door what he thinks are the police but is in fact an assassin sent to get him out of the way, demonstrating to Jack that he should TRUST NO-ONE ZOMG!
The other scene I liked was the bit with his daughter, who finally grew up and quit being a whiny brat. Sadly, you also wrecked the end of that scene by giving two very competent actors shitty lines and an implausible conclusion to the scene. So, meh.
Overall, I'm not sure why I'm still watching this. I was told that Season 7 was better than Season 6, and I'm not convinced of that. It's less... horrifically violent, that much I can say. For instance, no one tears out their enemy's trachea with their teeth and then spits it out on the floor, so that's a small mercy. Otherwise, though, it's pretty much the same old, same old.
I don't know if you know this, but making your plot even more complicated than before is not necessarily the way to a better show. In fact, right now, about 3/4 of the way through the show, you are dangerously close to what's known as a Thirty-Xanatos Pileup.
Jesus, people, HOW MANY TIMES is Tony Almeida going to switch sides? Right now he's at five and counting. This is CRAPPY WRITING.
Also, way to fail AGAIN at writing convincing strong female characters. Sure, you added in like sixty-gazillion of them, but they're all essentially as ineffective as they always have been.
The only redeeming features were that scene between Jack and Senator Mayer, in which the latter actually seems to have got through to him about due process and not going outside the bounds of the law and trusting the very institutions he defends. Too bad you had to go and undermine it by then having Senator Mayer's act of trust proven to be TOTALLY WRONG because he opens the door what he thinks are the police but is in fact an assassin sent to get him out of the way, demonstrating to Jack that he should TRUST NO-ONE ZOMG!
The other scene I liked was the bit with his daughter, who finally grew up and quit being a whiny brat. Sadly, you also wrecked the end of that scene by giving two very competent actors shitty lines and an implausible conclusion to the scene. So, meh.
Overall, I'm not sure why I'm still watching this. I was told that Season 7 was better than Season 6, and I'm not convinced of that. It's less... horrifically violent, that much I can say. For instance, no one tears out their enemy's trachea with their teeth and then spits it out on the floor, so that's a small mercy. Otherwise, though, it's pretty much the same old, same old.