I remember a thread about season six, but that was more for just the trailer.

Anyways, i thought whay better time to start the thread then on Kiefer Sutherland's birthday-which is today.


Here's a background of my 24 experience:

I never heard of the show until i went on a vacation with a family friend. He showed me season three and I watched it on vacation instead of going to the beech. After i got home, i bought season 1 and 2 and watched them both within a week of eachother before the start of season 4. Every week at my house, we have a 24 party where about 15 of mine an my sisters fiends come over to watch.

But here's the cool part----if anybody can remember in season 4 Debbie (Behrooz's girlfriends) phone ring and it showed a real number, not a 555 number. We called it and talked to Joseph Hodges-he is the man who builds the different sets. Anyways, we were not the only ones who knew about this phone-but my sister called over 20 times a day. She talked to Joseph so much that he programed her number on the phone so when she calls it says "Jen C"-her name is Jen and she is from Cleveland. She and me talked to many people, such as writers and some of the actors. Jen called the phone after one of the award shows (the emmy's i think) and she talked to Carlos Bernad. Once Jen called and talked to John Cassar-the main director. He directs the first and last episodes of each season and a couple in between but he is the main man.

Nobody called more than my sister because on the 24 forums, John wrote a letter thanking the 24 fans for their support and he said "thanks to our number 1 fan Jen C"-you know your the biggest fan when the director tells you. Not only this but Jen and I were on the Jimmy Kimmel show because of this phone. Kim Raver (Audrey) had the phone when my sister called and Kim told her she would be on Jimmy Kimmel tonight. On the show, Jimmy was talking about the phone and they held it to the microphone while Jen and I called so our voices were on national tv from the jimmy kimmel show.

The phone's popularity died down from the fans, but not from us. My sister called and talked to John Cassar and she told im were going to LA to visit our family (which was true) and she asked if we could stop by the set-and somehow John said yes. We had a behind the scenes tour of the whole 24 set from CTU (I sat in Chloes chair) to Logan's retreat (we were in the outside place with the narrow pool) to seeing random objects such as being in a helicopter, a fighter jet, and the plane from season 5 that jack landed on the freeway. We also saw the whole wardrobe and the makeup rooms and the props. The props were awesome, we say and touched some of the nerve gas cannisters, some knives (including Jack's), Jack's sunglasses some guns and bullets, some cell phones, and my favorite, the picture with Jack, Kim, and Terry. If you saw the first two seasons, you know this picture and i thought it was awesome that we saw it.

Our tour was led by John and Josep-this is something nobody has ever gotten. 24 only does behind the scenes tours for charities with random tour guides, but ours was with the main man. We met Kim Raver and.....KIEFER. We saw him filming a scene (and we found out that Logan was bad becuase in the scene Jack said to Audrey "Logan will pay for President Palmer's death" and this was taped before the fans knew Logan was bad so this was a surprise) and we then met and took pics with Kiefer afterward. Pics to come later.

Anyways, i love 24 and i thought the thread should start today with Kiefer's birthday.

Anyone got the DVD's? I bought season five on itunes but i also bought the DVDs for the bonus features and they were pretty good.
Also has anyone seen the prequel which was on youtube but also on the DVD's?
I thought it was great.

Here is a link to a countdown to season 6 http://www.noellachoi.com/24countdown/ and the main website is
www.fox.com/24/.

So...I can't wait and it's only 26 days away

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I believe the tag that said "Official Season 6" is why this topic was created.

So suck it Trebec

doesnt it take longer to search for old threads than it does to read unnecissary new ones?

I have no life... I can do things like that.

Its not like the TV forum has 4 million posts to search through.

I thought this was cool...I'm on a cruise right now (but internet is kind of cheap so i thought i would share this with you) and earlier today we stopped at Nassau, Bahamas and i saw a man with a 24 hat and it said "day 06" on the back. I have seen very few people ever wear a 24 (tv show) hat (actually i have never seen anybody but me and a couple friends. This man was kind of old so i thought he had something to do with the show and that is why he was wearing the hat.

I went up to him and it turns out that he is Evan Katz's dad. Katz is a writer and you see his name on the bottom of the screen when the show starts. I know this sounds made up but why would i make something up about meeting a writers dad?

So the dad said that he saw the first six episodes and that when i see them i will not be able to stay in my seat.

you're an odd duck

well an odd duck who has met katz's dad (and Kiefer, Cassar, Hodges, Raver...)

24 hasnt been good since season 2. Please stop jerking off to it and Kiefer Sutherland.

you think 24 hasn't been good since season 2 and you think i'm an odd duck?

whatever, everyone has their own opinions but why do you not like it?

is it the actors, the story lines, or what?

I will give my opinion.

I didn't start watching 24 till this year. Wife and I rented the 1st season to see what the retarded buzz was about. Not bad. Well bad but bad enough to be entertaining because it is so bad. We loved Nina. Hated Terry, even jumped up and down with joy at the end of Season 1.

Then we rented season 2. It was better than 1. I actually liked that season a lot.

Season 3 was stupid and a pain to get through. maybe because we watched 3 seasons in like 2 months the cheese factor got too much to enjoy it. I am sure if I had a week between episodes and a few months between seasons I would be able to tolerate a little more.

Season 4 was okay. Some really good eps and some really stupid eps. Again, 4 seasons in 3 months. Too much bad to handle.

Then we planned on starting to watch season 5 when Fox began to rerun them after the season ended. Well they showed like the first 6 hours and then stopped and started jumping around. So for the last week and a half we have been watching Season 5 so that we can finally be caught up. I will say Season 5 is the best since 2, which is still IMO the only really decent season. But again, why the hell does it seem that at some point in every season teh writers just decided to pull some crap out of their ass. It is clear they don't have a beginning,middle, or end prior to taping. They clearly make some of it up as they go along thus leaving plot holes so large that Jack could get swallowed up by them. I hate weak writing. I really do.

It is an entertaining show but I would never get as excited about it as you. I think people are commenting on your obsession with the show and it's fictional characters rather than the show itself.

this part is true-they don't know what is going to happen at the end but i think they pull it together so well anyways that the writers are fantastic. I think you not liking it probably does have to do with watching it in such a short span. You should try season 6, 4 episodes in the first two days (sunday the 14th) and if you don't like it don't watch, but give it a try

Oh I will watch it. They are great melodrama's. I am glad I watched all the seasons I just don't think it is "great".

i think you will like it. I saw three seasons within two weeks and i liked it but part of the thrill of the new seasons is having to wait a week before you can see it again so if you watch this season during when it airs, it will be more thrilling

OMG!!!!!!!

At the best buy in Cleveland every season was on sale for 20 dollars. I have all of them but they are in bad shape (except for five becuase i just got it) so i rebought them all. If they are on sale wherever you live you should get them as gifts. I also got a couple of sets for my friends.

I couldnt disagree more. I think Season 4 was the best season by far. Obviously others will have differing opinions.

The more important point is why would you click on a 24 thread to just come in a be a piece of crap? This is a thread for jerking off to the greatness of 24 and Jack Bauer. If you dont want to see it then go away.

I was going to say the same thing. Its fine if you don't like 24 but why would you click on it just to say how bad it is? I don't click on threads just to bad mouth what it is about.

Respect for you = Out the window.

JS.

Everybody has the right to not like the show, but to come to the thread and say that, i would have to agree with this statement.

Mary Lynn Rajskub (Chloe) is on Letterman and Kiefer will be on Conan next week.

Yeah, the haters can go fukk themselves.

Don't like the show? Don't watch.

What i don't get are the people who keep watching the show but supposedly thnk it's stupid. I have a couple of friends that are like this. Their complaint is that it's not "realistic".

uhh...no **** sherlock. having a black president should've been the first hint.

too often people forget that Jack Bauer is a comic book hero without super powers.

also, the writers and actors on the show are fantastic. they write as the season progresses so that nobody ever knows if their character is dead or alive from week to week. the director, writers, actors and production team are always pressed for time and the show comes out pretty damn well.

...i know, i'm just ranting...

True-this is a great reason that makes the show awesome. I have read that in season 1, Sarah Clarke (actress that played Nina Meyers) didn't know she was bad until the nineteenth episode. Its all so good that the cast is also in the dark for a long time as well

I saw a great interview with Jean Smart (who plays Martha Logan) and she was going through what it was like filming with the 24 people.

Apparently all the actors who are signed to do the show get paid a guaranteed amount of money for clearing the schedule in order to do a full season of 24. But because of the way the show works nobody in the cast (except Kiefer of course) knows if they'll live week to week.

Smart had mentioned how excited she was to get the script for the hours when she goes with the Russian president and first lady while knowingly in danger (in Season 5). She was thrilled to see that Martha was still alive.

So to some degree the cast really gets into the script as well.

People...we are only 6 days away from the Season 6 premiere!!!

Actually your a few days behind... keep reading.

out of curiosity, who say the episodes online? I haven't and i think i will wait. The suspense will be so great. whenever i turn on my computer i have been tempted to watch them but i don't think i can with out feeling like i cheated somehow

They're good quality so all you're REALLY missing is the commercials to be honest. Watch 'em you won't be disappointed.

They are a straight rip of the DVD release. Quality is fine.

of course i won't be dissapointed, but i can't explain it but seriously, if i watch the episodes online before hand, i will feel bad, like i cheated. I need to wait

you've definitely got this strange sense of morales with this show don't you.

i started of watching the first 3 seasons by dvd so i can't stand commercials.

i watched the first 3 on dvd then watched 4 and 5 live.

the actors who play: jack, martha, curtis, wayne, and fayed (a new terrorist?) are on larry king live right now


Kiefer Sutherland, Jean Smart, Roger Cross, D.B. Woodside, Adoni Maropis

Now, Jack, Chloe, Bill, Karen, and Mike Doyle


(or Kiefer, Mary Lynn Rajskub, James Morrison, Jayne Atkinson and Rick Schroder)

Now and finally, Kiefer, Howard Gordon, and Robert Cochran...where was John Cassar?

I LOVE NADIA. 24 is INSANEINSANEINSANE. Has potential to be the BEST season ever. That is all, won't discuss more till Monday.

OMG...season 6 is SICK so far!!

Jack Bauer kicks some serious butt!

i'm saving hour 3 and 4 for tonight but i can hardly wait.

I agree with showstopper. better to wait.

if you dont like commercials get DVR or Tivo.

oooorrrr....download via torrent

if your going to wait until tonight, why don't you just wait until sunday?

first of all...today is sooner than sunday.

...and i'd have to wait until monday so it's even longer than you propose.

if you want to watch it, i don't care too badly but let me say something.

You are obviously a fan of the show. if you wait until monday, you will be so ready that the show will seem amazing. if you watch today, its like who cares? if you wait however, it will be much better

i am a fan...yes.

but i am an addict. i think i may actually have an obsessive compulsive disfunction. each week the episode starts i am on cloud 9. each time i see that clock finish it's hour i start screaming at the tv (sad but true).

trust me, i like it just as much watching it now as i would at it's scheduled programming. anyways, i'm planning to watch it again when it airs so that i support the show and ensure there are more seasons coming. from what i've seen so far that shouldn't be a problem.

PS just thought of something. do you think kiefer has an agent for his contract or does he just walk into the room full of execs and become Jack?

i have met Kiefer before and it was awesome. but sometimes i ask myself if i had an oppourtunity to spend a whole day with him and not just five minutes would i rather spend it with kiefer or Jack Bauer?

really? that's awesome! where!?

...and you would obviously want to spend the time with Kiefer if you want to live. Everybody knows that hanging out with Jack is sure death.

I don't get what you are saying. It'll be the same either way. I have my own reasons for watching (mainly I didn't want to get spoiled), but I don't see how it's any more enjoyable watching it on Sunday rather than...now.

Maybe if you like to watch it with friends, like a movie or something, but still, I don't see it. It was amazing now, it will be amazing monday, it will be amazing if I freeze myself in time and come back out 500 years later. This isn't like sex or anything. It's a TV show. A sick one at that.

watched eps 3 and 4 last night...AMAZING!!!

i hear the end of 4 is shocking

OMG...it's so insane when Audrey is forced to fly the chopper and...












j/k