24:Season Seven

[Bobo U2]

Here is the 1st promo shot for the 7th day
(it's big):wave:

[The original picture has been replaced with a smaller version, below - KTS]

[El Bacho]

1) It might be a little too big for a picture
2) Carlos Bernard looks awful with the shaven head and the goatee
3) Pia Zadora looks much better as a brunette.
4) Couldn't they find a better Hillary Clinton impersonator or are they already taken during the primaries?

[Chris R]

1) It might be a little too big for a picture

:agree: Gorts? Anyone? Can you shrink that photo?

2) Carlos Bernard looks awful with the shaven head and the goatee
Guess he has to look that way if he's playing the bad guy this year.

3) Pia Zadora looks much better as a brunette.

:laugh: Just what is the deal with comedienne Janeane Garofalo playing an FBI Agent?
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Some details about Season 7 at Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_(season_7)) (although there is no sources or references.)

Season Seven is set in Washington D.C., about two years after Season Six.

Day 7 opens with CTU dismantled and Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) on trial concerning his past extralegal activities in the course of stopping a potential attack on a bus by terrorist Ibrahim Haddad (as was the case with several other counterterrorism measures by Bauer, it involved the use of torture). Bauer’s day on trial takes an unexpected turn when former colleague and confidant Tony Almeida (Carlos Bernard) returns.

Season Seven features the first (in the 24 universe) female President, Allison Taylor (Cherry Jones), her husband Henry Taylor (Colm Feore), and White House Chief of Staff Ethan Kanin (Bob Gunton).

A national security crisis prompts an investigation by a team of FBI agents including Agent Janis Gold (Janeane Garofalo), Agent Renee Walker (Annie Wersching), Agent Larry Moss (Jeffrey Nordling), Agent Sean Hillinger (Rhys Coiro) and security specialist Michael Latham (John Billingsley). Although CTU is no longer a part of the series, Chloe O'Brian (Mary Lynn Rajskub) and Bill Buchanan (James Morrison) return.

There are rumours FOX may air a 2 hour prequel TV movie in the fall. Looks like the Karen Hayes character won't be back. There is confirmation that U.K. actor Carlo Rota will be back from time to time as Chloe's ex Morris O'Brian. Be interesting to see Canadian actor Colm Feore as the president's husband and Kurtwood Smith as the Senator.

The trailers for Season 7 are stil up at YouTube. I wonder if anything is going to be altered or if it will stay the same.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE-OLg3O3d4

U.K. version w/ a slight difference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTxaAg-yUH4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vASRVHmwdbE&feature=related

[Dave D]

1) It might be a little too big for a picture
2) Carlos Bernard looks awful with the shaven head and the goatee


1) Jeez.....it's a poster!
2) Isn't that the "token bad guy" look?

[Chris R]

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[Bobo U2]

I couldn't save the pic from that url...but I see it can be saved from here, but I can't edit it.....Sorry

[El Bacho]

That's Colm Feore as the husband? He's an actor whom you have seen in scores of movies but still can't name. I don't think I'll watch this season and, anyway, he would remind me much of Dave Foley's "The Wrong Guy", in which he played the main baddie with great comic results.

Besides, with "The Ben Stiller Show"'s Janeane and "Mr Show"'s Mary Lynn, they have a very strange cast. No token black guy this year, however.

And here's a more adequate size for the photo (click to get it as a 1300 pixels wide picture). It was actually made for reprint, hence the hi-res.

http://img157.imagevenue.com/loc1055/th_66867_scaled_picture_122_1055lo.jpg (http://img157.imagevenue.com/img.php?image=66867_scaled_picture_122_1 055lo.jpg)

[jstraw]

On the seventh day, God rested...not so, Jack Bauer.

[Mike from NYC]

1)
2) Carlos Bernard looks awful with the shaven head and the goatee


If you were shot as many times and lived under such stress, the same would happen to you - or me :)

[EddieVanHalen]

How have they resurrected Tony Almeida? I'm really intrigued...

[Jimbo]

How have they resurrected Tony Almeida? I'm really intrigued...

1) Evil twin
2) Clone
3) Robot
4) "It was all a dream"

[Squealy]

Jack went off to another adventure after Tony "died" and as far as I remember Tony was never referred to again, so all they would really have to do is say that once his body was examined it turned out he was really in a coma, or something like that. Though I'm sure 24 will come up with something more outlandish.

[yesstiles]

Was there ever any closure in Saeson 6 after the ex-President's wife stabbed him?

[Chris R]

Was there ever any closure in Saeson 6 after the ex-President's wife stabbed him?
Zero, nothing. There was no reference to anything in Season 6 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_%28season_6%29) in regards to President Logan, the First Lady or Aaron Pearce after the stabbing.

Checked Wikipedia. There is this entry in the Martha Logan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Logan) section.

24: Season 6
Following Day 5, Martha was admitted to a mental health facility in Vermont. Martha is romantically involved with Secret Service agent Aaron Pierce. After being persuaded to call Anya, Martha and Charles have a discussion, in which she verbally assaults Charles, and in a momentary fit of rage, stabs him in the shoulder, severely injuring him. Several minutes after she is arrested, Martha calls Anya.


Wikipedia's table of actors/characters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_(TV_series)#Main_casts) does not list President Logan as being deceased. Who knows? We may see him again.

Here is an excerpt of the table.

http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/856/24castnv1.jpg

[El Bacho]

Jack went off to another adventure after Tony "died" and as far as I remember Tony was never referred to again, so all they would really have to do is say that once his body was examined it turned out he was really in a coma, or something like that. Though I'm sure 24 will come up with something more outlandish.

And they will reveal after six or seven episodes that Tony isn't the main bad guy but either a double agent or brainwashed to become a front for the real bad guy. Jack already confronts Tony in the trailer (i.e. episode 3 or 4 at the latest) while their meeting could have easily been one of the climaxes of the whole day. It reminds me of the whole Jack/Graem thing, which was actually a decoy for the Big Daddy issue, the main topic of Day 6.

Besides, it makes little sense to take one of the most beloved characters from the show and turn him into a generic villain with a vengeance, especially when they're short of interesting characters from any previous season (cf. the Milo debacle). It might give them some shock value, spoiled in the trailer, but they would be also losing old Tony forever.

Of course, the writers have already made an atomic bomb explode after four episodes in Day 6, leaving them nothing to top afterwards, so I could be wrong...

[John B Good]

You guys are making 24 sound as bad as Alias :)

[El Bacho]

In my mind, there has been a gradual decline after Day 1, apart from the brilliant, even if entirely far-fetched, Day 5. I guess they lost me with Day 6.

Apart from the convoluted story lines, my main concern is that the show started as an ensemble cast and, season after season, the list of interesting regular characters has grown smaller and it has turned into the "It's personal for Jack Bauer Hourly Show". Potentially interesting supporting characters such as Curtis (remember Day 4?) got no material after a few episodes and went nowhere, for instance. The crew at CTU from Day 6 was appalling, as they had to fill the non-Jack sequences with too many love triangles, very special sequences about alcohol featuring Bart Simpson's voice, Chloé being a bore and Morris being an unefficient comic relief.

Six months ago, I've started watching "The Shield". I've just finished season four. I find it even more unrealistic than "24", with too many investigations about pregnant hookers stabbed while dealing heroin at their junior high school (especially when I alternate with seasons from "The Wire"). But the writers and the showrunner have been able to dig deeper concerning the relationships between the main characters and they have made the show more interesting with each passing year without setting a bigger threat. The tension gets higher and that's called efficient writing and a good use of the characters.