Recap

Dammit= probably 6
Women Proven Stupid/Evil= Hmmm.
Female Heads of State Behaving to Type = 2
Female Heads of States Coming to Fisticuffs = almost 1
Days of our Lives Devoted to 24 = 7-ish
Handsome Dead Black Men =0 (and none this season, even the guy with the GQ cheekbones made it!)
Predictions true = this season, countless!
World Of Pain = constant. Jack, Chloe, Madame President...everyone is in a world of pain.


Open questions: Will someone really make a feature film from 24? "They" say yes. Should they? And who will show up in it? What happened to Tony? (And can anyone else, like Nina, come back from the dead?) Can we please have the 28 year old president wake up from his comatose state? He's the only one we've seen who can bring dignity and honor back to the fictional office of the President. (Not to mention our fictional law enforcement and armed services communities.) And uh, was there even a Vice President this season? And what happened to Jack's Soho based mercenary friend?

Our family members would like to know why we've devoted a week of our lives to 24. On the other hand, there are countless people who have devoted much more time to Dr.Phil and Oprah.

We have to salute some wonderful acting that sometimes almost made things seem plausible from time to time. (Mostly before this season, that is!)

Sigh. "M" will take a look at this tomorrow and weigh in...

Friends, it has been a slice. Sorry that my battle with Time Warner Cable (and real life, including "M"s newborn) wore into our blogging cycle. We're relieved and sad to let this go...

TV Magic

More soap opera recap.

And that, Jack, looking up at the drone camera at Chloe! Chloe, sob, tears.

Dammit, my friends, what a sappy ending.

Jack, I'm So Sorry

Madame President, you're an idiot.

Dammit!

We're logging dammits like mad. That was 5 or 6.

Did Jack's CIA Friend Get Him?

We hope so. We hear there's going to be a feature film?

WTH?

Hmm, plot twist!

Another dammit! But sorry, Madame President, I don't think that Logan is going to make it.

Madame POTIR

Might be about to throw an, um, elbow right where it might hurt Suvarov.

And Tim, you'd better get Madame President's attorney on the phone.

Madame President Grows A Pair

Now, are you going to save Jack?

"M" says...

Sign it "Mickey Mouse"!

Attack of Conscience?

Is Madame President going to scuttle the treaty herself?

Ethan, You Weren't Evil

We need you back. Why did you leave Madame President to listen to Charles Logan?

Last 30 Minutes!

This is It!

Heh, we'll see about that one.

Jack Lechter

Heh.

Ah, The Old Data Card In The Phone

Chloe, good job.

Change of Plans

Chloe, better get Cole or Arlo to meet you where you are.

Or you're going to have to shoot Piller. (What a great name, that guy is a Pill.)

And Logan Survives Another Day?

We'll see.

Maybe Chloe will whack him.

Dammit Chloe!

Like they are going to believe that Chloe could drop Jack!

Renee Wouldn't Want You to Do This!

Chloe, Renee wasn't all that noble when she was using that bone saw to remove that Russian mobster's thumb!

Technology

Even though cell phones work everywhere, and you can send schematics of any building to someone's PDA on demand, Jack still has to hold the microphone bud close to his mouth in order to be heard.

Heh.

Viewer Discretion Is Advised

If only we had heeded this warning 23 hours ago...

Prediction True!?

Yes! We knew that Jack wasn't going to let Logan slide.

Hah.

Split Screen Montage

Sigh, nostalgia. Probably one of the last we'll see...

Not Too Tough To Get The Jump on Chloe

Sleeper hold.

Third Time is Not A Charm

That nameless CTU agent keeps on questioning orders...but never really doing anything about it.

Logan

Jack's gonna get you.

Stupid vs. Evil

This season has kind of blown the stupid vs. evil discussion out of the water. Are the Madame Presidents stupid, or evil? Infidel girlfriend, ambiguous. Renee, ill-fated (but Jack's love interests have transcended the stupid vs. evil distinction...)

Hmmm. I'd like to see Madame POTIR turn out to be evil. (Her daughter is definitely the Middle Eastern Kim Bauer, and definitely stupid.)

Message From Jack

A video for Kim? Tell me that we're not going to see Kim Bauer again?

Another Problem With A Perimeter

Jack breaches the perimeter.

And Chloe, now armed, and uh, gearheady? And going after Jack.

Bugs?

Is Jack planting little cameras, or incendiary devices?

Ah, cameras. Jack's so tech savvy.

Peace! Or Else!

Madame POTIR, Madame President insists on peace.

Or else she'll blow your country back to the dark ages!

Madame President!

Dahlia wants the talking stick. You must listen to her, and how she feels.

Ack, and another improbable Presidential convo creates diplomatic chaos. I'm having a feeling that someone is going to get slapped here.

(Women, this is what happens when we run major world powers.)

Eew!

Uh, good thing Piller took the home ec class! "M" asks if that's a satin stitch he's doing on Jack's knife wound.

And we're doing soap opera recap after soap opera recap...have to love it when the characters explain the entire season in 20 sentences.

OK

Chloe is in charge, Jack is injured and on the loose, having killed Bridezilla and the entire Russian delegation for having had Renee killed (not to mention the President of the Islamic Republic) and taken a toady-ish factotum of Evil Ex-Veep Charles Logan hostage.

Logan has been pulling all of the strings, and Madame President is turning out to be a sociopath who will use any means to achieve her end. Madame POTIR and her daughter have an inkling that all may not be kosher with the peace accord, via the unlikely (and traced) phone call placed by the late POTIR's infidel girlfriend, who has received evidence from Jack.

We're hanging in...not being fans of Lost, we are staying here to see Jack through to the bitter end.
Unlike any other woman who loves Jack, we plan on surviving the evening!

Tai, We're Here, Too!

It's the end of an era! "M" and I are together in Chicagoland to watch the last episode. Tai, we're with you.

(And BTW, you were so right about Battlestar Galactica. I'm in the middle of season 3...thanks so much for the awesome suggestion.)