Saturday, May 15, 2004
We interrupt this blog...
...for a brief commercial break.
This has nothing whatsoever to do with 24 - my apologies - but I get a lot of traffic here so I figured I'd post this anyway.
For nearly ten years now I've been a part of a 'chat' place called TCZ (The Chatting Zone). It's been in existence for longer than that and stems from the times when MUDs and MUSH's were quite popular. So to use TCZ, telnet is the best way to get there. But we have a web interface, and a JAVA telnet client available for anyone unfamiliar with telnetting. The telnet address is: tcz.dcs.qmul.ac.uk port 8342. Our website address is TCZ.org.
TCZ is a dynamic world that allows you to become a builder and create your own environments, games, RPG's - just about anything you can think of is possible there. We have virtual games such as Yahtzee, Poker, Scrabble, Monopoly, a Stock Market based on stocks in the real world, TCZBingo and tons more that I can't think of off the top of my head. In the past we've had 2 'seasons' of TCZ Big Brother in which users are locked in a room and forced to interact only with each other and complete challenges while the rest of us watch their every move :) And currently TCZ Survivor is in the works.
We're a UK-based MUD/Chat that has users from around the world connecting (some are even fans of 24, fancy that :) ) and I think we've got one of the best friendly chat envirnoments out there. I know there are squillions of chatrooms online, some more slick than a telnet chat, but I think we're fairly unique among them and have a lot to offer.
So at the risk of sounding even more geeky than I already have, please stop in, create a character for yourself and check us out. I can usually be found there and am an administrator as well so I'd be more than happy to help get you acclimated. Actually we have a great admin team who can do that as well.
Ok enough of that. Back to our regularly scheduled Jack-worship :)
This has nothing whatsoever to do with 24 - my apologies - but I get a lot of traffic here so I figured I'd post this anyway.
For nearly ten years now I've been a part of a 'chat' place called TCZ (The Chatting Zone). It's been in existence for longer than that and stems from the times when MUDs and MUSH's were quite popular. So to use TCZ, telnet is the best way to get there. But we have a web interface, and a JAVA telnet client available for anyone unfamiliar with telnetting. The telnet address is: tcz.dcs.qmul.ac.uk port 8342. Our website address is TCZ.org.
TCZ is a dynamic world that allows you to become a builder and create your own environments, games, RPG's - just about anything you can think of is possible there. We have virtual games such as Yahtzee, Poker, Scrabble, Monopoly, a Stock Market based on stocks in the real world, TCZBingo and tons more that I can't think of off the top of my head. In the past we've had 2 'seasons' of TCZ Big Brother in which users are locked in a room and forced to interact only with each other and complete challenges while the rest of us watch their every move :) And currently TCZ Survivor is in the works.
We're a UK-based MUD/Chat that has users from around the world connecting (some are even fans of 24, fancy that :) ) and I think we've got one of the best friendly chat envirnoments out there. I know there are squillions of chatrooms online, some more slick than a telnet chat, but I think we're fairly unique among them and have a lot to offer.
So at the risk of sounding even more geeky than I already have, please stop in, create a character for yourself and check us out. I can usually be found there and am an administrator as well so I'd be more than happy to help get you acclimated. Actually we have a great admin team who can do that as well.
Ok enough of that. Back to our regularly scheduled Jack-worship :)
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Thursday, May 13, 2004
10am - 11am
*sob* Only 2 episodes left. TWO!! That's it! I can't explain to you how much that sucks.
This hour was very big budgety exciting. Shootouts, explosions, garbage cans flying everywhere. Good stuff! We start off with the agents scrambling to track Tony down. I believe Chloe manages to do it via street cams in much the same way Kim tracked Kyle Singer earlier. Jack heads off in pursuit.
Meanwhile Kim and Chase have a bit of a moment in the quiet few minutes before he has to head out again when they get a lock on Saunders. Chase tells Kim he loves her and wants to be with her - and that he'd transfer out of field ops if she wanted him to. Kim says she'd consider it but, "I'll raise a baby with you Chase, but I won't raise one for you."
BURN! (Sorry I've just discovered That 70s Show.)
Michelle (looking incredibly tough and angry and ultra-cool btw) starts yelling at the guard, reminding him that 800 people at the hotel are dead because of Saunders and that the virus is out. She's trying to make him choose himself over his boss and it almost looks like it's going to work too, but ultimately, the minion just tells her to shut up.
In an SUV, Tony - nervous and sweating - drives to the pre-arranged meeting point where he's to answer a call from Saunders and decide the exchange site. Jane starts to cop on to the fact that Tony's not really taking her to that 'Division place.' Finally Tony just comes out with it and admits that yes, he has kidnapped her, in a sense because her father is holding his wife hostage, and that he has no choice. Suddenly, sneaky Jack swerves out of nowhere and cuts him off. He pulls his gun and orders Tony to step away from the vehicle. There's a great showdown between the two that is totally worth seeing for yourself. I can't do it justice here. Suffice to say that Tony brings up Teri and Jack gives him a good shove for it. There's finger-pointing, garbage can kicking, shoving, harsh words, bitterness, desperation, pleading, blaming... Fantastic work.
In the end they come to a truce of sorts after Jack convinces Tony that Jane is needed to lure Saunders out into the open. Tony reluctantly gives up the meeting point he was heading to and off they go.
Back to Palmer for a second as Palmer informs Wayne that the best way to proceed with the control of the press is to not release any information about the virus yet because he feels the panic that would ensue would only exacerbate the situation. Then Palmer gets word that Keeler is there to see him and the slimy git is shown in. he proceeds to lay out his and Sherry's blackmail scheme involving Milliken's pill bottle with Sherry's fingerprints on it. In exchange for keeping quiet about it, Keeler demands the President resign in any manner he sees fit as soon as the crisis he's dealing with is over. That would leave him free to win the election in November. Palmer kicks him out of the office.
As Jack, Jane and Tony arrive at the payphone Saunders will be calling, Jack's plan is to have Tony force Saunders into picking a secondary location for the exchange giving CTU more time to get a team in place. Tony's not happy about it, but he gives it a go anyway. He tells Saunders that the location he chose is under heavy satellite scrutinization. I don't think Saunders buys it but before Tony has a chance to plead with him, Jack hangs up the phone. This *really* pisses Tony off and we get even more shoving and shouting. Jack says he is positive Saunders really wants his daughter back and that he'll call back. Sho 'nuff :) The phone rings and Saunders has picked another spot. At CTU, Chase heads out with his team to get in place before the meet.
At District, Palmer calls Sherry to berate her for her actions, but it's really Sherry doing the berating. She sips her glass of champagne cooly as she tells David that keeler offered her what David should have offered her: the coveted seat at the table. Instead David just chucked her aside after she did his dirty work. She ends with quite the little poser for David: Is he willing to go to jail over this because she is. His silence is her reply. "That's what I thought." she snaps and hangs up.
As they make their way to the bridge to meet Saunders, Jane questions Jack about her father and his plans. Jack explains that something must have happened to him to make him bitter enough to carry this all out. Jane doesn't take this news very well and you can tell she's terrified.
Cutting back to the holding room Michelle is in, we find her crouched with her back to the door, shrieking like a banshee. The minion yells at her to shut up but when she turns around, she's got blood running down her face from a nosebleed. Ack! Of course she faked it, but the minion doesn't know that and he wigs out anyway. As he's calling Saunders to find out what to do, Michelle knocks him out with a brick and runs away. She grabbed the minion's cell and his gun before she took off and she tries to call CTU, but gets Chloe and static. Chloe can't hear anything so she says, 'Whoever this is I don't have time right now, I have a lot to do.' Or something along those lines, but in Chloe fashion she just screwed Michelle over pretty good :)
Finally she gets through to Kim who immediately connects her to Jack and Tony who've arrived at the bridge. Michelle is still on the run and having problems finding a way out of the building she's in. But Jack, again, asks the impossible of Tony when he tells Michelle she needs to let herself get caught by Saunders. It's the only way they can get to him. Without Michelle as a bargaining chip, Saunders has nothing to exchange for his daughter and would probably be forced to sacrifice her - by that I mean sacrificing his chances of ever seeing her again. I think it's a real testament to Jack's sheer force of will as he convinces people left and right to go along with his plans. Tony and Michelle agree and she gets caught by Saunders. The meet is going to happen.
And back at District, David breaks the news about the pill bottle to Wayne and they have a 'I was stupider than you' moment of brotherly love, and then Wayne says he may have a way out of it. Palmer tacitly agrees and so Wayne heads off to meet some shady guy in a parking garage called Bruce Foxton. He tells Foxton he wants him to get the pill bottle back from Sherry. Foxton asks Wayne if the President knows what he's up to and Wayne says he does.
Back at the bridge, Jack and Chase lie in wait as Tony and Jane wait under the bridge. Soon a trio of SUV's pull up. There's a bit of a standoff and then Michelle and Jane begin to walk toward each other. Their eyes meet as they pass each other - relief mingled with determination in Michelle's eyes and sheer terror in Jane's. As Jane nears the SUV's she panics and tries to run back to Tony. Saunders pops out of his truck and calls to Jane. Jack's got his visual and CTU storms the scene. Gunfire erupts and Jack and Chase call for air support. Saunders complete look of surprise that Jack's there is priceless, but he makes a break for it and heads for a helicopter that he had in reserve. But just as he's about to get in the chopper, two awesome F-18 jetfighters appear and blast the helicopter into next week. Saunders is thrown aside and unable to get up.
Jack stands over Saunders and trains his gun on him. He demands to know where the other vials are. But even now Saunders refuses to give him the info. "You can waste time trying to break me, and kill millions of people. Or you can give me what I want." he says. Tick boom, tick boom.
Man the jets were really cool. Jack and Tony having a go at each other was great to watch, and I loved Michelle's nosebleed fakeout. CanNOT wait for next week, but I'm dreading it at the same time because this incredible season's nearly over.
This hour was very big budgety exciting. Shootouts, explosions, garbage cans flying everywhere. Good stuff! We start off with the agents scrambling to track Tony down. I believe Chloe manages to do it via street cams in much the same way Kim tracked Kyle Singer earlier. Jack heads off in pursuit.
Meanwhile Kim and Chase have a bit of a moment in the quiet few minutes before he has to head out again when they get a lock on Saunders. Chase tells Kim he loves her and wants to be with her - and that he'd transfer out of field ops if she wanted him to. Kim says she'd consider it but, "I'll raise a baby with you Chase, but I won't raise one for you."
BURN! (Sorry I've just discovered That 70s Show.)
Michelle (looking incredibly tough and angry and ultra-cool btw) starts yelling at the guard, reminding him that 800 people at the hotel are dead because of Saunders and that the virus is out. She's trying to make him choose himself over his boss and it almost looks like it's going to work too, but ultimately, the minion just tells her to shut up.
In an SUV, Tony - nervous and sweating - drives to the pre-arranged meeting point where he's to answer a call from Saunders and decide the exchange site. Jane starts to cop on to the fact that Tony's not really taking her to that 'Division place.' Finally Tony just comes out with it and admits that yes, he has kidnapped her, in a sense because her father is holding his wife hostage, and that he has no choice. Suddenly, sneaky Jack swerves out of nowhere and cuts him off. He pulls his gun and orders Tony to step away from the vehicle. There's a great showdown between the two that is totally worth seeing for yourself. I can't do it justice here. Suffice to say that Tony brings up Teri and Jack gives him a good shove for it. There's finger-pointing, garbage can kicking, shoving, harsh words, bitterness, desperation, pleading, blaming... Fantastic work.
In the end they come to a truce of sorts after Jack convinces Tony that Jane is needed to lure Saunders out into the open. Tony reluctantly gives up the meeting point he was heading to and off they go.
Back to Palmer for a second as Palmer informs Wayne that the best way to proceed with the control of the press is to not release any information about the virus yet because he feels the panic that would ensue would only exacerbate the situation. Then Palmer gets word that Keeler is there to see him and the slimy git is shown in. he proceeds to lay out his and Sherry's blackmail scheme involving Milliken's pill bottle with Sherry's fingerprints on it. In exchange for keeping quiet about it, Keeler demands the President resign in any manner he sees fit as soon as the crisis he's dealing with is over. That would leave him free to win the election in November. Palmer kicks him out of the office.
As Jack, Jane and Tony arrive at the payphone Saunders will be calling, Jack's plan is to have Tony force Saunders into picking a secondary location for the exchange giving CTU more time to get a team in place. Tony's not happy about it, but he gives it a go anyway. He tells Saunders that the location he chose is under heavy satellite scrutinization. I don't think Saunders buys it but before Tony has a chance to plead with him, Jack hangs up the phone. This *really* pisses Tony off and we get even more shoving and shouting. Jack says he is positive Saunders really wants his daughter back and that he'll call back. Sho 'nuff :) The phone rings and Saunders has picked another spot. At CTU, Chase heads out with his team to get in place before the meet.
At District, Palmer calls Sherry to berate her for her actions, but it's really Sherry doing the berating. She sips her glass of champagne cooly as she tells David that keeler offered her what David should have offered her: the coveted seat at the table. Instead David just chucked her aside after she did his dirty work. She ends with quite the little poser for David: Is he willing to go to jail over this because she is. His silence is her reply. "That's what I thought." she snaps and hangs up.
As they make their way to the bridge to meet Saunders, Jane questions Jack about her father and his plans. Jack explains that something must have happened to him to make him bitter enough to carry this all out. Jane doesn't take this news very well and you can tell she's terrified.
Cutting back to the holding room Michelle is in, we find her crouched with her back to the door, shrieking like a banshee. The minion yells at her to shut up but when she turns around, she's got blood running down her face from a nosebleed. Ack! Of course she faked it, but the minion doesn't know that and he wigs out anyway. As he's calling Saunders to find out what to do, Michelle knocks him out with a brick and runs away. She grabbed the minion's cell and his gun before she took off and she tries to call CTU, but gets Chloe and static. Chloe can't hear anything so she says, 'Whoever this is I don't have time right now, I have a lot to do.' Or something along those lines, but in Chloe fashion she just screwed Michelle over pretty good :)
Finally she gets through to Kim who immediately connects her to Jack and Tony who've arrived at the bridge. Michelle is still on the run and having problems finding a way out of the building she's in. But Jack, again, asks the impossible of Tony when he tells Michelle she needs to let herself get caught by Saunders. It's the only way they can get to him. Without Michelle as a bargaining chip, Saunders has nothing to exchange for his daughter and would probably be forced to sacrifice her - by that I mean sacrificing his chances of ever seeing her again. I think it's a real testament to Jack's sheer force of will as he convinces people left and right to go along with his plans. Tony and Michelle agree and she gets caught by Saunders. The meet is going to happen.
And back at District, David breaks the news about the pill bottle to Wayne and they have a 'I was stupider than you' moment of brotherly love, and then Wayne says he may have a way out of it. Palmer tacitly agrees and so Wayne heads off to meet some shady guy in a parking garage called Bruce Foxton. He tells Foxton he wants him to get the pill bottle back from Sherry. Foxton asks Wayne if the President knows what he's up to and Wayne says he does.
Back at the bridge, Jack and Chase lie in wait as Tony and Jane wait under the bridge. Soon a trio of SUV's pull up. There's a bit of a standoff and then Michelle and Jane begin to walk toward each other. Their eyes meet as they pass each other - relief mingled with determination in Michelle's eyes and sheer terror in Jane's. As Jane nears the SUV's she panics and tries to run back to Tony. Saunders pops out of his truck and calls to Jane. Jack's got his visual and CTU storms the scene. Gunfire erupts and Jack and Chase call for air support. Saunders complete look of surprise that Jack's there is priceless, but he makes a break for it and heads for a helicopter that he had in reserve. But just as he's about to get in the chopper, two awesome F-18 jetfighters appear and blast the helicopter into next week. Saunders is thrown aside and unable to get up.
Jack stands over Saunders and trains his gun on him. He demands to know where the other vials are. But even now Saunders refuses to give him the info. "You can waste time trying to break me, and kill millions of people. Or you can give me what I want." he says. Tick boom, tick boom.
Man the jets were really cool. Jack and Tony having a go at each other was great to watch, and I loved Michelle's nosebleed fakeout. CanNOT wait for next week, but I'm dreading it at the same time because this incredible season's nearly over.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Meh
Really sorry to anyone who came here looking for a recap. I've had a really shit day today and I just can't muster the energy to write it up right now. It was an awesome episode though and I'll do my recap, most definitely tomorrow, asap.
Sorry again.
Sorry again.
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Wheeee
I'll have the recap up some time today I promise :) I have a lot of meetings today (just what I want to do on my birthday - flowcharting lessons.) So I'll have to squeeze in work on the cap between them and maybe finish it up this evening.
Anyway it was a brilliant ep! Clever clever Michelle, flashes of angry, bitter Jack, desperate Tony, neurotic Chloe, please-don't-break-up-with-me-I've-been-shot-IN-THE-HAND Chase, deep-sighing Kim, freaked out Jane, pissed off Saunders, vengeful Sherry, caught like a deer in headlights Palmer, dirty-dealing Wayne, smug Keeler, cool F-18s... I love this show so very much.
Anyway it was a brilliant ep! Clever clever Michelle, flashes of angry, bitter Jack, desperate Tony, neurotic Chloe, please-don't-break-up-with-me-I've-been-shot-IN-THE-HAND Chase, deep-sighing Kim, freaked out Jane, pissed off Saunders, vengeful Sherry, caught like a deer in headlights Palmer, dirty-dealing Wayne, smug Keeler, cool F-18s... I love this show so very much.
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Monday, May 10, 2004
I'm a fetishist...
...Apparently.
Was browsing my site statistics and found 24addict linked on some forum as a 'free' way (eh?) to catch up on the show. But this poster noted that these folks (meaning me I guess) are "essentially fetishists, they form "President Palmer" fan webrings and scour the internet like fucking googlebots for cast members "in the news".
So anyway, woohoo I'm a fetishist :) I always wanted to be one of those. I'm off now to join one of those 'I *heart* Palmer' webrings now.
Was browsing my site statistics and found 24addict linked on some forum as a 'free' way (eh?) to catch up on the show. But this poster noted that these folks (meaning me I guess) are "essentially fetishists, they form "President Palmer" fan webrings and scour the internet like fucking googlebots for cast members "in the news".
So anyway, woohoo I'm a fetishist :) I always wanted to be one of those. I'm off now to join one of those 'I *heart* Palmer' webrings now.
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