Friday, May 05, 2006
24 in London
All I have to say about this news is, "SWEET!"
Kiefer Sutherland has revealed that a movie version of his hit US TV show 24 is to be made in London. The actor, who plays hero Jack Bauer in the thriller series, told chat show host Jonathan Ross about his plans on his BBC One show, which airs on Friday.
"We're working on that," he said. "We'll shoot the film here. We're really excited about it.
My favourite agent in my favourite city. What more could a fangirl ask for? :)
Kiefer Sutherland has revealed that a movie version of his hit US TV show 24 is to be made in London. The actor, who plays hero Jack Bauer in the thriller series, told chat show host Jonathan Ross about his plans on his BBC One show, which airs on Friday.
"We're working on that," he said. "We'll shoot the film here. We're really excited about it.
My favourite agent in my favourite city. What more could a fangirl ask for? :)
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Monday, May 01, 2006
You little ass-kisser
So Bill Buchanan had the best line of the night. It's like the writers are reading my mind this season! When Buchanan called Whiny Miles an ass-kisser I thought I was going to keel over. So cool.
And I am happy to annouce that I have joined the rest of the civilized world and installed a DVR today. I enojyed rewinding the ass-kisser remark over and over. There was much giggling.
Tonight's show was fraught with tension. My jaws are sore from clenching my teeth. Will Martha lose it and blab the President's treachery? Will Jack lose consciousness in the luggage compartment? Who the F are the guys pulling Logan's strings? It's driving me nuts.
We began with Karen Hayes speaking to Buchanan covertly to tell him to get Chloe out of his house before the tact team arrives to arrest her. Then the Ass-Kisser walks in and she pretends to direct the team to bring Buchanan into CTU for interrogation which AK thinks is weird. Meanwhile, Chloe got out through the back door and made her way to a hotel a few blocks away from Bill's house. She sets up shop in a darkened corner of the hotel bar. She's now tucked away and working with Karen Hayes' resources and she gets Jack the passenger manifest he needs to narrow down the person on board who's got the recording.
Unfortunately for Chloe, this bar comes with an obligatory drunken, misogynist businessman looking to score. There's one in every bar isn't there?
Chloe locates the Air Marshall on board and Jack pops up from the floor (which struck me funny for some reason) and nonchalantly makes his way to the Marshall's row. Feigning exhaustion, grabs a pillow, chucks his Elbow of Doom into the Marshall's head knocking him out then gently places the pillow under his head so it looks like he's sleeping. Very slick.
Chloe is cross-checking the manifest looking for anyone with connections to Henderson and his company, Omicron. She finds a hit, calls Jack and sends him off to get the guy. Jack, having stolen the Marshall's ID, convinces the man to step into the galley where Jack knocks him out. I think I'd like to learn how to render someone unconscious with one quick jab with my fist. I think it could come in handy :) Anyway, Jack drops the unconscious man down the hatch he popped up in and they disappear into the baggage hold just as an air steward steps into the galley. Phew!
Back at the retreat we get to see more of Mad Martha. I missed the First Lady of Crazy (TM TWoP). Jean Smart is a wonderful actress but I like Martha better when she's got the crazies on instead of simpering with her husband. Of course, we know why she's slipping off the deep end but still, it's interesting to watch. For me anyway, dunno about the rest of you. Currently, she's being "held" in her room and she's getting her drink on and beginning to wig out because her meds are gone. She calls Novick and tries to ask him to get her meds for her but in the process she slips a little and gives Mike cause to be suspicious. She tries to pretend that her behaviour is just nerves but Novick's pretty sharp and he can read between the lines. Martha doesn't break completely and tell Novick about Logan's duplicity but he's got an inkling now.
Romano (and for the person who asked why I call the creepy cell phone guy 'Romano' it's because he played the asshole doctor Romano on ER for a long time and was one of my faves on that show) calls Logan for an update on Bauer but Logan's got nuttin'. Novick interrupts him though and voices his concerns/suspicions about Martha. He tries to get Logan to fess up (because he just knows something isn't right) but Logan plays it off and chalks up her behaviour to marital woes.
Novick isn't buying it though. He goes back to Mad Martha and gives her a couple of days worth of pills which she wolfs down in short order. And then Novick moves in for the kill. He begins to grill Martha. He tells her he thinks they're both covering something up. For a split second, I believe he'll convince her but I guess Martha's integrity is pretty strong and she doesn't tell him. Dissatisfied, Mike leaves.
Up on the plane, Jack begins grilling the guy he snuck into the baggage compartment but is getting nowhere. Chloe, after aptly deflecting drunk businessman, contacts airport customs as she continues to cross-check the manifest. Good girl actually. I didn't think she'd just stop doing that because she thinks Jack has the right guy. Always good to be thorough. The plane begins to experience turbulence and they discover that the Air Marshall has been knocked out and a passenger is missing. Ruh-roh.
Chloe reports to Jack and tells him she thinks he has the wrong guy. "Fucking great" is what I'm betting Jack is thinking. The Marshall on board tells the pilot he needs to seal the baggage area and begin de-pressurizing it. This will cause Jack and his hostage to lose consciousness and make them easy prey. Of course, Jack is one step ahead and knows what they're up to. He gets Chloe to connect him to the pilot who isn't believing a word Jack says despite the fact that Jack could not have gotten through to the pilot without CTU assistance (provided by Hayes back at CTU.)
How the hell is Jack going to talk his way out of this one??
I mean, in the back of my mind, I know he will of course get out of the situation. He's Jack. But I can't fathom how he'll do it. He's locked in the baggage area. He knows the Marshall will sacrifice the hostage to subdue/kill Jack so he's got no leverage. The pilot refuses to let him up despite Jack's please (his powers of persuasion must require eye contact :) )
So what does Jack do? With a throaty, "Son of a bitch" my boy slices through the ceiling with his handy knife (pulled from the JackSack (TM Dave Barry's blog) and with a belt wrapped around some wires in a conduit he mucks with the plane's rudders or something. (Ok, my sister thinks this little manuever was OTT and maybe it was but you guys know me. I don't care :) I'm happy to suspend belief in any way in order to enjoy the show. So unless Jack crawls out on a wing and starts yanking wires out of it, I'll carry on believing he can make the plane go wonky with nothing but a belt and a knife :) ) The pilot, realizing Jack means business, agrees to let him up. And I love the way Jack popped up from the hatch with his gun first. Puts a new spin on Jack-in-the-boxes.
Keeping his gun trained on the passengers and with the Air Marshall now locked in the baggage compartment, Jack tells the pilot he needs to keep the plane in a holding pattern while he searches the passengers. The pilot refuses because regulations stipulate that he must land the plane in the event of a hijacking. So Jack does not have much time to conduct his search.
Now I'm going back a bit because I skipped one of the highlights of the episode (at least for me.) In the hotel bar, drunken businessman approaches Chloe for the second time with some shmaltzy line about VOIP because he's seen her put an earpiece on. Rather than shoo him away with her usual abruptness, Chloe smiles and asks him to sit down. As he begins muttering some line about her laptop, she deftly reaches into her bag and zaps his ass with a taser. God I love Chloe. If I was a lesbian, I would so do her.
Buchanan is now back at CTU under the pretense of being under arrest. Karen wishes to deal with him herself which doesn't sit well with the ass-kisser. So he pesters Novick to whinge about Karen's methods. It doesn't take long for Novkic to become irritated and he gets off the call. In holding, Karen makes it clear to Bill that she's helping reluctantly and she needs to hear the recording herself. The President and Novick interrupt her and Logan makes it clear to Karen that CTU is to get the plane down and let the president's secret service agents arrest Bauer. Given what karen knows, this newest order seems to reassure her that Logan is dirty.
Novick is beginning to put two and two together himself after witnessing Logan's posturing during the call with Karen.
Meanwhile, drunken businessman comes to, a little groggy, soe she tasers him again and I swear she had a bit of a smirk on her face as she continued to work :) As she types away she speaks with customs again and discovers that the co-pilot on board was a last minute switch. Bingo! The new co-pilot has ties to Omicron and Henderson. Jack contacts the pilot ona private channel and fills him in.
A scuffle ensues and the co-pilot, knowing the jig is up, kills the pilot but not before he got the cabin unlocked, letting Jack in. Muahahaha. Jack clocks him a couple of times and menaces him into handing over the recording. And in another comment from the peanut gallery, my sister would like it known that she thought the music that played when the co-pilot handed over the recording to Jack was "cheesy." I disagree but she and I do that a lot :)
After Jack gets the recording he puts the gun to the co-pilot's head and orders him to land the plane.
Cutting back to Martha we find her sitting on the floor, well out of her head, and she calls Logan. She rambles on about how she wants to try to understand why Logan is doing this and how she wishes he would have come to her in the beginning. Logan loses it though and snaps at her, mentioning that she's been "one step away from a nervous breakdown" during his entire presidency. His cell rings and it's Romano again so he cuts Martha off which sends her into hysterics.
And now I have to end this because my brand new DVR crapped out on me and in the ensuing hassle of dealing with my cable company (who hung up on me in the middle of the call forcing me to call back and get my own little bit of crazy on) I've forgotten how the show ended. If someone would like to enlighten me in the comments I'd appreciate it. I'm pissed off and tired so I'm going to bed.
Great show tonight though.
And I am happy to annouce that I have joined the rest of the civilized world and installed a DVR today. I enojyed rewinding the ass-kisser remark over and over. There was much giggling.
Tonight's show was fraught with tension. My jaws are sore from clenching my teeth. Will Martha lose it and blab the President's treachery? Will Jack lose consciousness in the luggage compartment? Who the F are the guys pulling Logan's strings? It's driving me nuts.
We began with Karen Hayes speaking to Buchanan covertly to tell him to get Chloe out of his house before the tact team arrives to arrest her. Then the Ass-Kisser walks in and she pretends to direct the team to bring Buchanan into CTU for interrogation which AK thinks is weird. Meanwhile, Chloe got out through the back door and made her way to a hotel a few blocks away from Bill's house. She sets up shop in a darkened corner of the hotel bar. She's now tucked away and working with Karen Hayes' resources and she gets Jack the passenger manifest he needs to narrow down the person on board who's got the recording.
Unfortunately for Chloe, this bar comes with an obligatory drunken, misogynist businessman looking to score. There's one in every bar isn't there?
Chloe locates the Air Marshall on board and Jack pops up from the floor (which struck me funny for some reason) and nonchalantly makes his way to the Marshall's row. Feigning exhaustion, grabs a pillow, chucks his Elbow of Doom into the Marshall's head knocking him out then gently places the pillow under his head so it looks like he's sleeping. Very slick.
Chloe is cross-checking the manifest looking for anyone with connections to Henderson and his company, Omicron. She finds a hit, calls Jack and sends him off to get the guy. Jack, having stolen the Marshall's ID, convinces the man to step into the galley where Jack knocks him out. I think I'd like to learn how to render someone unconscious with one quick jab with my fist. I think it could come in handy :) Anyway, Jack drops the unconscious man down the hatch he popped up in and they disappear into the baggage hold just as an air steward steps into the galley. Phew!
Back at the retreat we get to see more of Mad Martha. I missed the First Lady of Crazy (TM TWoP). Jean Smart is a wonderful actress but I like Martha better when she's got the crazies on instead of simpering with her husband. Of course, we know why she's slipping off the deep end but still, it's interesting to watch. For me anyway, dunno about the rest of you. Currently, she's being "held" in her room and she's getting her drink on and beginning to wig out because her meds are gone. She calls Novick and tries to ask him to get her meds for her but in the process she slips a little and gives Mike cause to be suspicious. She tries to pretend that her behaviour is just nerves but Novick's pretty sharp and he can read between the lines. Martha doesn't break completely and tell Novick about Logan's duplicity but he's got an inkling now.
Romano (and for the person who asked why I call the creepy cell phone guy 'Romano' it's because he played the asshole doctor Romano on ER for a long time and was one of my faves on that show) calls Logan for an update on Bauer but Logan's got nuttin'. Novick interrupts him though and voices his concerns/suspicions about Martha. He tries to get Logan to fess up (because he just knows something isn't right) but Logan plays it off and chalks up her behaviour to marital woes.
Novick isn't buying it though. He goes back to Mad Martha and gives her a couple of days worth of pills which she wolfs down in short order. And then Novick moves in for the kill. He begins to grill Martha. He tells her he thinks they're both covering something up. For a split second, I believe he'll convince her but I guess Martha's integrity is pretty strong and she doesn't tell him. Dissatisfied, Mike leaves.
Up on the plane, Jack begins grilling the guy he snuck into the baggage compartment but is getting nowhere. Chloe, after aptly deflecting drunk businessman, contacts airport customs as she continues to cross-check the manifest. Good girl actually. I didn't think she'd just stop doing that because she thinks Jack has the right guy. Always good to be thorough. The plane begins to experience turbulence and they discover that the Air Marshall has been knocked out and a passenger is missing. Ruh-roh.
Chloe reports to Jack and tells him she thinks he has the wrong guy. "Fucking great" is what I'm betting Jack is thinking. The Marshall on board tells the pilot he needs to seal the baggage area and begin de-pressurizing it. This will cause Jack and his hostage to lose consciousness and make them easy prey. Of course, Jack is one step ahead and knows what they're up to. He gets Chloe to connect him to the pilot who isn't believing a word Jack says despite the fact that Jack could not have gotten through to the pilot without CTU assistance (provided by Hayes back at CTU.)
How the hell is Jack going to talk his way out of this one??
I mean, in the back of my mind, I know he will of course get out of the situation. He's Jack. But I can't fathom how he'll do it. He's locked in the baggage area. He knows the Marshall will sacrifice the hostage to subdue/kill Jack so he's got no leverage. The pilot refuses to let him up despite Jack's please (his powers of persuasion must require eye contact :) )
So what does Jack do? With a throaty, "Son of a bitch" my boy slices through the ceiling with his handy knife (pulled from the JackSack (TM Dave Barry's blog) and with a belt wrapped around some wires in a conduit he mucks with the plane's rudders or something. (Ok, my sister thinks this little manuever was OTT and maybe it was but you guys know me. I don't care :) I'm happy to suspend belief in any way in order to enjoy the show. So unless Jack crawls out on a wing and starts yanking wires out of it, I'll carry on believing he can make the plane go wonky with nothing but a belt and a knife :) ) The pilot, realizing Jack means business, agrees to let him up. And I love the way Jack popped up from the hatch with his gun first. Puts a new spin on Jack-in-the-boxes.
Keeping his gun trained on the passengers and with the Air Marshall now locked in the baggage compartment, Jack tells the pilot he needs to keep the plane in a holding pattern while he searches the passengers. The pilot refuses because regulations stipulate that he must land the plane in the event of a hijacking. So Jack does not have much time to conduct his search.
Now I'm going back a bit because I skipped one of the highlights of the episode (at least for me.) In the hotel bar, drunken businessman approaches Chloe for the second time with some shmaltzy line about VOIP because he's seen her put an earpiece on. Rather than shoo him away with her usual abruptness, Chloe smiles and asks him to sit down. As he begins muttering some line about her laptop, she deftly reaches into her bag and zaps his ass with a taser. God I love Chloe. If I was a lesbian, I would so do her.
Buchanan is now back at CTU under the pretense of being under arrest. Karen wishes to deal with him herself which doesn't sit well with the ass-kisser. So he pesters Novick to whinge about Karen's methods. It doesn't take long for Novkic to become irritated and he gets off the call. In holding, Karen makes it clear to Bill that she's helping reluctantly and she needs to hear the recording herself. The President and Novick interrupt her and Logan makes it clear to Karen that CTU is to get the plane down and let the president's secret service agents arrest Bauer. Given what karen knows, this newest order seems to reassure her that Logan is dirty.
Novick is beginning to put two and two together himself after witnessing Logan's posturing during the call with Karen.
Meanwhile, drunken businessman comes to, a little groggy, soe she tasers him again and I swear she had a bit of a smirk on her face as she continued to work :) As she types away she speaks with customs again and discovers that the co-pilot on board was a last minute switch. Bingo! The new co-pilot has ties to Omicron and Henderson. Jack contacts the pilot ona private channel and fills him in.
A scuffle ensues and the co-pilot, knowing the jig is up, kills the pilot but not before he got the cabin unlocked, letting Jack in. Muahahaha. Jack clocks him a couple of times and menaces him into handing over the recording. And in another comment from the peanut gallery, my sister would like it known that she thought the music that played when the co-pilot handed over the recording to Jack was "cheesy." I disagree but she and I do that a lot :)
After Jack gets the recording he puts the gun to the co-pilot's head and orders him to land the plane.
Cutting back to Martha we find her sitting on the floor, well out of her head, and she calls Logan. She rambles on about how she wants to try to understand why Logan is doing this and how she wishes he would have come to her in the beginning. Logan loses it though and snaps at her, mentioning that she's been "one step away from a nervous breakdown" during his entire presidency. His cell rings and it's Romano again so he cuts Martha off which sends her into hysterics.
And now I have to end this because my brand new DVR crapped out on me and in the ensuing hassle of dealing with my cable company (who hung up on me in the middle of the call forcing me to call back and get my own little bit of crazy on) I've forgotten how the show ended. If someone would like to enlighten me in the comments I'd appreciate it. I'm pissed off and tired so I'm going to bed.
Great show tonight though.
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