24: Any good?

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Teknic

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A few people told me that 24 was a really good show to watch, so I watched 2 seasons on Netflix but so far it kind of sucks. Does it get any better?



I'm okay with the unrealistic aspect of it, such as when:
  • a CTU soldier dangling from a helicopter makes a perfect shot while holding a sniper rifle from the hip
  • Jack Bauer, armed only with a pistol killing a squad of rogue US Special Forces soldiers dressed in full camo with assualt rifles
  • Using a sniper rifle for CQC
I'm also okay with production failures, such as when:
  • You see the production crew hanging out in a corner of a scene
  • Off to the side you can clearly see the camera man filming the scene from a different angle
  • A random production crew person standing right behind Jack Bauer while he is engaged in a firefight with terrorists
What I can't stand are the female heroes. They are all super whiny, entitled, incredibly annoying and bad actors. Jack Bauer about to find a nuclear bomb on the verge of detonating? His daughter will call him asking to be bailed out of jail every 5 minutes. Set a police car on fire sending an officer to the ICU and resulting in the amputation of a civilian and found in posession of a firearm that doesn't belong to her? No worries, daddy works for the CTU! No charges whatsoever! I feel as if 10 minutes in a given episode is dedicated to having a female freak out and run around like a chicken with her head cut off.

In fact, I only watched season 2 hoping that Jack Bauer's daughter would die. I had such high hopes after watching his wife die at the end of season 1. But then they added Kate Warner, just as equally annoying as his wife. The female villains are much better.

Sometimes TV shows aren't the greatest at the beginning. Does it get better or are the female characters less annoying?
 

Malak

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I thought it was good at first, but before I got to the end of the first season I got tired of it.
 

GagHalfrunt

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If you didn't like the first two seasons you won't like anything that follows. They dumped the insane shit with Kim being a damsel in distress every seven seconds, otherwise it's pretty much the same.
 
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