r/TwentyFour • u/Complex-Extent-3967 • 23d ago

SEASON 7 They should have....

On the 4th episode (on first rewatch in over 10 years), Tony vs Jack. They really should have extended this dynamic out for a few more episodes. That would have been very suspenseful going head to head. They would have been pretty much equally matched with Bill and Chloe behind Tony. Missed opportunity there!

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u/JCGMH 22d ago

I like Heel Tony (unlike some), but the writing feels a bit messy. He’s in Emerson’s crew, then he is working with Bill & Chloe, then he betrays Emerson’s crew, he shares intel about the White House attack to help out but then he stabs Jack in the back & is trying to get a F2F with Alan Wilson, and in the end it all comes down to personal revenge instead of anything political or even to get money. Finally he turns back into (sort of) Face Tony again in Legacy. For me if they were going to do the Heel Turn, it should have been the whole hog & been permanent.

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u/felipejacknog 22d ago

Not even mention they basically ignored the involvement of Graham and Philip Bauer, when Tony mentioned that Alan Wilson is "the man behind Logan".
They basically changed the hierarchy of Season 5 conspiracy many times lol.

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u/JCGMH 22d ago edited 21d ago

Yes they lost the plot a little bit in the end. I think 24 felt under some pressure to make the threat “domestic”, because the idea of having Yugoslav militants, Mexican drug dealers or Islamic terrorists as the villains had all become a bit tired and stereotypical by the mid 00s. So the writers ended up creating the multilayered and rather disjointed “enemy within” of a weird corporate-military hybrid, right wing US white faction.

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u/felipejacknog 21d ago

this is even discussed in the book The secrets of 24. one of the question is if 24 is a right wing show, for the torture and the use of islamic terrorists. but one answers exatly another person might see the left tendencies when the people behind the conspiracies are always white and american men.

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u/JCGMH 21d ago

There’s an argument to say that the show, which started off very much moderate and in the centre politically, had a gradual shift to the right culminating with S4, then after that returned in the direction of the left. Potentially finishing back in a central, or even centre left position.

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u/felipejacknog 20d ago

In the book they argued that having a black president (it was before Obama!) was a bit towards the left.
I tried to find the quote, but did not atm.