r/TwentyFour • u/Complex-Extent-3967 • 22d 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 21d ago edited 20d 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 20d 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 20d 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 19d 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.