2-Worst 24 Moments
Worst 24 Moments
Season 2
These were the fun ones, the ones that really made me cringe. It's hard to pick thinks that are bad in a show this great, but sometimes it's just necessary...So, here goes.
Runners Up:
1. Marie’s tantrums at the house. (Various Episodes) – Pick one, it doesn’t really matter. I understand it’s her wedding day, and also she’s planning to blow up LA, but she’s really annoying. I like ‘evil Marie’ better. Way better.
2. Jack constantly yelling at Joe that they’re out of time. (11:00am-12:00pm) – This is annoyingly repetitive and a downright waste of time, which sometimes during these scenes I wish we were out of.
3. The redneck pulling the trigger on Yusuf, but the gun is empty. (2:00am-3:00am) – This is just a sick joke that really angered me. Especially since he died anyway.
4. Kate’s fit in Reza’s car. (11:00am-12:00pm) – She couldn’t just go with him for the ride and be quiet. Did she really think he was going to murder her? How would he explain that?
5. Jack’s hard-ass stance and Kate’s menial excuses when Jack tells her about Reza and that they suspect Marie. (7:00pm-8:00pm) - Jack was crass and rude to her. He was totally emotionless for what she was going through, I don’t think that’s Jack’s personality. He’s always been pretty understanding to others. It takes her agreeing to call Marie for him to lighten up a bit, but she was still whiny and annoying, accusing Jack of jumping to a conclusion.
Worst 24 moments:
24. Jack and Michelle’s phone call where she gives him positions of the bad guys. (1:00pm-2:00pm)
Both of them seemed very strained by the whole ordeal. Michelle was sending Jack the coordinates from the bathroom, haven’t we seen this before? She is overdramatic when she tells him that “they’re all stationary, except one Jack, he’s roaming.” She adds that he’s roaming with the gravity of “he’s got a nuke” It was simply laughable. Then when she steps outside and Tony is waiting the ordeal doesn’t get much better, the only good part was the ego comment, other than that Tony’s performance wasn’t much better.
23. Kate running into Jack at CTU after she thought he was dead. (11:00pm-12:00pm)
The entire, lame, ‘how are you?’ and ‘I’m glad you’re okay’ are just awkward, Jr. High type moments. Neither Sutherland nor Wynter look comfortable doing this scene and it’s a total waste of our exceptionally valuable ‘24’ minutes. If I wanted to see how children act, I’d go to a school.
22. Kate’s constant barrage of stupid questions (Various Episodes)
If I were anyone that had to constantly stop and explain things to her, I would have snapped and just told her to shut up. Something along the lines of ‘you are on a need-to-know basis and you just don’t need to know.’ Jack and company are busy people, they don’t really have time to be holding her hand and explaining everything to her. Sit down, shut up and if you need to know, we’ll tell you.
21. Gary checking Kim out while he hugs his wife and his daughter is sitting right there. (8:00am-9:00am)
Gary is a slime ball, but I think that this was too far in the slime ball direction. If I were Kim I’d be packing my things that morning and be out of that house as soon as they get home, no questions asked.
20. Kim’s brilliant getaway car. (1:00pm-2:00pm)
We all know that Kim is just about the biggest blonde on the show, thus she is entitled to the biggest blonde moments. I think that this rates near the top of the scale. After seeing what Gary did to Carla earlier one might think that maybe, just maybe, Kim might have checked the trunk before speeding out of the city in a stolen car that belongs to psycho-dad Gary.
19. “Shame on you.” David Palmer to Mike. (5:00am-6:00am)
We know that Palmer is very articulate and opinionated, Mike even said it himself, that ‘David Palmer is not a stupid man.’ This comment does not reflect that at all. From what we’ve seen, I am 100% positive that if Palmer was in that situation, he could have come up with something better that ‘shame in you.’
18. Kate asking Jack, “How could you? You’re worse than they are.” (7:00pm-8:00pm)
I also don’t agree with what Jack supposedly did, killing Ali’s son, but where, exactly, has Kate been for the last 11 hours? Does she not understand what is going on here? Jack didn’t actually do it anyway. I thought Kate went to Stanford (as IF, she has the IQ of a doorknob). If Jack hadn’t taken the kind of actions that he had taken that day, she, along with her entire family, would have been dead. It was completely ridiculous that she could turn and accuse Jack of being “worse than [the bombers] are” he is, after all, trying to save millions of lives. Then, to add salt to this wound, a very short time later, Jack asks Kate to accompany him to Norton Airfield to talk to Marie. I think that this little outburst may have allowed Jack to let Kate go away, but instead he continues to rely on her. It’s not like she was really that much help anyway, Jack broke Marie pretty much on his own, Kate, again, ended up in the way. *Sigh* Oh well.
17. Roger trying desperately to come up with an explanation about the coral snakes. (5:00pm-6:00pm)
Right from the start Roger is obviously lying. Why did he even bother to try and cover it up from Palmer? Did he expect him not to find out? If Roger is the head of NSA, shouldn’t he have some military training? He should be way better at lying than this…or maybe it was the acting. Either way I was severely unimpressed with this scene.
16. When Kim and Megan were in the car, Kim locks the door; Gary unlocks it with the remote. (9:00am-10:00am)
I actually laughed at this scene when I first saw it, and it didn’t get any better as I watched it again. This is tedious and a waste of time. Kim looks just panicked when Gary unlocks the door; it’s just a bad scene and this is a silly way to create tension in this situation. I love the writers of this show and I am thoroughly convinced that they could have come up with something much better than what we got.
15. The rednecks refusing to take the Euros. (3:00am-4:00am)
Are there people out there that are actually this stupid? Honestly. How could they possibly not know what Euros are? And then them not taking the money? Money is money, folks…how stupid do they thing we are?
14. Kim and Miguel getting pulled over by a cop. (2:00pm-3:00pm)
Out of all the highways in California and all the cops they manage to get stopped by the one that won’t even call CTU to find out if they’re telling the truth. This was a similar Kim plotline to last season when she was arrested for being part of a drug deal that she had nothing to do with and the cop then wouldn’t call CTU either. A touch repetitive and very frustrating for a few reasons, not the least of them is who in their right mind would speed in a stolen car?
13. Kate asking, “Did that help?” and Jack’s reply, “Yes, yes I think it did.” (5:00pm-6:00pm)
‘WHAT?’ was the only thing I was left thinking after this ‘moment’. Kate gives Jack some information about the whereabouts of Syed Ali, the man that is supposed to be blowing up most of LA. After Jack passes on the info, Kate asks her question lamely. ‘Well, Kate, what do you think?’ Then Jack, stooping to the low and answering the way he did. ‘I think it did?’ I think if I were Jack, I wouldn’t have even bothered wasting my time answering that question. I felt nothing from Sutherland in this reply as well, I get the feeling that maybe he didn’t feel very good about it either, but I can’t tell that for sure…just a hunch.
12. Kate going into the mosque and creating a scene when she drops the panic button. (6:00pm-7:00pm)
Now, really, would it have been that hard to do this properly? Not only that but she didn’t tell Jack what happened and still expected him not to have noticed. Me thinks that Ali is probably a bit smarter than that, anyone that had a heartbeat inside that mosque knew that Kate didn’t belong there and if you’re guilty of something as substantial as Ali was, then you are looking for the signs. Well, there’s a glaring neon pink one.
11. Marie making up with Reza (5:00pm-6:00pm)
This little reconciliation occurred almost exactly 30 minutes before she shoots and kills him. So, in retrospect, what was the point of this? We could have found something better to do with the time since it was all for show anyway, the only point of this scene was to mislead the audience.
10. Sherry meeting with Lynn. (7:00pm-8:00pm)
While I was taking notes I had this titled “Sherry the Sleuth”. The constant cat-fight between her and Lynn was somewhat warranted and was not without it’s high points. This, on the other hand was a low point. Not only did Sherry hijack a meeting that Lynn was having (or maybe there was not meeting anyway) but she managed to have time to get changed into that ridiculous outfit and beat Lynn out there. Then there was the actual meeting. Not many things were likeable in this scene, they weren’t helped by the bad hat.
9. Kate getting ‘tortured’. (5:00pm-6:00pm)
I think that this idea was not so good right from the start. Kate really would have told Ali and his accomplice anything she knew when they killed Coplin; from her reaction they should have known that. There was no need to even do this exercise except to keep her alive so CTU could save her. Also, the amount of whining and crying that occurred for this tiny cut was melodramatic and probably more painful to watch than it actually would have felt. She wore that ridiculous bandage on and off for the rest of the ‘day’ (sometimes it disappeared, but I don’t have concrete times) and then at the end, the cut was gone completely. All I have to say is that I’m glad what happened to Jack didn’t happen to Kate.
8. Lonnie making up the story of the nuclear bomb going off and using it to keep Kim there with him. (8:00pm-9:00pm)
This guy is simply nuts man, just nuts. Kim really did have a good point (see? It can happen) If Lonnie really wanted company, then why the heck does he live all the way out in the middle of nowhere completely alone. He probably could have just asked her to stay and she may have. Because he made up a lie that half (actually, probably all) of LA got blown up, there’s no way that she would stay. Why, why, why? Why do we have Lonnie?
7. Danny. (Various Episodes)
This guy is purely awful. He’s obviously about 45 cards short of a full deck, plus he’s got about 4 jokers. He’s not all there and he is simply annoying, the way he freaks out on Michelle and Keri is just painful to watch. I’d almost rather they stayed with the original plotline, Keri and Michelle being ex-lovers, almost. That, at least, would have alleviated the Danny situation
6. Kim whining for Jack to come bail her out himself. (3:00pm-4:00pm)
I understand that Kim has had a rough day, she’s been through a lot etcetera etcetera, but this morning she didn’t even want anything to do with Jack. Now, not only does he want him to get her out of trouble, but she wants HIM to come. Meanwhile, Jack is on a plane with the woman that killed his wife and one of the main conspirators behind the nuclear bomb. Can’t Kim understand that there are more important things at stake here? ‘I’m sorry, sweetheart, I’m trying to save the world’
5. Jack choosing to give Nina the ammo, her using it to hold him hostage. (4:00pm-5:00pm)
Now, I’ve never shot a gun, in fact, I’ve never even held one, but in this situation I can’t see Jack, Mr. Walking Dead, not being able to hold his own ammo. There wasn’t even very much of it, and it was in a bag. Maybe if it had been loose it may have been more understandable, but I’m pretty sure he could have handled it on his own. If I were Jack, Nina would be the last person I would ever even consider trusting with something like that. Maybe the leg wound effected his judgement.
4. The sudden conscience attack of the bombers. (3:00pm-4:00pm)
We get the impression that Ali and company have been planning this event for quite some time. At least a year and a half (before Nina went to prison) Is it really reasonable to believe that the men that are supposed to be behind the most important part, planting the bomb and flying it out, could be this uncommitted to the cause? All three of Ali, Marie and Faheen are willing to die, but the three that are driving the truck that actually HAVE the bomb, well, they can maybe back out…Whatever.
3. The entire Kim in the store plot-line. (11:00pm-1:00am)
Not a single thing about this plotline was good. Not one. Well, okay, maybe one, the owner was an okay actor. Ramon was painful, the storyline was comparable to the Teri-amnesia idea, just filler. The only means was that Kim ended up in police custody, but there were any number of other avenues this could have taken that didn’t involve Ramon. I’m pretty sure I could find 24 things wrong in this story by itself, starting with everything about Ramon and Kim just handing the gun over.
2. Kate telling Jack, “Be careful.” Jack answering, “Thanks, I will be.” (4:00am-5:00am)
This is at least the second time she’s said this phrase to him, but the preceding scene made this even worse. Completely awkward and annoying. He almost got away without this, but she stopped him at the last second to deliver this crappy, useless line. Many people actually use this phrase during the show, but this time is the only really horrid one.
And, the WORST scene of season 2...drumroll please....
1. Kate shrilly yelling at Jack, “You don’t know who she was with, they could have been forcing her, you don’t know.” (7:00pm-8:00pm)
I think that this episode has many wonderful aspects; in fact, I think that this may have been my favourite episode acting-wise. Sutherland sizzled while he interrogated Ali; Quinn was simply spectacular portraying the broken Ali. This major blemish in this shining episode makes me shiver. Kate’s child-like tantrum in the basement of the mosque make this episode remembered, not for the great acting, but for the whining, breaking voice of Wynter from the floor. This was poorly written and even more poorly executed. I’m almost positive that I will never watch this scene again, I want to try and forget it and remember all the good over the bad. This will probably be my only use of the fast-forward button while I watch season 2 again. Do the writers really expect us to believe that Jack could feel anything for this person?
Runners Up:
1. Marie’s tantrums at the house. (Various Episodes) – Pick one, it doesn’t really matter. I understand it’s her wedding day, and also she’s planning to blow up LA, but she’s really annoying. I like ‘evil Marie’ better. Way better.
2. Jack constantly yelling at Joe that they’re out of time. (11:00am-12:00pm) – This is annoyingly repetitive and a downright waste of time, which sometimes during these scenes I wish we were out of.
3. The redneck pulling the trigger on Yusuf, but the gun is empty. (2:00am-3:00am) – This is just a sick joke that really angered me. Especially since he died anyway.
4. Kate’s fit in Reza’s car. (11:00am-12:00pm) – She couldn’t just go with him for the ride and be quiet. Did she really think he was going to murder her? How would he explain that?
5. Jack’s hard-ass stance and Kate’s menial excuses when Jack tells her about Reza and that they suspect Marie. (7:00pm-8:00pm) - Jack was crass and rude to her. He was totally emotionless for what she was going through, I don’t think that’s Jack’s personality. He’s always been pretty understanding to others. It takes her agreeing to call Marie for him to lighten up a bit, but she was still whiny and annoying, accusing Jack of jumping to a conclusion.
Worst 24 moments:
24. Jack and Michelle’s phone call where she gives him positions of the bad guys. (1:00pm-2:00pm)
Both of them seemed very strained by the whole ordeal. Michelle was sending Jack the coordinates from the bathroom, haven’t we seen this before? She is overdramatic when she tells him that “they’re all stationary, except one Jack, he’s roaming.” She adds that he’s roaming with the gravity of “he’s got a nuke” It was simply laughable. Then when she steps outside and Tony is waiting the ordeal doesn’t get much better, the only good part was the ego comment, other than that Tony’s performance wasn’t much better.
23. Kate running into Jack at CTU after she thought he was dead. (11:00pm-12:00pm)
The entire, lame, ‘how are you?’ and ‘I’m glad you’re okay’ are just awkward, Jr. High type moments. Neither Sutherland nor Wynter look comfortable doing this scene and it’s a total waste of our exceptionally valuable ‘24’ minutes. If I wanted to see how children act, I’d go to a school.
22. Kate’s constant barrage of stupid questions (Various Episodes)
If I were anyone that had to constantly stop and explain things to her, I would have snapped and just told her to shut up. Something along the lines of ‘you are on a need-to-know basis and you just don’t need to know.’ Jack and company are busy people, they don’t really have time to be holding her hand and explaining everything to her. Sit down, shut up and if you need to know, we’ll tell you.
21. Gary checking Kim out while he hugs his wife and his daughter is sitting right there. (8:00am-9:00am)
Gary is a slime ball, but I think that this was too far in the slime ball direction. If I were Kim I’d be packing my things that morning and be out of that house as soon as they get home, no questions asked.
20. Kim’s brilliant getaway car. (1:00pm-2:00pm)
We all know that Kim is just about the biggest blonde on the show, thus she is entitled to the biggest blonde moments. I think that this rates near the top of the scale. After seeing what Gary did to Carla earlier one might think that maybe, just maybe, Kim might have checked the trunk before speeding out of the city in a stolen car that belongs to psycho-dad Gary.
19. “Shame on you.” David Palmer to Mike. (5:00am-6:00am)
We know that Palmer is very articulate and opinionated, Mike even said it himself, that ‘David Palmer is not a stupid man.’ This comment does not reflect that at all. From what we’ve seen, I am 100% positive that if Palmer was in that situation, he could have come up with something better that ‘shame in you.’
18. Kate asking Jack, “How could you? You’re worse than they are.” (7:00pm-8:00pm)
I also don’t agree with what Jack supposedly did, killing Ali’s son, but where, exactly, has Kate been for the last 11 hours? Does she not understand what is going on here? Jack didn’t actually do it anyway. I thought Kate went to Stanford (as IF, she has the IQ of a doorknob). If Jack hadn’t taken the kind of actions that he had taken that day, she, along with her entire family, would have been dead. It was completely ridiculous that she could turn and accuse Jack of being “worse than [the bombers] are” he is, after all, trying to save millions of lives. Then, to add salt to this wound, a very short time later, Jack asks Kate to accompany him to Norton Airfield to talk to Marie. I think that this little outburst may have allowed Jack to let Kate go away, but instead he continues to rely on her. It’s not like she was really that much help anyway, Jack broke Marie pretty much on his own, Kate, again, ended up in the way. *Sigh* Oh well.
17. Roger trying desperately to come up with an explanation about the coral snakes. (5:00pm-6:00pm)
Right from the start Roger is obviously lying. Why did he even bother to try and cover it up from Palmer? Did he expect him not to find out? If Roger is the head of NSA, shouldn’t he have some military training? He should be way better at lying than this…or maybe it was the acting. Either way I was severely unimpressed with this scene.
16. When Kim and Megan were in the car, Kim locks the door; Gary unlocks it with the remote. (9:00am-10:00am)
I actually laughed at this scene when I first saw it, and it didn’t get any better as I watched it again. This is tedious and a waste of time. Kim looks just panicked when Gary unlocks the door; it’s just a bad scene and this is a silly way to create tension in this situation. I love the writers of this show and I am thoroughly convinced that they could have come up with something much better than what we got.
15. The rednecks refusing to take the Euros. (3:00am-4:00am)
Are there people out there that are actually this stupid? Honestly. How could they possibly not know what Euros are? And then them not taking the money? Money is money, folks…how stupid do they thing we are?
14. Kim and Miguel getting pulled over by a cop. (2:00pm-3:00pm)
Out of all the highways in California and all the cops they manage to get stopped by the one that won’t even call CTU to find out if they’re telling the truth. This was a similar Kim plotline to last season when she was arrested for being part of a drug deal that she had nothing to do with and the cop then wouldn’t call CTU either. A touch repetitive and very frustrating for a few reasons, not the least of them is who in their right mind would speed in a stolen car?
13. Kate asking, “Did that help?” and Jack’s reply, “Yes, yes I think it did.” (5:00pm-6:00pm)
‘WHAT?’ was the only thing I was left thinking after this ‘moment’. Kate gives Jack some information about the whereabouts of Syed Ali, the man that is supposed to be blowing up most of LA. After Jack passes on the info, Kate asks her question lamely. ‘Well, Kate, what do you think?’ Then Jack, stooping to the low and answering the way he did. ‘I think it did?’ I think if I were Jack, I wouldn’t have even bothered wasting my time answering that question. I felt nothing from Sutherland in this reply as well, I get the feeling that maybe he didn’t feel very good about it either, but I can’t tell that for sure…just a hunch.
12. Kate going into the mosque and creating a scene when she drops the panic button. (6:00pm-7:00pm)
Now, really, would it have been that hard to do this properly? Not only that but she didn’t tell Jack what happened and still expected him not to have noticed. Me thinks that Ali is probably a bit smarter than that, anyone that had a heartbeat inside that mosque knew that Kate didn’t belong there and if you’re guilty of something as substantial as Ali was, then you are looking for the signs. Well, there’s a glaring neon pink one.
11. Marie making up with Reza (5:00pm-6:00pm)
This little reconciliation occurred almost exactly 30 minutes before she shoots and kills him. So, in retrospect, what was the point of this? We could have found something better to do with the time since it was all for show anyway, the only point of this scene was to mislead the audience.
10. Sherry meeting with Lynn. (7:00pm-8:00pm)
While I was taking notes I had this titled “Sherry the Sleuth”. The constant cat-fight between her and Lynn was somewhat warranted and was not without it’s high points. This, on the other hand was a low point. Not only did Sherry hijack a meeting that Lynn was having (or maybe there was not meeting anyway) but she managed to have time to get changed into that ridiculous outfit and beat Lynn out there. Then there was the actual meeting. Not many things were likeable in this scene, they weren’t helped by the bad hat.
9. Kate getting ‘tortured’. (5:00pm-6:00pm)
I think that this idea was not so good right from the start. Kate really would have told Ali and his accomplice anything she knew when they killed Coplin; from her reaction they should have known that. There was no need to even do this exercise except to keep her alive so CTU could save her. Also, the amount of whining and crying that occurred for this tiny cut was melodramatic and probably more painful to watch than it actually would have felt. She wore that ridiculous bandage on and off for the rest of the ‘day’ (sometimes it disappeared, but I don’t have concrete times) and then at the end, the cut was gone completely. All I have to say is that I’m glad what happened to Jack didn’t happen to Kate.
8. Lonnie making up the story of the nuclear bomb going off and using it to keep Kim there with him. (8:00pm-9:00pm)
This guy is simply nuts man, just nuts. Kim really did have a good point (see? It can happen) If Lonnie really wanted company, then why the heck does he live all the way out in the middle of nowhere completely alone. He probably could have just asked her to stay and she may have. Because he made up a lie that half (actually, probably all) of LA got blown up, there’s no way that she would stay. Why, why, why? Why do we have Lonnie?
7. Danny. (Various Episodes)
This guy is purely awful. He’s obviously about 45 cards short of a full deck, plus he’s got about 4 jokers. He’s not all there and he is simply annoying, the way he freaks out on Michelle and Keri is just painful to watch. I’d almost rather they stayed with the original plotline, Keri and Michelle being ex-lovers, almost. That, at least, would have alleviated the Danny situation
6. Kim whining for Jack to come bail her out himself. (3:00pm-4:00pm)
I understand that Kim has had a rough day, she’s been through a lot etcetera etcetera, but this morning she didn’t even want anything to do with Jack. Now, not only does he want him to get her out of trouble, but she wants HIM to come. Meanwhile, Jack is on a plane with the woman that killed his wife and one of the main conspirators behind the nuclear bomb. Can’t Kim understand that there are more important things at stake here? ‘I’m sorry, sweetheart, I’m trying to save the world’
5. Jack choosing to give Nina the ammo, her using it to hold him hostage. (4:00pm-5:00pm)
Now, I’ve never shot a gun, in fact, I’ve never even held one, but in this situation I can’t see Jack, Mr. Walking Dead, not being able to hold his own ammo. There wasn’t even very much of it, and it was in a bag. Maybe if it had been loose it may have been more understandable, but I’m pretty sure he could have handled it on his own. If I were Jack, Nina would be the last person I would ever even consider trusting with something like that. Maybe the leg wound effected his judgement.
4. The sudden conscience attack of the bombers. (3:00pm-4:00pm)
We get the impression that Ali and company have been planning this event for quite some time. At least a year and a half (before Nina went to prison) Is it really reasonable to believe that the men that are supposed to be behind the most important part, planting the bomb and flying it out, could be this uncommitted to the cause? All three of Ali, Marie and Faheen are willing to die, but the three that are driving the truck that actually HAVE the bomb, well, they can maybe back out…Whatever.
3. The entire Kim in the store plot-line. (11:00pm-1:00am)
Not a single thing about this plotline was good. Not one. Well, okay, maybe one, the owner was an okay actor. Ramon was painful, the storyline was comparable to the Teri-amnesia idea, just filler. The only means was that Kim ended up in police custody, but there were any number of other avenues this could have taken that didn’t involve Ramon. I’m pretty sure I could find 24 things wrong in this story by itself, starting with everything about Ramon and Kim just handing the gun over.
2. Kate telling Jack, “Be careful.” Jack answering, “Thanks, I will be.” (4:00am-5:00am)
This is at least the second time she’s said this phrase to him, but the preceding scene made this even worse. Completely awkward and annoying. He almost got away without this, but she stopped him at the last second to deliver this crappy, useless line. Many people actually use this phrase during the show, but this time is the only really horrid one.
And, the WORST scene of season 2...drumroll please....
1. Kate shrilly yelling at Jack, “You don’t know who she was with, they could have been forcing her, you don’t know.” (7:00pm-8:00pm)
I think that this episode has many wonderful aspects; in fact, I think that this may have been my favourite episode acting-wise. Sutherland sizzled while he interrogated Ali; Quinn was simply spectacular portraying the broken Ali. This major blemish in this shining episode makes me shiver. Kate’s child-like tantrum in the basement of the mosque make this episode remembered, not for the great acting, but for the whining, breaking voice of Wynter from the floor. This was poorly written and even more poorly executed. I’m almost positive that I will never watch this scene again, I want to try and forget it and remember all the good over the bad. This will probably be my only use of the fast-forward button while I watch season 2 again. Do the writers really expect us to believe that Jack could feel anything for this person?
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