24 : *UPDATED* Why do you think season 6 sucks?

*UPDATED* Why do you think season 6 sucks?

I'm currently in season 6 and I knew before it started that it is the worst season of 24. It has many flaws indeed. But... why do you think it sucks? Discuss!

UPDATED: Oct 4th, 2016

Sooo guys! I finished watching Season 6 last night... and I have to say that it's not as bad as people say. There's inanimity everywhere and by almost everyone that S6 is the absolute worst.

Well I didn't feel that. Yes it had many flaws, for example the awful plot twist with Jack's family being terrorists. LOL seriously?! Not only they came out of no where... but they're terrorists? Pretty lame. I translate this plotline as a desperate attempt by the writers to impress fans with this "jaw-dropping twist", but no.

Apart from this yes, the whole WW3 stuff were really repetitive, such as the whole consipiracy stuff between Lennox the Vice president etc. We've seen them lots of times before. Pretty meh.

Overall it was a cool season, not the worst IMO. Season 3 was the most boring one.

Also, one more thing that annoys me in 24, is the incredible amount of events that happen within an hour. Los Angeles is a huge city, and the characters jump from places to places in zero time. I mean really? That's the main thing that ruins the show the most. It would have been better if the show 12 eps instead of 24.UPDATE

Re: Why do you think season 6 sucks?

I'll set the ball rolling.

1. The Bauer Family Mafia

Having Jacks brother and father be terrorists is just ridiculous, I'd love to know which bright spark came up with that idea. I don't buy it for one minute and neither should any fan of the show.

Re: Why do you think season 6 sucks?

Because after the first 4 episodes it was just a bad repeat of stories we had already seen done better in the earlier seasons.

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Re: Why do you think season 6 sucks?

Yeah, I didn't mind Season 6 as much as some people did, and still think it contains some of the show's greatest moments (first 4 episodes, Episode 17, Episode 24, etc.), but the 'Bauer Family' thing was pushing it a bit.

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Re: Why do you think season 6 sucks?

Bad villains (slightly made up for by the awesome death scene of Fayed)
Jack's entire family
The Sandra Palmer/Walid plot that goes absolutely nowhere
Wasn't a fan of damaged Audrey (slightly made up for by the awesome Heller/Jack confrontation)
Pretty poor death scene for Curtis

I did really liked Mike Doyle, Assad, Morris, and Nadia though.

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Season six was great. Loved Tom Lennox

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The main thing is Jack's family being the main villains. Ridiculous. We never heard one thing about his family previously. Now all of a sudden they're not only evil, but they're responsible for the events of day 6 AND day 5? Absurd. The reveal of Graem being Jack's brother is laughably stupid.

Wayne Palmer being President was ridiculous.

Curtis, one of the best characters on the show, got a horrible death. And it was completely glossed over.

There were a few good things, such as Abu Fayed being a pretty bad ass villain, Morris being a cool addition, and Mike Doyle, but it no way makes up for the stupidityl

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Season 6 was my least favorite season by far, but I still liked it a lot.
But it had its flaws- filling off Curtis, some of the plots after the first four episodes were a rehash of plots from previous seasons, they should have found a way to make the nuke threat last until the end of the season.
It's still better than most shows out there but it was the weakest 24 season easily.

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They were clearly out of ideas and repeated a ton of the shows old storylines. That, and it followed what many people say is the very best season of the show. There was a lot to like though, Tom Lennox is still one my FAVOURITE one season characters and I'd have loved to see him stay for the rest of the series. Mike Doyle was cool and Morris was a breath of fresh air, a character who pointed out the absurdity of the situation and injected some much needed humour in a show with too little of it.

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The first four episode of season 6 are great.

And then what ruined the rest of the season is Jack Bauer's evil family. In the start you discover that Jack's brother is a terrorist that is responsible to what happened in day 5 and 6. I hated that, but I could live with that, and After a few episodes you find out that also his father is evil. This was to much ridiculous and stupid. they made his father a psychopath that doesn't care to kill his son or grandson. This was the worst mistake that the writers did in 24 by far. After I found out that his father is also evil there was a moment that I didn't want to watch any more 24, but because the show is still very interesting and this 24 I continued to watch it.

The plot with Fayed and the nukes is very good And I like that they have a character like morris that brings humor to the show. I also like Tom Lennox Character.

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I actually did like powers booth in that season.

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The main problem with Season 6 in my opinion was the lack of regular characters and I thought it was a mistake to kill off Curtis after they had already just killed off Tony (believed to be dead), Michelle and David Palmer in the previous season and written Kim off at the end of Season 3. It didn't feel like 24 without all the other characters in it and I would go as far to say 24 killing or writing off all their major characters except for Jack and Chloe was the main problem with the show. Kim should have stayed the full length of the show.

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Kim should have stayed the full length of the show.

Oh, good god, no. Worst character of the show.

Re: Why do you think season 6 sucks?

Sooo guys! I finished watching Season 6 last night... and I have to say that it's not as bad as people say. There's inanimity everywhere and by almost everyone that S6 is the absolute worst.

Well I didn't feel that. Yes it had many flaws, for example the awful plot twist with Jack's family being terrorists. LOL seriously?! Not only they came out of no where... but they're terrorists? Pretty lame. I translate this plotline as a desperate attempt by the writers to impress fans with this "jaw-dropping twist", but no.

Apart from this yes, the whole WW3 stuff were really repetitive, such as the whole consipiracy stuff between Lennox the Vice president etc. We've seen them lots of times before. Pretty meh.

Overall it was a cool season, not the worst IMO. Season 3 was the most boring one.

Also, one more thing that annoys me in 24, is the incredible amount of events that happen within an hour. Los Angeles is a huge city, and the characters jump from places to places in zero time. I mean really? That's the main thing that ruins the show the most. It would have been better if the show 12 eps instead of 24.

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I'm sorry but season three was deffiantly not boring at all. It had great writing and story telling with Jack's addiction and what he had to go threw undercover. It was the first time we saw Jack go to a really dark place it's one of my favorite seasons. But yeah Season 6 is okay but it's not really my favorite.

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Season 3 was exciting stuff. the drug abuse, the prison break, Nina Myers, even the Kim plot wasn't annoying, the hotel scenes with Michelle.

But Season 6 really ruined it with the silly Bauer family plot.

The brutal Fayed fight almost made up for it.

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I didn't think season 6 sucked, I loved it. Personally, I think it's the best season for Jack's character development by far and it has some pretty awesome moments. I think people are much too hard on it.

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I just finished watching it and even though after a fantastic season 5, it was a bit more messy and less thrilling (those plots around president Palmer were boring), it stumbled for me only in a few episodes.
I have to say, I was surprised Jack managed to go on for so long without snaping. And he did. I can imagine this was very personal and very painful for him. To see how Audrey went after him, the only one who wanted to do something and she ended up in the same hell as Jack did, only for them to be separated again...
I missed that "instantly likeable characters" a bit, and the bickering and private life mess in CTU was a bit *too* much but in the end, I still enjoyed it more than...well, season 1 for example. That talk Jack had with Heller in the end, all that frustration, pain...
Yeah, I liked it. Not the best season but I think to watch it in the way I do (1 season in two days :D ) i am not too objective but I think so.

Re: *UPDATED* Why do you think season 6 sucks?

Old thread, but one of the reasons why Season 6 got so much hate was right from the very start.

At the end of Season 5, the producers teased everyone with the possibility of 24 being set in a different city or even a different country. But once the season started, it was back to the very same thing we've seen before.

The repeated storyline was disappointing too (more moles inside of CTU?)

The clan of Evil Bauers was a terrible storyline as well. Even James Cromwell thought the plot of taking his own grandson was just terrible writing.

Overall it's not the worst thing in the history of television, but it is one of the weaker seasons of 24.

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The main thing that annoys me about season 6 is Jack saying in multiple episodes that he wanted Chang dead, but when he has the chance he turns around and drags him off the rig instead.

Re: *UPDATED* Why do you think season 6 sucks?

They killed off jack's brother to soon and to have his father kill him was stupid.

Re: *UPDATED* Why do you think season 6 sucks? Spoilers!!!

SPOILERS!!!!
I'm watching it now and there are some GREAT scenes in the season; when Jack returns from China then escapes, when he kicks terrorist off subway, ambushing house set with a bomb and house blows, when he finds out Audrey died....and I liked the Morris character...But I will admit there was a good amount that dragged. (Jack wasn't in it much during these scenes--The Charles Logan part and Palmer stuff dragged but Lennox was good and made up for some of it.) I was glad to see Jack's brother go.

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I'm just finishing the season now and I found that I like the second half much better than the first, much more action. I loved Morris' redemption when he helped Nadia and Jack take down the terrorists that took CTU hostage. And (just a side note)-- Boy, did Jack look gooood in those jeans he wore that day!😀

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Yes, I agree. I also like the way Karen and Lennox made up and the three of them seemed to work as a cooperative team.

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Logan should have remained president and Cheng should have been the villain. Graem should not have been related to Jack and been a secondary villain. I also would have done away with the psychologically damaged Audrey part. It should have concluded the arcs of the characters introduced in Season 4, as 3 concluded the arcs of many characters from the first season.
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