Comments on: THE ROAD TO NOWHERE http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/05/22/the-road-to-nowhere/ Politics served up with a smile... And a stilletto. Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:17:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Jack Bauer At A Crossroads http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/05/22/the-road-to-nowhere/comment-page-1/#comment-696788 Below The Beltway » Blog Archive » Jack Bauer At A Crossroads Wed, 23 May 2007 03:14:48 +0000 http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/05/22/the-road-to-nowhere/#comment-696788 [...] Last night’s 24 season finale wasn’t perfect, but then again this entire season has left much to be desired. Nonetheless, it did bring some closure to what we’ve seen over the past six years, as Jack Bauer comes to terms with what he’s become: Jack’s soliloquy at the end, addressing Secretary Heller and letting loose all of his frustrations, his pain, and his doubts about himself and what he has become actually tied up some loose ends from the last 4 seasons. Jack Bauer is not unaware of what he has had to do to protect the United States and what the rivers of blood he has had to wade through have made him. He hates himself for what he has become. [...] [...] Last night’s 24 season finale wasn’t perfect, but then again this entire season has left much to be desired. Nonetheless, it did bring some closure to what we’ve seen over the past six years, as Jack Bauer comes to terms with what he’s become: Jack’s soliloquy at the end, addressing Secretary Heller and letting loose all of his frustrations, his pain, and his doubts about himself and what he has become actually tied up some loose ends from the last 4 seasons. Jack Bauer is not unaware of what he has had to do to protect the United States and what the rivers of blood he has had to wade through have made him. He hates himself for what he has become. [...]

]]> By: sue http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/05/22/the-road-to-nowhere/comment-page-1/#comment-696255 sue Tue, 22 May 2007 22:36:48 +0000 http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/05/22/the-road-to-nowhere/#comment-696255 i have some disagreement about jack's disconnect. he has known love. it is what has helped move him. it has been rooted in his core and he he has not lost faith in it despite all the things he's come up against that have tried to rip it from him. it has gotten him through difficult times and motivated him to do some of the things he had to do for his country, but, more imnportantly for the people he has shared love. love is what keeps us from savagery and i didn't see jack fall to that. he was fighting hardened souls, those with the ugliest of spirits, hateful sods. if jack has blood on his hands it's righteous. next year: do we really believe dear old dad is dead? will jack get the well deserved time to rest his spirit (and do so with the help of audrey [and, josh?]) something to truly live for? (and it is my great hope that they don't kill him off!!!! ludlum didn't kill of jason bourne and clancy didn't kill off jack clark.) i hope bill is pulled into the story again. he is one of my favorite characters. chloe needs to get smart-mouthed again---she was sorely missed. this season didn't have the punch that the others did, but it was time to ease up on the shoot-em' up and do more with the drama. i was waiting to have them develop his character. hopefully next year they will find a good balance. i have some disagreement about jack’s disconnect. he has known love. it is what has helped move him. it has been rooted in his core and he he has not lost faith in it despite all the things he’s come up against that have tried to rip it from him. it has gotten him through difficult times and motivated him to do some of the things he had to do for his country, but, more imnportantly for the people he has shared love. love is what keeps us from savagery and i didn’t see jack fall to that. he was fighting hardened souls, those with the ugliest of spirits, hateful sods. if jack has blood on his hands it’s righteous.

next year: do we really believe dear old dad is dead? will jack get the well deserved time to rest his spirit (and do so with the help of audrey [and, josh?]) something to truly live for? (and it is my great hope that they don’t kill him off!!!! ludlum didn’t kill of jason bourne and clancy didn’t kill off jack clark.) i hope bill is pulled into the story again. he is one of my favorite characters. chloe needs
to get smart-mouthed again—she was sorely missed.

this season didn’t have the punch that the others did, but it was time to ease up on the shoot-em’ up and do more with the drama. i was waiting to have them develop his character. hopefully next year they will find a good balance.

]]> By: Slublog http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/05/22/the-road-to-nowhere/comment-page-1/#comment-695902 Slublog Tue, 22 May 2007 19:01:01 +0000 http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/05/22/the-road-to-nowhere/#comment-695902 <strong>Upcoming Television...</strong> This show looks like it might have promise. Unfortunately, it was picked up by Fox, where the network executives have the attention span of drug-addled rhesus monkeys. So it'll probably get 3 episodes. TV Week has video previews of...... Upcoming Television…

This show looks like it might have promise. Unfortunately, it was picked up by Fox, where the network executives have the attention span of drug-addled rhesus monkeys. So it’ll probably get 3 episodes. TV Week has video previews of……

]]> By: Rick Moran http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/05/22/the-road-to-nowhere/comment-page-1/#comment-695688 Rick Moran Tue, 22 May 2007 17:01:38 +0000 http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/05/22/the-road-to-nowhere/#comment-695688 Steve: You may be right about Mr. No name but I was hardly thinking Disney when talking about Boone and Crockett. Dime novels of Boone began appearing very early in the 19th century and were gobbled up by easterners. Crockett's impact was even bigger. He was THE mythic hero of the 19th century with his stuff selling well into the 1880's. I actually wrote about this a couple of times as they relate to Bauer: http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2006/01/15/jack-bauer-a-perfect-post-911-hero/ Steve:

You may be right about Mr. No name but I was hardly thinking Disney when talking about Boone and Crockett.

Dime novels of Boone began appearing very early in the 19th century and were gobbled up by easterners. Crockett’s impact was even bigger. He was THE mythic hero of the 19th century with his stuff selling well into the 1880’s.

I actually wrote about this a couple of times as they relate to Bauer:

http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2006/01/15/jack-bauer-a-perfect-post-911-hero/

]]> By: Steve the LLamabutcher http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/05/22/the-road-to-nowhere/comment-page-1/#comment-695668 Steve the LLamabutcher Tue, 22 May 2007 16:53:12 +0000 http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/05/22/the-road-to-nowhere/#comment-695668 Actually, the "Man with no name" character is a much older variation in American mythology than the Daniel Boone-type, certainly the 20th century's Disney version of it, of the frontier man who must become savage to defeat savagery, but in the process becoming marked in a way that makes him unfit for the civilization he is sworn to protect. If you get a chance, take a look at Jill LePore's The Name of War, which looks at King Philip's War in New England in the mid 1600s--I think you'd enjoy reading it based on your 24 Narratives. Thanks for a good season of recaps and analysis. I stopped watching pretty early on (around the time that the brother was killed) for unrelated reasons, but I've enjoyed reading your essays. You seemed to have put a heck of a lot more thought into it than the writers did. Now, back to some truly awful fanfic which has Jack working together with Harry Potter to discover those horocruxes before they destroy London... Actually, the “Man with no name” character is a much older variation in American mythology than the Daniel Boone-type, certainly the 20th century’s Disney version of it, of the frontier man who must become savage to defeat savagery, but in the process becoming marked in a way that makes him unfit for the civilization he is sworn to protect. If you get a chance, take a look at Jill LePore’s The Name of War, which looks at King Philip’s War in New England in the mid 1600s–I think you’d enjoy reading it based on your 24 Narratives.

Thanks for a good season of recaps and analysis. I stopped watching pretty early on (around the time that the brother was killed) for unrelated reasons, but I’ve enjoyed reading your essays. You seemed to have put a heck of a lot more thought into it than the writers did.

Now, back to some truly awful fanfic which has Jack working together with Harry Potter to discover those horocruxes before they destroy London…

]]> By: Bob Zimmerman http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/05/22/the-road-to-nowhere/comment-page-1/#comment-695479 Bob Zimmerman Tue, 22 May 2007 15:00:26 +0000 http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/05/22/the-road-to-nowhere/#comment-695479 I think it might be good to get out of CTU. If it was you know Jack on a chase killing spree across the country or something in 24 hours it might be really good,,,,if the writing was good. You can only do so much with everything happening 30 min from the CTU bunker. I think it might be good to get out of CTU. If it was you know Jack on a chase killing spree across the country or something in 24 hours it might be really good,,,,if the writing was good.

You can only do so much with everything happening 30 min from the CTU bunker.

]]> By: Barry Dwyer http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/05/22/the-road-to-nowhere/comment-page-1/#comment-695468 Barry Dwyer Tue, 22 May 2007 14:45:27 +0000 http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2007/05/22/the-road-to-nowhere/#comment-695468 Couple of scenarios for next season's opener: 1. Audrey will awake from her slumbers, find Jack & talk him out of cliff diving. 2. Audrey awakes, looks outside, thinks Jack is an intruder, gets a gun & shoots him. 3. Cliffside, Jack's cell rings. It's Marilyn Bauer, calling to thank him lovingly for saving her son, to say that it is his son, that she wants the three of them to live happily ever after. Couple of scenarios for next season’s opener: 1. Audrey will awake from her slumbers, find Jack & talk him out of cliff diving. 2. Audrey awakes, looks outside, thinks Jack is an intruder, gets a gun & shoots him. 3. Cliffside, Jack’s cell rings. It’s Marilyn Bauer, calling to thank him lovingly for saving her son, to say that it is his son, that she wants the three of them to live happily ever after.

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