24 is never afraid to make Jack look absolutely crazy and as I said somewhere else, bitching out a federal agent until they see things your way and go hold a family hostage? That's...pretty awful.
Jack browbeating Renee into helping him was pretty brutal to watch. When he was all, "Pssha, the FBI is filled with bunch of wussies. Renee, pick a damn side!," I cringed. Larry's point that the rules make us better cut straight to the argument because even if the other players don't follow the rules, at least you can look yourself in the mirror and go to sleep/die with honor.
Now on the rewatch, I laughed my ass off when I tried watching it again through shipper eyes because all their actions came across as "Damnit, why do all the girls like the bad boys" / "Because we get shit done!" (do it sometime; it's HILARIOUS). I really want to do a parody ala screen caps and comic book bubbles wherein Jack James Deans his way around DC, Renee is totally flirting with Jack, Larry's scared he's losing out her to the bad boy, and Janis is annoyed at having to endure Larry's emo ways.
ETA: True. I mean S1 is just special cuz it's the first, S2 had CTU blowing up, S5 had Palmer killed and Tony and Michelle being blown up- but S7 had flying!squirrel!Jack tackling Tony, which is an A+++++ in my book.
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Jack browbeating Renee into helping him was pretty brutal to watch. When he was all, "Pssha, the FBI is filled with bunch of wussies. Renee, pick a damn side!," I cringed. Larry's point that the rules make us better cut straight to the argument because even if the other players don't follow the rules, at least you can look yourself in the mirror and go to sleep/die with honor.
Now on the rewatch, I laughed my ass off when I tried watching it again through shipper eyes because all their actions came across as "Damnit, why do all the girls like the bad boys" / "Because we get shit done!" (do it sometime; it's HILARIOUS). I really want to do a parody ala screen caps and comic book bubbles wherein Jack James Deans his way around DC, Renee is totally flirting with Jack, Larry's scared he's losing out her to the bad boy, and Janis is annoyed at having to endure Larry's emo ways.
ETA: True. I mean S1 is just special cuz it's the first, S2 had CTU blowing up, S5 had Palmer killed and Tony and Michelle being blown up- but S7 had flying!squirrel!Jack tackling Tony, which is an A+++++ in my book.