Oh I get that it's intentional. I just think it's the wrong move. By all means, let him put up the guard for Jack and Renee's sake. Don't let THEM see it. But they should give the audience a leg up with some hint of where his headspace is at. It doesn't have to be a lot. Just one or two reaction shots of *something* beyond this impassive, cold demeanor. That way we know he's not this one-dimensional baddie and can then speculate and analyze to death what it meant. Cassar telling fans that no one on 24 is 100% good or evil doesn't help if all they're showing on the screen is Tony acting like a cardboard cutout of a villain. Show don't tell, you know?
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I would love to see Renee reclaim that moral center, just a little bit, but if not that, I want to see how she's breaking down because they've done such a good job up until this point as it is. I bring up 7x01 precisely because, as you say, that was before Tanner and Vossler, and even before Tony and Bill and Larry. This day has changed her so much and as I said in the comment above, it would have been something as simple as a split screen tracking her reaction during the interrogation and that would have been enough for us to see the contrast. Because Annie could have DEFINITELY handled that, you know she would have killed it.
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Date: 2009-05-13 09:04 pm (UTC)*
I would love to see Renee reclaim that moral center, just a little bit, but if not that, I want to see how she's breaking down because they've done such a good job up until this point as it is. I bring up 7x01 precisely because, as you say, that was before Tanner and Vossler, and even before Tony and Bill and Larry. This day has changed her so much and as I said in the comment above, it would have been something as simple as a split screen tracking her reaction during the interrogation and that would have been enough for us to see the contrast. Because Annie could have DEFINITELY handled that, you know she would have killed it.