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transience ranks every notable character from "24". (mega spoilers) (mega-list)
I like Wayne, and he's probably be in my top 25. I don't have any particular issue with him being over Chloe, it's just that Chloe's about 15 spots too low ! --- http://i48.tinypic.com/2cgh5cj.jpg |
I'd say between 10 - 12 spots imo --- If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? [HERO'S PLUNGE] http://img.imgcake.com/wesker.gif |
I like Wayne dunno where'd I put him though. --- My God, did that predict good! Dr_Football-l-l it no goin' and you tell me do things, I done runnin'... |
Fayed
is a great villain stuck in a bad season. I'm glad he was ranked this
high. He's one of the more rational villains on the show, and had a
surprisingly large amount of appearances. Forget Cheng and Philip;
Fayed was the main villain of season 6. He also employs my favourite bit-part terrorist on the show, Hasan Numair: partially due to being played by Canadian comedian Shaun Majumder, partially due to the lengths Fayed went to to get him - he demanded that whole prisoner release for the sole purpose of getting him - and most of all, for being the guy to both create and detonate the infamous bomb. Not bad for a guy that only appears in two episodes and only had a few lines. I'm a little surprised by your ranking of Chloe, to be honest, but you have good reasoning to it. --- When Snake sees a "!" over someone's head, he runs and hides. When the Pokemon Trainer sees a "!", he beats them up and takes their money. |
19. Allison Taylor Season(s): 7, 8 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Allison_Taylor Allison Taylor has David Palmer's conviction and honour. She does not have his charisma -- or anything close to it -- but her actions and decision-making are the closest that we've seen to David. Allison Taylor's shining moment is undoubtedly the final episode of season 7 when she learns that Olivia was behind the death of Jonas Hodges. Allison has an easy out for burying the truth and Olivia seems genuinely sorry. Allison has already lost one son to her Presidency and Henry is begging her to help Olivia. Allison says that she has to do the honourable thing and buries Olivia. It's a powerful scene and a clear message of what Allison Taylor is all about: honesty and doing the right thing without compromise. Throughout day 7, she did the right thing. She did not sacrifice Sangala when everyone else thought it was the smart thing to do. She did not give in to Dubaku when he kidnapped Henry. And she did not let Olivia get away with murder. In the process, she ended up with a dead son, an incarcerated daughter and an ex-husband who was shot for her cause. And that's what makes her day 8 personality so frustrating: for the sake of reintroducing Charles Logan to the plot, Allison Taylor's character was compromised. She gave in to a coverup when she wouldn't do the same thing to her own family. She does astounding things like telling Jack Bauer face to face that he has to stand down. That's bad, but worse is when she threatens Dalia Hassan's country for the sake of peace. My eyes popped out of my head when she did that. That isn't the Allison Taylor that we knew. Allison comes to her senses in time, resigning her position and exposing Suvarov for the criminal that is, but it's too late: Allison Taylor compromised just once. also her resignation has allowed Mitchell Hayworth to ascend to the highest office in the land and it's a damn good thing they didn't make a season 9 because nobody would stand for this 18. Larry Moss Season(s): 7 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Larry_Moss Larry starts out as a tool, a stickler for the rules that Jack Bauer is intent on breaking. Jack is seen as a torturer first and foremost throughout the beginning of season 7 and his character suffers for it. To be fair, Larry has some good reasons not to trust in Jack - one of his first actions is to knock Renee out and break Tony out of FBI HQ. His next move is to torture Vossler and threaten his family through Renee. Still, Larry takes the high ground and it is not appreciated -- after all, he's opposing Jack Bauer. Anybody that opposes him ends up screwed or dead. Larry comes to the good guy's side in good time. When the Vice President (our current 24 president augh) wouldn't budge on sending the FBI teams into the White House where Juma was holding Taylor, Larry orders them to go in anyway. Later, Jack escapes to Senator Meyer's house who is then found dead, but Larry starts to question why the crime scene doesn't make sense instead of just assuming it was Bauer. Finally, when Hodges messes with the FBI and tells them there's no weapons there, Larry distracts the Starkwood guys by going up and punching a guy despite having a hundred guns aimed at his head. Larry's got some balls and he's a really good director. And then, in the saddest moment of season 7, Tony does a sick heel turn and suffocates him. That was a heartbreaking way to find out which side Tony was on, and it was just minutes after we decided that Larry Moss was awesome. Goodbye, Larry Moss. You were good. --- xyzzy |
larry moss really |
Chloe vastly underrated. |
i mean he wasn't bad but look at some of the people you've put below him |
Larry
Moss was awesome, really. One of three bosses that I sympathized with
more than Jack himself for a time (the other two being Bill Buchanan
and George Mason) Ah, best case scenario, Hayworth wasn't Vice President anymore by that time; he was never mentioned in Season 8 either way, so he very well could've been fired by Taylor after the events of Day 7. I would've fired him after that; it's your fault Bill's dead! --- When Snake sees a "!" over someone's head, he runs and hides. When the Pokemon Trainer sees a "!", he beats them up and takes their money. |
You can't... fire a vice president. --- If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? [HERO'S PLUNGE] http://img.imgcake.com/wesker.gif |
You can "consult with Charles Logan and make the vice president go away". --- http://i48.tinypic.com/2cgh5cj.jpg |
hey, the Palmers were inches away from firing both of theirs. granted they had some consent there, but yeah. --- xyzzy |
This raises a point though: Why do 24 presidents pick such ****ty running mates? --- If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? [HERO'S PLUNGE] http://img.imgcake.com/wesker.gif |
it's 24. that show thrives on conflict. --- xyzzy |
though you're right, 24 VPs have been legendarily bad. I think Logan might be the least offensive VP in 24 history. that's saying something. ...wait, no. Gardner was legit. --- xyzzy |
Hey now, Hal Gardener was a classy guy. --- http://i48.tinypic.com/2cgh5cj.jpg |
curses --- http://i48.tinypic.com/2cgh5cj.jpg |
Ah,
you can't just fire them? Sorry, my American politics isn't so good
(I'm Canadian, and the details of your political system is one thing
about Americans that Canadians neither share, nor have much knowledge
of) Yeah, Gardner was pretty cool. I kinda wish we got to see what he was like as President. He can't compete with Wayne Palmer, apparently. I just went over the list, and I realized that Rob Weiss isn't listed yet! If he's not on the list, he's a fairly important character and should be listed, if so... really, this high? I understand the reasoning without even needing to be told why, but even so... --- When Snake sees a "!" over someone's head, he runs and hides. When the Pokemon Trainer sees a "!", he beats them up and takes their money. |
Rob Weiss isn't on the list. he never struck me as being all that important. --- xyzzy |
President and Vice President can only be removed from office by impeachment, not fired. |
Taylor and Chloe should be higher in my opinion. And I don't really like Wayne Palmer that much, but I guess it's all opinions. --- "Nostalgic melancholy: Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio." |
17. Hamri Al-Assad Season(s): 6 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Hamri_Al-Assad I like this guy way more than I should given how he really only had three episodes to shine, but man, those three episodes were incredible. Assad is the only guy I can think of to legitimately one-up Jack: when interrogating one of Assad's men, Jack does his usual hardcore interrogation and gets nothing. Assad then shoves a knife fully into his knee and gets exactly the information he wants, leading Jack to question everything. Assad is an evil Jack Bauer turned good. The Jack-Assad team is better than any other tag team in 24 history: better than Chase, better than Curtis, better than Renee, even better than the Jack/Tony pairing in season 7. He spent years as a high-level terrorist but began to believe in diplomacy over terrorism. When Fayed double crosses him, Assad gives himself up to track him despite not trusting the American government at all. Even when everyone -- Buchanan, Lennox, Wayne Palmer -- talks down to him, Assad stands up for what he believes in and works to help them. You're never quite sure where Assad is coming from, but he sure as hell comes out of these exchanges as the better man. I always thought the bad-guy-turned-good-guy angle was fascinating: I could never fully trust Assad. I was always waiting for him to go back to being a bad guy. Jack shot Curtis to protect him after knowing him three hours. I wanted to see Assad make Jack feel miserable and get more screen time, but alas, the writers for season 6 sucked. They brought him in as this really cool character and sacrificed him to save Wayne Palmer. He went out with a bang (quite literally), but it ultimately sucked. Assad had so much more to give and they relegated him to helping with some political speeches. Blah, season 6. I think this bothered me more than anything else besides the Bauer crap. 16. Michelle Dessler Season(s): 2, 3, 4, 5 Bio: http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Michelle_Dessler I think Michelle Dessler is a little overrated. She has two things going for her: 1.) she's cute and 2.) she's maybe the only female protagonist in 24 history that's actually competent. Most of them sit behind their desks as analysts or argue about dumb crap in DC, but Michelle can go out in the field and shoot people too. That wins her major points. Unfortunately, she's only awesome for one arc of season 3: the hotel. And she's really awesome there, shooting a guy who's being a dick and taking complete control of the hotel despite being potentially infected with the virus. Other than that, she's merely a competent CTU character: a good one for sure, but not someone that can hang with the top tier characters that the show has seen. Her death also triggered the downfall of Tony Almeida which was really unfortunate. Tony was awesome and Michelle was pretty cool, but their relationship kind of sucked for both of them: Tony doing dumb things in season 3 for her, some really awkward dialogue whenever the writers tried to pair them up, Tony being all bent out of shape in season 4, Michelle crumbling to try and protect him when he got Mandy'd, etc etc. Even her awesome hotel arc ended with her being kidnapped and used in that damsel in distress role. She also got stuck with the stupid Carrie Turner subplot. Ugh. I think I'm maybe being unfair to Michelle here when I should be holding it against the writers instead, but she just never grabbed me like other characters did except for that one awesome arc. I think I see that one arc where she was allowed to shine and then hold it against her that she's just a competent CTU second-in-command the rest of the time. I wish she had more chances to kick ass. --- xyzzy |
chloe shot people too --- http://i48.tinypic.com/2cgh5cj.jpg |
with an AK --- If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? [HERO'S PLUNGE] http://img.imgcake.com/wesker.gif |
Also Michelle has a third thing going for her: Edgar saying her name. Which I laughed at... every single time. --- If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? [HERO'S PLUNGE] http://img.imgcake.com/wesker.gif |
miz desslah is top tier, for sure. Chloe wussed out and screamed for five minutes before doing it. Kim shot a dude too you know --- xyzzy |
Top 15 predix 1. Jack Bauer 2. David Palmer 3. Tony Almeida 4. Bill Buchanan 5. Charles Logan 6. Christopher Henderson 7. Renee Walker 8. Mike Novick 9. Curtis Manning 10. Wayne Palmer 11. Ethan Kanin 12. Aaron Pierce 13. Jonas Hodges 14. Nina Myers 15. James Heller --- http://i48.tinypic.com/2cgh5cj.jpg |
Chloe's first gunning was better anyway, if for nothing else but the conversation she had with Edgar about it later. Chloe O'Brian: Edgar, I appreciate your concern. I really do. Just when I shot that guy, I thought I'd go all fetal position. But the truth is I didn't feel anything. At all. I hope I'm not some kind of a psychopath. --- If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? [HERO'S PLUNGE] http://img.imgcake.com/wesker.gif |
From: transients | Posted: 5/28/2010 10:00:54 PM | #290 --- If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? [HERO'S PLUNGE] http://img.imgcake.com/wesker.gif |
Anyone want to do a quick recap? --- TheRock ~ HERE'S MY SUNDAY BEST! Board 8 Late Night Crew |
you're missing Mason I like that conversation with Edgar, where she's talking about processing it. Chloe is such a dork. her relationship with Edgar was one of the best in the series. --- xyzzy |
1. Cubby 2. Jack Bauer 3. David Palmer 4. Tony Almeida 5. Bill Buchanan 6. Charles Logan 7. Christopher Henderson 8. Renee Walker 9. Mike Novick 10. Curtis Manning 11. Wayne Palmer 12. Ethan Kanin 13. Aaron Pierce 14. Jonas Hodges 15. Nina Myers Silly me. --- http://i48.tinypic.com/2cgh5cj.jpg |
From: transients | #433 Actually, that's what I was trying to figure out mostly. Whether Mason was on the list or not already. Good to see he's top 15. REALLY wish he didn't die so quickly. --- TheRock ~ HERE'S MY SUNDAY BEST! Board 8 Late Night Crew |
Cubby hells yes. --- If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? [HERO'S PLUNGE] http://img.imgcake.com/wesker.gif |
Also, call me crazy but I think I'd put Dessler above Walker. --- TheRock ~ HERE'S MY SUNDAY BEST! Board 8 Late Night Crew |
You're crazy. --- http://i48.tinypic.com/2cgh5cj.jpg |
http://24.wikia.com/wiki/Cubby ...fffffffffffffff I forgot he most likely died in the explosion. --- If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? [HERO'S PLUNGE] http://img.imgcake.com/wesker.gif |
And hey, Cubby's been in more episodes than half the people on this list! Including some of the top 15! --- http://i48.tinypic.com/2cgh5cj.jpg |
From: KleenexTissue50 | #439 I'm just not a huge Walker fan I guess. --- TheRock ~ HERE'S MY SUNDAY BEST! Board 8 Late Night Crew |
really want to rewatch seasons 2-8 now --- it's an underwater adventure ride |
also
i say this all the time when talking about s6 but killing off assad was
the absolute worst decision they made (and they made a lot of terrible
decisions in s6) great character with such an assload of potential written off in a stupid way though tom lennox was awesome as hell, that's for sure. i wish he had been in s7 to play off of allison, even though that wouldn't have made any sense politically --- it's an underwater adventure ride |
From: Naye745 | #444 Novick worked for both Republicans and Democrats. I don't see that being a big deal in the 24 Universe. --- TheRock ~ HERE'S MY SUNDAY BEST! Board 8 Late Night Crew |
Assad was complete wasted potential. Luckily he was quite good for when he was around. --- My God, did that predict good! Dr_Football-l-l it no goin' and you tell me do things, I done runnin'... |
can i talk about how dumb killing off assad was too because it was dumb and made me angry --- "Oh God, maplejet's trying to be cool again. I'll call the ambulance." - Wylvane |
season 6'd --- If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? [HERO'S PLUNGE] http://img.imgcake.com/wesker.gif |
From: SemiFinal vs Belarus | #447 Add me to this list --- ##Alec |
I'm glad to see other people pissed off about this! --- xyzzy |
