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| Terri |
Original S.7 PlotLast summer, the producers of 24 concocted a plan for 24's seventh season that involved Jack Bauer traveling to Africa. The brass over at FOX nixed this plan, and until now it was believed that the reason for this was money, pure and simple. Filming scenes in Africa would be too expensive. Apparently, this wasn't the real, or only, reason the executives scrapped this original plan. When the plan was indeed put by the wayside, the production of 24 was delayed for weeks while the writers were charged with coming up with something entirely different. Coming off the poor reception for 24's sixth season, the writers and producers wanted to try something drastic and different. They eventually settled upon a seventh season set in Washington DC, and filmed about eight episodes before the writers' strike hit and put the series into indefinite hiatus. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, executive producer Howard Gordon revealed the real reason Jack Bauer was originally going to go to Africa: to build houses for orphans.Jack was going to do some penance for all the bad things he'd done in his life. The entire season was not going to be set in Africa, only the very beginning, and this is where the FOX executives had an issue. The 24 real-time formula would have been temporarily tossed aside, as Jack would have been called back to the mainland while helping out the African orphans, necessitating a trans-Atlantic flight. FOX didn't think this would keep in line with what had made 24 the hit series it had become. When I first heard the idea to film parts of season 7 in Africa, I was all for it. After all, 24 is successful because of Jack Bauer and I didn't need any politics; I just needed some Bauer. I wrongfully assumed that the entire season would be set on the dark continent, with Jack taking down some evil African warlord, or saving a peaceful village from exploitation and massacre. This would have necessitated most or all of the season being shot in Africa. I guess this wasn't in the cards. Now that I know the original idea was for Jack to do some penance with the orphans, I think that would have been a cool way to begin the season. I would have been open to 24 cheating their real-time formula for an episode or two. Or, they could have down the Africa stuff in flashbacks. http://www.buddytv.com/articles/2...cer-reveals-original-s-16375.aspx |
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| slade |
That would've been a lot of episodes wasted in the plane traveling back the the US.
I don't like the reason him being there, building houses for orphans. Doesn't seem like 24 to me. |
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| Terri |
No the travelling back from Africa wouldnt have taken place in real time so we wouldnt have even seen it happen, one scene he would be getting on the plane and the next he would be getting off. |
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| whycantkimdie? |
I'd rather it took place in real time of course. I'd like that plot but I wouldn't want Jack just travveling on a plane for like 8 hours. | ||||
| cp123 |
fighting in other countries and losing the real time makes jack... too james bond-ishy | ||||
| DSi |
It'd be cool if the stuff in Africa were flash-backs, but they can't lose the real-time, that's what makes 24... 24! | ||||
| Josephine Marcus |
The real-time aspect is what makes the show what it is. Without that, it's just another show | ||||
| whycantkimdie? |
Yeah its just a cop drama otherwise. | ||||
| Josephine Marcus |
Not a cop drama, but still, not 24 | ||||
| whycantkimdie? |
You know what I mean | ||||
| cp123 |
flashbacks would mess up real time too cause wat is going on during those flashbacks, they may need to be too long to actually play out the story, then you just have gaps in time where u need to figure out what people had done during that 10minute flashback you just did. and even though you cant always be on one character at a time anyways, usually to keep the real time they throw in stuff like chloe saying someones on there way in 10, so you know they have done something over those 10 minutes u havent seen them |
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| DSi |
Maybe they could just set aside a few episodes for flashbacks, so the entire episode could be just one big flashback. Like that episode of Heroes when Peter remembers everything that happened since he exploded. And this way they could make more than 24 episodes, they would have like 27 episodes so they don't mess up the real-time. |
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| Josephine Marcus |
That could work, but the most episode I've ever seen a season of a show have is 25. would there be time for 27 eps? And would these flashbacks be like a recap of the season so far, or would they be something completely new? |
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| cp123 |
quite simply, it doesnt work | ||||
| whycantkimdie? |
thay could just say a line like "when you were building the orphan houses in Africa" so we knew that was what Jack did and then include it in the prequel. | ||||
| Josephine Marcus |
It's too weird! It's not 24 to have a storyline like that, even if it is a flashback... | ||||
| whycantkimdie? |
And it wasn't too wierd for jack to be put into a chinese prison? | ||||
| Josephine Marcus |
No, that actually fit the storyline quite well. Very well actually. It made great sense that the Chinese would want Jack and once they got him, throw him in a prison like that. | ||||
| whycantkimdie? |
Yeah and they still managed to bring the plot back to normal eventually. | ||||
| Josephine Marcus |
That was such a good storyline IMO. Much more bold than I have seen on any other show. And it's just gonna keep providing fodder for future storylines, because something like that can't be forgotten by either Jack or the audience. |