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well now after a couple of days to think this through and actually process this news. This has come as no real suprise. I have mixed feelings. The first feeling was that something that has been a big part of my life will now be over, sitting down every week to watch the new episode was a ritual that i have carried out from the very beginning.

The other feeling i have refers to 24 losing its way and i can appreciate that i would rather it bow out now that when it is under great scrutiny by critics and the fans. I think 24's downfall has come when the show was produced as an in your face action show, which fans from the beginning will know it wasnt.

It lost that personal feel and that has only been reclaimed a few times during the latter seasons, the season 4 finale (jacks death), President Palmers assasination, Jack's confrontation with Heller in Season 6, and season 7 was a true return to form i thought. But season 8 so far hasnt really done much in terms of moving Jack's story forward, they had a real oppurtunity to keep the change going.

I think this may be down to the writers not wanting to annoy the execs by producing a season like season 1 again, seems to me they just want the all out action.

So im feeling rather bittersweet about the news, and im quite annoyed that the news has come during season 8 and i now have to watch the remaining episodes thinking about how on earth they are going to finish the series. I just hope that the last remaining episodes of season 8 are brilliant and it goes out on a high note. I sure hope the ending makes sense and doesnt seem like an add on to the season.

Recently i watched the Sopranos, i bought the tv boxset and having never watched an episode before i read some reviews and people were saying it was brilliant tv, so i bought it and watched the lot and as i inched closer to the ending episodes i felt rather sad knowing that the show had been cancelled for a while and that these last episodes are "the last". So i think thats how im going to feel with 24.

I just hope that the 24 community keeps the show alive via discussions and rewatches etc, im going to take the oppurtunity when 24 ends to just go start from the beginning and relive it again, as if i had hit stop accidentally on the remote and it hasn't really finished, but yet i have to start watching from the beginning.

I guess it will all come down to.... 3:59:57, 3:59:58, 3:59:59, 4:00:00. Let the rewatch begin.

I've been pretty busy lately and have only just seen this,it was definatly a close one, thanks for writing the quiz!

1. Once
2. Bill Buchannon
3. Robert Ellis
4. A group of ex CTU employees, Bill Buchannon, Chloe O Brian and Tony Almeida
5. $250,000.00
6. 7x23 and 7x24
7.  a) Vincent Cardiff  was alive and well, but Tony said he died whilst interrogating him
b) Tony shot hilmself with a 9mm round and Galvez was firing a 45mm weapon. Jack said he couldn't have switched to a 9mm in that time frame to shoot Tony. Or their had to be a second person with Galvez.

8. GMC
9. "keep your doubts to yourself"
10. Senator Blaine Mayer
11. U.S. federal law that makes it a crime to use the military as a domestic police force in the United States under most circumstances
12. 71
13. 69877
14. Ammonium Distrate
15. Pendopomine
16. Python 5's
17. Autumn
18. 01:24:14
19. Blue
20. West Arlington
21. 3 square miles
22. “Theo Stoller”appeared in Season 5 as an agent of the German Federal Intelligence service and he was working covertly in the United States.
23. Jack wanted to assist on the raid of the Starkwood compound but Larry cant risk Jack showing symptoms when out in the field.
24. Position

i think when it was mentioned that Season 8 was to be set very close to Season 7, the ending was shaped out more and maybe they felt they couldn't do that due to Jack being ill, it looks like they did this to have Jack back in shape. Although i hope we still have a little of Jack's past condition still present.

well, the casting call for the role of Teri said that they were looking for a 4 year old child. And the cigarette thing, i thought that it may be that but the pictures corrospond with the video of him lifting Teri into the car.

haha, your not in a rush at all are you, haha. I might watch a few, i have started ripping them for my own use on my ps3 so i can stream them around on my tv downstairs where i dont have a blu ray player etc, only 7 more episodes to convert.

I think im going to watch the first 4 episodes tonight.

im also finding it very very hard, i think this is one of those seasons where you just cant pick only one episode due to it having such a great scene, so im going to just list my top 10 favourite scenes, in no order.

1. Jack breaks Tony out of FBI custody
2. Jack, Bill, Tony and Chloe at "ctu" headquarters
3. Jack on the run from the FBI after being setup
4. Kim visits Jack
5. Tony witholds Jacks medicine/ reveals himself to Jack
6. Jack beats Tony, episode 22
7. Tony confronts Wilson
8. Tony and Jack bury Renne
9. Tony and Jack at sunset
10. Jacks talk with the Senator, episode 14

I could go on and on, those are just the 10 i can think of off the top of my head, there are many many more.

that is very cool, im really liking the artwork, i think im going to do the sensible thing and buy the complete 1-8 blu ray set that they are bound to release.

Thanks for the link j_a

after watching the whole season now, i think Season 7 may just be my favourite season, i know it doesn't have Palmer like Season 1, but im going to have to say that Season 7 was on par with Season 1.

difference when you view it in hd are brilliant, i've been watching the season on sky hd and it doesn't even compare to Blu Ray, i've got like 50 something blu rays and im very impressed with the audio and video on the set.

Im going to be getting a blu ray drive for my pc soon, so hopefully in a couple of days i can post some comparisom pictures of the same scene.

i agree it was a very good episode, i am really loving the technical aspects of these later episodes, they look even more stylish that usual, the lighting is playig a big part and makes the atmosphere amazing.

Jack isn't at the top of his game, im sure none of us would be if we were having seizures from a biological pathogen. I think they have played Jack's character well in that he is functioning, but only just.

And as for Tony, he is as "grey" as he has ever been, i just keep getting the feeling that this is Tony justifying the means with an end.