Talk:24 season 4

15 Months?

Where did the idea of 15 months come into play? It's always been 18 months unless in the case of Seasons 2 & 3, where it was a three year gap. I hope it wasn't a result of the Day IV Prequel, which took place 3 months AFTER Day III, but a year before Day IV.

According to the Day 4 Prequel, the first scene (the firing) took place three months AFTER Day 3, but then the next scenes (the border crossing) begin a year before Day 4. By the logic that it was three months PLUS the year (making it 15 months), then it would mean that the firing and the crossing took place the same day, which could not have happened. In actuality, the firing & the crossing are separated by about three months.

Also, there are several instances where they say Day 3 took place "a year and a half ago" throughout the fourth season.

Episodic summary

The episodic summary is from this page], which clearly says copyright is reserved by cnet networks. Doesnt that amount to copyright violation? --soum^সৌমোyasch 10:31, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

In the episode summary, it was written that the man taken from the chinese consulate was tortured. He is actually one of the few people in the show not tortured. I changed it but if anyone disagrees please discuss here.--Levitica 12:28, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

I've attempted to remove the summary, which was copied from the link above. The edit was reverted by a bot, trying to get that fixed now. Sfaok 22:26, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

TV.com appears to be user editable. Did we copy them or they us? -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 22:54, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

This still needs to be resolved. Episode 24 is definitely the same as http://www.tv.com/24/day-4-600-a.m.-700-a.m./episode/389297/summary.html , and there may be others. Superm401 - Talk 11:55, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

The Nuclear Football?

I have been doing a bit of research on the nuclear football, and it says the football only authorizes a launch, it doesn't actually launch it. If that was the case, why was CTU woried? (Please respond on my talk page.) tinlv7 12:26, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

24's timeline

What's going on? why has the year each season is presumed to take place in changed?

I don't quite understand your question as 24 is supposed to take place in exactly one day, i.e. 24 hours, so your mention of a year is a little bewildering.

I mean the presumed year each season takes place. i.e. "Based on the clues from the previous season. Day 4 takes place in year ____". It doesn't really matter now anyway. Everything was fixed. -Order_66

Turkish Language

In the Trivia section it says that Turkish is written with the Roman alphabet but the posters behind Marwan are in Arabic script. Is it worth mentioning that pre 1922, I think, Turkish was written in the Arabic script?

It's true that the Roman alphabet was adopted sort of relatively recently in Turkey, but it remains that at this point the Arabic alphabet isn't used to communicate Turkish and it's very, very doubtful this was anything but a mistake on the part of the writers of the show who weren't familiar with the linguistic differences between the languages. I think it's more of a question as to whether pointing out these mistakes is really "Trivia", but they are correct. Also, given that the posters read "Death to America" in Arabic, not Turkish (at least, I don't think so), I guess it's arguable the characters could have been using Arabic purposefully despite being Turkish. But the idea that one could confuse Turkish and Arabic is incorrect, as the article states, because the Arabic alphabet just isn't used anymore for Turkish.

Shoroko 09:47, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

This is all true. But another point has to be that we do not know for sure that any of the terrorists other than Tomas are Turkish. They were never said to be. Just because one of the terrorists was a Turkish National, doesn't mean they all were.

Note that 1) Sherak is also known to be Turkish; 2) under episode one of the episode summary the family is referred to as the 'Iranian Araz family'. Is there anything to suggest the family is Iranian? http://www.fox.com/24/episodes/season4/

Summaries were copied from tv.com

The summaries in this page were copied from tv.com and maybe a few other sites. See an example here. We neeed to write them ourselves. - Peregrine Fisher 22:35, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

Chloe's appearances

It says in the trivia section that Chloe appears in every single episode of season 4. I just watched episode 7 & 8 and realised that there were no appearances made by Chloe, neither in the 'Previously on 24' section, nor in the main episode. Am I missing something here? Where did that bit of trivia come from?

Onlythesnake 22:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Assessment rating

I've rated this article as start class because it contains most of the important information about the subject but contains no inline citations. I've rated it as low importance to wikiproject television as series articles are of comparitively low importance compared to article about entire shows.--Opark 77 21:16, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Episode summaries

I actually agree with Asyndeton's edits to my contributions. Sincere thanks. He appropriately removed my idea of a quotable moment in the 12-1AM episode. There are many quotable lines from 24 and they probably belong in Wiki 24.

Gouveia2 17:39, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Choice versus Decline

I disagree with the recent change of the subsection heading from "Jack Bauer's Moral Choices" to "Jack Bauer's Moral Decline". His difficult choices were made for a greater good, saving millions by risking the life of one in the case of Paul Raines. To be considered a "moral decline" his actions would benefit himself personally, as in the case of a mobster. What do you think? Gouveia2 16:34, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

There's a case for "decline", but I think it is better to stick with more neutral language at least in the heading. My main concern with that subsection is that it's appallingly badly written. - WMEP1981 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.146.237.148 (talk) 18:42, 23 October 2007 (UTC)