24′s first female prez
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According to Mike Ausiello over at TVGuide.com, there’s a good chance the president next season will be a woman.
That wouldn’t be too shocking for the show, seeing as she wouldn’t be the first female prez (Geena Davis, Mary McDonnell  OK, McDonnell isn’t a U.S. president, but close enough) and the show itself has had not one, but two black presidents.
Ausiello also reports that New York, London and Washington, D.C., are the top contenders for a new locale for the show.
What? No President James Heller?
In addition, the Bauer-natics continue to come up with more wackiness for Season 7. To wit:
• Jack happens upon a location shoot of “Law & Order.” He sees police officers in distress, so he kills guest star Freddie Prinze Jr., who is playing a drug dealer in at Washington Square Park.
• The Naked Cowboy is a mole.
• While chasing bad guys down Fifth Avenue, felafel/kebab stands start exploding all around him.
• Jack discovers the Minskoff Theatre is really the headquarters for a terrorist group that Mandy is working through. The terrorist group brainwashes folks going to see “The Lion King” through hallucinogens in the concessions.
• Jack stops to get his portrait painted in Times Square. It takes too long, so he takes over and completes it himself.
ADDENDUM:
Ausiello also reports that Peter MacNicol is going back to “Numb3rs,” so it looks like Tom Lennox won’t be back next season (not a big surprise; should be almost a completely new cast anyhow).
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I’ll be the first to say it: “President Chloe.” Can you imagine her sulking at the desk (with a picture of Edgar on it) in the Oval Office? And how wonderfully anti-social she would be on conference calls with international diplomats?
“I don’t like his attitude… FULL NUCLEAR STRIKE!”
OMG, that’s awesome. Perfect. They need look no further.
Commander in Chief was the worst thing on TV since Katie Couric’s colon. I would watch that show just to amuse myself on the lack of any storyline and the ever increasing size of Davis’ lips.
If people thought that was going to usher in Hillary as Prez, well…Geena lied to become president and had our military invade a country before the former president’s body was even cool. She also almost got us nuked by North Korea.
N.O.W. should be up in arms over the portrayal of women on the show 24. Hell, only Muslims on the show have it worse and it’s not by much. What I am trying to say is that there is a higher than average “normal female”-to-mole ratio on the show 24.
But I am cool with a female prez on 24. As long as it is NOT a Palmer.
Never watched CiC; had no desire to.
I totally agree with your “no more Palmers” assessment. David was the best of the bunch. Wayne, well we know how Wayne ended up. Sandra is just so freakin’ annoying it was unbelievable. Sherri was fabu as an evil, evil woman, but she’s dead anyhow and no one could get behind her as a prez, she was just such a horrible person.
I dunno if I agree with your assessment of how women on the show are portrayed. I’ll have to mull that one over. Chloe’s great, but she’s totally socially maladjusted; Nadia was ineffectual; Karen was a weasel; Michelle was pretty great; Nina & Mandy, totally evil; Sherri, a completely bad egg; Sandra, the most annoying human being since Richard Simmons.
Hmm. Maybe you’re on to something.
I actually think 24 isn’t degrading to women. When women are in peril during the show, it’s because they are dating/related to Jack Bauer, which is supposed to indicate how tragic a character Jack is.
They actually have some kickass moments with women in 24 (remember Chloe with the machinegun in season 5?). Now “Rescue Me,” there’s a show that’s just downright nasty towards females.
I’ll add one more thought: just because a female character on a tv show is mean or deceitful, that isn’t necessarily sexism on the part of the writers. Quite the opposite. Hopefully, we’re living in an age where it’s ok to have a female villan without people batting an eye and thinking that something is wrong/unbalenced.
The casting of women in certain roles generally isn’t where you’ll see sexism. It’s how a show or film show TREATS its female characters that is revealing. Which is why I brought up “Rescue Me” in my last post. All the female characters in the show are eye candy, but clueless and deceitful at the same time.
Martha Logan is the next president. Duh!
You raise some pretty good points, Rickey. Scary. But I think Adam’s right. Martha, though she’s at the cuckoo farm right now, has the cred. She’d be awesome, too. But can someone who stabbed a former president to death actually take the office?