Holy **** balls the best ****ing show on TV is BACK!!!!! for season 5, Wed nights.
I thought it stopped on season 4, but I was wrong. **** 24, this show is 24 on crack x 100, it's that much better. Strike Back is an older British show, that's was slow to air in the US.
[SPOILER - highlight to read]: Michael Bisping was good in the season opener, I wish that they didn't kill him, he would have been a great villain on this show. He beat both Scott and Stone at the same time, it was ****ing awesome! I think Michael tanked a few shots from an Uzi to the shoulder, chest and still fought, was winning the fight against Stone.
Great TV.
[SPOILER - highlight to read]: Stone is like Captain America, Supes, a boyscout in a way, while Scott is the while card. Both great characters.
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In terms of action set pieces and choreography, it's better than 24, but that's about it. The entirety of Section 20 couldn't do what Jack does in a single day. 24 is a far better overall show. Strike Back is like junk food, whereas 24 is like a steak.
In one or two eps Section 20 can do what CTU can do in an entire season. 24 needed a better HR deparment, every season there was a spy working in CTU. lol what a joke, just like any other Fox show like The Following.
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Oh please, they need an entire season to do what Jack does in one day and even less
Strike Back: Season 1: Had to prevent a nerve gas attack
Jack prevented 5 in one day
Season 2: Had to prevent a nuke from going off
Jack prevented that 3 times, each time in the course of a day (first time also the 2nd season of the show)
SeasON 3: Stop biological attack
Jack prevented that in one day on a far grander scale (also 3rd season just like Strike Back)
Season 4: Appears to be a WW3 plot involving North Korea
Jack prevented WW3 numerous times, including his most recent time which was a confirmed nuclear war.
Strike Back is just Commando, or more accurately COD:MF, only using the 24 formula of WMD-based terrorist attacks and the James Bond formula of exotic locations and hot women.
Also, let's not talk stupidity when [SPOILER - highlight to read]: Stonebridge stopped to save girls in cages when he could have come back for them, allowing Fosters daughter to get tortured and Foster to commit terrorism. Jack wouldn't have done that shit. He would focused unrelentingly on his target
[SPOILER - highlight to read]: Stone had a team to do the rest, that's why he stopped, to do the right thing. He's a boy scout, Captain Americanish, Supermanish.
24 does make longer back stories for characters though, where as Strike Back doesn't. 24 also has longer plots, Strike Backs seasons are like 4 or 5 eps then they move on. Strike Back is a lot more realistic and balls out crazy fun. 24 is old now, past it's time, this last mini series of 24 was shit.
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Mini series was awesome and Jack has become a pop culture icon the likes of which Scott and Stonebridge can never be.
This show is good and definitely satisfies my post-24 action craving, but it certainly isn't never as amazing as 24 was. As stated before, this show rips off numerous 24 plots. 24 is widely regarded as one of the best TV shows ever made. Strike Back is fun, but certainly not equivalent. Stonebridge swimming to the boat was cool, but not nearly as cool as Jack spur of the moment deciding to rob a convenience store to stop terrorism, or taking out a mercenary commando team in a LA neighborhood that was just hit with an EMP. Strike Back just isn't comparable.
Also, each season of 24 is usually composed of multiple terror attacks and threats. It's not like they spend all 24 episodes focusing on one threat.
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Cinemax has 3 of the best action shows I have ever seen: Spartacus, Strike Back, and Banshee. Spartacus is in my top 10 GOAT shows and Banshee might be too once I finish the whole series.
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I saw SB first, so I had the opposite reaction. When I first saw the Walking Dead I was like "Hey, I know that guy. He's the one who screwed over Porter!"
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