Jack is Back

I have up to today only seen the first three seasons (six released per today) of this masterpiece that is known as "24". That means 72 episodes of pure mean raw Jack Bauer-ish action. A man famous to go his own way and having a slight problem with authority.
When the series first came (late 2001) it was quite groundbreaking having a show that was played in "real-time". That is a minute in the show is a minute in the characters lives. When the first three seasons were out I had the "privilege" to work 16h night shifts out in the middle of nowhere watching some containers during my time working @ Securitas. I remember spending three nights in a row watching the first three seasons, and wasn't bored a second.

The show IS Kiefer Sutherland and his impersonation of the Counter Terrorist Unit-agent Jack Bauer. I think they have (or will) change most of the other persons in the cast but without Jack it would just be weird.

The first four seasons in short.
S01 - Jack is set to protect Senator David Palmer on the day of the Presidential Primaries
S02 - Jack has to stop a nuclear bomb set to go off in LA and help the new president Palmer prove who's guilty
S03 - Jack must stop a deadly virus from being released while struggling with a heroin addiction he caught while working underground.
S04 - Jack, now off-duty from CTU working for Secretary of Defense finds his new employer kidnapped in an event linked to an internet attack and a train bombing.

What I love about the show is that it doesn't soften up, the don't cheer it up and make it rose-tinted. Jack has been quite deep into heroin, shot terrorists during interrogation. Chopped the arm of his daughter's boyfriend. And the other characters aren't much softer. During his kidnapping the Secretary (S04) finds it better to try kill himself than letting the terrorists broadcast his execution et cetera.

Much similar to Mr Bauer is the Texas Ranger-actor Chuck Norris. Surrounding both Jack and Mr Norris is a small (huge?) internet hype. Based on the listings of facts like
www.jackbauerfacts.com, www.chucknorrisfacts.com

Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.
America is not a democracy, it is a Chucktatorship

Today's LG is along the same lines

....on the seventh day Jack said, "I'll take it from here."
A standard deck now contains 48 cards.
-Too many people were getting hurt for trying to play Jack.
Jack Bauer can talk about Fight Club.

I have taken my side

Well well. Can't spend more time here. Got 67 episodes to see before S07 is released this autumn.