Trevor and I just watched the Season 7 finale of "24" on Monday night. It was a great season with lots of twists and turns! This season seemed especially relevant with the current debate about the Bush administration and the interrogation techniques they authorized. Jack Bauer is currently on trial for his torture of terrorists in order to get them to give up important information quickly (he does only have 24 hours, you know!). This season seemed to emphasize even more the hard choice of deciding to sacrifice the rights of one person in order to save hundreds of thousands of people.
Anyway, after we finished the show, I realized I never had blogged about how we had caught up on all the past seasons. Trevor had watched the show off and on during college, but I had never seen it until we started watching Season 5 in 2006. Since then we've been watching faithfully and trying to catch up on the past seasons. Lucky for us, Blair & Rachel are also die-hard "24" fans and have the complete collection on DVD that they let us borrow. It also worked out well that we had time to watch them since the writer's strike meant no new season in 2008. I do admit that after being spoiled with the DVD's that I definitely prefer watching the episodes back-to-back with no commercials. That way, when they leave you with a cliff-hanger ending, you can just watch the next one. This did, however, cause some sleep deprivation when we would sit down with the intention of watching "only 2 episodes" and we'd finally decide to go to bed six hours later after saying "let's just watch one more to find out what happens" over and over again. After some late nights, we finished Season 4 right before this season started.
I'll leave you with some Jack Bauer "Facts" I just found on the Internet.
- Terrorists dread the day in October that Daylight Savings Time ends. Jack Bauer gets 25 hours in which to kill them.
- If everyone on "24" followed Jack Bauer's instructions, it would be called "12".
- Jack Bauer could get off the Lost island in 24 hours. (That's for you Mary Ellen!)
- They say you can't go a day without water, Jack Bauer has gone eight seasons.
- On Jack Bauer's tax returns, he has to claim the entire world as his dependents.
- Once, someone tried to tell Jack Bauer a "knock knock" joke. Jack Bauer found out who was there, who they worked for, and where the bomb was.
- Jack doesn't believe in Murphy's Law, only Bauer's Law: "Whatever CAN go wrong, WILL be resolved in a period of 24 hours."
- When President Palmer started doing Allstate commercials, it took him 43 takes before he could stop saying, "You're in good hands with Jack Bauer". (That's for you Blair!)
- You can lead a horse to water. Jack Bauer can make him drink.
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