Sunday, January 17, 2010

Get Jack'd




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So Jack Bauer is completely unrealistic and yet at the same time so heroic I wish he wasn’t.

So far I enjoy how the writing is allowing Jack’s character to be blunt with the bureaucrats he’s encountered thus far. He’s not interested in playing nice. What does this man have to do to get a pass? Why is there anyone in the government who second guesses him?

Other seasons he had reasons to be upset and reasons to live.

Now…He wants to go to LA and play with his grandkid.

?

I don’t know whether to laugh at the line I wrote above or find it moving that Jack’s somehow managed to avoid becoming a hard and ugly person. I suppose I’ll find it moving.

The bad guys are on notice either way. He’s retired and has two baddies down already, axe and gravity vs. MP5 = Jacked.

I guess those fan’s with their drinking games may need to brace for disappointment however, the day’s just getting started.

I give it a max of three episodes before he puts a knife to someone’s eye. He’s already blackmailed an official and put an ax into someone so they’re not having retirement turn him soft.

How does a guy like Jack Bauer retire anyway?

That guy has got to be the nexus where Ying meets Yang as his life is a perpetual storm of bad things going sideways with everyone but him dying even if the bad guys eventually loose out.

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