It could work!

If you didn't like this season then you just don't like the show anymore and you don't need to be here.

Part of what's cool about the show is that they don't show every detail and spell everything out. They follow the main characters and events and when characters go out of the main story, it's over. Move on. That's how the show is shot.

And if William Devane can kick this VP's ass all over the oval office, and become President, well, that would be Suh-Weet...

Because she is basically the only one who went out of her way for Jack. Because when does the U.S. ever, and I mean ever, do anything for Jack?

It was crazy/ridiculous/irresponsible by Wayne to even let Jack go through with taking the circuit board. From their perspective, sacrificing horse face is the only option.

And I don't blame Jack for wanting to go through it. And in this case, the VP is absolutely correct in his assessment of the situation.

Si, Heroes will destroy these 24 talkbacks...

Maybe Gredenko was helping to fund them all? Or they just aren't important to the plot anymore...

I can say having watched them all in order, at my own pace, that season 3 stands out as the best by far. It had all the big pay-offs, especially Jack killing Nina in the same room where she had killed his wife; and that chopper getting blown away by the Marine fighters was really cool,too.

Since then they really haven't come up with CTU personnel who resonate as well as Tony and Michelle did. I do think Mary Lynn Rajskub does a good job as Chloe, but she's more of a support character than a main focus; and from an acting stand point getting rid of Elisha Cuthbert had to be done... loss of eye-candy not withstanding.

I've liked seasons 4,5,& 6 to a degree; but not as much as season 3. That was the last time the show had a true cinematic look and feel to it.

This seemed, while good, a transition episode. I still think they should have had Jack vs. Ricky at the halfway point of the episode, then have your cliffhanger with him meeting the Chinese to end it.

Also, I am on the season 4 is underated bandwagon. For all its flaws, it absolutely bombed along at top speed, and you got no chance to get annoyed at a storyline before it had gone and be replaced. Plus I loved Marwan, nobody escaped better than him. Plus blowing Airforce One out of the sky was a great moment, and the reapperance of Tony was perhaps the most jump out of your seat and shout moment in the shows history.

Season One : Probably the best in terms of writing. It was, by every other season's standards, intimate and small, stuff like the mole and the very ending, which became 24 hallmarks, were breathtaking when they were new. Also it had a great underlying theme, it was about two men doing difficult jobs, even though those jobs were endangering their families. There was a great juxtaposing of Palmer and Bauer in that season. Also, real time actually meant something, it was used as a plot device, and worked brilliantly.

Season Two : Season two was season one on steroids, everything was bigger and more spectacular, the trade off was in realism. Also, in season one a large part of the story was his daughter being in danger. The reason Kim was in danger was that she had the last name Bauer, it was all tied in. In season two, Kim was in danger just because she couldn't go twenty minutes without stumbling into a life threating situation.

Season Three : 24 was brave enough to try and break the mold with this season, Jack got a partner, we got a different type of threat, and things looked and felt different. As I said though, the whole "hey that stuff you just watched and cared about, well that was all crap that meant nothing...", lost the season a heap of goodwill, and made it for me the weakest season at the time

Season Four : I like season four, it went back to basics, turned everything up to 11 and just flew on the seat of its pants. It also managed to make the return of former regulars seem like the most amazing thing ever. It didn't quite reach the heights of 1&2, but we were back on the right track, and it had my favorite ending of any season. Boy did that open up a new direction for the show to go...

Season Five : The great new direction was jettisoned and anyone we cared about was killed and we got another season, only not as good as before. What saved 5 from being terrible was an insane plot twist that worked because Gregory Itzin is such an amazing actor. Making the president the bad guy was brilliant, but it should have been unworkable, but Itzen made it work.

Season Six : Six has been a very poor season all around. The Chinese potential was jettisoned, as everyone knew it would be, we got an amazing opening 4 episodes, but after that we got lamer versions of old stories, with less interesing characters, and a line of believability crossed that had never happened before. Sure we could buy it when jack and CTU or even the President and his staff did insane things, but the idea that shortly after a nuclear bomb went off, people about 15 minutes drive away would be playing tennis or that shops would be open, or that people would be bumbling around doing normal things was insane, and proved how far the writers had gone from the reality level of season one. For the first time in my history of watching 24 I actually felt it was a chore. Luckily the writers have managed to give us a decent set-up for the final 6 episodes, but no matter what this has to be in a fight with three as the most disappointing season. And right now it is well ahead on points...