Your "Jack's Back" Quizo Update

As you may or may not know, but probably SHOULD know, 24 is now finally back on. I watched the premiere last night with my father who had never seen it before, possibly because he has spent the last six years living in a cave, on Mars, with his fingers in his ears.

It was slightly strange explaining things that, to me, were painfully obvious, like "Jack is going to kill those guys," or "of course Jack is right about who the real bad guy is," or "yes, Jack is definitely going to kill that guy as well," or "Jack can park in front of fire hydrants because human laws mean nothing to Jack Bauer," or "see those guys there, yeah, Jack's going to kill all of them."

Note that the fire hydrant thing was something I ACTUALLY SAID last night when my father pointed out that Jack and Dr. Bashir had parked in front of one. Suicide bombers across the country, the Eel trampling the constitution, WAYNE PALMER THE FREAKING PRESIDENT (WTF?!) and my dad's like, "they parked in front of a fire hydrant."

Then at the end of the show this little tidbit took place.

Me: That was pretty sedate as 24 cliffhangers go.

Dad: What usually happens?

Me: I dunno.. Jack kills somebody, a nuclear bomb goes off, somebody tries to kill Jack, China detonates nerve gas in a mall, Jack cuts a guy's head off, you know, stuff like that. Not "DRIVE, DAMN YOU!"

Dad: Well, this is by far the most violent thing I've ever seen on television.

Dad: [pause]

Dad: What time is it on tomorrow night?

So, of all the possible things that could happen this weekend - and a number of quite ridiculous things did - I have managed to hook my father on 24.

Jack Bauer, FTW.

Uh, in case you hadn't noticed, the only thing I talked about in this entire e-mail was 24. So, yeah. There you have it.

JLK