I used to love 24, but last season's torture-porn outing kind of turned me off from the series. Lately, I've been re-watching some of the seasons on DVD and I think I figured out where they should go from here - Jack Bauer should become the villain. Let's face it, they guy's been pushed over the edge far too many times to remain mentally balanced, and this would give us a villain we could finally get into the head of, instead of our usual Mulim/Russian/Bauer-family-member that are about as deep as cardboard cut-outs.
Here's how I'd plot it out. Evil asshole VP Powers Boothe is now President (I realize he ended last season seeming not to be as big of an asshole as we thought, but run with me - this would also work with Pres. Sherri Palmer). During another investigation, it comes to the attention of someone in CTU that he (asshole former VP, now known as AHFVP) may have been involved with Pres. Palmer's assassination. Someone in CTU (ie. Chole or Audrey) relays this info to Jack while he's on somewhere washing dishes and generally living the life of a crazy-hermit. At this point, Chole/Audrey is killed by someone close to the AHFVP for relaying this info. From this point on, Jack Bauer decides that the President must die. I would frame this all happening one day in New York city where the Pres. is making a campaign appearance. During the same day, CTU is in NYC making the afforementioned terror bust. After his friend's death, Jack makes it clear to someone in CTU (Buchanan? I know he's out, maybe Jack can call him for advice) what he's going to do. From there on, it's a cat and mouse chase through New York with CTU trying to stop the assassination, following up on the info about the VP themselves, trying to keep it from other gov't agencies that one of "their own" has gone rogue , along with a possible pararllell assassination plot from another faction. I think this would be great. It'd give us a great villain, give us a reason to stop all the damn torture, plus, whoever is hunting Bauer could be set up as a future 24 hero should the series continue without Sutherland. Fox, send me a damn check!
3 comments:
Ace. I thought the show took a serious turn for the better when the average Arab terrorist everyman got the short chain. The last 8 episodes were much improved. They squandered some excellent players this year (Boothe, Peter whatever his name is, the woman who played the other advisor, and Jack's dad) by associating them with this season.
So I heard: but for a scheduling snafu, Sutherland Sr. was actually going to play Pop. I was hoping for that before the season began.
I would love for something like this to happen, but I've no faith in the writers anymore to keep this going beyond Episode 8 at the very latest.
I seem to recall that Season 5 started with a similar premise - although there Jack was simply falsely accused rather than actually doing anything wrong - and it was more or less abandoned within two episodes.
I really would like to see Jack on the other side of CTU, for a change. A constant annoyance is the fact that just about everyone at CTU follows the Gospel of Jack - no matter what, The Bauer can never be wrong, and even when he admits that he could possibly wrong (as he did with the whole chip/Audrey scenario in Season 6) it works out to everyone's advantage and Jack suffers no consequences whatsoever.
Yeah, I'm aware that this response is ridiculously late.
-M
Late or not, glad that someone's reading Matt. Anyway, I just think that after all of the shit that Jack's gone through that he would eventually have to crack. And if Jack Bauer's going to crack, he sure as hell is going to do it violently.
A key would be seeing a lot of his CTU alcolytes trying to wrap their heads around Jack doing something that is incredibly reprehensible and resolving that he's become the enemy.
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