To suffer years in a prison being tortured, to have a wife killed; to have a daughter estranged; to always be fighting for the right and be considered wrong, this is the test of the mettle of the true hero.

Marie and I believe that it is actor Kiefer Sutherland’s own sensitivity that allows him to portray Jack Bauer so well. Weeping in his vehicle at the end of one of the year’s series was done so well, Marie and I wept along with Jack.

Many folks do not realize how difficult it is to put together an episode of 24. Often Sutherland will work for sixteen hours straight just to get five minutes of screen time acceptable to him and the directors.

There have been 17 different directors for this series, and 23 writers headed by Robert Cochran.

There will probably never be a better thriller series made.

The “monsters” in the jungle that pulled the pilot (character from Alias) off the top off of the nose of the jumbo jet peaked interest. Then we find that a man in a bear suit was responsible. Light and Magic definitely wasn’t involved with the special effects.

The breaker for me was Michael not choosing the obvious option of simply putting the two women in the vault, choosing instead to kill them both. Someone so conscience ridden would never have pulled the trigger as Michael did.. (I know, I know, Michael is a nervous, intense basket case. However, those two deaths were absolutely out of realm of possibility given Michael’s tenderness, no matter how driven he is to find Walt.

I enjoyed the acting for this series, but not knowing who was dead or alive or when or where created too much obfuscation for me.

In other words, I couldn’t afford the time to consistently keep up, and couldn’t keep up even if I could afford the time.

Later on in the series I caught site of John being dead/alive, and the Rock God being dead/alive. However, to this day I’m not sure what happened to Sawyer. I must have missed something…………….No kidding.