It was NOT just a show. Beware of the blasphemy on your part if you think otherwise.
It took Jack Bauer (a.k.a Keifer Sutherland in real world) just one day to capture the imagination of the world. And he shared 7 more days from his life with us mortals. And the journey has been nothing but spectacular.
In this world, where species have a dormant dream to be badass, 24 and Jack Bauer have been nothing short of a revitalising drug. You don't often get to see your wildest dream take an almost tangible form on the small screen and, I can smell it, add spice to our mundane lives.
Real time storytelling,
..the end justifies the means ideology,
..the head-on raw approach towards terrorism,
..Jack's colour-blindness (If there are lives to be saved, everything else goes out of the window),
..torture redefining (yes, the taboo word has been portrayed countless times, often taking it to the next level),
..recognizing the necessity to kill (Only Jack has made through from the start to the end of the 8th day),
..Kiefer Sutherland (the show would just not have been the same without him)
are just some of the million little pieces of why I <3 24
24th May 2010 was the day when 24 hung their boots. A bittersweet feeling, glad that the iron was still hot when they struck it, sad that there will no more of Jack.
P.S. Oh, and by the way, the last clock of the series, the only one which counted down instead of up. I noticed :)
P.S II This definitely deserves a mention. @nishitd 's blog post : You know you watch too much 24 when.. I wanted to write something like this but he beat me to it..
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