24 Season 6 Prequel

I have just this minute finished watching the first 4 episodes of the new series, and without giving anything away, I am happy to report that this series looks to be just as exciting as its 5 predecessors. Excellent! Not to be missed.

I admit that half way through the first episode I was more than a little upset, but by the end of the episode I was more than happy with where the story looked to be going.

And, with all the previous series I was completely wrong about where the story was going.

However, for those of you out there that have not seen some or all of the previous series, I strongly recommend you go back and watch all of them in order. I promise you will not be disappointed.

Like millions of others out there, I know that Jack Bauer is probably the

Welcome back Jack.

24 is by far one of the best TV series I have seen so far. There are some flaws nevertheless but all in all well done to crew and actors/actresses specially my favorite Keifer. I can't wait to see the new season and what's happening to the hero and what will be the thing that he has to save day from ;-) Since most of the characters I have become familiarized with died in season 5 and it happened so unexpectedly at the beginning ,which very much reminded me of Mission Impossible, and it cause a feeling of loss,I hope they had come up with more interesting characters to fill in the gap. It is not a bad idea to give some flash backs to how Jack Bauer actually got into special forces at the first place.

Going over past reviews, I ran across the one I wrote for 24 back when it first started, and trying to figure out what my first review for 2007 should be, it was definitely a no-brainer.

WOW. Back then, I thought that this was one of the smartest, snappiest, wildest rides you could have on television, and it always managed to keep your mind racing as fast as your pulse as Jack Bauer got in and out of scrape after scrape after scrape, sometimes barely managing to survive by the skin of his teeth, while dealing with whatever crisis was afoot. I was also very afraid that a series this good would never be allowed to last or find the following it deserved.

THAT WAS FIVE YEARS AGO. Five "really bad days" ago for Agent Bauer, who has in the period between then and now seen the brutal deaths of his wife, his friends, his co-workers and scores of people he was close to, or was getting close to; he's been addicted to, then kicked a drug habit; killed dozens of people himself - some who absolutely deserved it, while a few others did not; seen a president assassinated and seen the corruption, greed and treason behind that horrific event taint the highest levels of power in Washington; witnessed both biological AND nuclear terrorist attacks on American soil and was instrumental in making sure that they didn't become worse than they were; become estranged to his daughter (though since Kim frequently got on my nerves, I didn't see this as exactly a real bad thing), and for the "cherry on top", seen his own place of work - the offices of CTU itself - blown to smithereens.

I think that if they just did a highlight reel of the best and most harrowing moments of this show, they'd have to mail nitroglycerine tablets to all the fans to prevent heart attacks! And now here we are, at the beginning of Season Six, having been left all these months with the nightmarish image of Jack literally having been kidnapped, tortured and shanghaied on "a slow boat to China", a delayed punishment for both real and perceived transgressions he committed against the Chinese government while preventing yet another unthinkable catastrophe.

Nothing he's gone through before has ever left him unscarred or unchanged in body, soul or mind, and that goes just as well for the people around him. What fresh challenges, what terrors await us when he shows up this time, in a series that sometimes seems to cut way too close to home with its depiction of a world where negotiations between nations seem to be expedited more easily by bullets and bombs than vigorous diplomacy? I certainly know as much as you do...and like all the fans reading this, I sure as hell can't wait to find out!

Just when you thought you couldn't wait for season 6 to come, the trailer is released which doesn't help. The trailer only makes you more eager for the actual season.

The Prequel doesn't show you much that you wouldn't already know. But has the essential characters needed to still make it 24. Jack and of course the Chinnese leader who was responsible for his capture.

Three minutes of the prequel are taken up by footage from season 5 showing his capture, designed no doubt to jock your memory, like we hadn't forgotten!.

It definitely sets you up for the up coming season, and eases your desire for 24 slightly, well at least you can see the Prequel and the trailer over and over.

We have to have this bit of information on the ruthlessness of the Chinese, as Jack goes silent despite the beatings and torture he endures. He is whipped and stabbed and prodded. It will be interesting to see what is left of him as this next season will feature him again.