I may be done after this season. I've said this before, but last night when I watched this week's episode on DVR, I came to the stunning realization that I really don't care about this show anymore. My ADD kicked in around the 15 minute mark and I wandered to my computer. Next thing I knew, the show was at the 40 minute mark... I hadn't fast forwarded through commercials and I didn't have a clue what had transpired in the previous 25 minutes.
24 has had flaws from the beginning. Hell, season 1 had an amnesia plot twist and the worst foreign accent in television history (supplied by one Dennis Hopper). With each season, the timeline has gotten more relaxed and the cameo appearances more arbitrary.
This year, it seems the writers built an exoskeleton of cameos and wrote the story last (okay, we've got six episodes with James Carville, then we can do four with President Logan and his ex - she was GREAT last season! - then we've secured Powers Boothe and the kid from Silver Spoons to do the rest of the season, so we need to give them significant chunks of the storyline .... and we end the season with Audrey, because there's only one way to up the ante after a nuclear crisis is avoided: threaten to kill off Jack's former girlfriend. Gold!!)
What finally blew it for me was Jack betraying the nation for a former girlfriend. In Seasons 1-5, I'd have believed Jack Bauer would put a bullet in his own daughter's head if it would save the President of the United States. But now he's willing to risk World War III in order to rescue some chick he used to bang a couple years back? "Weak" would be an understatement.
It's just as well. My DVR is overworked as it is and frankly I need to cut a few shows loose. As much as I'd love to include 24 in me and the wife's weekly television lineup, as Jack Bauer would say, there's no time.
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