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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 4630406" data-attributes="member: 8158">This is the show's, what, seventh season? Eighth? In all of that time, has there been anyone who objected to "extreme interrogation" methods who wasn't ultimately proven to have feet of clay? How many sheltered bureaucrats have come in to tell Jack that he can't keep violating civil liberties, and then later in the episode they either pay for their naive rhetoric with their lives, or are brought around to Jack's way of thinking? Did you see Redemption? If so, do you remember that United Nations worker that kept mouthing off to Jack about what a thug he was, only to show himself for a spineless, selfish weakling once the bad guys showed up? This show has never played both sides of the fence, and I wouldn't be on that changing, because in the eyes of the producers, 24's unilateral perspective is a feature not a bug.Jacks says quite boldly in this season's first episode that he has no remorse for anything he's ever done. This is a guy who's gone rogue in virtually every season, commited various felonies, assaulted civilians, fellow law enforcement agents, and pretty much anybody who gives him lip (remember him choking C. Thomas Howell for the crime of schtuping his daughter?). Yet, he's never put to task for it by the powers that be. Because we all owe him our ungrateful lives.But that's OK, IMO. 24 is a tremendously entertaining action thriller. It has a lot of polish for a TV show. But it also has an image of being savvy and sophisticated and realistic that is largely undeserved. I'm sure we can all think of plenty of contrivances that have been drawn up from the well time and time again, to the point where we just have to manually switch off suspension of disbelief.</blockquote>

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