Special Post- My Favorite Show of the Decade

If you've hung around me for a while then you'll know that i love the show 24 and it is undoubtedly my favorite show of the last 10 years. This past week I watched the whole 6th Season on DVD in my abundance of current free time. So it has made me want to make this post. There is sooo much I can say but I'll note several things.

The show began in the fall of 2001 and I got into it when I saw a Friday night rerun of the 3rd episode of the first season. After watching it that night, I wanted to know what happened next so I tuned in the next Monday night and for the rest of the decade. I would even tape episodes and watch them a couple more times before the next one came on a week later, very good idea especially when I would get sick.

At the same time, my dad also got into the show so we have had many 24 discussions over the years. I also got my cousin David into it somewhat, one day around 5 years ago I just randomly popped in my DVD of the First season that I had been watching and even though it was more in the middle of it he insisted that we kept watching it cause he was hooked even without knowing everything that was going on. From there he borrowed a couple other seasons from me and he said that he would would stay up all night to watch them cause of how addicting it is (this seems to be a common tale with many people).

One thing the show is known for is the shocking or emotional moments including numerous character deaths. Even though these moments hurt to watch, I admire the courage of the show's creators to make it more realistic by having CTU and other agencies not preventing every single crisis that appears. Watching the end of the 6th season late Saturday night made me think of all the crap the main character Jack Bauer has been through and it seriously made me want to cry. He is told and reminded numerous times that he is cursed and that every thing and almost every one that goes near him dies. He has realized many sad truths over the seasons which he tries many times to prove false but they keep happening.

So many actors have been on the show over the last seven seasons and every time I see these actors on other shows or movies I'm always reminded of their 24 characters. So one silly comment on that is that in the Twilight movies, Bella's parents are both 24 bad guys especially her mother haha.

The First, Second, and Fifth seasons in my opinion are the show's best and I will stick with it as long as the show will be on. I've seen all the seasons on DVD at least twice. I always got them as Christmas presents every year but I'll wait to get the 7th season until it is much lower in price. I will continue to watch the DVDs whenever I feel like watching something I can follow for a whole week.