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Having rewatched a great many of the episodes on the A&E marathon, I got to speculating on what may be happening next season. I know some things from spoilers, but that's most casting choices. I got to thinking about what I'd like to see -- plot-wise -- and am wondering what everyone here is hoping will happen this January.
My two wishes: A smaller, more personal threat and Jack having to work completely outside CTU.
As much as I liked this last season (and I did), I would like to see the threat be more like the first season... a personal threat to Jack and the ones he loves. Not because I don't think the "world in peril" scenarios don't work, but simply because it's time for a change. Each season had a "bigger" threat than the last and, as a result, Jack has become less "human" and more "superhuman". I'd like to see Jack have to deal with something very personal -- even if it doesn't deal with a national crisis. It will give the writers and actors a chance to make Jack less of a caricature and more of a character.
As for the second part (having Jack work completely outside the CTU), that should be easy. With Jack having to be 'dead', his resources are going to be very limited as will be his responses. The past three seasons, he'd been 007, licensed to kill. For that matter, he's been handed situations so dire and the consequences of non-action so severe that his choice of actions could be justified (even if they were morally questionable/wrong). I'd like to see him up against people who are just doing their job, say police or government agents. These people could just be working on false information (say, Jack's a bad guy) and harming them would be over the line. They had this in the last season even. In Jack's hostage situation he was unable to hurt any of the people. He didn't fight the cops when they cornered him -- even if he did think about it. In the first season they did this a lot, where Jack was at odds with the Secret Service.
Not sure if any of this will happen. I get the feeling the writers tend to get caught up in the excitement and bigger and badder is better seems to be the battle cry. A girl can dream, though.
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My two wishes: A smaller, more personal threat and Jack having to work completely outside CTU.
As much as I liked this last season (and I did), I would like to see the threat be more like the first season... a personal threat to Jack and the ones he loves. Not because I don't think the "world in peril" scenarios don't work, but simply because it's time for a change. Each season had a "bigger" threat than the last and, as a result, Jack has become less "human" and more "superhuman". I'd like to see Jack have to deal with something very personal -- even if it doesn't deal with a national crisis. It will give the writers and actors a chance to make Jack less of a caricature and more of a character.
As for the second part (having Jack work completely outside the CTU), that should be easy. With Jack having to be 'dead', his resources are going to be very limited as will be his responses. The past three seasons, he'd been 007, licensed to kill. For that matter, he's been handed situations so dire and the consequences of non-action so severe that his choice of actions could be justified (even if they were morally questionable/wrong). I'd like to see him up against people who are just doing their job, say police or government agents. These people could just be working on false information (say, Jack's a bad guy) and harming them would be over the line. They had this in the last season even. In Jack's hostage situation he was unable to hurt any of the people. He didn't fight the cops when they cornered him -- even if he did think about it. In the first season they did this a lot, where Jack was at odds with the Secret Service.
Not sure if any of this will happen. I get the feeling the writers tend to get caught up in the excitement and bigger and badder is better seems to be the battle cry. A girl can dream, though.
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