I have a feeling I will be watching 24 long past the point of it jumping the shark; such is my love for J. Bauer, Esq., that I will probably watch every episode up to and including the one where Jack and Chloe are sent to the moon to prevent Tamil Tigers from detonating a Chinese nuke on the surface and dislodging enough moon dust to obscure the sun from the earth, which would start a new Ice Age.
It was much the same with the X-Files. I was one of the semi-dedicated who stuck with it until the movie came out, and I religiously watched every episode. I was in denial that it started sucking for quite a while. Maybe with some luck and more judicious tasering of ardorous salarymen by Chloe, 24 can last a while longer. Meanwhile, it is the long period before the next season starts, and it is good to know that others are keeping the dream alive:
“If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he’d shoot Nina twice.”
“If Jack Bauer’s gun jams, it’s because he wanted to beat you with it.”
“When life gave Jack Bauer lemons, he used them to kill terrorists. Jack Bauer fucking hates lemonade.”
“There are no such thing as lesbians, just women who never met Jack Bauer.”
Ad infinitum, here: Random Jack Bauer Facts
Nice, good point too.
Much like the X-Files, it’s hard to tell when a show ‘jumps the shark’ when that’s all it does week in/week out.
Just submitted four myself, for the hell of it. They were:
The speed of light had better be relative to Jack Bauer, if it knows what’s good for it.
No one misspells Jack Bower’s last name and lives to r
Jack Bauer obliterated the immovable object.
The President of the United States, marshalling all the forces under his considerable command, pitted himself against Jack Bauer. What a fucking idiot.