24 aired from November 2001 - July 2014. It was new and exciting and kept me on my seat once I started watching the DVDs. Honestly, when it was airing, there was some discussion around the episode but I didn't understand it. Good guy takes bad guys down in one hour. So what?
Then I started paying attention to the hub-bub each week and I was curious. Without giving away the setup of the show, I checked out Season One from my library. If it wasn't for working, I would have only switched discs and accomplished nothing else for 2-3 days. I caught the "Jack" bug and I was hooked.
I think 24 attracted a certain type of intellectual which is what made it interesting for me. It wasn't your super cop, a weapons master, a fighter or even the best driver. It's someone who can think on their feet and use all those tools, plus more, to take down the radical they are saving our country from. Sound familiar?
But that's not my point.
For those of us who are Christians, there are days when we're being assaulted by Satan through hurt or pain or memories whose intensity seems to last a full 24 hours or longer. Sometimes they enter and make a new scar, sometimes they enter through a newly made scar and sometimes they leave through an old raw scar.
You know what 24 and these scars have in common? They all tell a story. There's the beginning which tells the difficult struggle. The plot that has intrigue and usually includes a dominant person. The wind down that hides all the feelings or blocks them from coming out or just spills them out.
Then there's the conclusion.
Is your life, "The West Wing" where a majority of issues are dealt with out in the open?
I was not magnificent | the west wing
Or is it, "24" where the next hour is filled with so much junk there's no time to talk, cry and share?
24 Seasons 1-6 Jack Bauer Best Scenes
