24: Predictions

1. In keeping with this season's "boneheaded policies turn out to be right" mini-theme, Nadia is almost certainly a Mole.

2. Graem's last words will include the phrase "your dead wife".

3. Unless I'm mistaken, they just namechecked Nina for the second time this season. I'm getting more and more of a feeling that we are going to learn that she miraculously survived Season 3, has been in US custody and comatose since then, and was what was traded to the Chinese for Jack, setting her up as the Season 7 Big Bad...

24: Rocket Romano Versus Chopper, Round Two

Seriously; the falling helicopter has to be an ER shout-out, doesn't it?

Early season thoughts: it's starting to look like "What did the government give the Chinese to get Jack Back?" is going to be this year's Chekovian Gun. But how do you pay that one off? Pretty much every vililan 24 has ends up dead or pardoned-and-exiled, so there's not many people that the US could be trading. I don't think they'd be able to convince us that Nina Myers miraculously survived Season 3 and has been in a secret prison since then (although if she did, the 'don't tell anyone who even knows Jack' part is easy to credit.) in a handful of snippets and side references during a fairly busy main plot, so who?

Motif-watch. (I think we'll have to go with the pedestrian 'Death' as Season 5's motif, by the way). So far, we may be working on "the dangers of making deals with terrorists" or "profoundly stupid decisions that, through dumb luck, turn out to be correct", both of which are a little complex. Surely they'll refine down a bit later.

Update

Still around, with posting to be fairly intermittent for the time being. Posted my nanowrimo2006 postmortem over at fiveyearsafter. May or may not do weekly 24blogging this year around, although probably not until next week if at all.

Wish there was a decent new Lexicon Game around to join. Or that I had access to a large enough potential player base to start one on my own with a reasonable expectation of getting a good batch of players. Set up a wiki indexing all of the ones that I've seen on the intertubes.

And writing regularly at 100wordstories as well.