I have been watching 24 this year. I haven't watched the earlier seasons, but somehow, I am following the plot just fine. Cassie also watches the show, which serves as incentive to stay caught up with new episodes to avoid being inadvertantly spoiled during part of our two-to-three hours of daily conversation.
It's remarkably hard to avoid learning about plot details inadvertantly. It's not quite as bad as the NCAA Tournament, nearly all of which I watched on Tivo delay, and thus drove myself crazy avoiding scores, game summaries and casual conversations that mentioned basketball, the state of Connecticut, the Virginia Declaration of Rights, buzzers, or beatings. I couldn't help getting spoiled about Edgar's death, simply becasue my mom decided to watch only the final five minutes of an episode one week.
The Edgar factor has also kept me watching the show. Once I learned my parents were watching, my sister Kelly and I perfected our impressions of computer nerds Chloe and Edgar. Every time we're both home, we converse as Edgar and Chloe more than we do as Sean and Kelly, much to the delight of our parents.
Sean: Chloe, pleath path the thalt.
Kelly: (scowling) I'm setting up a hard perimeter around the dinner table right now.
Sean: Chloe, how come you didn't tell me you were having thpaghetti? I thought we were friendth.
Kelly: Shut up, Edgar.
When Edgar died in a nerve gas attack on CTU, Mom and Dad thought the Edgar and Chloe fun was over. That is, until I began leaving messages on their answering machine as Edgar, calling from Heaven to discuss Thaint Peter and thecret identities at the pearly gateth.
I know Cassie took Edgar's death a little hard. In fact, when Audrey looked to be bleeding to death a few weeks ago, Cassie and I had this chat:
Cassie: Audrey has to die! Edgar died! So, what, you fuck Jack, you get to live?
Sean: Usually it's the reverse, actually. Jack Bauer's cock is like the angel of death.
What I'm curious about now is how Bierko is going to look after he finally regains consciousness. Cassie has been a fan of the bad boys on 24 this season - first Spenser, the disloyal computer programmer, then Vladimir Bierko, the terrorist arms dealer. The more evil they are, the hotter, which may or may not be a trend in Cassie's real-life, real-time existence. Though she's shown a remarkable lack of interest in Christopher Henderson, I feel it is only a mattter of time before Cassie begins practicing her "First Lady Cassie Logan" signature over and over in her journal.
Having only seen seasons 1 and 2, and not the last season where Edgar apparently made his bones as a worthwile character, I was delighted with his death.
I know it's mean, but I can't imagine anyone who sounds like and talks like Edgar did was a genius. My guess is he must've been some sort of idiot savant like the dude from Rainman. I'm glad he's gone.
Kiefer Sutherland suggested earlier in the year that Jack should be killable and he looked forward to it ... then he signed a contract for 3 more years of 24.
You'd never believe how difficult it is imagining yourself with a multisyllabic last name.
my favorite guy was edgar and jack and tony