After seven days, an extra two hours and a lot of things happening, we're probably thinking that Jack Bauer is going to be Jack Bauer forever.  Sure, he's lost quite a lot, too—his family's conked out, his personal life's conked out, heaven knows what else has conked out—but he's still at it.  I'm okay with it, but sometimes you've got to ask, too: when will it ever end?

“My hope is to go after the eighth season,” Howard Gordon, 24 executive producer, said.  “[Kiefer Sutherland] and I have talked about it, and I think that's sort of what we're aiming for.”

So, after day seven—which just finished its four-hour, two-night premiere on Fox—we'll have an eighth day, and that's it?  Well, there's also been serious talk of a 24 film, but…

“I don't know,” Gordon answered.  “I take it one day at a time … I think we came to the conclusion, and I think we're in agreement with Fox that the only way we're going to do [the movie] is after the show's over.  I don't think a big-screen 24 works while Jack is on TV.”

But what about Jack himself?  Gordon did say he hopes to “blow up the whole world”—even Jack, yes—but will this actually happen any time soon?  Will Jack actually die?

“We realize now that [Jack's] more a human being than we really thought,” Jon Casar, another executive producer at 24, said.  “He's not the Superman everyone thinks he is.”

As for Sutherland himself, well: “I see [Jack] as a really human figure, and I think there is something innately tragic about people,” he said.  “I think there is no winning.  We're all going to die.  There's something kind of sad in that, and yet there's something really beautiful and hopeful.”

Fair enough.  But with the way things have gone for the first four hours of day seven, well…



-Henrik Batallones, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: E! Online
(Image courtesy of Fox)