think I like season 2 best of 24. George Mason. Tony Almeida and Michelle. I like seeing President David Palmer (and later think, what would Palmer do?) and liked Lynn Kresge and somewhat Mike Novick and Aaron. I didn't mind Kim's crazy babysitting plot. and the Warner family was okay, plus that guy who was Jude in NipTuck. I was engaged by most all the characters.
this show is really just entertainment for me, huh? not a thought exercise ~
there is this, that it seems to me to dramatize
-What is (relative) value of human life? ... as certainty, specific lives vs as threat, more general (eg 20 hostages dead now or risk 100,000+ lives later?) I like seeing how Pres Palmer or Jack Bauer make decision when all alternatives are unacceptable.
and -How do you get someone to do what you want? esp, tell you what they know. opposing wills, how does one win out over the other? (again, I mainly register this as an unacceptable - unresolvable - situation. ) to which, is the only answer the show gives that you threaten them with increasing pain? maybe also on occasion that you level with them.
so, it's all rather about dealing with people, with unacceptable situations, the horrors of people. there may be no profound answers presented here but the questions are certainly ones I would or do not know how to face.