Am I ranting? I yearn for a story that has a different perspective, a different tone about politics. Reflecting on the still-life of Jack Bauer that the premiere gives, all scars and hangdog scowls and frantic eyes, I see a zombified version of the hero that once galvanized me and cultural enterprise operating with half a life.
I saw not an enduring icon a la James Bond, but an expression of a moment now gone, an artifact of a past not nearly as distant as it may seem, but dusty no less. I hope we never again see such a terrible day that would again make Jack Bauer the zeitgeist hero our Pop Gotham needs. Home Article '24' is back, but is Jack Bauer the hero we need right now? Save FB Tweet More.
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All rights reserved. It wasn't until the events of Day 2 that he put aside his grief and went back to work at CTU, but even then he was still affected by her loss. This eventually led him to offer Kim a job at CTU as he did not want to lose her as Teri, going so far as to warn Chase Edmunds, his partner and Kim's boyfriend at the time, that he didn't want to lose her as well. Even after he killed her murderer, Nina Myers, Jack would continue to feel responsible for Teri's death.
Jack's daughter. She had been living with her mother during their separation and when her mother was murdered, she and Jack had a very strained relationship from there on.
Jack's comrade prior to Day 7, where Tony became a domestic terrorist. Their relationship was rocky at first due to them having both had a history with the same woman Nina Myers , but their bond grew stronger when it was revealed that Nina was a terrorist. Jack and Tony crossed heads frequently but in Day 4 Jack considered him the only person he could trust.
Tony was killed, revived in secret, and then became a mercenary in order to kill Alan Wilson for his role in the murders of Michelle Dessler and their unborn child. A former co-worker of Jack's whom he had a relationship with during his separation from Teri.
During Day 1, she was considered to be Jack's most loyal and trusted ally, even going so far as to defend him after he shot her point blank. Their relationship completely changed when she was uncovered as a mole within CTU and murdered his wife and unborn child, causing Jack to quit CTU and go into a depression.
Upon seeing during Day 2, Jack became disgusted by the sight of her and made every effort to hold back his desire for revenge as Nina was the only one who could help them locate the nuclear bomb in Los Angeles. Even when she held him hostage, Jack was willing to sacrifice himself in exchange for Nina giving up the presumed location of the bomb.
During Day 3, Jack made every effort to hold back his desire for revenge against Nina and tried to convince her that he was done with CTU, going so far as to accept a passionate kiss from her to keep up the ruse. He finally got his revenge as Nina attempted to escape CTU, saving his daughter before coldly executing Nina to avenge his wife's death. He has had a complicated friendship with Chloe. In the beginning, Jack was prone to using Chloe to engage in unauthorized use of CTU computer resources for Jack without his superior's permission.
The relationship was one-sided initially, with Jack using Chloe and demanding that Chloe risk her career on blind faith regarding Jack being right. Chloe would reluctantly follow Jack's demands and ride out the problems they would make for her with her boss when Jack's requests from her yielded the results he promised they would yield.
His relationship with Chloe changed dramatically in terms of her willingness to help him during Day 4. When Andrew Paige was kidnapped by terrorists after accidentally discovering vital information regarding their schemes, Chloe turned to Jack for help. His personal philosophy drives him to do whatever it takes to protect the greatest number of people for the greatest good. And if that means killing, maiming, torturing, bucking the status quo, or defying political bigwigs, then so be it.
But what exactly does that mean? As a rule, we tend to view heroes as people who are inherently good and do the right thing most of the time for noble reasons. They may make tough decisions but ultimately choose rightly. Thus, a hero acts upon the noble virtues. But what about antiheroes? Yet what keeps him from being a villain? His working moral compass. He wants to do what is right for the best of others and sometimes the only way he feels he can carry that out is to take an eye for an eye.
Sometimes literally. And that can come at a steep price, even to himself. He is a Rebel — The typical antihero snubs the powers that be and lives as an individual. Jack Bauer often finds himself at odds with, and even fighting against, those in high positions, including government leaders. Bold and fearless, he takes no issue in breaking the rules if he believes the rules are flawed or if obeying them will result in innocent lives lost. But to him, this is far better than compromising his values.
In the case of his actual death, he just regenerates, as he has done 11 times in the history of that show and as Jack Bauer seems to do at the end of every season. Jack always succeeds, but at some severe cost whether it be disgrace, ostracism or the indelible sting of personal loss. When he is needed, he is reborn, usually with new concerns, new allies — even new tics — but always the same heroism.
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