Jan 21 2009
Meet Lady Jack Bauer
I’m beginning to understand what the producers of this show were saying about 24 getting a reboot. Everything about it is quite old, as this is Day 7 and we fans are pretty used to the whole idea of the show. But everything about it is new again, too.
We now have the new team (FBI instead of CTU), the new office (bright and light FBI Office instead of dim CTU), the lady president (instead of men presidents the entire series since this) and the surprise of it all, the female FBI agent, Renee Walker (Annie Wersching), who surprisingly moves and thinks like Jack Bauer. And you know what? I am loving her.
Producers of the show have described her character as this —
“She is somebody who has probably pressed up against the limitations of what’s been allowed [according to the law]. Her soul is in balance is the question. Is it worth doing whatever’s necessary at the personal price it extracts?”
Doesn’t that sound like how one would describe Jack Bauer, too?
More than once in the last 5 hours (or 5 episodes), she has disregarded her boss, followed up on her hunch and went ahead and executed her own brand of justice with a suspect. She is what’s giving us what Jack cannot give now that Jack is no longer at CTU.
Last we viewers have seen of her is she was being buried alive by Jack and Tony. And knowing how this show goes, she will live and then walk as if without a scratch or trauma. The interesting part is in knowing how she’ll do it.
She’s definitely going to become an interesting character. I couldn’t help but see the parallels between this last episode and that one episode from the first season where Jack had to make it look like he killed Nina. Maybe I need to get a life.
Hahaha! Now that you’ve mentioned that, there really are a lot of parallels between this season and the very first one!