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I'm not going to spoiler it, but stop reading my post here if you're worried about spoilers. Thanks.
Have you seen season 2? Well good, then you've seen season 6. The similarities are way too many for me to really be able to take it with the 24-sized healthy dose of salt I've become accustomed to taking.
With regard to the first point, say what you will, but Nina was a well-written and well-played villain. Girls have NOT been treated well on 24, but she was dynamite until she got overused and removed abruptly in season 3. I've never quite understood or appreciated how capable and good men tend to be in 24 and how either weak or evil and manipulative the women are. I can't come up with a good analytical reason for it, so I pretty much attribute it to simple sexism on the part of the writers. It's one of those things you have to stomach and run with to watch the show.
I guess I feel the same way about point number 2. Apparently, no one wants to look at a real computer interface on TV so they come up with these ridiculously complicated graphics for us. It's a little silly, but that's TV for you.
After 5+ seasons, I'm definitely getting bored. If 24 doesn't get a major shot of adrenaline soon, could be headed off my watch list. No matter how much I love the character of Jack Bauer, the situations he finds himself in are increasingly less interesting to me.
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