1. Women are not portrayed well at all in this show. We have either the Lady Macbeth character (David Palmer's wife) or the damsel in distress (Jack Bauer's wife and daughter).
2. Season 1 was constructed under the expectation that it would not reach 24 episodes. That's okay because it recovered quite well in the second half.
3. Jack Bauer is the most alert sleep-deprived man I've ever seen. I want a 24-hour energy drink consisting entirely of Jack Bauer's adrenal gland.
4. Elisha Cuthbert is beautiful.
5. Even though cell phones in 2001 look like they sucked, they had better reception than any cell phone today. Jack Bauer could communicate with CTU headquarters underneath a concrete reinforced bunker, but I can't get a signal in my bathroom.
6. I want David Palmer to be our first black president.
7. A vengeful Jack Bauer is a death sentence.
8. I'm 1 percent more thankful that I do not have a teenage daughter. Prior to this show, I was 99 percent thankful.
9. When I visited the Griffith Observatory in LA this summer, I thought it seemed like a good spot for a rendezvous. 24 has verified this hunch.
10. I want to see Jack Bauer do the wet towel thing on a terrorist.
