Quote Originally Posted by Woochifer

I think the show needs to totally break the mold for next season. No more CTU, no more White House. Put Jack in the middle, give him a strong adversary, make the stakes personal, and build the intrigue from there. Why not end this season with Doyle double crossing him, and then have next season all about unraveling the tangled plots that run through him (perhaps involving Philip Bauer)? Instead of having yet another external WMD/terrorist threat, go back to the personal peril that defined the original Day One story arc. It seems that in successive seasons, Jack has become more and more of a caricatured super hero than the much more human character that started Day One. This season in particular, I've not had the sense that Jack was in any real danger, and that detracts from the tension. Even though it was that way in Day Five as well, that season also featured a much more interesting subplot involving the Logans.
I wouldn't mind leaving CTU behind, though it'd be risky to just drop some of the show's core characters. But, since their not doing anything Chloe, Morris, and doing very little with Buchanan, and wastefully killed Curtis just to hit a "spot" (or jump a shark depending who you ask), who cares?
I agree with your assessment of Jack. For me the show worked best when there was a bad guy who was Jack's equal, or when Jack was vulnerable. The impossible doomsday scenarios that keep out-doing the previous season are just getting silly.
Something simple, like a one-on-one good guy vs. bad guy style script for a season would probably bring the show back to earth. Or at least come up with something creative on the Phil Bauer angle.

Why do I get a feeling that this whole season is just about to come down to 2 shows which will do nothing except serve as a setup for season 7?