Plum Crazy

Calling all readers of this Blog who are fans of TV's most exciting hour, "24". Tony made a dramatic and welcome return this week, yet the question still lingers. Even though he did commit treason last season (by letting the bad guy go in order to protect his wife), why didn't President Palmer pardon him? He deserved it after all the good he did. I suppose the answer is dramatic tension. Have him on the run this season and let the current President pardon him after the crisis is averted.

Also interesting about Tony is that he was neither likeable nor sympathetic early on, but developed into a popular character. I suspect the same is true of Chloe, whom you loved to hate last year, but probably liked this year. At least I did. I suspect it's a mixture of realizing that for all their flaws they generally did the right thing and that they stepped outside the rule book and became rogue characters like Jack. There's something more likeable about essentially good yet gray characters than all good, self-righteous characters.