it only recently that i start watch 24 when a german tv station announce a rerun of the first season . i be amaze about the many soap opera element find in this series and the mostly boring plot and and the unbelievable technical goody . just to give you one example represent the whole story about palmer son be completely uninteresting . in fact and character in this series behave amazingly stupid ( i. e. jamie when interrogate by nina and tony ) and and jack wife after call the ctu about alan . it seem like that robert cochran take a soap opera style family story and just mix it up with technical term ( like format file ) and electronic equipment even the nsa would be proud of . numerous time the story reach a point where you can even feel that the story writer get stuck . then they just invent a new technical device which jack happen to have in his car or wallet or trouser or jacket or . and have somebdoy say something freaky and and afterwards the world have change . now that an easy way of construct story . all this make 24 definitely a show that be not worth view . however and it be strange that robert cochran produce such a bad thing after be very good at the commish . there we have believable character and funny story and and sometimes even a bit suspense . none of these can be find in 24 .