24: Legacy casts Corey Hawkins as male lead

You’re jumping the gun, I’d wager.

If there was never going to be Jack again, they’d have killed him off on Day 9. Or, at the very least, left him on less of a cliffhanger. Chloe is still alive. Our most recent bit of canon is Tony. There’s a ton you could do with Tony before you brought Jack back into the fold but eventually? You need Tony and Jack again. Almost all of the old characters still left alive on 24 are interconnected in a tangled-up plot– put one back in the plot and you winding up needing the other ones. There are some that could pop in sooner and have a bit of a separate plot ahead of time (Tony’s one of them, Kanin is another) but eventually, as Mary Lynn Rajskub put it? “All roads lead to Jack.”

But what happens if you were to do that before you established new characters who connect to these older characters in other, maybe as of yet unforeseen ways? You wouldn’t be able to keep the show going and you also wouldn’t have characters in place who factor into an end game for Jack and company. So, the only thing to do would be to slow down the train for a little while and introduce us to a bunch of new characters, then roll out the old ones after that. But there’s no way on earth they won’t bring characters back again eventually. It might take awhile, maybe even until Day 11, but there’s no way we don’t find out what happens to Chloe, we don’t see Jack deal with working for the Russians, no way that none of this ever affects Kim, or that the last we ever see of Tony is him almost remembering how to smile in his hot new glasses. Those aren’t the endings of books, they are the endings of chapters. Leaving now is leaving a book unfinished on your nightstand. Don’t you want to see how it ends? :)

Yes! Thank u!

The problem is ‘legacy’. End a story before you rape it into oblivion. When does 24 end? Why prolong it past its appropriate ending? When I view a series, I like to see it end so I can move on with my life and do other things. If this 24: Legacy isn’t connected in some grand way to the storyline that’s been running through the 24 universe, then its pointless. The only way I see that happening is if this leads into Tony’s story with Solitary.

This could be like Day 4 where it appeared to be a mostly new cast, but then they returned all the favorite characters to give them resolution to their stories. Hopefully the same is happening here, otherwise its stupid. I’d be alright with a remake of 24 so that its not connected to the old 24, but this is a continuation of the same 24 universe and if that is the case, then hopefully we’ll be seeing Tony and Chloe soon with Jack eventually coming back.

Or, they need the brand to continue past the next plot for Jack, which has to be either the final plot for Jack or close to it, so they need time to develop new characters before they bring Jack back into the plot again. In the meantime, Kiefer gets to release his album and make Designated Survivor and all that other stuff (giving him something to do once they write out Jack Bauer on Day 11 or beyond) and it’s a win/win for everyone.