As Forbes notes, Jack Bauer’s Twitter feed addressed the growing trend: “Just got back from ‘vacationing’ in Abottabad…” Other popular tweets include:
TylerKepner: So now we know what Jack Bauer’s been doing since the end of “24”
RealitySteve: Let’s all take this time to thank the one person who no doubt was behind the killing of Osama bin Laden: Jack Bauer.
Nickschug: Right now, Jack Bauer is washing his hands and changing out of his bloody clothes.
Time’s James Poniewozik believes that the Bauer references, “are about more than an easy pop-culture joke. It recalls something that hit me last night as the news sunk in; it is simply much more satisfying to know that bin Laden was not obliterated by a Predator drone strike, but was taken out at close range by a human. There’s something more primal about knowing that there was a human agent of justice at hand — more bluntly, it just felt better knowing that somebody popped the son of a bitch — and that was what 24 tapped into. That, and the idea of competence and effectiveness in our intelligence operations, something that sadly were didn’t always feel in reality over the last ten years.”
Have we just seen the ending of the 24 movie unfold?
What do you think? Do the Jack Bauer references just make a good joke or is there more to it than that?
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