Lest people think this is becoming a television review blog, I promise that this is the last post to do with any series finale. It just so happened that the only two television shows I've watched as of late ended at the same time: Lost and 24.

I've already talked about Lost so here I will only say that I was sad to see 24 go, but happy that it did so with a fantastic series ender that harkened back to what made the show so great in season one.

Basically (for anyone that hasn't ever seen it) 24 is Tintin for adults. Federal agent Jack Bauer plays the moral CTU (read: FBI) agent who always has right on his side and needs to take the system on again and again to prove just how virtuous he really is. He is clever, has a geektastic crowd of friends that help him every step of the way, and best of all, has never run across odds he could not beat through sheer brains, balls, and just knowing that he was right.

The show writers's right-wing politics notwithstanding, Jack took us on eight years of rollicking edge-of-your-seat drama with comic book gamut. And no matter how ridiculous the predicaments became, or overt the messages (or product placement) were, I always found myself rooting for Jack, part MacGyver and part Dick Marcinko to pull through for one more adventure.

It's interesting to think that season one started right around September 11th 2001, and for nine years CTU and Jack have carried us through multiple invasions and thwarted terrorist plots, all the while remaining optimistic about the effect that a few folks who believe there is true black and white when it comes to right and wrong can have on large bureaucratic systems that can sometimes forget it.

Most of all though, I'll miss the high jinx and tech tomfoolery of Jack and Chloe (remember when they played back the AOL modem tones in season one?) and the inevitable man-against-the-world dilemmas that he somehow always managed to escape.

If you haven't seen it, you've got 192 hours of plain unadulterated fun waiting for you!