How are they joining a club they joined years ago?

I don't like it. I don't buy Jack as 50something guy. I was looking forward to Chloe and her pregnancy adding some new storyline zest/humor to the show and does the 4 year jump mean we have a new president too?

"In real life, actor Kiefer Sutherland is 41 years old (he's younger than me? Jeez)."

Everyone's younger than you :þ

Media outlets that write headlines about 24 "jumping time" may get attention (it got mine), but as has been pointed out, it hardly unique to this show.

As far as LOST goes, I'll leave that alone, because explaining anything, especially time, on that show takes at least 750 words... to set up the explanation.

It's only been 13.2 years since season 1, not 17.

Time between seasons:

Season 1-2: 1.5 years
Season 2-3: 3 years
Season 3-4: 1.5 years
Season 4-5: 1.5 years
Season 5-6: 20 months
Season 6-7: 4 years

It's been 8 years in real life (7 seasons, plus one off the air), so 13.2 isn't too far ahead.

Ditto all posts! That word 'joins' in the headline is annoying the hell out of me!

I have to say this post is pretty weak Bob. 24 has indeed been
jumping ahead since the second season. If you weren't watching
reruns of Studio 60 you'd realize this. It's more likely that 24 has
been leading the way and freeing up story telling. Battlestar
Galactica jumped ahead at the end of the second season. How I Met your
Mother and Lost have been jumping around the timeliine moreso that
previous shows. And Mad Men will also be jumping ahead about 4
months. So again, it's a good story to talk about, but it's probably
better to write the story based in part on the idea that 24 broke
rules about story telling and freed up other show runners to get more
creative in how they show their stories.

Oh and another thing:

LOST DIDN'T JUMP TIME.

They are doing FLASHES which means they show stuff that happens BEFORE and AFTER the main storyline.

Last time I checked this is neither the case on 24 nor on Desperate Housewives.

This post is so utterly ridiculous I could cry that somebody got paid for writing it.

Another example of Bob's vast knowledge of all that is TV.

Or another example of "how to make users click on headlines to generate ad revenue".

I like reading this website but I really want a "Bob free"-RSS feed. It's like a game. Every time I read a moronic headline I bet against myself whether it's a "Bob" post or not. Too bad that too often it isn't, while the post still remains pointless, uninformed and desperately trying to attract user interest.

I mean seriously. How embarrassing is this post? "24 joins...". It's as if the author knows nothing about 24. At what point do you have to be stop posting news on a TV related Blog because of how utterly complete your display of lack of knowing the subject you are writing about actually was?

Oops, not sure what happened to the rest of my reply to superbagman, but what it said was that the show is about time in the sense that it runs on a ticking clock with each episode representing an hour in a single day. Period.

It's never been "all about time" in a calendar sense.

... and to christopher_martone: What you said! It's just a TV show. It's not reality. It's set now and Jack is Kiefer's age. There. How easy was that? :D