OMG, S1 is so good -- I hadn't realized you hadn't seen the earlier seasons! S1 is totally worth watching.
I mean, it won't be as wild now as it was then -- that was the first time I'd seen a show that operated in realtime, 24 episodes for 24h, without eliding the passage of time in any way -- but it's still awesome. And the character stuff is great. And the quotient of both torture and explosions is fairly low; they did a lot of interesting stuff with the grey areas and the trust issues and the backstabbing. It reminded me of how I used to feel watching XF -- "Trust no one."
After that the seasons kind of blur together, and I know I didn't dig S4 because it felt like an apologia for what was happening at Abu Ghraib ("no, really, torture is justified if the bad guys are really bad!" bah), but S1 is so worth it. :-)
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I mean, it won't be as wild now as it was then -- that was the first time I'd seen a show that operated in realtime, 24 episodes for 24h, without eliding the passage of time in any way -- but it's still awesome. And the character stuff is great. And the quotient of both torture and explosions is fairly low; they did a lot of interesting stuff with the grey areas and the trust issues and the backstabbing. It reminded me of how I used to feel watching XF -- "Trust no one."
After that the seasons kind of blur together, and I know I didn't dig S4 because it felt like an apologia for what was happening at Abu Ghraib ("no, really, torture is justified if the bad guys are really bad!" bah), but S1 is so worth it. :-)