After watching 8 seasons of 24, the show has become so predictable thanks to the cliches that the very "creative" writers seem can't avoid. The cliches in no particular order are:
1- The terrorist threat is always detected, handled and defused in exactly 24 hours, ALWAYS. I know that's what the show is all about but come on, it's getting old. Why not 36 hours? or 48 hours. The events happen so fast that so many people die and so much development happen in so little time.
2- There is only one who can defeat the terrorists and it is no other than Jack Bauer who is always relectant to get involved. Nevertheless he gets involved anyways.
3- The terrorists always have some traitor within CTU to help them out.
4- CTU always come under attack but they rise after the fall.
5- Any terrorist who get caught alive is willing to co-operate in exchange with a signed immunity from the President of The United States of America (POTUS).
6- The POTUS is always directly involved with the events from square one.
7- The POTUS always has one of the staff who will oppose the POTUS decesions and betray him/her.
8- Jack Bauer will eventually turn rogue and gets hunted by CTU.
9- At every 59th minute and 57th second of the hour something terrible happens.
10- Just when the terrorist threat gets illuminated, a master mind appears who was playing behind the scenes all along.
11- So many people die in the 24 hours.
12- Just when CTU arrest a lead for interrogation, they die.
13- The bad guys for most of the seasons are arabs or muslims who are led by russians behind the scenes.
14- The director of CTU always gets replaced by someone else during the day.
15- Everyone involved stays up for a whole day without any signes of fatigue, hunger, thirst or even going to the toilet for a piss.
The show is getting old and very much predictable so my suggestion is to stop it while it is still popular.
