'24': Day 8 Premiere

I'll spare you the elaborate (and unnesessary) review of the "4:00pm-5:00pm" and "5:00-6:00pm" episodes of this brand new season of 24, and get down to the essentials.

Reasons Season 8 looks to be more of the same:

• Jack being so close to getting out of the game completely before being pulled back in at the worst possible moment.
• A plot to assassinate an important foreign leader
• The director of CTU is a stiff
• Someone in CTU has personal problems
• An office romance
• Chloe hacking into things
• Jack not playing by the rules
• Jack operating as some sort of rogue agent and directing government resources despite not actually being employed by said government.
• A noble president surrounded by people of questionable character
• Technology!
• Foreign Terrorists who have somehow managed to infiltrate the highest levels of government, and who undoubtedly have a plot so elaborate and sinister that no one will really have a handle on it until it's almost to late.
• Explosions!
• A "young Jack" character
• Jack's "intense" voice

Reasons not to Care it's more of the same:

• New York City
• Jack giving a baddy an axe to the chest within the first 30 minutes.
• A bazooka being used within city limits
• Kim Bauer not being an annoying drag so far
• Drones
• "Percy Wetmore" is one of the Bad Guys.
• The warden from Shawshank Redemption is still involved.
• This:

In short: Was the Season 8 premiere ground-breaking? Certainly not. But will I be tuning in again @ 8 tonight? Oh yes.