Yes, yes, you're seeing my avatar correctly. I am a Jack/Chloe person. I'm sick of Jaudrey -- didn't like Audrey last season at all, she's a little better this season, but she is still and can never be the equal of the Chloe. I don't see a slash I can get into in this fandom, so it's a het ship, but a powerful one. Can a hard-bitten, world-weary CTU agent with a heart of gold find his soulmate in a socially awkward high functioning autistic with a line of sarcasm that could cut the most towering figure off at the knees? Damned straight. And everyone knows, Chloe loves Jack -- even Mary Lynn (the wonderful actress who brings her to life) -- so it's even canon. With the cute smiles Jack's been giving her lately (see the avatar above - a smile he gave her in full view of Chloe's snake of a boytoy Spenser who was fuming with jealousy), well, some of us wonder if something didn't go on during their eighteen months where Chloe was Jack's only contact with his old life. Ahemmmm.

Unlikely? From one perspective, of course, but seen another way, they're the perfect match. Chloe knows everything Jack has done. She sees his reasons for doing things (sometimes before he does). She's deeply logical (she is Spock to Bauer's Kirk -- you may have noticed 24 is heavily influenced by Star Trek), very sensitive (though unwilling to weep copiously like a certain other female character), and loyal as the day is long. She has proved time and again (while laying down her job AND her life to help Jack -- to say nothing of flirting with serious Federal prison time) she is loyal, and so no serious shadow follows her.

It looks like 24 is going global next year. Hey, maybe Jack and Chloe in France???

BTW, yeah, I'm 46, to those incredulous few youngsters who've emailed me -- didn't have a childhood the first time, so I'm enjoying my teenage years a little late. :)

I'll get to my prolix political theory next time, I just had to prattle on about Jack/Chloe.

And yeah, on another topic, Brokeback Mountain was ROBBED at the Oscars. It's one of the finest films I have seen in twenty years and definitely the best of the lot that were nominated, imho.

"A Room in the House of the Ancestors" may be reissued. It can come out, not be read and be remaindered all over again! ;-)