User blog comment:KillRoy231/Seasons 7 and 8/@comment-25188391-20141102195800

I know I'm in a deep minority, and I'm not trying to change anybody's mind here, but Seasons 7 and 8 were my two favorites. Just a few thoughts:

"Why start at the point when Jack had to choose between torturing a terrorist or letting innocent people die?" Did Jack ever choose to torture anybody if he didn't believe the alternative was to let innocent people die? I think you could just as easily raise that same complaint if they had disbanded CTU and put Jack on trial in Season 6 or any previous season. I love the series in spite of its repeated suggestion that you can always know who the bad guys are and you can always count on them to tell you exactly what you need to know to save lives if you just torture them. That's my biggest complaint about Seasons 7 and 4 in particular. The plot is so formulaic: Jack shows up and stops Marwan's (or take your pick of Season 7 antagonists) attack, Marwan gets away but one of his lower-level operatives doesn't, Jack tortures the lower-level operative until he tells Jack exactly where Marwan is going next, rinse and repeat.

For what it's worth, Phillip and Graem were some of the masterminds of the Day 5 conspiracy, but I don't think it was ever said that they were the highest-level conspirators -- or at least that they were the only highest-level conspirators.

Again, for what it's worth, they didn't make me hate Tony. Sure, he was a bad guy in Day 7, but that didn't make me hate him.

They sure made it look like Logan died in Season 6, but they didn't make it certain. Yes, technically if you flatline you're dead, but that doesn't mean you can't be revived. I know somebody who has flatlined before but he's still alive now.

This might not make you like it any better, but Suvarov's part in Day 8 was not inconsistent with his parts in Days 5 and 6. In each case, Suvarov was just doing what he believed to be in Russia's best interest.