User blog comment:Thief12/Thief12 and Season 8/@comment-118736-20100130044538

The relative slowness of the opening seasons was completely refreshing for me actually. It was just perfect to see Jack the man, living with his family, back in a real relationship with his daughter from whom he was estranged for so absurdly long. I needed to see that, because that's what Jack originally was: a family man. He was Teri's loving husband and Kim's attentive father until the end of season 1 when everything fell to hell, and then, when he faked his death... Kim took friggin almost four seasons to forgive him for it. Finally when Season 8 starts, he has some of that back, and he's not just a bad-guy slaughtering superman from the first second.

I loved it! And when Kim convinces him to stay, it shows she finally understands her father for who he is, and while respecting the change he decided to make for her (not to continue at CTU), she pulls up with her husband and kid and doesn't hesitate to tell the man to stop lying to himself. Season 7 already pales in comparison.