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I reported last night that Prescott O’Brian’s age was a giveaway for that fact that four years will have passed between seasons six and seven, and the New York Post did the same numbers, and confirmed the passage of years with Fox. However they also did some interesting math and discovered that 17 years will have passed between seasons one and seven. Considering we were told that Jack was 35 in season one, if you do the math, Jack Bauer would be a staggering 52 years old when season seven begins.
Continuity error anyone? But that doesn’t matter to Fox, who released the following statement about the time gaps between seasons, “We’ve always built in significant passages of time between seasons of ‘24‘ for dramatic purposes. Luckily, like all great iconic characters, Jack Bauer is ageless.”
That right there? That’s PR at its best.
Image copyright 20th Century Fox Television.
yeah which only makes him 48 which is fine
simon, that’s right, Jack said in season 6 that it was 9 years after the funeral of his wife Teri. I suppose, she has funeral couple of days after her death, so 13 years between season 1 and 7..
He won’t be 52. Day 6 is 9 years after Day 1, so Day 7 will be 13 years after Day 1, not 17.
I personally don’t like it. Making Jack Bauer ageless is almost bordering the line of making him immortal. It used to be that we could feel as though Jack Bauer was human and made errors like in Season 1, but now it seems like he’s almost godlike.
This also makes Kim Bauer 32 which is almost Jack’s age from Season 1.