Why We Like Jack Bauer.

Since Season 6 of the television series 24 started again, I thought I'd repost this.

Howard Gordon, one of the executive producer of 24 for Day 5 in the life of Jack Bauer said it this way. To the question "Who is Jack Bauer to you? What gets you into his character?" he answers:
"He's a man who's trying to hold his family together and do his job, and be a moral person in an immoral world. He's trying to be a good husband, trying to be a good father, trying to be a good man. It's just difficult to do that. He's squeezed from all sides. He's also a man of action, and doesn't really talk; rather than talk about stuff, he does it. That's an attractive attribute."

Another possibility is offered by J.P. Moreland and Klaus Issler in their newest book, The Lost Virtue of Happiness: Recovering the Disciplines of the Good Life (Page 29). Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2006:

"We are created for drama. We are meant to live dramatic lives as part of a worldwide movement - a divine conspiracy to trample the forces of darkness and replace them with goodness, truth, and beauty... We love movies that feature drama because that is how our own lives should be lived. We are to be dramatic even in the 'little' things that grace the daily routines of our "ordinary" lives. As part of a pursuit of classical happiness, little things and ordinary activities become big and extraordinary pretty quickly."

The context of the book is a bit different than living Jack's life, and is as follows:

"More specifically, to find your self is to find out what life should look like and to learn to live that way. It is to become like Jesus himself and have a character that manifests the radical nature of the kingdom of God and the fruit of the Spirit. It is to find out God's purposes for your life and to fulfill those purposes in a Christ-honoring way.
Remember, the concept of eternal life in the New Testament is not primarily one of living forever in heaven, but of having a new kind of life now. This new kind of life is so different that those without it can be called dead, truly. This is a life of human flourishing; a life lived in a way we were made to function; a life of virtue, character, and well-being lived like and for the Lord Jesus."

As close as I get to Jack Bauer's Adventures