Bauer in Africa: when he wants to stop genocide, he doesn't give money, he gives blood...the blood of infidels

That's right. Like Shaft and Dave Chappelle before him, Jack Bauer is in Africa. Why? Because when you've run out of ideas on how to shock people, you have to add things like child soldiers and genocide to get people to say "ARGHUH!" to their televisions (when translated, that says "Holyshitwhatthehelljusthappenedtothatguysface!!"

On Sunday, Nov. 23, the two-hour 24 prequel "Redemption" will air in an attempt to wipe out people's memory of the past season and attempt to win back the core of fans they alienated with haphazard plots involving the Chinese, a mysterious "component" and Ricky Schroder prattling on about searching for the one true religion.

That's all in the past and, in true Fox fashion, they are unrelenting in their efforts for subtly by naming the prequel "Redemption." If you weren't sure, it's redemption for all of us after sinking into the hell of Season 6.

So like all of us when we try to make up for something bad we did (farted in a crowded elevator, said "That's the bomb!" in a club, texted in a theater), the Bauer has taken up a cause. He's apparently heard about all the turmoil in Africa and has taken it upon himself to free child soldiers and stop genocide.

George Clooney was wrong. You don't help people with a smile and three "Oceans" movies. You need a pistol and the guy from The Full Monty to make things right.

And you read that right. Bauer only has a pistol. Even the kids have AK-47s and there's Bauer, shooting off two rounds and then running from the machine gun.

Strange editing moment:

Madam President: "Our involvement could avert genocide..."
The VP with the massive head from Season 6: "Be careful Madam President."

....so we don't want to avert genocide? It doesn't help that in the next couple of seconds, Jon Voight is selling guns to the rebels and asking that his dealings on the computer are to be "untraceable" (It's porn. It's always porn).

Other strange moment:
Random dude saying "You're going to tell us everything you know" (pulls off some duct tape making that instantly recognizable ripping sound) "And we'll know if you're lying."

How? Duct tape. That's how. Every time you lie, we place a random string of duct tape to your body...and that shit never comes off.

And if the writers DON'T put in something about Jack running into a lion or a giraffe or some other safari-esque animal, I'm going to be PISSED.

He's out in the wild. It's not like he's caught in some random trap in the small forests of LA where cougars reportedly roam free...