As if I didn't already have high enough hopes for the eighth season of "24," the news that the show is bringing back disgraced president Charles Logan is very good news indeed. He's one of my favorite characters and it got me thinking about the few established characters still alive in the "24" universe that I'd love to see back, and the ones I'd rather have choke on the Cordilla virus somewhere off-screen.
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DO WANT BACK:
Mandy
I've loved cold-blooded assassin Mandy ever since she Mile-High-Clubbed a reporter for his press pass and then calmly dove out of the plane before blowing it up in the original pilot.
Martha Logan
Hands-down the best player in Season 5, the finest season of the show. Now that "Samantha Who?" has been canceled, maybe Jean Smart could come back and go crazy on somebody else with a knife. Olivia Taylor, maybe?
Mike Doyle
Mike Doyle was a lot of fun -- a little crazy, a little torture-loving, well-read, very into racial profiling, surprisingly loyal at times, and he had a short fuse. He was like a mini-Jack, and who doesn't love Ricky Schroeder?
Mike Novick
A generally stand-up guy, Novick has a long history with the show, having served under both David Palmer and Charles Logan. If Charles and/or Martha come back, it would feel weird if Novick didn't as well; they're like the Three Stooges of covert plots and poorly kept state secrets.
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DON'T WANT BACK:
Audrey Raines
Kim Raver is a fine actress, but I've had enough of Jack trying to be a man in love. It's fruitless, and I kind of love broken-down lone-wolf Jack even more than sappy dreamboat Jack.
Chase Edmunds
Bringing him back would just mean more Kim and more of him agonizing over her current unavailability -- and I'd rather see her taking out hitmen in airport shoot-outs than crying over Chase any day.
Erin Driscoll
In Season 4 she fired Jack Bauer and ate up an awful lot of screentime stopping her fairly important work at CTU to take phone calls from her schizophrenic daughter b-plot. Never again.
The Cougar
If Kim must be on the show, that's fine -- let's just keep her away from the wilderness at all costs.
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Talk About It: Which "24" characters do you want to see return to the show?
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