Miranda Otto Cast as 24: Legacy’s Female Lead

Ya know? I could see that– the ‘saving the theme’ thing. If you notice, in the latter seasons of the show, the more Jack strays from the super righteous and principled dude he used to be, the less the theme is actually used and they play with it a bit– stopping it suddenly, firing it up at other moments. They also rarely play it “for” other characters– I believe that Little Teri and Tony are the only non-Jack characters who got the Bauer theme at times.

There’s a great use of it in 9.01 when Jack goes to rescue Chloe and it starts up but then abruptly stops– an auditory clue that this scene that looks like classic Jack-to-the-rescue has a darker layer to it and is not quite Bauer-theme worthy (going along with how, not long after, we’ll realize that Jack set Chloe up and is responsible for her being there in the first place.) The theme is used for Tony in Solitary (in case you needed another clue to the fact that he’s back to Big Damn Hero-ing it up.)

Benching it until it’s an appropriate moment or like… weaving it through new themes for new characters would be cool but I’d like them to save the whole big horns-and-swishy-sounding-thing shabam until its usage can be at full cheesiness capacity… so, uh, when Jack returns. :)