Speculations and Sundry

Why hello, my fellows, and welcome back! This week, I mean to try and conjecture a little as to what we may expect in the next season. As usual, your comments are welcome and desired!

Now, it is fairly simple to figure a few things out about next season, using process of elimination. Thanks to the hyperactivity of weapons in the last two seasons, only the following people/characters could possibly return next season:

- The Black Cobra
- The Lady in Black which Nichole Recker played
- The Mysterious Man in Black (played brilliantly by Krull)
-That CTU Agent that Joey Pietrowicz (sp?) played (both his partners killed off...pity)
-The Director
-Red Fox
-The Agent that Emily Holmes played
-Micah Towery as "The Good Computer Geek"
-And a few other sundries: the reporter, the senator, the National Security Advisor, the President, prison guards, etc. (so lucky they escaped the overwhelming carnage...)
*Edited 1-21-05*
GAAK!! Of course, how could I forget the venerable Mr. Vocelli, his esteemed body guard, and of course, the villian-of-all-villians, Hitman himself!!? I'm getting senile in my old age *creaks* These characters, also, survive, which makes me wonder...hmmm. More on that later.

(please let me know if I've left anyone out...the Lady in Black always loves recieving better intelligence)

Of course, probably not all of these will return, and we'll have (as before noted) some new talent this season. Having wrapped up that last storyline rather nicely (with only a few interesting lose-ends), I predict that Mr. Noa will give us something a little different this spring. Of course, a romance will be involved, which is the first major change. Same main characters, same villian, some of the same themes, but pretty different. Like the new season of 24 perhaps, knowing Mr. Noa's particular propensity to parallel that show. If I had to guess, I would think that Mr. Noa couldn't resist bringing back Krull's and Nichole's characters, since they drove away so mysteriously into the darkness last time we saw them, at least for a little while. A cameo by Joey might be nice too, considering he's the only one of his inteprid trio to live past the last two episodes. Concievably, a few people we assumed to be dead might have only been wounded: David Handermann, Daniel Chapin, Nathan Cooper, etc., so they could be back also.

I would love to make a few predictions about the story...but my few sources seem to have dried up of late. Cowards. Never fear, the Lady in Black can be very resourceful when she needs to be.