I have to say, that 24's most seamless mid-season reboot to date. The new plotline has several advantages over its predecessors (highlight to read):

1. As I understand things, nuclear power plants must be shut down in a very controlled manner over a long period of time, so there's really no way to deal with this situation except to recover The Magic Device. Good built-in urgency there.

2. The broadcast-the-trial-on-the-Internet-to-mask-your-real-hacking thing doesn't actually make much sense, from a strict computing standpoint, but it's about as good as they could have done with the cards they gave themselves, so I'll pretend I buy it.

3. The Behrooz twist and overall situation is actually pretty compelling.

But of course I'm not completely satisfied, because (a) the nuclear power plant MacGuffin doohicky is a pretty ludicrous example of Kirbytech, with no real-world analogue whatsoever and (b) enough already with the CTU traitors (though at least this one was an outside contractor). All in all, after a bit of a slow start, I'm pretty excited for the rest of the season.

Now, get me Tony Almeida!