The original was just as cheezy and poorly written BUT........BUT
Keifer Sutherland played the BAD A$$ extremely well. Jack Bauer was a BAD AAASHE!!!! So the poor writing was FORGIVEN.
Nothing against the new guy but he is no Jack Bauer.......those are too big of shoes to follow.
So it is hard to forgive poor writing.
I still enjoy the show because it's the kind of crap I like. But yeah.