Re-watching ALIAS

[Spike]

I wonder if Jack Bristow isn't a triple agent. At one point during the first two seasons it seems to me that Sydney is going to be shown that she doesn't work for the CIA, but for her mother and father. Remember Rambaldi's prophecy. I could be wrong, still that would be something! Jack Bristow is a very good CIA agent. But Sydney is better. She didn't get the virus even though she was way more exposed than Vaughn. I am beginning to think Will is The Man.
Jack's ruse with the explosives to show Sydney that her mother is a liar...that was so badly done. Jack must have known that.
But maybe the whole idea is to win Sydney to her mother.

[Spike]

I thought that Arvin Sloane would not kill his wife. I thought he would drug her and send her some place safe. My jaw dropped literally--don't try to picture that, please don't--when Arvin is on an island in the Phillipines and there is Emily. Brilliant! That was so well done. I did not see that coming. He engineered it all! That...kudos, Arvin! I know he knows that Sydney and Jack are double agents. Did you anyone see how pissed off he was with King when she tried to bring Sydney into her investigation? It is a sad theme, but I do think Sydney is always going to be the one not in the loopy (sorry, Buffy speak). The ironic thing is that I love Lena Olin as Sydney's mother, but I can't help think she is lying, way lying. I think she wanted to reconnect with her daughter one time before she does what she is going to do. And it is the Rimbaldi prophecy. That drawing looks like both Sydney and her mother.
This is a fantastic show. I love it. I watched five episodes today. But it has the JJ Abrams touch, not The Joss Touch, which leads to weeping.
Alias is one of the best shows I have ever watched. However, cleverness is one thing, drama is another. Angel is still the best TV show I have ever seen because the plot lines are so visceral. I won't go on because this is not an Angel post. Cheers! Thanks Omebull, I appreciate your comments.

[Ome]

Nice one Spike


I like reading your take on this show, as I read your comments I'm right there with you on the plot lines and character development.

Lena is one stunning lady, I loved all her scenes

Please continue Spike, it's great re-living these moments

[Romain]

OK, I have finished the show for the first time a couple days ago and I have to say I was quite shocked by the ending for some characters (pleased about some others but I won't spoil anything for those still discovering the show). ALIAS will always have a special place in my heart as the first ever TV show I bought on DVD, and I will be glad to watch it again (I'll just have to go as fast as possible through Season 4 ). Right now, I have many other shows waiting on my TV-DVD shelves, but I'm sure next year there's be a place in RomTV's busy schedule for ALIAS reruns.

[Ome]

OK, I have finished the show for the first time a couple days ago and I have to say I was quite shocked by the ending for some characters (pleased about some others but I won't spoil anything for those still discovering the show). ALIAS will always have a special place in my heart as the first ever TV show I bought on DVD, and I will be glad to watch it again (I'll just have to go as fast as possible through Season 4 ). Right now, I have many other shows waiting on my TV-DVD shelves, but I'm sure next year there's be a place in RomTV's busy schedule for ALIAS reruns.

Great you got to the end and you enjoyed the show. I loved it, S$ wasn't the best but S5 made up for it.

Didn't necessary go where I wanted it to, but I was still very happy with the closure

[James from London]

"Masquerade."

All sorts of ironies when Jack refuses to help Sydney find her mother, and so she turns to Sloane for help. The first hints are given that Sloane could be Syd's real father (the horror, the horror).

During an utterly impenetrable assignment, Syd meets an old flame and they get it on. Seems mildly wicked for Syd to be doing the wild thing with anyone other than Vaughn or her dead fiancee, but if you're gonna do it, you might as well do it with Peter Berg. (Berg's just directed Jennifer Garner in a movie, THE KINGDOM. So that's nice.)

Oh and Jack has a cool encounter with Dr Thirtysomething.

[Canon]

Ive reached the middle of the final Season and its all too exciting again I just don't want the show to ever end! Its all very sad especially now that it seems that after all this time Irina really has just being using Syd & Jack. Irina is stone cold to Syd as she helps deliver her baby, I refuse to believe this surely its all just part of Irina's master plan to secure a safe future for her family...

Oh and Vaughn's alive...as if nobody saw that one coming!

The first hints are given that Sloane could be Syd's real father (the horror, the horror).

Doesnt bear thinking about

[Ome]

Gotta say I felt the same way, I wanted to watch it as often as I could, and yes by the middle of the final season, I just needed to get to the end. I wanted to know how they would finish this, yet I knew once I had that answer, it was over

Nothing concrete but I read somewhere (probably DS) they were in talks of a possible movie.

I was excited, then felt if it wasn't JJ Abrams or the original cast, It would be disappointing.

[Canon]

Isnt it the cleverest show ever. Jack & Syd just casually mention the fact that Vaughn is still alive, it took me a few minutes to realise that I hadnt actually missed an episode but they'd known the whole time and had actually planned it. I thought Syd reactions to his death was a bit odd but then I thought she was trying to stay strong. Really well put together.

Nothing concrete but I read somewhere (probably DS) they were in talks of a possible movie.

I was excited, then felt if it wasn't JJ Abrams or the original cast, It would be disappointing.

Movie would be very cool, I think it would translate much better to the big screen then 24 would.

[Spike]

Ok, I skipped some posts because I just started watching S4. And the only reason I am posting, other than being a fan of the show, is because of a moment in the episode "The Awful Truth". It occurs when Sydney and Vaughn throw a birthday party for Weiss. Jack shows up and Sydney and Jack go outside to talk. A little later, Nadia opens the sliding glass door to ask Sydney about candles for the birthday cake. In the back ground you can hear a song.
This is too funny. The song is "You All Everybody", the song from Lost that Driveshaft ("more like suck shaft") did. J.J. Abrams is a co-creator of Lost. I just thought that was funny. BTW, I absolutely believe that song would be a one-hit wonder in the real world. I have too much free time you might think, and you wouldn't be wrong.

[Ome]

This is too funny. The song is "You All Everybody", the song from Lost that Driveshaft ("more like suck shaft") did. J.J. Abrams is a co-creator of Lost. I just thought that was funny. BTW, I absolutely believe that song would be a one-hit wonder in the real world. I have too much free time you might think, and you wouldn't be wrong.

Bloody hell, I never noticed that. It's very tacky, but I too do believe it would be a hit, lets face it, there's been bigger hits over the that's confused the hell out of me

[James from London]

"Snowman."

A video surfaces of Irina being interrogated by K-Directorate (or someone like that) in which Syd's belief that she faked her death is confirmed. There's a kind of interesting symmetry between Jack being duped by Irina and Syd by Noah (Peter Berg's character). Bless Vaughn for the scene in which he goes all wobbly while attempting to casually ask Syd how things are working out with Noah.



But when Syd starts seriously entertaining Noah's suggestion that they run away and live on an island together, you just think "Nah, I don't buy it. Just hurry up and stab him in self defence already." And so she does.

Ive reached the middle of the final Season and its all too exciting again I just don't want the show to ever end!

That's just how I felt, which is why I started watching it all over again straight away!

[Spike]

Since I am still viewing S4, and skipping any mosts that might be from S5, I really do not know what is coming. I do, however, believe that Arvin Sloane does not forgot all the insulting things (to his mind) that Sydney has said to him. Also, in S3 Jack said to Arvin while he was in jail about what he would do to Nadia for all things Arvin did to Sydney. I believe "the pact" they made in S4 was about that, Jack not harming Nadia. But Jack, after his psychoanalysis of Nadia, believes that she would kill him if she knew, no believed, he killed Irina.

[Canon]

Why do characters that wake from comas keep dying on me before the closing credits! Poor Nadia, no matter how uninteresting she was it was still hard to watch her get such a brutal death. After being indifferent to everything for a whole Season she was finally forming an opinion on her father until Syd persuades her to give him another go which leads to her death. The death of her sister doesnt really take much out of Syd...

Amy Acker goes to visit Gina Torres in prison, their first scene together since Gina Torres tried to take over the world on Angel . Acker is a good actress & all but she's far too nice to play menacing it just comes across like dopey Fred is having a bad day.

Gina Torres becoming Jennifer Garner was disappointly lame and Vaughn came back for his first full episode with Syd since he "died", it took this episode for me to realise that the show really hasnt missed him or at least I havent.

Not the best few episodes of Alias considering there is just 3 episodes to go. I really couldnt handle a disappointing finale from this show...

That's just how I felt, which is why I started watching it all over again straight away!

Yes! I think I'll have to do the same, there has been so many many twists & turns & changes that I really cant remember how it began and as Sunny would say I need the brilliance

[James from London]

"The Solution."

Emily knows about SD6! Will knows that Jack was the man who kidnapped him! Oh boy, you can tell we're just three episodes from the season finale. Now Will and Jack (sounds like a sitcom) are working together, and Sloane must prove his loyalty to the Alliance by assassinating his own (dying) wife. And what a cliff-hanger: An unwitting Dixon holding an incognito Sydney at gunpoint while Sark is about to make off with an ampule of Rambaldi blood!!! (What's an ampule?) (I don't know!!!)

[James from London]

"Rendezvous."

Dixon stabs Syd's arm not realising it's Syd's arm! Vaughn loses points for rescuing Syd and allowing Sark to be snatched by SD6! This leads to a vaguely kinky encounter in which Sloane pours Chateau Petrus into the mouth of a shackled Sark. "We will collaborate, you and I," murmurs Sloane. Oh boy, will they ever.



Sydney sings! There's a brilliant moment where Will sees her in her purple wig and gasps in horror: "Who are you people??"



Dixon realises Syd's arm is hurt and grows suspicious! The Alliance let Sloane off killing his wife cos she's dying anyway, but then she goes into remission! Sark escapes and shoots Will!

[James from London]

"Almost Thirty Years."

Season finale. Creepy call backs to the first episode: Sloane confesses all to Emily about his involvement with SD6 just as Syd did Danny; Will is tortured by the same evil Chinese dentist as Syd was; and Syd ends the season tied to the same chair as she was at the beginning ... then in walks The Man aka not-quite-Lena-Olin-yet aka "Mom?"

And everyone goes psycho: Wills stabs the dentist, Sloane kills Emily (sort of--exactly how many times does Emily die during the series? I count three) and Jack murders Haladki.

Plus Will hugs Jack, and then there's the giant Rambaldi bollock thing which bursts leaving Syd to watch helplessly as Vaughn drowns, sob ... but more important than any of that: Francie decides to open a restaurant!!!

[Canon]

but more important than any of that: Francie decides to open a restaurant!!!

LMAO. Poor Francie she was always destined to die horribly!

[James from London]

"The Enemy Walks In."

Season 2, and wow suddenly everything's even more exciting than it was before. The episode is really cleverly structured as a session between Sydney and Dr THIRTYSOMETHING, with Syd flashing back to the events of the cliff-hanger and their resolution. So we see Sydney getting shot by her own mother, and then later being saved by her, Syd rescuing Vaughn in a blonde wig, the sad scenes of Will pretending to be a junkie and being discredited as a writer, Sydney eulogising Emily at her funeral and then Irina turning herself into the CIA just as Sydney did a year earlier!

[James from London]

"Trust Me."

"The true loyalty of Agent Bristow's mother remains unknown." Ain't that the truth. Irina lurks in her CIA cell, like a cross between Hannibal Lecter and a panther. She refuses to communicate with anyone but Sydney. "The moment you start depending on her, she will gut you," Jack warns Sydney. Agent LOST orders Sydney to talk to her mom; Sydney refuses. This leads to a terrific first meeting between Vaughn and the woman who murdered his father. "You look just like him," she purrs.