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04-27-2003, 11:49 PM
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Caine!?!?
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04-27-2003, 11:59 PM
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Kane? What are you talking about?
Biggest hole in the script I've come upon since I started watching (started with the Super Bowl episode)...why the heck didn't Dixon tell Syd and the rest that the wire was cut before? But that's TV writing for ya...
Next week can't come soon enough.
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04-28-2003, 12:13 AM
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Caine = David Carradine looking like he just stepped off the "Kung Fu" set.
Rather ridiculous episode, if you ask me. They are overusing the teaser 1st scene with the "72 hours earlier" flashback. Also, I'm 99% sure that:
And what was with the false "doomsday" prophecy ? Seemed like it was just a lame way to set up Dixon's apparent meltdown -- "I guess Rimbaldi was wrong" was all they could say after nothing happened !?! And why the hell would they put the heart in a briefcase and then put it unguarded into a shipping container ? Why not just hand-deliver it to Sark or whomever ? Just another red herring to get Dixon in the right place.
AND, that was pretty lame CGI with Sloan in the Himalayas. You could practically see the bluescreen. AND, having just been in Nepal last month, Sloan's guide was totally the wrong ethnicity -- he should have been a Sherpa, not the dude w/ Indian features (ok, that's a big nit pick but whatever ....) |
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04-28-2003, 12:54 AM
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And what was with the false "doomsday" prophecy ?
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What makes you think it was false? Sloane received the Rambaldi documents at the exact time prophecised, setting in motion who-knows-what... |
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04-28-2003, 01:49 AM
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A really pedestrian episode... its like they had 10 minutes of cool story to tell and needed 30 minutes of filler. Dixon seems like the natural choice but it felt so compressed into that 30 minute slot it made Dixon come off as some deranged wacko in the middle of a insta-meltdown.
Di Regno's Rambaldi Heart was killer cool. Is this how the clock maker, Giovanni Donato (from 1.8, descendant my rear-end), survived for so long? How many other 'immortals' are walking around out there?
I can't wait to see the 'new and improved' Sloane and Evil Francie must be dealt with!
ABC must not have much faith in Alias for sweeps since they are doubling up to make next Sunday the season finale.
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04-28-2003, 04:58 AM
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It was fun to see Amanda Foreman, who played Felicity's roommate Meghan. And that workplace romance type thing with Marshall -- would you believe the same kind of thing happens to me every week!
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04-28-2003, 05:31 AM
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The reason Dixon's bomb stunt was believable was because of what transprired in the days before, and the main team leaders on the CIA team were pretty much on edge, which sold the whole "Damn, this guy is psycho!" dog and pony show that Dixon needed to get the guy to give up the information in very little time at all.
Glad to see Marshall might be getting his groove on (albeit to Joni Mitchell).
The only thing missing after Sloane accepted the scrolls and the lightning and thunder permeating the Nepal air was the maniacal laughter by Sloane. That would have been cool, though over the top. 
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04-28-2003, 06:36 AM
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ABC must not have much faith in Alias for sweeps since they are doubling up to make next Sunday the season finale.
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Or they just might have other special programming they want to give a Sunday slot to - it is the night when the most people are watching television, so if they've got a big miniseries/movies special planned, that's where to put it.
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04-28-2003, 07:12 AM
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The reason Dixon's bomb stunt was believable was because of what transprired in the days before, and the main team leaders on the CIA team were pretty much on edge, which sold the whole "Damn, this guy is psycho!" dog and pony show that Dixon needed to get the guy to give up the information in very little time at all.
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I don't think anyone doubted the believability of his actions, but he was risking his life with that stunt. It's not like if he had told everybody beforehand but the bad guys that he was faking it that it would've ruined the effect. The agents go undercover, that's an act, so they can act shocked and surprised as well.
The man I loved - the man who vanished - he never came back at all. But maybe he's still out there, somewhere. Maybe some day, when Gotham no longer needs Batman, I'll see him again.
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04-28-2003, 08:17 AM
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While I still love the show, and felt it was a fairly good episode, I think they're using the "here's an exciting scene and here's what led to it" structure a bit much. Unless it really serves the story, I'd like to see them stay more linear for a while.
I didn't get the connection that Sloane receiving the scroll was the apocalyptic event - but that makes sense. I'm enjoying the Rambaldi storylines a lot.
Anyone else think that it might have added something to the show if Vaughn had shot (and killed) Dixon? Obviously, Sydney can't die or else there would be no show, but I'd like to see Abrams give the show some more bite.
I liked seeing Syd's dilemma with her loyalties. I also liked that it didn't stretch out over several episodes.
And any show with Danny Trejo in it has to be good!
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