Alias: The Season Finale - 5/23/04 - Resurrection (1 Viewer)

ABC was a big problem this year. In order to try to boost ratings, they had JJ do several changes, and I have a feeling they were the ones responsible for dumbing down the storyline each week.

JJ apparently got a little tired of the show at that point... working on other projects to get his creative juices flowing. Hopefully ABC will back off and let him do best... for every 2 fans they're gaining with this new strategy of self contained episodes, and poor storylines... they're losing 5 that liked the original concept.

Since each year is kind of a reboot for the show, I'm sure they can pull something really amazing out of it and give us a great year 4.

If I'm not mistaken, a similar thing happened to FELICITY. The first year had a lot of stuff going on that was interesting, and then the show kind of fizzled out to a much more average state in the 2nd year... I haven't seen the 3rd and 4th, but I recall JJ mentioning that a cool idea for the 3rd year would be to make Felicity a CIA agent, "cause then she could be going on missions and we'd have a lot more stories..." the joke kind of gave him the idea for ALIAS. Considering there's never a dead end when it comes to storylines for this show... I think all they need to do is get back the plausibility and spend some more time hammering how HOW they're going to tell it. If it takes 7-8 months... I don't care.

I will not be able to see the Alias finale because of these worthless weather warnings running and interupting the ABC programming!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm loving badass Vaughn this episode. It's taking on a Buffy/Angel vibe in some respects in terms of the camera work and the quips.

"Hi Honey"

rofl

Is it just me, or has Alias turned into Mission Impossible?

Jack's acting very squirrelly this episode.

How the hell can Vaughn around like that after sustaining a punctured lung?

Mia Maetro (Nadia) cleans up well. Mighty hottie.

Ugh...not all that crazy about the ending. Perhaps Sydney is part of the Supa-Soldier program from the X-Files.

More of a teaser than last year, and a seven month wait...

I'm confused, and I will be until 2005. I'm not sure what to make of that episode.

I did enjoy Vaughn pumping round after round into Lauren. That's true love gone bad.

And Sydney looks ridiculously hot with the dark red hair and the glasses.

I don't get the ending. Is Jack part of the covenant?

There might be some drizzle outside by now, but it doesn't really matter because WISN, a Hearst Argyle station, didn't show a damn second of the finale to bring us warnings and watches of BS.



Now I get to wait and hope someone posts the episode on a newsgroup.

Sorry, for interupting the discussion but I really am fed up with the past four weeks of weather warnings running day and night for little bits of rain. Enough of the hype!!

Sydney's existence came from a "project" that was headed by Jack. For all we know Sydney's parents aren't really Jack and Irina.

You've got to be f'ing kidding me! As Bart once said that managed to both "suck and blow."

This season hasn't bothered me at all in the way it has annoyed the heck out of others, but tonight was unbelievably bad. It'd be really great if they could wrap up just one plot thread before they introduce a half-dozen more!!! Nadia and Sloane go off to find Rambaldi's soul, Marshall gets done in (perhaps permanently), Secret Jack doings, What really happened to Irina, etc..

Why the hell are they bringing back Project: Christmas? (although on the plus side, we did find out that Syd's middle initial stands for Anne) By bringing it back I'm assuming Jack did a lot more to Syd, Allison and the others than he has admitted to (or perhaps it's just Syd)? Could this be why Syd and Allison both could take a lickin' and keep on tickin'?

Ugh!! And to think this is the reshoot, one can only imagine what the original ending was like (maybe it'll show up on the DVD?). It's gonna be a long wait.

I had visions of Vaughn treating Sark's arms like Shrek does to a turkey leg.

Like Joseph, I'm in the viewing area for WISN (Milwaukee) and all they played was weather coverage. Thank God for DirecTV and the fact that I get east/west coast feeds. However, I missed 15 minutes due to rain fade on the satellite. :frowning:

Wait a sec. The documents were about how Sydney was created? I thought it was about Jack ordering the experiment on Sydney, the 2 year experiment.

The paperwork implied, to me, that Sydney might have been "requisitioned" for this project that develops agents from birth, and then subjected to training, etc. It's an even earlier "Project Christmas" so to speak. Jack was project manager for this project, and Sydney might have just been one of an few who were born from the project.