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Alias 10-26 (Spoilers)
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Posted by: LoadStar

I wish I had something better to say.. but that was the worst episode I've seen of this show... ever. It was among the worst episodes of any show I've watched. That was just...

Breathe in... out.. in... out...

Ok, I'm better, now... but it didn't make the episode any better.

I mean, come on. SpyDaddy's disguise consisting of glasses, a trenchcoat, and a cheesy accent? Captain Forehead's dream sequence where he gets to mack on Syd? Marshall's mustache that he just conveniently discovers once he gets there he's allergic to? The hiding under the desk and stifling a sneeze until the bad guys leave? COME ON! This is stuff from KIDS SHOWS! This show is so much better than this!

Was there a moment during this episode that was remotely redeeming? Because if so, I didn't see it. This season just has not been anywhere as good as previous seasons, and it's not getting better - it's heading in the opposite direction.

Posted by: Graymalkin

You have to remember, Sloan has the Rambaldi device. which enables him to reshape reality to fit his whims. It's his show now. J.J. Abrams is just a figurehead.

:D

Posted by: Krypt Keeper

I just noticed that when Sark is paying off the dudes at the beginning of the show, the briefcase that is supposedly full of money isn't! If you look when they are showing the money, a gust of wind blows and shows that under the top $500 bill is just a stack of blank paper! Funny stuff.

Posted by: LoadStar

You're RIGHT, krypt keeper! Hah! Nice catch! The back stacks are all white paper under the top bill... the front stack has an extra printed bill under the top one though. (Thanks, TiVo!)

Posted by: cmontyburns

There sure are a lot of threads going these days about how all of our favorite shows have hit the skids. Wish it weren't quite true. I'm not going to list my Alias grievances (this isn't Festivus, and I've done it in other threads anyway), and while I wouldn't at all call this the worst episode ever, I'll definitely agree that the show is lacking something now. It's too heavy on a romantic triangle that isn't romantic, nor earned, and in which two of the people are boring and deserve to be stuck with each other. And the spy stuff, which has always been ridiculous but used to have a logic that made sense within its own structure, now makes no sense as well as being ridiculous. Never have I felt more like they are making it up as they go along. So maybe the show isn't lacking something, it's got too much of nothing. I guess I did list some grievances.

I'm staying with it, but Karen Sisco is my new favorite girls kick a** show. C'mon Alias, get off the mat!

Posted by: Mike20878

What, no mention of the shower scene? :D

Posted by: T-Wolves

And early in the episode, Syd told her Dad that she put the tracking device on Vaughn, instead of keeping it with the virus. And then this supposedly resulted in Sark and Co. using the virus to kill all the people in the prison facility except the one guy. So in saving Vaughn's life, wasn't Syd responsible for the deaths of all those people?

Posted by: magaggie

quote:
Originally posted by PRT940
And early in the episode, Syd told her Dad that she put the tracking device on Vaughn, instead of keeping it with the virus. And then this supposedly resulted in Sark and Co. using the virus to kill all the people in the prison facility except the one guy. So in saving Vaughn's life, wasn't Syd responsible for the deaths of all those people?

Maybe in Demolition Man she would be, but this is ALIAS, people!! :)

Posted by: desulliv

In addition to all that, it was not broadcast in HD in the Portland, OR area. I watch this show live because of HD, and TIVO it in case there are shower scenes. Now that would have worked in HD.

Posted by: Uther

Yes, this episode sucked. The best part, however, was when Marshall slapped Sidney's bottom at the casino. Classic! :D

Posted by: TreborPugly

quote:
Originally posted by LoadStar

I mean, come on. SpyDaddy's disguise consisting of glasses, a trenchcoat, and a cheesy accent?

Not to mention, that if he just wanted to capture the guy, why not do it at the very first meeting? Why keep going back and hoping the guy calls "Julia?"

But the one interesting thing was that when Sark tipped the guy off on Jack's real identity, that he knew that Sidney has gone by the alias Julia!

Posted by: joeinma

What bothered me was the Vaughn's "stabbing". When Sidney stabbed him in the previous episode and he then fell down the ravine, his shirt showed a small amount of blood right under his collarbone on his right side. However, when he was found, he was bleeding from his stomach area, rather than his upper chest. Secondly, wouldn't Sydney, as a CIA agent, know where to stab him and not cause serious damage? That's why I thought she stabbed him high on his right side, to only damage muscle.

Secondly, Syd knew Sark was involved with the guy who calls her Julia, so it would be assumed that she reported to the CIA, including her father, that Sark was involved. So Jack gets involved with basically no disguise..wouldn't he say ''hmmm..Sark may have this meet on surveillance and see me, I need a REAL disguise."?

Posted by: joeinma

quote:
Originally posted by Uther
Yes, this episode sucked. The best part, however, was when Marshall slapped Sidney's bottom at the casino. Classic! :D

Aren't you forgetting when Sidney was in the shower and you could sort of make out her breasts? :D :D :D

Posted by: super dave

You mean she really does have some love bumps?

Posted by: super dave

quote:
Originally posted by cmontyburns
I'm staying with it, but Karen Sisco is my new favorite girls kick a** show. C'mon Alias, get off the mat!

I'll agree with the Karen Sisco ref, Carla looks better than ever and she can act!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:D

Posted by: Graymalkin

They're both on ABC. How about a Alias/Sisco crossover, ABC? Huh? Huh?

Posted by: brott

Did anyone catch the '47' reference in this episode?

Answer hidden to give you a chance to think about it if you don't know.

Spoiler Alert! (highlight to read)

The page Lauren & Sydney received was 47911

Posted by: IJustLikeTivo

quote:
Originally posted by brott
Did anyone catch the '47' reference in this episode?

What is the deal with the 47? Is that a recurring theme that I missed?

Posted by: gerbil42

Wasn't Page 47 of signifigance to Rimbaldi in all his manuscripts and documents? Page 47 was the page that seemingly contained all his most sensitve data, and, I believe, The Prophecy.

Posted by: Mars Rocket

This episode sucked in so many ways I can't even keep them all straight in my head.

OK, the three worst parts for me:

1. The whole "German auto executive" disguise was bad to the point of laughter.

2. Marshall channeling Keanu with his "Whoa...check out this code" line when he finally gets logged onto the Japanese computer. And what was up with that anyway? He says he needs access to it before he can develop a method to stop it...but all he really needed to do was see it for 3 seconds? And then he DOWNloads something that will make the copy on the computer ineffective?

3. When did Jack Bristow get replaced by a robot? His lines are waaaay overdramatic, he shows no emotion whatsoever, and his line readings could have been done better by my cat and a speech synthesizer.

Posted by: Rob Helmerichs

quote:
Originally posted by Mars Rocket
2. [...]And then he DOWNloads something that will make the copy on the computer ineffective?

He was downloading the original; he made changes on the version that remained on the mainframe.

quote:
Originally posted by Mars Rocket
3. When did Jack Bristow get replaced by a robot? His lines are waaaay overdramatic, he shows no emotion whatsoever, and his line readings could have been done better by my cat and a speech synthesizer.

Um, in the first episode?

He's ALWAYS been a robot...one of the amusing aspects of the character has always been that blank look that says, "I really should be displaying some emotion here, but I don't know how".

Posted by: Rcrew

quote:
Originally posted by TreborPugly
But the one interesting thing was that when Sark tipped the guy off on Jack's real identity, that he knew that Sidney has gone by the alias Julia!

Well, what, two weeks ago when Syd confronted Sark briefly, he said something about her not knowing anything about the last two years, and laughing at her. I assumed at that point that Sark knew all about Syd's two missing years. That would have included the name Julia.

Posted by: ScottE22

quote:
Originally posted by Rcrew
Well, what, two weeks ago when Syd confronted Sark briefly, he said something about her not knowing anything about the last two years, and laughing at her. I assumed at that point that Sark knew all about Syd's two missing years. That would have included the name Julia.

See - I'm confused on this issue... If Sark knew about Syd's missing two years and the "Julia" identity, then wouldn't he have known what was up when the bad guy was assembling his team?

Thinking back to the scene last week where Syd tries to hide her face when Sark walks into the room... Wouldn't there have been some discussion of the hot female replacement for the guy that died due to the virus? If Sark knew she was Julia, bells would have gone off in his head when the dude said, "Julia's back!"

I don't know - maybe I'm trying to hard to make sense of this show when I should just be enjoying the eye-candy...

Posted by: GoodN

I thought it was just me! When is this show going to have a real plot? It was almost like an episode of "Smallville"!

Did you catch Marshall's yearbook photo? Classic.

Posted by: Rcrew

quote:
Originally posted by ScottE22
...If Sark knew she was Julia, bells would have gone off in his head when the dude said, "Julia's back!"...

I didn't catch that. Can you say plot hole?