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Samui in the darkness
Last night's Alias obviously got to me, because I woke up in the middle of the night (not that long after I went to sleep, actually, because Scott and I had somehow ended up talking about all sorts of things for over 3 hours, until just after 1am) with the sudden urge to look up the word for "cold" in my Japanese textbook. I fumbled to find my flashlight, looked it up, remembering halfway through my search: "Oh, it's 'samui'," and then going back to bed without further dreams (or dreams I remembered, anyway).
But Season 5, the final season of Alias... it really sucks. Don't get me wrong, the plot twists are great, but all the simplistic spy plots are aggravating, and instead, we've got all this tension and backstabbing due to familial relations. I had the slightest inkling that Vaughn wasn't really dead, based on two things:
a) interviews published just after his death episode aired, in which he made some elusive comment about that season not being "what it seemed." They'd already done seasons where years passed when Sydney was an unknowing (?) double agent, or when someone wasn't really who you thought they were.. and they're sort of going back to that, now that Anna's essentially become Sydney's clone.
b) We saw a funeral, but never a body. Still, seeing him get riddled with bullets, "dying" in a hospital... how are they going to explain how he IS alive, whether he HAS been in contact with Sydney (seems he has, since Jack must have been the one to contact him/have someone contact him in Bhutan, to announce the birth of Isabel), and what's going to happen next? I mean, Prophet 5 is still around, and they would target him again if they thought he could help them.
But we finally get confirmation that HE'S alive, and then NADIA wakes up thanks to the "killer cure," but... IDIOT SLOANE KILLS HER AGAIN! And this time, in a way she most definitely can't come back from. I say that with the same assurance I had that Jack killed Irina when he shot her in the head (that Irina ended up being a clone). But I mean... shards of glass in her neck? Blood everywhere? Jack and Marshall finding her? She'd JUST come out of her freakin' coma! WHY!?
I think it was Nadia's death that really drove me over the edge, because I never liked Reneé's character, but she BECAME likable as a sort of foil for Sydney. She was the bad-ass, lone-wolf "agent" freelancer, and French to boot! But no, Anna-clone-Sydney slashed HER throat open too. Needless to say, the explicit violence of the episode made me a bit sick to my stomach. Not like that sort of stuff usually grosses me out... but geez!
I'm also left with questions:
(1) Who watches over Isabel? Nadia was in a coma, and then she followed Jack to Sloane. Then she met up with Sloane, fought with him over the Rambaldi Page 47 document, and died. Sloane left her and joined up with Prophet 5 (bastard. Liar. Never dies). Vaughn's living the undercover life in a monastery in Bhutan. Irina's a freakin' backstabber. Sydney was on a mission, and she's STILL out to prove to her mother that she CAN be a mother and an agent.
(2) If there's only 3 episodes left, are they going to kill everyone off? Is Sydney going to retire "in peace?" I mean, there was the initial possibility of Rachel (new blonde girl; didn't like her at first, but her smartness has gotten to me. She's like Marshall, but without the quirkiness.) and oh, Rob? What's his name? The badass guy played by Balthazar-something-or-other. For one, TENSION between them! If they became main characters, it could be like Sydney and Vaughn REDUX! But that's not always a good thing... Anyway, if the show is ending, it can't become "all about them" taking over as the main characters. The fen have pretty much spoken that there are certain characters that "make" the show, and slowly, they've been getting rid of them, one way or another. An Alias without Sydney, Vaughn, Jack, Marshall, and Dixon would SUCK SUCK SUCK. I liked Weiss a lot too, but at least he quit of his own free will, and his character wasn't killed off. He even made a cameo appearance!
Above all else, Sloane really has to die. He can't "repent" anymore. He's done enough damage, the guy needs to die.
I'm only going to watch the episodes to pray they don't disappoint. *sigh* I miss the good ol' days. There's nothing good on TV anymore but the rare reality TV show (and by that, I mean "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and nothing else.
But Season 5, the final season of Alias... it really sucks. Don't get me wrong, the plot twists are great, but all the simplistic spy plots are aggravating, and instead, we've got all this tension and backstabbing due to familial relations. I had the slightest inkling that Vaughn wasn't really dead, based on two things:
a) interviews published just after his death episode aired, in which he made some elusive comment about that season not being "what it seemed." They'd already done seasons where years passed when Sydney was an unknowing (?) double agent, or when someone wasn't really who you thought they were.. and they're sort of going back to that, now that Anna's essentially become Sydney's clone.
b) We saw a funeral, but never a body. Still, seeing him get riddled with bullets, "dying" in a hospital... how are they going to explain how he IS alive, whether he HAS been in contact with Sydney (seems he has, since Jack must have been the one to contact him/have someone contact him in Bhutan, to announce the birth of Isabel), and what's going to happen next? I mean, Prophet 5 is still around, and they would target him again if they thought he could help them.
But we finally get confirmation that HE'S alive, and then NADIA wakes up thanks to the "killer cure," but... IDIOT SLOANE KILLS HER AGAIN! And this time, in a way she most definitely can't come back from. I say that with the same assurance I had that Jack killed Irina when he shot her in the head (that Irina ended up being a clone). But I mean... shards of glass in her neck? Blood everywhere? Jack and Marshall finding her? She'd JUST come out of her freakin' coma! WHY!?
I think it was Nadia's death that really drove me over the edge, because I never liked Reneé's character, but she BECAME likable as a sort of foil for Sydney. She was the bad-ass, lone-wolf "agent" freelancer, and French to boot! But no, Anna-clone-Sydney slashed HER throat open too. Needless to say, the explicit violence of the episode made me a bit sick to my stomach. Not like that sort of stuff usually grosses me out... but geez!
I'm also left with questions:
(1) Who watches over Isabel? Nadia was in a coma, and then she followed Jack to Sloane. Then she met up with Sloane, fought with him over the Rambaldi Page 47 document, and died. Sloane left her and joined up with Prophet 5 (bastard. Liar. Never dies). Vaughn's living the undercover life in a monastery in Bhutan. Irina's a freakin' backstabber. Sydney was on a mission, and she's STILL out to prove to her mother that she CAN be a mother and an agent.
(2) If there's only 3 episodes left, are they going to kill everyone off? Is Sydney going to retire "in peace?" I mean, there was the initial possibility of Rachel (new blonde girl; didn't like her at first, but her smartness has gotten to me. She's like Marshall, but without the quirkiness.) and oh, Rob? What's his name? The badass guy played by Balthazar-something-or-other. For one, TENSION between them! If they became main characters, it could be like Sydney and Vaughn REDUX! But that's not always a good thing... Anyway, if the show is ending, it can't become "all about them" taking over as the main characters. The fen have pretty much spoken that there are certain characters that "make" the show, and slowly, they've been getting rid of them, one way or another. An Alias without Sydney, Vaughn, Jack, Marshall, and Dixon would SUCK SUCK SUCK. I liked Weiss a lot too, but at least he quit of his own free will, and his character wasn't killed off. He even made a cameo appearance!
Above all else, Sloane really has to die. He can't "repent" anymore. He's done enough damage, the guy needs to die.
I'm only going to watch the episodes to pray they don't disappoint. *sigh* I miss the good ol' days. There's nothing good on TV anymore but the rare reality TV show (and by that, I mean "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and nothing else.