Unlike Battlestar Galactica, for example, it managed to wrap up its storyline.
But wrapping up isn't the same as wrapping up well.
Well, that is just it. The final episode gave me that "aha" moment that I had been hoping for, and which I never got from Battlestar Galactica (or most purely episode-based series).
I'm happy to debate - not simply disagree - but Alias got freakishly repetitive in series 3, 4, and 5. And it always felt like a "diminishing returns" kind of repetition. I mean, it's so bad that I have a blog posting coming in 5 days, and it uses Alias as an example of what happens when shows start to drown themselves and their audience by doing the same things over and over...
Well, ok. I should point out that I use the series as background noise to a great extent, while working on things. I do not pay much attention to the "daily objective". And I have only seen the whole of the series once. The first time I watched it, I couldn't understand anything because I only watched one episode now and again, and so I hated it -- later I watched it from start to end, and that worked much better.But that was 3 years ago, so my memory is a little muddled. And now I am only in the middle of season 3.
In particular, SPOILERS there's this nifty vibe running throughout season 1 that our heroine can't trust her father. It's good for angst and generation gaps... But it's great for a spy show, to literally not know anything about your own father. Yet series 3-5 kept repeating this same plotline with some different "thing" each season.
Ah, see, I have such a crush on Jack Bristow I never really could buy into anything that would discredit him. My main problem was how Irina Derevko kept bouncing back and forwards. But that was the first time I saw it. Now that I know where it ends up, I am not bothered by it.
It made our protagonist seem so emotional as to be ineffective as a spy, or pretty dumb for shouting her anger when she could've stepped back and waited. And, of course, since "dad" always turns out to be more or less innocent, it makes her look wrong/dumb/baggage-laden in a way that's very forced - and disempowering.
Yes, I am not a fan of Sydney. But I hardly ever like the main protagonists of shows.
All that said, I think part of why I'm so harsh on "Alias" is that those first two seasons are so mind-blowingly cool and inventive and fun to watch. God, how I wish they'd kept to it.
*MySmiley*
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It is always fun to recognise actors in minor roles from before they were famous
- 24/03/2011 06:11:10 PM
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That was a great show for a while.
- 24/03/2011 06:43:02 PM
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I think it is one of those that stayed great.
- 24/03/2011 06:45:07 PM
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It did wrap up its storyline, but
- 24/03/2011 11:47:07 PM
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Yes. *spoilers*
- 24/03/2011 11:54:31 PM
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Ehh.. I haven't re-watched, but the later seasons seemed really dumb to me.
- 25/03/2011 02:51:12 PM
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Re: It is always fun to recognise actors in minor roles from before they were famous
- 25/03/2011 02:47:04 PM
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Re: It is always fun to recognise actors in minor roles from before they were famous
- 25/03/2011 05:57:24 PM
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