Author: duane

It has become a ritual, watching Alias every week. I have been doing it for so long. I even followed it to Wednesdays. But, halfway into the new season, I feel that I must make a statement, rather a plea, to the writers of the show. There are several key things that Alias just doesn’t have, key things that made it my favorite show. These things that I have been sitting and waiting for all this season, hoping each episode that they will appear. So, in a desperate attempt to both vent my frustrations, and pray that somehow, somewhere a writer of the show will hear this, I have decided to spell out what I miss about my favorite show Alias. Here it goes.

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Okay, so I know that this totally makes me sound like I am a giddy little school girl, but so what, I am really excited. I just bought tickets (pretty decent tickets) to see Kelly Clarkson at the Fox in Atlanta on May 4th. That’s right, and I am damn excited. I love Kelly Clarkson, and I totally forgive her for making that little movie with Justin. All that aside, I feel that Kelly may be taking the place of one Ms. Spears in my heart. I have always loved Brit, don’t get me wrong, but lately, things just seem like the fire is dieing down, and Brit isn’t throwing any burnable wood on, if you know what I mean. Brit, we need a new album, a new single (oh, and “Do Something”… don’t do THAT something… make it stop), something honey? no more of this trashiness. Oh well, let’s not let this moment be about that, let’s revel in the Kelly tickets!!! I cannot wait!

Welcome to 2005 folks, and the beginning of a new season of Alias. That would be the reason that I sit here and write this entry with such glee and gaiety. I must admit that when I saw that the first season premiere episode would be two hours, I have to say that I really did jump and down. And I was not at all disappointed. This season is going to kick ass. For all of those that didn’t see it, here is a brief re-cap:

It begins with Sydney on a mission, where she must seduce a chemist for some isotope, and then, once she gets it from him, must fight off an attacker, all on a speeding train, only to fall out of the side, clinging for dear life, with said knife-welding attacker cutting the net she is holding onto? then? 72 hours earlier? (yeah, I know!) cut to Sydney running down the street trying to get away from some killers, in what appears to be an extraction of one agent, and another agent’s intel. That didn’t go so well, the other agent gets killed, so Syd is in big trouble with one of the heads at CIA, and gets chewed out, so much so, that they reassign her to the mail room at Langley, ouch! Sydney responds to this by quitting the CIA. I know. But, this is actually a cover, and the whole thing is a secret way to get Sydney working for a black ops division of the CIA (deja vu?) to be known as the APO (authorized personnel only). Come to find out this organization within the CIA is head by none other than Sloane. Nice. Now they are off on missions galore, cut to the mission in the beginning with the train, and even off on another one where she has to steal a sword from a museum. Intense action and butt-kicking ensue. Oh! And we find out what those black pages said from that lock box last season? they are orders from CIA giving Jack clearance to murder Irena Derevco. WHOA. So Syd is pissed about that the entire episode, and who would blame her, but come to find out later, that the same guy they are after had a contract out on Syd’s head, and that contract came from Irina! (So Jack kind of had to kill her, you know? save their daughter). Anyways? lots of action in the episode, and a feel that we are getting back to the heart of Alias, with Syd’s life outside of CIA taking a major presence again. Loved it. Cannot wait for more. And as I sit here now, squirming in my seat waiting for next week’s new episode, I say this with great joy? Welcome back Alias. Welcome back Sydney and the whole team. You have been missed…