alias 1x01 through 1x05

[schmerica]

THOUGHTS on the first five episodes of Alias!

1) I don't understand the plots at all. Fox assures me this is totally fine. It's pretty! It moves fast! There are cool costumes! I like Sydney's hair!

2) The Sydney+Vaughn stuff is lame.

3) OMG NOBODY TOLD ME GINA TORRES IS A HOT FUCKING GIRL SPY WITH A CRAZY FOREIGN ACCENTS AND GUNS AND STUFF.

4) She accidentally set off a nuclear bomb in the second episode? Ahahahahahaha.

5) Cliffhangers are kind of boring when there's one in every episode, but I guess that goes back to the "whatever, plot!" point.

6) omg, JACK. "He finds me useful in ... difficult situations." = HOT. Beating people up = HOT. Being badass and hardcore = HOT.

Comments

[karabou.livejournal.com]

Jack Bristow is love.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

[popfantastic.livejournal.com]

She accidentally set off a nuclear bomb in the second episode?

Alias, at one point, made me look up whether it was possible to carry around to carry around the core to a nuclear suitcase bomb. I have never forgiven it.

Jack only continues to get hotter and hotter. (Although the part in the pilot where he responds to Danny coming to him forp ermission is still one of the all-time best Jack scenes ever and completely tells you everything you need to know about the character. I need to go rewatch that...)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Dude. That was pretty much one of the best character introductions EVER. I was seriously kind of in awe when that scene finished.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

Yes! You corrected me on the potential damage done by carrying, um, some scary-sounding element in your bare hands, although sadly for my education I can no longer recall which element.

Jack is love. The world needs more Sydney/Ana. You will be much happier if you do not attempt to follow the plot. I really need to catch up on Alias now that it is out on DVD past the point at which I abandoned it.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I gave up on the plot in the pilot, so I think I'm ahead of the game!

[popfantastic.livejournal.com]

I would recommend waiting until S5 is out and doing 4 and 5 in a row. I never find the show anything less than enjoyable, but even I admit S4 was not a showcase for its strongest...anything. S5, however, is almost uniformly awesome, and it's setting a benchmark for using outside pressures (high cast turnover, returning from an "off" season, impending cancellation, lead pregnancy) as a means to improve a show.

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Wait, nobody told me Gina Torres was in this show! Is she a recurring character?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Guest star -- imdb has her listed as in 3 episodes in 2001, 2 in 2005, and 2 in 2006 (including this week).

[bathsweaver.livejournal.com]

Oh God, You are going to love Jack. The perfect TV show would be one where AlMiles just dumped the younger generation and had Jack and Irina run around being hot and shooting at each other.

Have you met Irina yet? You will combust. Spontaneously, like all the rest of us did. ;)

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I'm still on episode 6, so no Irina yet.

[nestra.livejournal.com]

I don't understand the plots at all.

Oh, you should get really, really used to that. But it totally doesn't matter.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*giggles* So I have heard!

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

*beams at you*

Seriously, it is an awesome show if you ignore plot. Also, if you stare at Jack a lot.

And Irina.

And Sloane.

...In my defense, shut up.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I have not met Irina yet. SPOILER GIRL. *rolls eyes*

[fox1013.livejournal.com]

Hey, you know what else?

VAUGHN DIES.

[chicklet-girl.livejournal.com]

2) The Sydney+Vaughn stuff is lame.

OMG, Vaughn is the lamest of the lamers, for serious. That relationship is SO BORING. Mostly because it consists entirely of the sentence "No, you're schmoopy!" I watched the first two seasons in a week and kept shouting, "Sydney, damn! Look at Will!"

1) I don't understand the plots at all. Fox assures me this is totally fine. It's pretty! It moves fast! There are cool costumes! I like Sydney's hair!

Dude, none of it makes any sense, ever. This show is All About The Wigs. And people who look frighteningly attractive with blood on their faces.

6) omg, JACK. "He finds me useful in ... difficult situations." = HOT. Beating people up = HOT. Being badass and hardcore = HOT.

It's sort of disturbing how unbelievably hot I find Jack. I mean, I thought my lust love had reached some sort of zenith at the end of Season 1 (you'll see), but it just kept *growing*.

From the Random Story File: When the show first started, Victor Garber, Bradley Cooper, and Ron Rifkin were all based in NYC, so they ended up living in the same apartment building in LA. Which is funny enough, but then David Anders (who plays Sark; have you met Sark yet?) moved there too, and he and Cooper used to play tennis together. *giggles uncontrollably*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Heh, I don't find the Sydney/Will stuff very appealling, either. Though Fox assures me Will gets more interesting at the season goes on!

I have fully given myself to the Cult of Jack. Damn.

That anecdote is painfully cute.

[chicklet-girl.livejournal.com]

Though Fox assures me Will gets more interesting at the season goes on!

Yes, he does! You must trust Fox in all things Alias.

That anecdote is painfully cute.

It's even funnier after you've seen all of Season 1. Not that I'm trying to goad you watch more episodes RIGHT NOW. *is totally, completely nonchalant*

Also, I have no Alias icons yet, so I had to use one of Bradley Cooper from Kitchen Confidential.