My overall impression of last night's Alias season premiere - pretty good. Not great, but better than average.
WARNING!!!
SPOILERS AHOY!!
I've only watched it once, and some of my questions will probably be answered with a second viewing, but these are the things I'm thinking about this morning:
BUT THEN! Who does Syd get partnered with both times she goes out into the field? Sucky li'l Vaughn. So I'm peeved that JJ didn't actually deliver on the renewed Sydney/Dixon partnership.
And THEN, at the end, when she finds out that SpyDaddy killed Irina because Irina had hired someone to kill Sydney, does Sydney thank her father? No. Does she do ANYTHING that shows any sort of gratitude? No. She wouldn't even hug the man who saved her freaking life.
Given the past two seasons and the arc of these characters' relationship with each other, these scenes just rang very untrue to me.
Of course he will.
I haven't seen the whole epi yet but know what I loved about what I saw?
NO FREAKING COW!!!
Posted by: Mandy at January 6, 2005 09:34 AMBrace yourself. I thought it was okay. Being that I have never watched a single episode of Alias, I think 'okay' is pretty good for someone that didn't know who anyone was. One major suggestion from me would be ..someone PLEASE get Jen an accent couch STAT! I had to stop myself from changing the channel in the first 5-minutes with that whole stupid swedish (?) chickie thing at the beginning. ::shudder:: Other than that, yeah, not as sucky as I expected. (Which is a good thing) Thanks for convincing me to watch, Heewig.
Posted by: TVJ at January 6, 2005 09:39 AMUh. That would be accent COACH. Not "couch". BWAH.
Posted by: TVJ at January 6, 2005 09:40 AMTVJ!! I'm so glad you liked it. I was thinking about you as I was watching the episode, because I wasn't sure it was good enough to grab a new viewer.
I agree with you about the accent couch (hee) though. Vaughn's accents are equally bad as well.
Posted by: Highwaygirl at January 6, 2005 11:49 AMYeah, I agree about the accents, but then I think "well, they're *supposed* to be Americans playing Russians/Swedes/whatevers, so it's OK." It's not like we're supposed to think they really are that nationality, just the baddies are supposed to think that. Oh, I don't know. Rambling here.
I wondered about it grabbing new viewers, too. Because the whole time I watched, I'd just get excited about all my peeps being on screen again together (plus distracted by the fabulousness of Jen's hair!). I think that this episode was kind of a setting up of the whole season, so there were a lot of things to cover. I didn't hate last season like a lot of people, but it definitely wasn't my favorite. Vaughn said it himself though, "Last year sucked!" Hee.
Posted by: Roo at January 6, 2005 04:58 PMYeah, but if you're going to do an accent, and your life is at stake because you're trying to convince the bad guys you're somebody you're not, you better hope your accent is pretty freaking good.
Posted by: Teem at January 6, 2005 05:00 PMTrue. But oh well. Just hush, you hater! :)
Posted by: Roo at January 6, 2005 06:52 PMTeem is right! Teem is right! Because, if I was a bad guy selling bad blow you up or biological warfare goodies .. I'da been like "What's up with your accent, chickie? Make up your mind where you're from, fer cryin' out loud!"
*chuckle*
Posted by: TVJ at January 6, 2005 08:08 PMWe must acknowledge the tragic lack of Sark in this premiere, though. Is he even ON the show any more?
Posted by: Highwaygirl at January 6, 2005 10:21 PMRoo pointed out: Vaughn said it himself though, "Last year sucked!"
I totally didn't think of it like that, but that is hilarious! I was also glad to see everyone back together, but poor Weiss. They can't leave him hanging like that. (And 38 surprised me, too.) Re: Sark, it looks like he is scheduled to be in a couple of eps, at least.)
Posted by: kicks at January 6, 2005 10:30 PMHow correct you are, TVJ! In fact, the words "Teem is right! Teem is right!" haunt me each night as I lay down to sleep. :)
Posted by: Roo at January 6, 2005 10:51 PMHello! Not one but TWO big ass shoutouts to me! See, what you don't know is that JJ and I have been secretly having a torrid affair (I dig the geeks), and I've been whispering sweet nothings in his ears, which is why SpyDaddy has the call name "RAPTOR", and why they were playing my favourite Juanes song when Syd went to see Nadia in Argentina.
Posted by: rappy at January 7, 2005 05:31 AM