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Wednesday!! Drew Goddard Writes The 100th Episode of ALIAS!!

Yay. 100 episodes by Chilli815	Apr 26th, 2006 09:16:12 AM
Yes. It does matter. Because it means Alias can be sold into syndication, which will generate a new audience who will eventually buy the DVDs and make a film possible. Matchpoint (and not the mediocre film.)
Im only starting to get into alias now by disembarkedone	Apr 26th, 2006 09:27:52 AM
Kinda glad I can watch it all on DVD tho :)
GirthFerguson by Chilli815	Apr 26th, 2006 09:32:34 AM
Burns only work when the person doing the burning knows how to spell properly... I can't wait to catch up with this episode.
The mighty ass of Gina Torres!!! by Fart_Master_Flex	Apr 26th, 2006 10:13:33 AM
After seeing that fine ass on the Shield, here is to hoping she whips it out on every tv show she graces.
But they did the nasty... by shelbygirl	Apr 26th, 2006 11:14:34 AM
How can the episode with Will coming back (and pretending to be a rock star with Sydney) be considered a letdown? They finally did the nasty! Sydney was reminded what real friends are like. I think it was a great episode. Maybe it's just because I want to do the nasty with Will Tippen.
bad move announcing the cancellation so far in advance by Silver Shamrock	Apr 26th, 2006 11:48:14 AM
in adds another layer of "who the fuck cares" to any episode.
Well if someone associated with Buffy wrote it.. by chickychow	Apr 26th, 2006 11:56:04 AM
I'm so surprised Herc is all jacked up and ready to blow over it... And what happened to my giant Firefly ad? I had learned to love it.
GIRTH is... by topaz4206	Apr 26th, 2006 12:11:48 PM
Girth is what people claim to have when they lack length.
"An all sci-fi lineup"? Ummm...ALIAS is espionage. by SpyGuy	Apr 26th, 2006 12:20:06 PM
Oh, sure...There was a red Giant Hurt Ball thing that turned some Russkies into pseudo-zombies, but on the whole, ALIAS is an espionage genre series that occasionally dabbles in sci-fi. You know, like how Jack Bauer can go for hours and hours on 24 without sleeping or going to the bathroom.
"So this could add up to something plenty swell, yes?" by newc0253	Apr 26th, 2006 12:36:14 PM
yes. Goddard wrote (and cowrote) some of the best buffy and angel episodes. ever. the most disappointing thing about Alias season 4 was that even Goddard wasn't able to rescue it. Season 5 has been better. here's hoping they can go out on a high note.
So is Vaughn, Rambaldi? by Russman	Apr 26th, 2006 01:39:10 PM
Or a hidden decendent?
oh and Alias is in Syndication - on TNT by Russman	Apr 26th, 2006 01:40:22 PM
they know drama baby!
Fart_Master_Flex - you're talking about by Russman	Apr 26th, 2006 01:45:47 PM
Morpheus' wife man.... be careful, he'll call you up - put a karate chop on ya.
Screw this, where's our Veronica Mars talkback? by oisin5199	Apr 26th, 2006 02:32:20 PM
"How does it feel to be on the Lam"? Gotta love the Alterna-Prom. Amazing, heartbreaking episode. And if you need your Buffy connection, Charisma Carpenter is still bringin' the bitch! And Herc, Gia definitely looked a bit closer to hot this week. Still too skinny, though.
Girth by topaz4206	Apr 26th, 2006 02:39:34 PM
Even funnier than "that's how I roll", "deal with it", and "f'ed in the a"? I'm honored.
"...a pretty big letdown" by ryLRci	Apr 26th, 2006 02:49:11 PM
Are you kidding Herc? Will's episode in season 3 was THE highlight in that abysmal season. If you don't recall, they infiltrated a hotel, Will kicked ass and they boned. It was good stuff! Thank God this show is going out on top. I truly believe that seasons 1 and 2 are some of the best TV ever filmed and after the bad season 3 and BEYOND WRETCHED season 4, it's nice to get back to that good ol' show JJ Abrams started (and abandoned).
Anyone else feel like Will is gonna die? by Novaman5000	Apr 26th, 2006 02:58:15 PM
It just seems like that to me.
Goddard is a fine writer... by DanielKurland	Apr 26th, 2006 03:22:30 PM
And knows how to refer to the continuity that a show has established in a subtle way, and I'll be the first to admit that his Lost episode last year was fairly average, but he can definitely write. Being given this position (100th) episode, as well as co-writing the finale, is certainly a lot of responsibility. I also fall into the boat of LOVING Seasons 1 and 2, liking season 3, and hating season 4 (although Goddard's "Welcome to Liberty Village" was a fun, albeit Mr. and Mrs. Smith-like, episode). Glad to see they may be ending with a certain level of dignity.
Alias was pretty damn good last week. by Mr. Profit	Apr 26th, 2006 03:40:07 PM
Also UPN9/MY9/WWOR here is New York City are a bunch of Fags for preempting Veronica last night for Jason Kidd's big fucking head.
Drew Goddard by glodene	Apr 26th, 2006 03:48:37 PM
Drew Goddard is a fine writer!?! Art thou mad!?! We should all bow down before the power that be THE MAN GODDARD,for he is the chosen one who shall restore order to the once promising universe that JJ Abrams so foolishly abandoned to cater to the superficial whims of Tom Cruise (the destroyer of Mission Impossible) and then attempt a mis-guided resuscitation of that dead and bloated corpse called Star Trek.
not even Joss Whedon could save Alias now. by Silver Shamrock	Apr 26th, 2006 05:28:21 PM
To me, Welcome to Liberty Village was a bit of a rip off of the X-Files episode, Arcadia. But Drew's a consistently good writer which might be better than being an ocassionally brilliant writer.
Can someone please recap by quadrupletree	Apr 26th, 2006 06:53:10 PM
My damn DVR cut-off the very tail end of last weeks episode (I almost threw the damn thing out the window). I saw the monk, he said some stuff, then pan over and caught just a glimps of Vaughn. What happened?? Did he say anything? Obviously they didn't reveal how he was still alive...
Anna Espinosa gets the spotlight tonight, but... by paulh	Apr 26th, 2006 06:57:47 PM
...waiting in the wings, chilling as she recovers from getting fire extinguisher-ized by Jack last week...Kelly Peyton, Agent of B.A.D.A.S.S. waits her turn for payback. FEAR her, for she carries in her foaming, snapping jaws (if not the Peyton Purse itself) the FETCH-STICK of A-P-O ARMAGEDDON. And we've got 5 more episodes after tonight to enjoy the havoc she will wreak. :)
quadrupletree by topaz4206	Apr 26th, 2006 07:01:54 PM
That's it bud. "You have a daughter." Vaughn reaction shot. ALIAS.
Sorry to be off topic, SciFi making Galactica Spinoff by torpor_haze	Apr 26th, 2006 07:44:34 PM
...called Caprica http://www.gateworld.net/news/ 2006/04/scifiannouncesigalacti cais.shtml Plus, Legion of Supetheroes coming to CW
So Sydney knows Vaughn's alive. by seanny_d	Apr 26th, 2006 08:04:10 PM
I wish they would have made that a bigger reveal as opposed to a nonchalant conversation that makes you think "wait, are we supposed to know that they know he's alive?"
Alias is underrated these days. by gammaknight	Apr 26th, 2006 08:09:56 PM
Sure, they lost ideas and started retreading the same paths around the middle of season 3, but it's still a fun show to watch nonetheless. It's no more formulaic than 24, at least.
I like how Herc endlessly rags on Alias' decline... by woemcats	Apr 26th, 2006 08:29:34 PM
While wholly ignoring Buffy's outright shittiness in its last season. Alias isn't nearly what it was, but it hasn't sunk anywhere near S7 Buffy. Well, maybe Season 3 did.
sigh by WhiteCrow	Apr 26th, 2006 08:53:44 PM
I didn't think tonights episode was great...and I'm kind of sick of the whole "DNA replacement" thing. Evil Francie was bad enough, now we have to deal with Evil Syd? I hope the last of the episodes pick it up a bit.
seanny_d by topaz4206	Apr 26th, 2006 08:58:04 PM
What makes you say that Sydney knows? (From Episode 11). I haven't seen tonight's yet, but I don't remember anything from last episode indicating that she knew.
The reason that Michael Vaughn is alive is that by kabong	Apr 26th, 2006 09:17:38 PM
TV characters who are supposed to be super-badasses never certify the kill with a head shot.
Syd vs. Syd...I've got Syd... by paulh	Apr 26th, 2006 09:22:03 PM
and the over.
Well, the Peyton Purse has expanded its inventory... by paulh	Apr 26th, 2006 09:24:06 PM
To include a DNA shape-changing thingy. Amy Acker...was she ever this bad-ass yowza on Angel or what?
Amy Acker... by topaz4206	Apr 26th, 2006 09:49:06 PM
desperately needs my demon seed in her tiny womb. That is all.
we realized syd knew about vaughn last week... by Bouncy X	Apr 26th, 2006 09:49:37 PM
after she gave birth she gives her dad this look then he says something to the effect of "i'm on it" and then we see vaughn find out he has a daughter... so that let us know she's known all along so having them be non chalant about it tonight made sense since it was a relevation to them or the audience...
Sorry to temporarily thread-seize here, but... by paulh	Apr 26th, 2006 09:49:48 PM
Gilmore Girls' Emmy FYC tape is now on Ebay and they submitted these 4 episodes for Comedy Series consideration; Fight Face, We've Got Magic to Do, The Prodigal Daughter Returns and Friday Night's Alright for Fighting....that's a somewhat strong lineup for an off-year.
oops by Bouncy X	Apr 26th, 2006 09:50:19 PM
i meant since it "wasn't" a revelation.... lol
I just rewatched Episode 11 by topaz4206	Apr 26th, 2006 09:55:22 PM
I see at the end there is a silent acknowledgement between her and Dad that Vaughn is alive, but where did that come from? The rest of the episode she was angry and/or sad/crying about his death. What did i miss?
Wow that's lame, then... by topaz4206	Apr 26th, 2006 09:58:12 PM
Then she knew ALL ALONG? Man, that SUCKS! So who was she trying to fool all those times she broke down into tears by herself at home? It would have been so much better if he had done it on his own, without her knowledge, to work on something while keeping her and the baby safe. Ugh.
Yo, Topaz, take a number.... by paulh	Apr 26th, 2006 09:58:31 PM
OK, we both need to take a number as she's gone all semi-Peg Bundy on us in real life (married w/child). Bummer for the rest of the male gender, good for Mr. Acker. :(
What you missed: by Christopher3	Apr 26th, 2006 10:01:02 PM
A lame attempt to rationalize bringing Michael Vartan back once the producers realized the show's audience wouldn't stick around after he left. I'm actually glad they were nonchalant about it - there are too many other threads to wrap up with only 4 hours left.
What you missed: by Christopher3	Apr 26th, 2006 10:01:02 PM
A lame attempt to rationalize bringing Michael Vartan back once the producers realized the show's audience wouldn't stick around after he left. I'm actually glad they were nonchalant about it - there are too many other threads to wrap up with only 4 hours left.
meh by Yeti	Apr 26th, 2006 10:16:10 PM
Anyone else realise what profit 5 was up to when they took those scans of Syd fighting Anna? Yeah thats what I thought. This ep reminded me of the last time Will showed up.
Finally watched tonight's show by topaz4206	Apr 26th, 2006 10:22:40 PM
Whoa, who wrote this?! So many "groaner" lines (i lost count of how many lines of dialogue that made me cringe). Will: "I speak for everyone...when I say, 'Thanks for watching over us'" Yuck! How can you write that on a paper and turn it in? Also, Bradley Cooper seems to have forgotten how to play Will, he seemed closer to the cocky asshole from Wedding Crashers tonight. Drew, HURRY BACK, for the love of Rambaldi!
Evil Twin by mattw	Apr 26th, 2006 10:23:44 PM
Congrats Alias writers. You are now stealing bad plot ideas from Knight Rider. I can't imagine how you got cancelled.
They better let us know by seanny_d	Apr 26th, 2006 10:27:23 PM
Maybe Syd didn't know all along that he was alive. Maybe she found out somewhere along the way that he was still alive, and they just didn't feel like showing us what was going on. I think that killing Vaughn was the kiss of death for this show. The biggest relationship on the show was Sydney-Vaughn and they completely destroyed it. I loved the reintroduction of Rambaldi tonight, and Project Helix is a nice way to make the prophecy real while sidestepping the fact that it's ACTUALLY Sydney, since the prophecy doesn't state that "Her name is Sydney Bristow."
Topaz... by seanny_d	Apr 26th, 2006 10:31:09 PM
I see where you're coming from on that groaner line, but tonight's episode was supposed to be a goodbye Sydney Bristow type thing. So I can accept the groaner line since it's so near the end of the series. If this was like season 1 or 2 when he was saying something like this, then I'd be a little more critical. But given the context, I'll buy it.
CIA babysitters by VoodooV	Apr 26th, 2006 10:49:59 PM
WTF?! what is up with the weird attempts at comedy in Alias tonight?
So I guess that DNA stuff can by veritasses	Apr 26th, 2006 11:12:04 PM
alter bone and teeth structures, hair, muscle development, body fat content and placement, hair, makeup and can probably also do scars, tattoos, mannerisms and cold sores. That's some technology.
funny that this mirrors Buffy s7 a bit SPOILERS by Demosthenes2	Apr 26th, 2006 11:45:49 PM
Just in that this was Drew's episode and also SMG played both Buffy and sometimes the First in the final season (and looked like she was having considerably more fun as the First). But of course this will work differently on Alias, as presumably people will be mistaking Espinosa for Sydney which couldn't have happened on Buffy.
ZOMG! by topaz4206	Apr 26th, 2006 11:57:52 PM
I just rewatched the credits. I thought Drew was coming back for the finale, he actually wrote tonight's steam-pile! This makes me sad.
The DNA Bath, one dip and you'll look like Jen Garner! by Serious Black	Apr 27th, 2006 12:22:06 AM
How many guys would be giving THAT to their wives and girlfriends for Valentine's Day? This would have been a good episode, but the DNA chamber killed it for me. I think this show jumped the shark at the end of season 2 when they first mentioned "DNA". This technology is so far-fetched it doesn't seem to fit into the Alias world. They might as well be beaming around with transporters and shooting the badguys with phasers set to stun. The show should have ended with that post-SuperBowl episode the Herc so famously creamed over.
Come to think, DNA pseudoscience killed Bond, too by Serious Black	Apr 27th, 2006 12:41:50 AM
After that last Bond movie, with the invisible fucking car and the bad guys who were altered through the magic of DNA, there was nowhere left to go with the series. No wonder they had to reboot.
I'll watch it to the end because.... by chromedome	Apr 27th, 2006 12:42:13 AM
...I have watched it this far, and 4 more hours won't kill me. But I gotta say that after watching shows like 24 and BSG, the writing on these final few shows is just so terrible. It seems like everyone in the cast and crew is counting the minutes until they are FREE of this tripe. Sydney is kidnapped, tortured, escapes, her father says go home and pack a bag we are gonna send you somewhere safe. So they drop her off ALONE at her apartment, where she finds her FRICKIN MOTHER waiting inside, and she is so STUPID that she doesn't see a connection. Jack doesn't see a connection. They are going to retrieve the "horizon" and she is hours from labor, but she says "don't be silly, I'll be okay" bullshit. And tonight we had to sit thru an endless walk in the park with her saying Its my fault, Will saying No its not. You save the world every day. gush gush tripe tripe. And they get dna samples by showering her in a boxcar?! wtf? when blondie says "you guys actually believe this stuff" the rest of them didn't have to ACT embarrassed.... and we in the audience have also seen things that are hard to explain. And Garner lets Vaughn back in the show, but keeps him off in Bhutan... she really don't want her old flame nearby... Ben Garner would have a hissy fit
Alias is science fiction like... by chromedome	Apr 27th, 2006 12:43:47 AM
Barney Miller was a documentary
Syndication by obidawsn	Apr 27th, 2006 05:00:49 AM
I'm not so sure about the 100 episode thing any more. Alias has already been in syndication. They've shown it on TNT, but I've also seen it on a local station in the middle of the night. Working at a TV station, I also saw the syndicated version coming down on the satellite one day. As for cancelling early, that was a good thing. That gave TPTB time to wrap things up and start to give us answers. If they didn't cancel early, they probably would have kept on with the same crapp from the last season or two, then no proper ending.
One problem... by Jinxo	Apr 27th, 2006 05:42:42 AM
Okay, you can't bitch about the evil twin thing. Given the prophesey it had to happen. I've been waiting since season one. It has to be the girl in the picture but they took steps to make sure it couldn't be Syd (she had to go look at some damn mountain the prophesey said "the one" never saw). Well... I would have no problem expect for one massive goof. Didn't they spend ALL of last season on a plot about "the one" being Syd's sister Nadia and not Syd? And then the finale of last season was supposedly the payoff of the prophesey quoted tonight. So, given the whole "seeing the mountains" crap and that everyone thinks Syd's sister is prophesey girl, how did everyone get back to thinking it's Syd? I know they wanted to keep the Rambaldi backstory short but the Nadia stuff is a big contradiction to skip over. Can't even pretend it didn't happen since what is happening with Nadia this season comes out of that plot. It wouldn't even take a lot to fix it. The new girl asks about the prophesey, then someone goes, "We thought it was Syd but then it seemed to be about her sister... who knows at this point. It all gets so confusing." Cheap and crappy but it would have been something.
I Don't Give A Shit--Where is LOST?! by www.valiens.com	Apr 27th, 2006 08:41:24 AM
Dude, last week Lost was ... er ... lost to a 2 hour Alias and this week it was a fucking recap show. A RECAP SHOW IN THE MIDDLE OF SEASON 2!!! They did that X-Files trick of putting a subtitle that's never been there before underneath the title screen (like how the X-files would replace "The Truth Is Out There" with some crap that makes you jiz your pants cuz you know you're about to watch something special.) Also, they had a fucking narrator, who I think was Zeek or Zed or whoever from the Others gang. So I was all set for the big special episode when lo and behold it's a fucking hour-long recap. But I thought it would be all good as long as at the end, the narrator made it clear that this was part of a TV special (a la Truman Show) or a corporate tape for whoever is keeping them hostage. BUT NOOOO-OOOOO! Just a lame fucking non-episode that sure as shit better not show up on DVD. They'd better replace it with a ...uh...what's the word? Right. LOST EPISODE. Why did they do this? Why? To gain a larger viewership? Fuck that! I want them to have LESS VIEWERS. That way they'll end it in a season or two with a full story arc instead of creating more and more seasons of nonsense for advertising revenue. Just this once I'd like to see art win over commerce.
valiens.com-chill dude by MGTHEDJ	Apr 27th, 2006 10:14:05 AM
The schedule problems are a result of Michael Eisner leaving Disney/ABC. In a show of spite, the man screwed up the season: he launched "Lost
Paulh and Topaz: back of the line by MGTHEDJ	Apr 27th, 2006 10:59:13 AM
I along with someone who calls themselves "Psyclops" noticed Amy back in 2001. We both proposed marriage in separate talkbacks. Although guys I do like the whole "Payton Purse" and "Agent of B.A.D.A.S.S." moniker. I will be watching the "How I met your Mother" episode just to see how Amy does in an all out comedy.-----later-----m
Alias....Invasion by meCPS	Apr 27th, 2006 11:27:43 AM
Anybody confirm what I thought I heard last night? The music score when Sydney was on the roof (I think it started as a sample of some other song and then morphed into..) was the Doors "Riders on the Storm", or maybe the sampling at the beginning was the Doors, I can't recall. Anyway, Invasion used the same song on their soundtrack two hours later. Nothing significant, just strange coincidence.
meCPS-it's Rapture Riders by MGTHEDJ	Apr 27th, 2006 11:52:48 AM
it's a smash-up of Blondie's "Rapture" and the Doors' "Riders on the Storm." It's available on the new Blondie greatest hits CD-DVD combo release.-----later-----m
This episode was crap by quadrupletree	Apr 27th, 2006 12:21:04 PM
All you guys jizzing over the Buffy writer, I think he let you down tonight. First of all, what's up with Syd knowing Vaughns alive! You don't just gloss over a HUGE reveal like that! You don't want us to know the details, fine. But you have to implicitly set up the situation to the audience. I know for a fact there were people who didn't even catch that tiny little bit of exposition. And another evil twin? Come on. I thought they said that the only guy in the world who had the technology died after he made the first two, so how can they just non-chalantly go and do it again without explaining how? Bah, I'm ready to watch the last 4 hours of this thing and get it over with. Anyone want to buy seasons 1-3 on DVD cheap?
Vaughn's "Death" by Kirka	Apr 27th, 2006 02:13:58 PM
I think they will show a flashback to the episode with Vaughn in the hospital after being shot. If I remember correctly, Syd hands Vaughn a cup and says drink this when you are ready and then he flatlines shortly after. I had been watching after that to see if Syd ever said anything like "since Vaughn died" to her father in private. When the two were alone it was a more generic "I miss him" or "I wish he was here" (or similar)... I loved last weeks eps; but it seems like they are just trying to do foreighn accents whenever possible just for the heck of it.
Dammit, MGTHEDJ re: taking numbers... by paulh	Apr 27th, 2006 05:43:47 PM
I plum RAN OUT OF TIME! pouts
So now we get Sydney and Goliath-Syd? by Doc_Strange	Apr 28th, 2006 03:17:22 AM
What the hell?
It was a good episode... Eventhough the end.... by Mr. Profit	Apr 28th, 2006 06:11:17 AM
Was on some Telenovella shit. But it makes sense I guess.
Goddard who? He SUCKS. by brezzel	Apr 28th, 2006 11:10:30 AM
ALIAS was once the greatest show on tv. It is now unwatchable. Here we go again. Let's double a main character! Let's mention page 47! Let's bring someone back from the dead! Woo hoo, Goddard, that's original? For those of you who actually appreciated ALIAS when it was great (the first 2 1/2 seasons), did you notice that page 47 now has a different drawing of Sydney? How RIDICULOUS is that? What, they couldn't find the original prop? ALIAS and all its god-awful writers suck, and J.J. sucks for abandoning the best show on tv 2 1/2 years ago.

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