Opinions: Alias Finale
Apr-28,2007 Filed in: OPINIONS
TV:
Alias Finale
Jill used to make me watch Alias. She had this major crush on Michael Vartan who played Vaughn on the show. I think she thought it would be an equal trade off with me liking Jennifer Garner. She was wrong. Jennifer Garner reminds me of a friend from college. A GUY friend. She looks just like him. She never had a chance with me (like I had one with her). I digress.
So we watched the show for a couple of seasons until the entire plot changed completely and people kept dying and coming back and getting cloned and wearing face masks and stuff. Pretty unbelievable. Eventually it just got too ridiculous to watch. So we didn’t see the last couple of seasons. When the series finale came on, I went ahead and put it on the TIVO. We watched the whole thing. Holy moly. What a waste of time. The entire episode reminded me of the papers I used to have to write in grade school about one of the 50 states. I would put it off until the night before and then pull out the WorldBook Encyclopedia. I would then write beautifully about the state flower, bird and its history. Probably the most boring reading in the history of man. If I didn’t know that the finale had to be shot way ahead of time, I would have thought the plot was written the night before the finale – stealing the content from the WorldBook Encyclopedia entry for “Meaningless Action and Drama Sequences”. Even worse was the way they just threw stuff in there. Supposedly, Vaughn was dead. I guess it was a hoax. He is alive now. Throughout the finale – it was obvious that they didn’t have time to fully explain to everyone what had happened with his apparent death. So there were at least three times when people would see Vaughn and say, “Hey Vaughn. I thought you were dead?” as if they were saying “Hey Vaughn, missed you at church today.” I don’t know about you, but if I saw someone I thought was dead standing in front of me – breathing – I would at least be a little surprised. I guess all of the characters have been watching their own show long enough to where nothing surprises them anymore.
Rating: 0 Gullys
Jill used to make me watch Alias. She had this major crush on Michael Vartan who played Vaughn on the show. I think she thought it would be an equal trade off with me liking Jennifer Garner. She was wrong. Jennifer Garner reminds me of a friend from college. A GUY friend. She looks just like him. She never had a chance with me (like I had one with her). I digress.
So we watched the show for a couple of seasons until the entire plot changed completely and people kept dying and coming back and getting cloned and wearing face masks and stuff. Pretty unbelievable. Eventually it just got too ridiculous to watch. So we didn’t see the last couple of seasons. When the series finale came on, I went ahead and put it on the TIVO. We watched the whole thing. Holy moly. What a waste of time. The entire episode reminded me of the papers I used to have to write in grade school about one of the 50 states. I would put it off until the night before and then pull out the WorldBook Encyclopedia. I would then write beautifully about the state flower, bird and its history. Probably the most boring reading in the history of man. If I didn’t know that the finale had to be shot way ahead of time, I would have thought the plot was written the night before the finale – stealing the content from the WorldBook Encyclopedia entry for “Meaningless Action and Drama Sequences”. Even worse was the way they just threw stuff in there. Supposedly, Vaughn was dead. I guess it was a hoax. He is alive now. Throughout the finale – it was obvious that they didn’t have time to fully explain to everyone what had happened with his apparent death. So there were at least three times when people would see Vaughn and say, “Hey Vaughn. I thought you were dead?” as if they were saying “Hey Vaughn, missed you at church today.” I don’t know about you, but if I saw someone I thought was dead standing in front of me – breathing – I would at least be a little surprised. I guess all of the characters have been watching their own show long enough to where nothing surprises them anymore.
Rating: 0 Gullys