I have just got around to buying and watching the last season of Alias.
I was waiting until it was cheap enough.
As J J Abrams is about to produce Star Trek for us, and is winding up
Lost, it was interesting to watch his previous effort. Lost is a work of
imagination, and I was intending to wait until the show had actually
finished before buying the DVDs, to make sure it does end. The show is
entirely plot-driven. But on watching Alias I realised that the show
might be set in the real world, but it was complete fantasy.
The show did have a McGuffin with the Rambaldi artefacts, but the
³realistic² part of the secret service world was nonsense. ³We need to
steal the Mona Lisa, scrape off the paint and get the secret message
underneath. Then we need to put the paint back on, exactly as it was,
and return it before the museum opens tomorrow.² They get from one
continent to another, do what they have to, then ³what do we do next?²
When they have to be somewhere, suddenly they are there! No matter how
unlikely.
Arvin Sloane is the greatest villain in the world, killing whom he
likes, but next season he is reformed and head of the World Health
Organisation. To redeem himself. Then suddenly he is a total villain
again. The show was never afraid to stretch its grasp on reality,
blowing up buildings and monuments with impunity. After all their
villainy, all of the three main villains are still alive at the end! I
dont count Lena Olin. She was always in the background. On the other
hand, Arvin may not be too happy to be alive. But how did Jack get to
him? And why, since he ³knew² Arvin was dead? But everything happens at
such a cracker pace that we just go along for the ride.
I really enjoyed this show. I could only watch one episode at a time,
because they were so condensed! This compares with SG1, which I also
enjoyed, but I whizzed through ten seasons of that. It didnt make you
concentrate so much. I think I will start buying the DVDs for Lost, even
though it has some way to go, once they become cheap enough.
And for the last episodes of SGI as they arrive here in Australia.
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