tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post5938560870110809254..comments2024-03-28T09:13:28.499-04:00Comments on Doux Reviews: Alias: ResurrectionBillie Douxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-42911375968590906392012-04-13T17:40:19.575-04:002012-04-13T17:40:19.575-04:00Perfect lead quote, Billie! As I said in an earlie...Perfect lead quote, Billie! As I said in an earlier comment, I think Vaughn's willingness to use his fists is one of the ways this show subtly signals to us that he's trustworthy. "Accessories" are for sissy villains.<br /><br />This last string of episodes was odd, and there are points I'm still confused on: Vaughn thinks he revealed Nadia's location, right? Hence the guilt and Sydney's anger. But he <i>didn't</i> reveal it: Sloane tipped off Lauren and Sark via phone call. And did Vaughn even know Nadia's location? Shaft didn't tell him that--at least not in a scene that we saw.<br /><br />I agree, too, that a lot of the OMG! moments were manufactured from bad writing rather than occurring naturally. I watched the last 5 or so episodes of this series in bits and pieces, 20 minutes at a time, and that may be influencing my experience of them...but this season as a whole wasn't as tightly plotted as the last two.<br /><br />Is that a bad thing? Not necessarily. But the first two seasons of this show were so, so good--emotionally fulfilling and well made--that by the end of Season Three I started to feel like the show was coasting on our attachment to the characters. Anything can happen, in other words, since the writers rely on us to care just because we care about Sydney and Vaughn and Jack, rather than because we're in it for the interesting, complicated plotting. And I do wish they'd introduced the masks earlier; as is, they feel like a less-exciting version of doubling technology.<br /><br />I think "Resurrection" refers to the series' attempt at a re-set. Not a massive Superbowl episode re-set, but a rejiggering of the character relationships, the set, the context in which the spy games take place, etc. <br /><br />Sometimes it feels like the <i>Alias</i> writers have a big top hat filled with slips of paper on which are written possible plots: Blow up headquarters; Introduce creepy parent figure with ambiguous motives; Jack talks about game theory; Sark gets beaten; Character speaks ambiguously.<br /><br />That's all very complainy, isn't it? This season is still better than 90% of the stuff out there, and I'm still incredibly excited about the rest of my re-watch. <br /><br />(And one last thing: I'd spent this entire season thinking that the final cliffhanger was the cliffhanger that (I now realize) is actually at the end of Season Four. So that was a surprise!)Josie Kafkahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17892717530356699008noreply@blogger.com