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Post by Pixi on May 23, 2006 7:11:15 GMT -5
Interesting how Sydney's cut mirrors Nadia's, no? I for one found that fascinating.
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Post by Pixi on May 23, 2006 7:12:33 GMT -5
Did anyone doubt for a second that Irina would appear one more time? Not for a second. Of course I did see the credits but still. She had to be there. As soon as they said she, contact in Hong Kong - bingo - had to be Irina.
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Post by Pixi on May 23, 2006 7:15:01 GMT -5
If he dies I will be very, VERY pissed. You ain't the only one. Not by a long damned shot. I love SpyDaddy, I do but I had a feeling that it would come to this. Of course he would sacrifice himself, I knew it, I knew it. But I found it so very satisfying that he confronted Sloane in the end. What a dance those two had!
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Post by Pixi on May 23, 2006 7:15:30 GMT -5
Is it too much to hope that at least one of the finales I watch this sweeps ends on a happy note? Just one? Tell me about it. 24 ended on a very harsh note. I'm irritated as all hell. Awww - I loved 24 too. I guess I'm evil.
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Post by Pixi on May 23, 2006 7:16:28 GMT -5
Jack... #bighug#
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Post by Pixi on May 23, 2006 7:17:18 GMT -5
Ok. Happyesque. Not happy, but not overtly spirit-killing either. No, I can definitely live with this one. I'm seriously bummed about Jack, but I've realized that in a way I wasn't expecting him to survive. And perhaps it's more fitting that he and Sloane essentially went out together. Exactly my thought.
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Post by Pixi on May 23, 2006 7:19:19 GMT -5
Jack! Why did you do that? You could've set the explosives outside of the tomb. Stupid writers. More dramatic to make the grand gesture, but stupid!!!! I don't like it. I missed it before. I suppose that Grace got killed. Yeah. But he died to save everyone else in APO. And his end was, in a way, very reminiscent of Doyle--particularly his final conversation with Rachel. Do you think he did it because he killed Corman? (was that the name). The car bomb last week? And he felt he needed to make retribution? Or guilt over his wife still? I was sad about that - as soon as I saw him searching the tunnels I knew he would find it and die with it. Sigh!
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Post by Pixi on May 23, 2006 7:20:29 GMT -5
I very much like Sloane's perdition. Few thousand years from now he may have learned something, if he's ever dug up. It's almost Dante-esque: Sloane spent his entire life fixated on Rambaldi, never able to move past him. And now he'll spend eternity literally stuck in that one place, the place that embodies what Rambaldi was trying to achieve. Contrapasso at its finest. Very fitting, very evil ending. I can hear the writer's all going mwahahaha now.
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Post by Pixi on May 23, 2006 7:26:12 GMT -5
Well I loved this. It felt like perfect, classic Alias. Everything I wanted to see - I got to see. And as Rob said - everyone was acting their butts off. I applaud the writers for tying it up so neatly.
I love the fact that we really don't know if Syd is out of the spy biz or not.
I love the fact that Sark is still out there doing his thing.
I love the fact that there is a baby Jack and that Jack, as Matthew said, died to save Sydney from Sloane, that Sydney got to shoot Sloane and bring closure to the world that had Sloane in it.
I loved this show - it was a terrific ride and while the deaths saddened me - they didn't feel like cheap deaths or gotcha moment deaths. The deaths were integral to the characters and the stories so I'm okay with that.
I just really enjoyed this. I can now rewatch Alias somewhere down the line, knowing there is a satisfying ending that brings me closure.
Bravo J.J., bravo Jennifer, Victor, Michael etc. - as the credits said - thanks for an incredible five years.
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Post by Sara on May 23, 2006 7:58:14 GMT -5
I'm not sure I can properly word how this episode made me feel. The cast and crew wrote, directed and acted the hell out of this finale. Almost every character got their opportunity to shine in these final two hours. Considering the network-mandated contraction of episodes, this is no small feat. Spectacular stuff, with one great scene after another. I can't even write the actor's names without putting an minor expletive in the middle. First example that springs to mind: Ron Freaking Rifkin and Kevin Freaking Weisman. How good were they? The unlikliest of characters to have a verbal confrontation...yet Marshall finally steps out of his awkward comic-relief shell to deliver one of the best verbal beat-downs in the show's history. Period. I was grateful they gave the newest characters their moments, but mostly kept them in the background. The backbone of the show - the characters who made "Alias" what it was - got the most to do. Sydney, Jack, Dixon, Vaughn, Marshall, Irina and Sark had been around the longest, and deserved the lion's share of screen time. I'll probably have more thoughts about actual events in the episode over the next few days, but I doubt my initial feelings will change...and those are feelings of gratitude. Gratitude for giving a great show a dramatic, action-packed sendoff that somehow feels right. #metoo#
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Post by Rachael on May 23, 2006 9:54:05 GMT -5
Count me among those who thought it was a pretty good finale, but is seethingly angry about Jack's death.
I don't care if it was a good death. Someone else, someone Syd didn't need so much, could have finished off Sloane.
Syd didn't deserve to have both her parents die, all in the same night. Dammit.
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Post by Rachael on May 23, 2006 10:01:18 GMT -5
Interesting how Sydney's cut mirrors Nadia's, no? I noticed that. Couldn't decide what it meant. Other than the fact that instead of her father killing her, she was going to kill her mother.
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Post by Rachael on May 23, 2006 10:05:20 GMT -5
Did anyone doubt for a second that Irina would appear one more time? Of course not. That part I totally called a mile away. Irina is the invisible fourth person, and she's always a step ahead of Arvin in term of Rambaldi's endgame. Incidentally, I was also unsurprised by the immortality effect. Once Arvin said "what everyone has always been searching for". Ahem. Grail allegories, anyone? With better construction than some I could mention. Also...I AM surprised that Rambaldi himself isn't still alive, then. Did they cut his head off?
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Post by Sara on May 24, 2006 8:02:16 GMT -5
Well I loved this. It felt like perfect, classic Alias. Everything I wanted to see - I got to see. And as Rob said - everyone was acting their butts off. I applaud the writers for tying it up so neatly. I love the fact that we really don't know if Syd is out of the spy biz or not. I love the fact that Sark is still out there doing his thing. I love the fact that there is a baby Jack and that Jack, as Matthew said, died to save Sydney from Sloane, that Sydney got to shoot Sloane and bring closure to the world that had Sloane in it. I loved this show - it was a terrific ride and while the deaths saddened me - they didn't feel like cheap deaths or gotcha moment deaths. The deaths were integral to the characters and the stories so I'm okay with that. I just really enjoyed this. I can now rewatch Alias somewhere down the line, knowing there is a satisfying ending that brings me closure. Bravo J.J., bravo Jennifer, Victor, Michael etc. - as the credits said - thanks for an incredible five years. I meant to say this yesterday--let me add my big eetah to all of the above.
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Post by leftylady on May 24, 2006 18:30:26 GMT -5
Tell me about it. 24 ended on a very harsh note. I'm irritated as all hell. Awww - I loved 24 too. I guess I'm evil. Me too. I definitely belong in the Sinister Club!!! I go for the drama.
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