Alias has jumped the shark

[waylman]

Alias has taken a big fall this year. It is deteriorating into a soap opera. The story line is concerned about who is hooking up with who more than anything else. As if that is not enough, there were 2 Melrose Place-esque cat fights in last nights episode. Furthermore, the entire season has been riddled with weak hole filled plots. I can?t wait to see how Sydney?s Dad covers up the ?virus.? What a joke. All I can say is bring on 24.

 

[conjur]

Guess I'm not that upset, then, at having missed the opener and last night's episodes. NFL in HD on ESPN is where I usually end up on Sunday evenings.

 

[MaxDepth]

Plausibility?
mwahahahahahhahahahhahahahhahahahhahaha

 

[ggavinmoss]

Originally posted by: waylman
Alias has taken a big fall this year. It is deteriorating into a soap opera. The story line is concerned about who is hooking up with who more than anything else. As if that is not enough, there were 2 Melrose Place-esque cat fights in last nights episode. Furthermore, the entire season has been riddled with weak hole filled plots. I can?t wait to see how Sydney?s Dad covers up the ?virus.? What a joke. All I can say is bring on 24.

You're faulting Alias for plot holes, but not 24?

Get a grip, it's entertaining TV!

-geoff

 

[LikeLinus]

Originally posted by: waylman
Alias has taken a big fall this year. It is deteriorating into a soap opera. The story line is concerned about who is hooking up with who more than anything else. As if that is not enough, there were 2 Melrose Place-esque cat fights in last nights episode. Furthermore, the entire season has been riddled with weak hole filled plots. I can?t wait to see how Sydney?s Dad covers up the ?virus.? What a joke. All I can say is bring on 24.

Talk about a soap opera. Can you whine a little bit more?

I had no problems with the episode, it was good as usual.

 

[waylman]

Originally posted by: LikeLinus

Originally posted by: waylman
Alias has taken a big fall this year. It is deteriorating into a soap opera. The story line is concerned about who is hooking up with who more than anything else. As if that is not enough, there were 2 Melrose Place-esque cat fights in last nights episode. Furthermore, the entire season has been riddled with weak hole filled plots. I can?t wait to see how Sydney?s Dad covers up the ?virus.? What a joke. All I can say is bring on 24.

Talk about a soap opera. Can you whine a little bit more?

I had no problems with the episode, it was good as usual.

I guess you were a fan of 90210 also b/c that is what this show is turning into. It is very formulaic. Every freakin week they send Syd off on a couple of her "missions." The writers are really hurting for ideas when they have to start up the cat fights and inter office love triangles.

 

[rh71]

The premise of the show dating back to midway season 1 involved Syd and Vaughn... why wouldn't they continue that ? How else do you propose they continue that part of the story without throwing in some curveballs like a third person ?

Anyway... the routes the show takes always have me guessing. JJ Abrams does a good job in explaining things - sometimes even back to season 1... from now. You think to yourself... there's NO WAY he planned this all along...

The virus... they didn't detect a virus. Marshall just thought that's all that could be re-encoded. He actually thought of himself as a failure at that point.. his reaction - priceless.

 

[0roo0roo]

i thuoght the practice had jumpedthe shark, but its good again oddly enough. they dumped all the dead weight.

 

[Jzero]

I pretty much stopped watching when they decided I was too stupid to understand the whole double-agent "We think we work for the CIA but we really work for SD-6 except for the Bristows who really do work for the CIA" concept and flaccidly destroyed SD-6.

It got pretty lame after that.

 

[MaxDepth]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
i thuoght the practice had jumpedthe shark, but its good again oddly enough. they dumped all the dead weight.

Nope. Catherine Manheim is still there. That's a lot of weight there.

 

[shimsham]

so this is who watches these shows.......

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: shimsham
so this is who watches these shows.......

What do you watch ?

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: shimsham
so this is who watches these shows.......

What do you watch ?

If I had to guess, it would be a steady diet of Style and HGTV

 

[Ameesh]

i watch it cause shes fvckin hot

 

[yllus]

Where did the term "jumped the shark" come from? That's a new one to me.

Alias came apart after SD-6 was shut down. I keep watching for now mainly because Garner puts a new sexy outfit on display every episode. That will never get old.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
i watch it cause shes fvckin hot

Between Garner and Alba, you are the horny-est guy on ATOT ! Congrats! BTW, see the new Maxim spread Alba did ?

 

[shimsham]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: shimsham
so this is who watches these shows.......

What do you watch ?

If I had to guess, it would be a steady diet of Style and HGTV

only in the nude...


Science Channel, History/HI, ESPN(no, i dont watch playmakers), IFC, NFL on sundays, news channels. TV sucks, IMO.

 

[spidey]

Originally posted by: yllus
Where did the term "jumped the shark" come from? That's a new one to me.

Alias came apart after SD-6 was shut down. I keep watching for now mainly because Garner puts a new sexy outfit on display every episode. That will never get old.

It goes back to when Fonzie literally jumped over a shark on 'Happy Days'.

 

[yllus]

Originally posted by: spidey

Originally posted by: yllus
Where did the term "jumped the shark" come from? That's a new one to me.

Alias came apart after SD-6 was shut down. I keep watching for now mainly because Garner puts a new sexy outfit on display every episode. That will never get old.

It goes back to when Fonzie literally jumped over a shark on 'Happy Days'.

Ah, so then it means something along the lines of, "A plot device engineered to keep a series on life support"?

 

[Electric Amish]

24 and Alias suck.

 

[NeoV]

24 is the best action show ever on TV


I think 'jumped the shark' has jumped the shark...the whole thing is lame imo

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: spidey

Originally posted by: yllus
Where did the term "jumped the shark" come from? That's a new one to me.

Alias came apart after SD-6 was shut down. I keep watching for now mainly because Garner puts a new sexy outfit on display every episode. That will never get old.

It goes back to when Fonzie literally jumped over a shark on 'Happy Days'.

yup

and no, it doesn't mean plot device, it just means the obvious point where a formerly great show begins its steep decline from staying on air too long. i bet you can think of many shows who stayed too long

alias is only on its 3rd season.

 

[spidey]

Originally posted by: yllus

Originally posted by: spidey

Originally posted by: yllus
Where did the term "jumped the shark" come from? That's a new one to me.

Alias came apart after SD-6 was shut down. I keep watching for now mainly because Garner puts a new sexy outfit on display every episode. That will never get old.

It goes back to when Fonzie literally jumped over a shark on 'Happy Days'.

Ah, so then it means something along the lines of, "A plot device engineered to keep a series on life support"?

Yep, and that it's all downhill from there.

Agreed on the 'outfit of the week', too.

 

[Zim Hosein]

All I can say is bring on 24

Cheers waylman! :beer:

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: Ameesh
i watch it cause shes fvckin hot

Between Garner and Alba, you are the horny-est guy on ATOT ! Congrats! BTW, see the new Maxim spread Alba did ?

its because i'm not one of the 95% of the people here who take a cocktail of xanax, paxil, and quaaludes to destroy their libido and make them feel happy or rather not sad.

and yeah i have the maxim at home