Thursday, September 29, 2005

ISABEL GARFLECK? Good things about tonight's premiere of Alias:

  • No having to wait half a season to resolve the cliffhanger.
  • Many amusing efforts to conceal Jennifer Garner's not-exactly-tiny tummy, including several that were worthy of an Austin Powers sketch.
  • Good use of Marshall. And interesting that there's apparently someone else who's just as good.
  • Reminding us that Syd and Dixon are a great team by referring back to seasons past.
  • "Clementine is cute." "For a fruit."

Bad things about tonight's premiere of Alias:

  • Are you really telling me that there's another 15th century prophet-genius besides Milo Rambaldi?
  • Do you really expect us to believe that Jack just let some guy take over control of APO without checking him out first?
  • Learning from prior history, JJ decides to keep Nadia in an "incurable coma" indefinitely so that, if he decides to bring back Mia Maestro out of the blue some months or years from now, he won't have to go to all of the trouble of figuring out some convoluted oops-she's-not-actually-dead story à la Irina Derevko.
  • That other thing that I will leave for the comments so that the people who watched Survivor or the O.C. and TiVoed Alias don't get miffed.

There may have been a shark on Lost last night, but perhaps there ought to have been one on Alias. Truth takes time.

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