Okay, obviously I'm really looking forward to Christmas. It's one of my two favorite times of the year (the other being summer, or any other time which I happen to make it to the beach). But that's not the anticipation I'm referring to at the moment. What I'm talking about is the 30 days left until the Alias premiere. Yes, you who know me well had to know another Alias post was coming. And I'm sure you know it won't be the last. But at this 30 day marker it seemed like a good time to blabber about the show for a while. If nothing else it verifies that I'm still alive in blogdom. (Note: expect Alias blog entry every Thurs)
Last season was disappointing. I've been trying to pinpoint what it was about it that left a bad taste in my mouth. It wasn't Lauren, though many Alias fans would like to blame her. While I wasn't crazy about the Lauren-Vaughn relationship, I actually really liked Lauren's character once she hooked up with Sark. It was nice to have another dominant female character on the show. I think part of the problem was that the first two seasons were very character-centric. The plot was interesting and well written, but what gave the show it's kick was the characters. They were people that you wanted to spend time with. People that you wanted to be. I enjoyed stepping into their world every week. During season three, I no longer wanted Sydney's life. I enjoyed watching the show, but didn't want to be a part of it. Sydney's life was so depressing. I watch Alias to escape. Not that I hate my life. I love my life. But Alias has always been sort of like a one hour vacation for me. For one hour a week I step outside of the world focused on laundry and diapers and travel vicariously through Sydney Bristow into a life of adrenaline. That was missing from season three. Sydney's life wasn't refreshing, and the adrenaline was not there in the same way. But I'm excited about season 4. What I've read about it seems to indicate that the writers are back on track and plan to recapture the magic of seasons 1 and 2. And the commercial that ran during Mon night football last night got me really excited. It's the spunk that I missed about Syd in season 3. Here's a taste(skip this part, Mom):
Syd is being interrogated. Someone demands, "Tell me your name".
Syd looks at them coyly and says, "Ima."
"Ima who?"
Then, just as we see her foot whiz around at the interrogator, she smiles and says, "Ima gonna kick your a**"
Oh, yeah. Alias is back. It reminded me of the scene from season 1 where she is being beaten for a code. She finally pretends to give in and tells the interrogator to take down the following code: emetib Then she tells him to enter it in reverse, and proceeds to take out about six guys as she escapes. And looks good doing it.
Scott suggested putting a auto countdown on the blog, but since he's busy mourning his PDA, I'll just have to use the old calendar. 30 days. . .
Willa, I am slowly getting over my PDA disaster and was able to generate some code for you. I will email it to you in the form of a text file. What you'll need to do is copy and past the code into your blog template. I would suggest somewhere in the top...just above where the posts are generated. You might want to put some special tags around it, too, like [p][/p], and/or [center][/center]...or maybe just a break return [br /]. Also, whereever I have placed a "[" or a "]" would be a sideways "V".
If you want to change the color, font, size, etc., just give me a call and we can walk through it. Stephen may be able to help you with it, too.
Posted by: Scott at Diciembre 9, 2004 10:34 AM