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Title: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: josh40 on Mar 18, 2003 at 12:07 PM
saw a teaser for alias a little after midnight today on axn. it says it's coming soon.  hope it'd be sooner cause i tried watching it last night in abs and after hearing the first tagalog word off of jennifer garner's mouth, i immediately switched channel.
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: sardaukar on Mar 19, 2003 at 12:54 AM
It starts April 1 on AXN. Every Tuesday at 9pm. Yay! I can finally watch it.
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: LoBudget on Mar 19, 2003 at 03:36 AM
i hope they start it from the first season. it looks like they are gonna start it in the middle since they keep featuring the quentin tarantino episode. at least i have successfully downloaded the entire 2 seasons in mpg format and will make my own collection of Alias. Or maybe i should just erase it and wait for the DVD copies?
Title: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: Reuven Malter on Mar 19, 2003 at 06:51 AM
It starts April 1 on AXN. Every Tuesday at 9pm. Yay! I can finally watch it.

thanks for the heads up, sardaukar! buti na lang summer na, siguradong walang makakaligtaang episode.
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: indie boi on Mar 19, 2003 at 09:25 AM
Hopefully, they won't show Alias from the middle. What we're seeing are teaser trailers anyway so of course they'll show the more interesting parts. Well, at least I hope so.  :)

Finally, Jennifer Garner without that awful, awful, awful Pilipino dub. WOOHOO   ;D
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: moonstone on Mar 19, 2003 at 10:26 PM
Same sentiments here.  Heard that Alias is a really good show but then ABS-CBC had to ruin it by dubbing it in tagalog.  

Can't wait til April 1!  

Should mark it down in my calendar lest I forget.
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: demented_angel on Mar 19, 2003 at 11:12 PM
me too, heard that alias is one of the best shows in the u.s.

cant wait till april 1, but im sure im gonna watch it at dawn...hope they air the replays at 1am  ;D
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: LoBudget on Mar 20, 2003 at 12:48 AM
maybe we should link this to the Tagalized Shows thread. it seems people here dont like the tagalized Alias as much as i do.

good thing we can download the english versions here in the office. i din't have to suffer the dubbing.
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: Dragon Sleeper on Apr 01, 2003 at 07:50 PM
Will this be replayed on weekends?

I want to watch the continuation of Smallville from last week kasi muna..  :(
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: DViant on Apr 01, 2003 at 08:08 PM
Less than an hour to go... :)

For program schedules check out the AXN website. :)
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: viper on Apr 01, 2003 at 10:24 PM
Caught only the tailend of the first episode pero OK na rin!
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: DViant on Apr 02, 2003 at 12:20 AM
Sched

Tuesday
9:00 PM Premiere

Wednesday
1:00 AM
12:00 PM
4:00 PM
11:00 PM

Thursday
3:00 AM

Sunday
10:00 AM
7:00 PM
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: Dragon Sleeper on Apr 02, 2003 at 12:24 AM
Hey, thanks!  :D
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: jael on Apr 02, 2003 at 08:04 AM

ang ganda! parang MGS2, you dont know who to trust! ;)
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: gumby on Apr 02, 2003 at 12:47 PM
Watching ALIAS is a blast - if you thought the first episode is excellent, prepare to be blown away in the next seven! Each episode from the second to the eighth end with a cliffhanger that'll leave you wishing the next installment would be shown the next day!

It reaches a high point in mid-season, then (IMO) slows down a bit, then gets back up again as it nears its first season finale! Needless to say (but I'll say it anyway), you guys are in for a ride!

To those interested, the first season DVD is coming out in September 2  ;D
Title: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: Reuven Malter on Apr 02, 2003 at 07:33 PM
thanks for the heads up, Gumby!

saw the episode today. I was blown away. I also love the choice of songs. how can I forget the marriage proposal?
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: justine on Apr 03, 2003 at 08:31 PM
This series is wonderful, no wonder Jennifer Gardner was so effective in her role in Daredevil, she has plenty of experience in Alias.

I cannot wait till this series is released on DVD.  ;D

It is better dubbed in English than Tagalog.
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: demented_angel on Apr 03, 2003 at 10:53 PM
saw the show earlier ar 3 a.m. i was glued on the boob tube for an hour...complete with soda and chips...

alias rule!
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: viper on Apr 03, 2003 at 11:03 PM
Currently watching "Dude, Where's My Car" and I saw JG's name in the opening credits. That's why she looks familiar!  ;D ;D
Title: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: Reuven Malter on Apr 09, 2003 at 07:56 PM
saw the second episode today. I love how the father-daughter relationship is unravelling. no melodrama whatsoever.
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: xage on Apr 10, 2003 at 12:59 PM
ALIAS can be seen too in this channel ---> Channel 69 M-NET channel for Cablelink Subscribers
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: JdelaCruz on Apr 11, 2003 at 01:58 PM
The soundtrack's pretty edgy.  Some notables:

Episode 1: No Man's Woman by Sinead O'Connor
Episode 2: This Woman's Work by Kate Bush

Both were played right after Sydney accomplished her mission.

Nice series.  Jennifer Garner is quite effective.  And purty too.
Title: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: Reuven Malter on Apr 11, 2003 at 02:03 PM
I agree. Discovered a lot of good songs so far. I like Maxwell's version better though.
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: scully on May 29, 2003 at 01:43 AM
hmm, how come nobody's posting anymore?  :P

anyway, some of us at PinoyXPhiles are avid watchers of this show, too. we've been tossing around the idea of having a marathon. i have all the s1 and s2 eps na kc already.

pm me if you're interested in having a 'thon, too. magandang 'getting-to-know-you' experience yan  ;)

september is sooooooooooo far away  :'(

Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: kakabanas on Jun 06, 2003 at 03:50 AM
The season ender was kinda stupid ... how on earth did that happen ?
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: scully on Jun 09, 2003 at 08:24 PM
i know  >:( they'll probably connect it to rambaldi though  :-\

i've read somewhere that JJ Abrams did the same for Felicity? the time-jumping thing, i mean  :(
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: indie boi on Jun 09, 2003 at 11:44 PM
I just saw One-Hour Photo. Cool understated performance from Michael Vartan. That frontal nudity surprised me.
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: SPaCeMaN SPiFF on Jun 10, 2003 at 02:31 AM
he he he... you and myself (and a couple of hundred of other people as well) were suprised with ya, indie... i was a bit shocked he agreed to go thru with it. i mean he's already somewhat of a star and has some clout already...  ;)

and yeah scully...  he went star trek all of a sudden and did time travel in felicity too. it happened in the last few episodes.  ;)
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: scully on Jun 11, 2003 at 07:08 PM
I just saw One-Hour Photo. Cool understated performance from Michael Vartan. That frontal nudity surprised me.

well, MV said in interviews na kebs naman daw siya sa nudity nya ~ madalas naman daw siyang nekkid sa locker room after his hockey games kaya oks lang. saka he felt that it was very short (the scene, i mean ;) ) lang naman. but if he was asked to walk a few feet while nekkid, he wouldn't do it daw.  mas naawa pa nga daw dun siya sa co-star nyang girl  :-\

ghastly! kakatakot talaga kung anung gagawin ni JJ sa Season 3  ???

Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: indie boi on Jun 11, 2003 at 11:31 PM
Any info if that nude scene actually had any significance to the whole movie? Was it mentioned in his interview? Personally, I found the nude scenes a little superfluous.
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: SPaCeMaN SPiFF on Jun 12, 2003 at 01:30 AM
Any info if that nude scene actually had any significance to the whole movie? Was it mentioned in his interview? Personally, I found the nude scenes a little superfluous.

hmmmm... maybe it was used to accentuate their character's vulnerability? i mean... i don't think they'd look as pathetic in that scene if they were fully clothed.

p.s. anyone know if jj abrams ever does on screen cameos?... i saw his pic on the book and he looks ... familiar. in felicity perhaps?
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: DViant on Jun 12, 2003 at 04:19 AM
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alias_philippines/
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: indie boi on Jun 12, 2003 at 07:20 AM
hmmmm... maybe it was used to accentuate their character's vulnerability? i mean... i don't think they'd look as pathetic in that scene if they were fully clothed.

p.s. anyone know if jj abrams ever does on screen cameos?... i saw his pic on the book and he looks ... familiar. in felicity perhaps?

That's a good take on it, Spiff. In my opinion, they could've just showed they were nude without showing the private parts. Maybe Romanek was just trying to make a big statement since this is his debut as a film director. Despite some flaws, I still loved the movie though.  ;D
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: scully on Jun 12, 2003 at 11:39 AM
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alias_philippines/

thanks! i just joined  :D

and indie boi, i think MV did say something about the significance of the nudity but it escapes me at the moment  ???

ETA:

well, it wasn't exactly what i thought it was going to be but it does show how Vartan, etc. felt about the nudie bits:

go here (http://www.vartanetc.com/articles/pages/williams.html) and here (http://www.vaughnetc.com/articles/ohpscene.html)
Title: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: Reuven Malter on Sep 10, 2003 at 06:43 PM
just started with season 2 last week. the show became even more exciting with Lena Olin. she was nominated for an Emmy recently. was that for season 2? or they are already on season 3? the one being shown on Studio 23, would that be season 3? Thanks in advance!
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: patring on Sep 10, 2003 at 07:37 PM
Lena Olin was nominated for season 2.  She's just great.  The episodes being shown on Studio 23 are still from the second season but I believe they're nearing the season finale already.  Since season 3 will start in the US on Sept. 28, it will probably be quite a while before it gets shown here.
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: scully on Sep 10, 2003 at 11:40 PM
Lena Olin was nominated for season 2.  She's just great.  The episodes being shown on Studio 23 are still from the second season but I believe they're nearing the season finale already.  Since season 3 will start in the US on Sept. 28, it will probably be quite a while before it gets shown here.

i think tonight's ep on ch23 was  "Free Agent" (2x15) so there are about 7 eps to go. AXN is only on 2x02 (can't remember the title off the top of my head).

going back on ch23, did you peeps notice that they cut the making-out scenes during the last part?  i saw the US broadcast already & that's why i knew. however, the edit was also pretty obvious by the way Coldplay's song was cut short in 23's broadcast. wtf did they do that?  >:(

if AXN doesn't cut their broadcast of "Double Agent" (2x14), you'll see why i'm pissed. i mean, ch23 just showed a couple simulating sex on CSI  tonight for ****'s sake! MV's & JG's scenes were a lot, lot, lot tamer IMO...
Title: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: Reuven Malter on Sep 11, 2003 at 12:11 AM
clinical naman daw kasi yun.  ::)

thanks for the reply, patring & scully!

saw the episode on S23 tonight. si Christian Slater pala guest. couldn't wait. matagal pala catch-up from AXN to S23.
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: CrUzSACK on Oct 28, 2003 at 06:46 PM
We're (hubby & myself) having an Alias overload...Last night - saw this really big cockroack on our white wall. Hubby decides to terminate it with insect spray on each hand and me doing a mean kick on the cockroach. We treated the roach like a spy. We felt like Vaughn and Bristow....but the cockroach lived and got away! ;D ... Just beginning to get into Alias - episode per episode. No wonder I couldn't really appreciate it on TV as much as most people I know, I have to begin from episode 1 and shouldn't miss or skip an episode.

Now what do I wanna be when I grow up? A CSI, a double agent or a CTU agent?  ;D
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: scully on Oct 28, 2003 at 07:08 PM
We're (hubby & myself) having an Alias overload...Last night - saw this really big cockroack on our white wall. Hubby decides to terminate it with insect spray on each hand and me doing a mean kick on the cockroach. We treated the roach like a spy. We felt like Vaughn and Bristow....but the cockroach lived and got away! ;D ... Just beginning to get into Alias - episode per episode. No wonder I couldn't really appreciate it on TV as much as most people I know, I have to begin from episode 1 and shouldn't miss or skip an episode.

Now what do I wanna be when I grow up? A CSI, a double agent or a CTU agent?  ;D

LOL!

i wanna be vaughn's handler! (insert all bad puns here)  ;D

The Passage P2 is on later. Ep 2x09 i believe. 13 more to go before the season ends. i really hope AXN will pick up S3.
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: CrUzSACK on Oct 28, 2003 at 07:18 PM
LOL!

i wanna be vaughn's handler! (insert all bad puns here)  ;D


Oooh! Hehehe! ;D Vaughn's like the Mulder of the 21st century...and hey, you're scully! Bagay! ;D

So fill me in, are they together in real life? Garner and Vartan?
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: acidburn on Oct 28, 2003 at 10:15 PM
yes, jennifer garner and micahel vartan are an item. Inamin na niya in some Entertainment news show interview.
Title: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: Reuven Malter on Oct 29, 2003 at 12:57 AM
as an Alias fan, natutuwa ako sa balita. parang nung addicted pa 'ko sa X-files, I was wishing Scully and Mulder were really together in reel and real life. Immature ano? But at least in this case, it can happen! Who can deny the compatibility? That guy from Felicity really blew it.  ;D
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: scully on Oct 29, 2003 at 10:12 AM
Oooh! Hehehe! ;D Vaughn's like the Mulder of the 21st century...and hey, you're scully! Bagay! ;D

So fill me in, are they together in real life? Garner and Vartan?

haha! ;D What is it that Weiss said about Vaughn? That he has ba**s of steel? I dunno about that but i actually find Vaughn wimpy sometimes :P he gives stiff competition to Mulder's puppy-dog look. Pwede bang Mulder intelligence tas Vaughn looks?  ;D

as for Gartan, rumors circulated that they were together nung May pa. It was only in August though that JG's reps confirmed it. I think it was on the Ellen DeGeneres' show (Sept. ata) that one of them (MV) finally admitted it.

hey Reuven, i used to wish the same thing for Gillian & David, too. but after reading their numerous interviews, i don't think they'd jell at all. but then again, what the hell do i know  ::)
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: Reuven Malter on Oct 30, 2003 at 08:37 AM
OT:

Scully, is it true that Gillian is a bitch? Have you seen her feature film House of Mirth?
Title: Re:ALIAS on AXN
Post by: scully on Oct 30, 2003 at 11:04 AM
OT:

Scully, is it true that Gillian is a b**ch? Have you seen her feature film House of Mirth?

eh, i'm no expert but from what i've read (her interviews, what others say about her) & seen (xf bloopers, interviews, etc) mukhang hindi naman diva.

where did you gather that? ang alam ko lang na may beyotch reference to her was in a DD radio interview w/Howard Stern. HS said that Garry Shandling (reportedly) commented that GA was like "Hitler with lipstick" (or something to that effect), which DD denied. well, whatever  ::), i'm pretty sure there are "off" days for everybody.

yes, i do have HoM on dvd. got it last year sa Borders when i visited my family sa North Carolina. it's a long and depressing film  :'(

back to the topic, does anyone know if there are winners na sa AXN's Alias look-alike contest? excited akong malaman kung meron ngang mga Vaughn clones  :-*

Title: House of Mirth
Post by: Reuven Malter on Oct 30, 2003 at 11:16 AM
OT ulit:

Iyan pala, Scully! Can we borrow it kung okay lang? We've been trying to look for it sometime. I loved the book.
Title: Re:House of Mirth
Post by: scully on Nov 03, 2003 at 09:05 AM
OT ulit:

Iyan pala, Scully! Can we borrow it kung okay lang? We've been trying to look for it sometime. I loved the book.

no problem. dalhin ko pag nagkita kami ng sister mo  ;D
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: AshKetchum on Aug 23, 2004 at 07:22 PM
This thread seems to have gone stale, no new posts for almost a year--maybe because the series seems to have jumped the shark?

Anyway, recent news have announced that Alias creator J.J. Abrams has been tapped by no less than Tom Cruise himself to direct the 3rd Mission: Impossible movie. Cruise allegedly based his decision to hire Abrams after watching the DVD sets of Alias Season 1 & 2--the actor was quoted as having watched every episode of the DVD sets.

IMO it's a good thing Season 3 isn't out on DVD yet, or else Tom Cruise would have to plod through that crapfest and rethink about hiring Abrams. I've been a fan of the show since Season 1, and Season 3 has to be the worst one yet, filled with inane plots and breaching ludicrous territory. I mean--what is it with these hokey terms: The Covenant? The Passenger? The Trust? The Hourglass? *vomits* What next--The B.S.? And how many more secret, hidden relatives of Sydney will show up?

Fast forwarding two years was a bad idea, and bringing in Melissa George was a bad idea--although she complimented Michael Vartan's "acting through your forehead lines" method by using her own "acting through your teeth" method.

Bring back Lena Olin! Even though she doesn't seem to be interested anymore, someone high up should convince her to return. Bet Irina could kick Lauren's butt and Mrs. Reed's butt without even standing next to either of them.

J.J. Abrams admitted himself that Season 3 wasn't up to par, and they "kind of lost Sydney along the way". So they are planning to redo the show for Season 4, describing it as somewhat "another pilot". Good lord, not another restructuring--ABC airing Season 4 in January 2005 is already a bad sign. Hopefully they'll explain that Season 3 was all a dream...
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: SPaCeMaN SPiFF on Aug 23, 2004 at 10:28 PM
Hopefully they'll explain that Season 3 was all a dream...

ha ha ha ha! how very "dallas"!! (seriously though... they should consider it.  :-X)
Title: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: Reuven Malter on Aug 23, 2004 at 11:34 PM
It's not surprising that season 3 was such a bore. Wasn't Alias brought about because they ran out of ideas for Felicity? Let's face it, Alias is just Felicity as an agent. Why not indeed make Sydney an alien or a dream or a mutant...? The list can go on... After The Matrix, popular entertainment has blurred the thin line between dreams and reality even further... So, let's see!
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: SPaCeMaN SPiFF on Aug 24, 2004 at 12:04 AM
Let's face it, Alias is just Felicity as an agent.

actually, i think that was the official "pitch" when they were selling the idea to the network execs.  :P

as for running out of ideas. hmmm... let's just say j.j. abrams does have a tendency to lose steam after a while. (doesn't everyone?)  just look at felicity's last season. the time/spell thingy was just a tad too much of a stretch.  ::)

i just hope they come up with a more "creative" excuse than a "dream sequence" for such a poorly plotted season.  :-X
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: JojoD818 on Aug 25, 2004 at 12:34 AM
Hi guys!

I just finished watching Season 1 & 2 of ALIAS (thanks to a friend who lend me his collection) and was very pleased with it except for the last episode of season 2 (you know what I mean). After reading the whole thread I believe that season 3 is not so good to watch? Is it really that bad?

BTW, I love JG, she is a veery very good actress and I just bought Daredevil just to see her again.  ;D
Title: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: Reuven Malter on Aug 25, 2004 at 02:23 AM
Just see it for yourself, JojoD818. What may be bad for some may be good for you. Besides, JG is indeed eye candy!

I also relishing her perfs in Catch Me If You Can and 13 Going on 30.
Title: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: Reuven Malter on Aug 25, 2004 at 02:25 AM
You may see season 3 for yourself to judge. What may be bad for some may be good for you.

Besides, JG is such a looker, who cares if the season is baad?

I also relish her perfs in 13 Going on 30 and Catch Me If You Can. JG saved Daredevil, along with the scenery-chewing Bullseye (Colin Farrell) from total disaster.
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: JojoD818 on Aug 25, 2004 at 10:50 AM
You may see season 3 for yourself to judge. What may be bad for some may be good for you.

Besides, JG is such a looker, who cares if the season is baad?

I also relish her perfs in 13 Going on 30 and Catch Me If You Can. JG saved Daredevil, along with the scenery-chewing Bullseye (Colin Farrell) from total disaster.

Ok then, I'll just have to take it one episode at a time i guess.  ;D 13 Going on 30 is next in my list.  ;D

Thanks!
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: AshKetchum on Aug 26, 2004 at 09:42 AM
Your mileage may vary when watching Season 3 of Alias, as the storylines involving the Rambaldi artifacts seem to be scaling the heights of stupidity--I mean, it wouldn't surprise me now if Milo Rambaldi was revealed to be Merlin the Magician, or that Sydney had another sibling (a brother) hidden away in some monastery with some superDNA that could trigger a secret nuclear device under the White House.  ;D

This sister thing is so very Buffy, but instead of being The Key, she is The Passenger, just waiting to ingest green slime to channel Milo Rambaldi--utterly ridiculous, even Buffy scripts wouldn't be that lame.

But JG is really great, IMO each episode is worth watching just for her and Victor Garber's performance.

And if you thought JG was great in Daredevil, she looks even more awesome in her upcoming Elektra solo movie, as the image below shows--she's wearing an outfit very close to the comic book version:
(http://www2.mozcom.com/~hi/eagb/jennifer_elektra.jpg)
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: JojoD818 on Aug 27, 2004 at 08:00 AM
Wowow! ELEKTRA! I will be waiting for that.

As for Alias S3, it would be very disappointing to know that the Rambaldi mystery would be just for something lame.

And as you (and the others here) said, Alias is worth watching because of JG and VG's performance, I just hope my next viewings give answers rather than more questions.  ;D
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: scully on Aug 27, 2004 at 08:44 AM
S3 was so way below my expectations  :P  The storylines were even more implausible than XF's mytharc (ok, so maybe not but close enough). That episode with Kendall (Full Disclosure 3x11) was so lame I gradually tuned out after that. The only good thing about the whole season was Gervais & the Bad*ss!Vaughn.

On a slightly OT note, now that it seems that Vartan & Garner have split,  I'm wondering how their chemistry will play out in S4.
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: AshKetchum on Aug 27, 2004 at 12:23 AM
On a slightly OT note, now that it seems that Vartan & Garner have split,  I'm wondering how their chemistry will play out in S4.

LOL, at the rate things are going on the show, they might pair Sydney and Sark.  ;D

I doubt it though, because J.J. Abrams has stated that David Anders' role has been demoted back to recurring guest star. Anders isn't probably worried about losing his salary as a co-star, because he'll be appearing in a recurring role as one of the lab experts in Season 5 of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: JojoD818 on Aug 27, 2004 at 07:28 AM


LOL, at the rate things are going on the show, they might pair Sydney and Sark.  ;D



Now that is something new!  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: scully on Aug 27, 2004 at 02:39 PM
Sark has been demoted? I didn't know that. Meh. No big loss, I think he's getting stale. Come to think of it, all of them are getting stale. Except for SpyDaddy  :-* I love me some SpyDaddy. 

As for the decline of the series, I think it's coz JJ has too many fingers in different pies - the rumored MI:3, the new Superman, his new project with Greg Grunberg etc. At least he has the guts to say that he made a mistake (sabay taas ng kilay kay Chris Carter). Let's hope we have something to look forward to in S4.

Oh, btw, JJ is a rip-off guru  ;D Listen to his commentary in the dvds.
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: AshKetchum on Aug 27, 2004 at 05:29 PM
Sark has been demoted?

Here are some July 2004 articles about J.J. Abrams where he talks about how Season 3 failed and mentions upcoming stuff about Season 4:

Zap2It article (http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|89375|1|,00.html)

SciFi.com article (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-tv.html?2004-07/16/11.00.tv)

There were also scattered mentions of Abrams on E! Online denying that Sela Ward will replace Lena Olin as Irina Derevko; even though he's depressed that Lena isn't anymore interested in returning, Abrams will not recast the role.

Sark & Weiss disappearing, Will & Francie returning, plus the resurrection of SD-6? So, are they going to build a Rambaldi device now that will turn back time? Maybe they should also bring back Ana Espinosa--at least she was good as Sydney's nemesis.
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: JojoD818 on Nov 12, 2004 at 12:31 AM
I miss Sydney.  :(

Is season 4 on the way?
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: Reuven Malter on Jan 06, 2005 at 10:33 AM
NY Times review on the new season. Spoilers ahead!

Yet More of One Face in Season 4 of 'Alias'
By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN


Published: January 5, 2005

(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2005/01/05/arts/05heff.jpg)

ABC's series is nothing more than a pretentious comic strip: static, allegorical and a pleasure only to addicts.

What you think of "Alias" depends a lot on what you think of Jennifer Garner. If the actress's great beauty suggests to you infinite variety, then the show's claim to profundity, which it makes with ponderous attention to Ms. Garner's face, will ring true. But if Ms. Garner's winning modes - smiling and dimply, or precociously solemn, jaw set like an Eagle Scout - seem merely like two tricks she's being forced to repeat in place of acting, then the series is a bore.

In the second view, "Alias," whose fourth season has its two-hour premiere on ABC tonight, is nothing more than a pretentious comic strip: static, allegorical, a pleasure only to addicts, but also headache-inducingly difficult to criticize in these times when American comics have become, through male nostalgia and the canonization of the graphic novel, sacrosanct.

Let's be honest. Many of us don't like comic books and have feigned interest in their jumpy bif-bam fighting scenes and the way they redeem loser guys, only to impress and minister to those loser guys. And now we can admit that while the redemption dynamic - little X-Men boys finding in their eccentricity and loneliness a superpower - is touching, there's nothing duller than listening to someone explain, in all seriousness, the Syndicate and the Shadow Force and the Hard Drive and the Plutonium Lance. And the characters: lame. One is good and the other is evil, and then one is evil pretending to be good, and then one is good pretending to be evil.

Zzzz. "Alias," which is a production of J. J. Abrams, who also created "Lost," is no different. When the story began, Sydney Bristow (Ms. Garner) was good doing good, working for what she thought was a good government agency. (Government agencies are always good.) Then she found out the agency was evil: an anti-government agency. Then she resolved to turn good-pretending-to-be-evil and continue working for the agency as a double agent, reporting back to the good American government, and in particular a dashing operator named Michael Vaughn (Michael Vartan).

For some reason this was bearable for one season. Sydney's newly openly evil organization had its own foes, and she of course now opposed her evil organization, so there was plenty of conflict, and plenty of occasions for wig-work, Eastern European accents and saltatory combat, which was pretty to look at.

But the characters and situations are so derivative, and the plot is so full of cheats, that the series has become wearing. Sydney's father, Jack Bristow (Victor Garber, who's good) is intermittently a good-pretending-to-be-evil type, and her mother, an alive-pretending-to-be-dead type. A "Da Vinci Code"-like subplot involving a fictional figure of the Italian Renaissance named Milo Rambaldi and his prophecy (the Prophecy, naturally) has dragged on interminably and must have made at least some viewers wonder why they were spending so much time inspecting Rambaldi's fake notebooks when they might have been studying Leonardo's real ones.

There have been several fake deaths on "Alias." People who seem dead generally can be counted on to show up alive and conspiring. Amnesia, another soap opera staple, featured prominently in the logic of the third season.

Sweetheart characters mingle with corrupt ones so often that they inevitably merge. In the second season, the show - tired, perhaps, of plain old psychological duplicity - introduced "genetic doubling," which became the show's classy way of doing the old evil-twin plot that nighttime soaps rely on when they're feeling desperate.

Tonight's episode begins with the boyish Sydney in drag, as she often is: This time wearing a teddy in a couchette, seducing a Russian-seeming scientist for secrets about isotopes. A fistfight flashes to life quickly, and suddenly Sydney's about to fall out of the train. But she doesn't.

A flashback shows Sydney feigning some missteps on another mission and getting herself falsely fired. In fact, she's been moved to a still more secret and autonomous intel gang called Authorized Personnel Only, but she tells everyone she's out of the spy game, and thus gets her cover back. In the new group are all the old pals: Jack, of course, and Vaughn, but also the stone-faced Dixon (Carl Lumbly), the geeky Marshall (Kevin Weisman), and the baddie Sloane (Ron Rifkin), the former head of the rogues, who has now either gone straight or is evil-pretending-to-be-good.

The new superfriends head out on their first missions: the isotope feint and a related museum heist, which allows Sydney to dress in cat-burglar clothes and brachiate around an unguarded exhibition. Sydney and Vaughn's sporadic romance, interrupted every time that one of them is dead or involved with someone else, flares up again. Her half sister, Nadia (Mía Maestro), comes around to multiply the girl action scenes. And her troubled relationship with her father grows more troubled and then possibly less troubled as he lurches in Sydney's esteem from evil-pretending-to-be-good to good-pretending-to-be-evil.

In short, it's a very typical episode of "Alias." Ms. Garner, who when not in a wig still has apparently unprocessed brown hair, looks honestly beautiful in close-ups. But as a character who has been betrayed by everyone around her - and who faces death on a regular basis - she ought to have the gravitas of Anna Karenina by now. Instead, when in somber mode, she looks vacuous, as if she's lost her train of thought. Finally, when she's being cute, she just doesn't let herself go far enough. That's too bad, too, because if she beamed after the stunts and didn't look so solemn, she might come off like Lynda Carter in the old "Wonder Woman." And then we who dislike comic books could dismiss this show as silly without the least compunction.
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Post by: DViant on Nov 24, 2005 at 12:41 PM
  MSNBC.com

‘Alias’ to end its ABC run this spring
Network promises big finish for spy drama
The Associated Press
Updated: 10:51 p.m. ET Nov. 23, 2005

LOS ANGELES - “Alias” is going undercover for good.

The spy drama starring Jennifer Garner will end its five-season run in May, ABC announced Wednesday, promising a big finish.

“’Alias’ is not going to wind down as it comes to an end, it’s going to rev up, and we’re going to make it the event it deserves to be,” ABC Entertainment President Stephen McPherson said in a statement.

The series co-stars Victor Garber, Ron Rifkin, Carl Lumbly and Kevin Weisman. It was created by executive producer J.J. Abrams, who is also part of ABC’s popular “Lost.”

Airing at 8 p.m. EST Thursday this season, “Alias” has struggled to hold its audience against the competition, especially CBS’ “Survivor: Guatemala.” Last week, the ABC show drew about 7 million viewers compared to about 19 million for “Survivor.”

Garner and her husband, actor Ben Affleck, are expecting their first child around Christmas. Her pregnancy was written into “Alias” for her character, a globe-trotting spy.
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Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: AshKetchum on Nov 24, 2005 at 02:30 PM
Thank God. I gave up on this show after Season 3, which reeked to high heaven with its idiotic plots that could diminish anyone's IQ after watching one episode.

Friends told me Season 4 was even worse, and for all that foolishness we get yet another season. Enough already.

Hopefully the final, final episode will see Sidney waking up hours after she lost consciousness during the Season 2 finale, and that Seasons 3-5 was just a dream.  ;D
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: dni on Nov 24, 2005 at 04:55 PM
i am only watching this for the sake of watching it.  my friend and i have been laughing about the plot already!!  la lang para lang may mapagtawanan kami!!   ;D
Title: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: Reuven Malter on Apr 27, 2006 at 06:01 PM
On its 100th episode, Will and Anna Espinosa came back!
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: scully on Apr 27, 2006 at 06:18 PM
Keraykee. They're still around?

S4 was utterly forgettable. I hear bad things about S5 as well.
Title: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: Reuven Malter on Apr 27, 2006 at 06:23 PM
No one is really dead in Sydney Bristow's world. ;D
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: dobler on Apr 27, 2006 at 11:34 PM
Keraykee. They're still around?

S4 was utterly forgettable. I hear bad things about S5 as well.

Season 1 and 2 were pretty solid. The show slowly became a joke once the 3rd one began. By that time, J.J. Abrams was busy with Lost. Same thing happened with Felicity, he somehow wrote that horrible time travel bulls**t series finale when Alias was just starting out.
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: scully on Apr 28, 2006 at 04:21 PM
No one is really dead in Sydney Bristow's world. ;D

Much like in TXF's world (no, my DooHickey's not dead!) :)

My puny interest disappeared totally especially when I heard about what happened to Vaughn at the start of S5. I mean, really! How could they do that??? Baah. I read somewhere that MV couldn't take the heat of JG and Baffleck but that's all pure speculation naman. 
Title: Re: ALIAS on AXN
Post by: Reuven Malter on May 03, 2006 at 07:21 PM
Funny recap of Alias from A List of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago (http://throwingthings.blogspot.com/2006_04_16_throwingthings_archive.html):

Bob Balaban taps USC lit student Sydney Bristow to be his super-special weapon for the CIA's black-ops SD6 division, because the best way to find a tireless worker with infinite focus, superlative athletic chops, and loads of free time is to raid the grad schools. Syd spills the beans to her fake-French fiance, who gets killed for security reasons. Balaban will do the same for Syd if she doesn't get out of bed and back to the ass-kicking, so her dad outs SD6 as a pro-terror syndicate and himself as a CIA/SD6 double-agent and SD6 truancy officer. Syd Run Lolas through the CIA front door and enlists with the legit agency, not realizing that the "6" in SD6 indicates that there may be some other SDs out there.

Syd's colleagues at real CIA include a real French love interest, Vaughn, (not to be confused with the fake French fiance) and Seth Rogen. Her colleagues at fake CIA include by-the-book Dixon and hobbit Marshall, both of whom will later join her at real CIA.

Syd roundhouse kicks her way into the control rooms of a loosely-organized network of terrorist nightclub operators, where she copies discs containing the plans, the lists, the passwords, and perhaps bootlegged copies of "Dude, Where's My Car." Each week Syd defeats what she believes to be the greatest danger known to mankind. Because it's the CIA, or the fake CIA, each week she learns that last week's greatest danger is, in fact, the second-greatest danger, right behind this week's greatest danger. For exactly one and a half years, she kills exactly zero people. Incompetent spy.

Bob Balaban is obsessed with a 13th-century prophet/Leonardo wannabe named Milo Ventimiglia. He invented a magical way of painting a globe red. Syd's part-time job is to steal pages from Milo's collected works so that Balaban can make himself a red globe and rule the world. In discharging her duties, Syd discovers that (a) Milo drew a really good picture of her; and (b) she is the Key Master. She also meets an atelier who hints that Milo is still alive, but JJ Abrams later forgot about this so it didn't happen. Or did it?

For a year, roommate Frenchie and deadbeat Will fail to notice that Syd's bank job requires her to be out of the house for several days a week and that she always returns with three broken legs. Frenchie has a boyfriend who sings, or maybe that was on Ally McBeal. Will has a smoking-hot intern who leaves for The L Word. They congregate in Central Perk behind a sepia-toned camera filter before being killed, replaced by an identical but evil twin who is killed (or is she?), or put into witness protection. Frenchie doesn't like Rocky Road ice cream. Or does she?

On approximately SuperBowl Sunday, Syd's lingerie jumps out of a plane as Bob Balaban takes down the SD network. Syd kills somebody in the basement, thus ending her pacifist period.

Syd's mom, who was previously dead, is in fact not dead, but bad. Later, she is captured, good, and escaped. Still later, she is bad, and dead. Still even later, she is alive, bad, and captured. Yet even still more later, she is good, and escaped. Do I need to tell you that she is now perhaps bad? Or is she? Also, she killed Vaughn's dad, who actually may not be dead, but who in fact may be dead. It's not entirely clear. And she has a whole separate ass-kicking family, including erstwhile Skinemax stalwart Sonia Braga, severe-haircutted Isabella Rossellini, and current bombshell-with-a-porn-name Mia Maestro. That's right, a Russian family entirely played by Swedish, Brazilian, Italian, and Argentinian women. Oh, the betrayal. Which reminds me, Balaban is secretly bad, then openly bad, then through-and-through good but bad-curious (this is his World Health Organization/research into Milo juice phase, if you're scoring at home), then meets the Enlightened Master and drops the whole bad thing completely, then has a bad relapse, then is in jail, then is good and in charge of the CIA, then is bad in the service of saving his daughter (Mia Maestro), then is remorseful, then cuts exactly the same deal to be bad again to help his daughter (except with the sister of the first person with whom he dealt) but reneges. Or does he?

I forgot to mention that some kid named Sark, after the famous Cutty, is exactly like Syd except (a) male; and (b) bad. They are made for each other. He gets beaten up and jailed a lot, but has a pretty healthy attitude about it.

Syd falls asleep and wakes up two years later, with Vaughn married to an unaccountably English-accented blonde. She is a double agent, and is killed. Or is she? Syd discovers that she is a "Project Christmas" kid, meaning that whenever somebody says "Queen of Diamonds," she assassinates the President. Then JJ changes his mind, and this didn't happen. Or did it? Syd gets engaged to Vaughn, who reveals that he's a double agent and then is killed in a car accident. Or is he? He's not, because he is later killed by the bad guys. Or is he? An unwitting bad-guy analyst who conveniently wears the same wig size as now-pregnant Syd jumps the fence and kicks ass with slightly less enthusiasm but more va-voom than Syd. She also has a love interest, Agent Liev Schreiber. And now Mama's back.

Tally
Principal spies: 13 (Syd, Balaban, Jack, Dixon, Marshall, Seth Rogen, Vaughn, Irina, Lauren, Nadia, Rachel, Liev, Sark)

Spies who have not been double-agents or worked for both sides: 3 (Seth Rogen, Nadia, Liev)

Conclusion: internal controls insufficient. Or are they?