Okay, I am totally not watching ALIAS this season, but even so...

[rj_anderson]

According to a reliable source (well, at least according to the spoiler thread on TWoP, and they're a pretty skeptical bunch about unconfirmed stuff), Lena Olin is coming back as Irina in the 90-minute season finale. Of course that's a long way away, but dude, I am so there.

Also, speaking of JJ Abrams, GIP! I don't usually like to use other people's icons unless they were made specifically for me and therefore are not likely to be spotted in a zillion other LJs, but I have no idea where I might go about finding this screencap to make my own version. Besides, I like the lighting and Josh Holloway brings teh pretty in a truly impressive way so... here it is. Thanks to littleasianpixi and foriconsake.

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[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what I think the show needs -- I haven't really sat down and analyzed it that much. I just know that all the farfetched spy stuff that was fun and exciting in Season One and Two is utterly failing to compel my interest this season. As far as all of them going back to work for Sloane again with the CIA's approval goes, I think my suspension of disbelief was finally stretched so far that it broke. Even Victor Garber and Ron Rifkin rippling their impressive acting muscles at me is not enough to make me buy in to this scenario after everything else that went down the past three seasons.

So I find myself watching the show in a state of complete detachment from the actual story, with no sense of personal involvement or concern for any of the characters. If a character says something that makes me laugh, I no longer think, "Aw, Marshall's such an adorable nerd" or "Ooh, I just love Weiss," I think, "Heh, that's a pretty decent bit of dialogue scripting there." It's more like watching The Making of ALIAS than watching ALIAS itself, if you know what I mean.

Anyway, thanks to my friendslist I'm still up to speed on the major developments -- I can always count on celli and yahtzee63 and others to provide commentary on anything significant that happens -- so there really isn't much for me to catch up on. I'm just not sitting down and watching the show myself, that's all.