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mandolinTo make up for the paper squee, a fannish post before I go dry my hair. I need to stop setting unfinished posts to private and then forgetting about them.
Okay, I finally did what I've been meaning to do since, oh, around 2003. (Of course, since I'm cheap, I waited til I could do this for free at the library.)
I took out all of Season 1 of Alias from the library and watched the whole first season.
Even knowing the Big Honking Surprise of Season One that you'd have to live under a rock not to hear about at this point, I still was in the dark enough to enjoy it:
Yes, I knew Irina was alive. I have too many friends who are fans of the series not to know this. There were a lot of twists I wasn't aware of, though, and some of them I actually managed to predict on my own:
- I figured Poole was playing Sloane right from the get-go. I mean, really, that whole thing reeked of a set-up.
- I figured out that Noah Hicks was the Snowman pretty quickly. But really, the Snowman's supposed to have died in '97, Hicks started his undercover op in '97, it wasn't a huge leap to figure out that Hicks just took the title and the job.
- I guessed that Irina was "The Man," but that only occurred to me at the beginning of "Almost Thirty Years." It should have dawned on me earlier, since Khasinau was pegged as "The Man" way too early.
Further random thoughts:
- So was it just me, or did any other fans just CRACK UP at Will's very first reaction to seeing Sydney in Paris in her disguise? I may just be insane, but I had to watch that scene again a few more times.
- On that note, I did not see the true identity of Will's source coming. I did figure Haladki was the leak (and was disappointed to be right), but it didn't occur to me that he was working for Khasinau.
- I now totally understand the Sark!love that has permeated my friends list for the past few years.
- The problem with watching this a few years late? Having Maggie Walsh interrogating Syd was weird enough, but having Walsh and Locke (yay Terry O'Quinn!) interrogating her made it hard for me to take seriously.
- Francie's doomed, isn't she? She's the only close friend of Syd's who doesn't know, and who seems like she's finding a direction... her life's happy, so I have the feeling she's going to bite the bullet.
So what season do I have to get through to fully understand![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yahtzee63's "Irenicon" without being totally spoiled? Elkridge has all of Seasons 1-3 and (I think) most of 4.
You know, now that I can watch House first-run again, I really should provide commentary for that, too. Eh, tomorrow. Wow, it's amazing how much time you have when a really annoying assignment isn't hanging over your head (just one you're apathetic about).
Okay, I finally did what I've been meaning to do since, oh, around 2003. (Of course, since I'm cheap, I waited til I could do this for free at the library.)
I took out all of Season 1 of Alias from the library and watched the whole first season.
Even knowing the Big Honking Surprise of Season One that you'd have to live under a rock not to hear about at this point, I still was in the dark enough to enjoy it:
Yes, I knew Irina was alive. I have too many friends who are fans of the series not to know this. There were a lot of twists I wasn't aware of, though, and some of them I actually managed to predict on my own:
- I figured Poole was playing Sloane right from the get-go. I mean, really, that whole thing reeked of a set-up.
- I figured out that Noah Hicks was the Snowman pretty quickly. But really, the Snowman's supposed to have died in '97, Hicks started his undercover op in '97, it wasn't a huge leap to figure out that Hicks just took the title and the job.
- I guessed that Irina was "The Man," but that only occurred to me at the beginning of "Almost Thirty Years." It should have dawned on me earlier, since Khasinau was pegged as "The Man" way too early.
Further random thoughts:
- So was it just me, or did any other fans just CRACK UP at Will's very first reaction to seeing Sydney in Paris in her disguise? I may just be insane, but I had to watch that scene again a few more times.
- On that note, I did not see the true identity of Will's source coming. I did figure Haladki was the leak (and was disappointed to be right), but it didn't occur to me that he was working for Khasinau.
- I now totally understand the Sark!love that has permeated my friends list for the past few years.
- The problem with watching this a few years late? Having Maggie Walsh interrogating Syd was weird enough, but having Walsh and Locke (yay Terry O'Quinn!) interrogating her made it hard for me to take seriously.
- Francie's doomed, isn't she? She's the only close friend of Syd's who doesn't know, and who seems like she's finding a direction... her life's happy, so I have the feeling she's going to bite the bullet.
So what season do I have to get through to fully understand
yahtzee63's "Irenicon" without being totally spoiled? Elkridge has all of Seasons 1-3 and (I think) most of 4.You know, now that I can watch House first-run again, I really should provide commentary for that, too. Eh, tomorrow. Wow, it's amazing how much time you have when a really annoying assignment isn't hanging over your head (just one you're apathetic about).
