Well, I had to wait a whole day between the penultimate episode and the final one due to me being far too busy on the Saturday, but I finally got round to watching it yesterday afternoon. Which means that the person who said "at this rate you'll be finished before the next episode is shown on Bravo" was correct. :lol::lol:

The final episode was quite strange as season finales go. A lot of times I found myself thinking "have I missed something" but I guess that was mostly cos of the face mask thing. It was still pretty entertaining though. Although, a repeat of a big female fight like with last season? :rolleyes: And how many bullets did it take to kill her?!?!

How many times did Vaughn end up in the hospital throughout the season? :lol:

If they can do face masks so authentic that it looks like the real person, why don't they use them as disguise all the time rather than just wigs where the facial features can sometimes be recognised?

Not quite understanding the extent of what Jack has done with Syd. Has he basically co-ordinated all thats happened in her life, and her sister's life too? But either way, it should make for some interesting conflict next season. And Syd's middle name is Anne too, same as Buffy's. Wonder if that is on purpose? ;)

I'll leave off rambling more about it, for now. :)

I hate to say it but...

Told you so!!

:lol: :lol:

Ahhh....the last ep. I was just glad to see Lauren go, I didn't notice much else :lol:

I'm a bit worried about Marshall though. :o

As for the name thing...I think I saw somewhere that JG's middle name is Anne, and they used her birthday for Syd's birthday too.

Margot

I'm sure Marshall will be fine. :) At first I thought, oh it'll only be a tranq dart, and then I realised probably not, cos she's EVIL. :fear:

But she's dead now. Yay!! :thumbsup:

There isn't enough yay in the world ;)

Margot

yay! people who have seen 22. Vaugh was so damn hot in this episode, esp the Sark torture scene where he was wearing that blue shirt and rolled his sleeves up................mmmmmmmmm....

I havent forgotten the Alias rule that noone ever really dies, are we really supposed to believe she's dead?? At the mo I think its just wishful thinkin.

Poor marshall!!!! he has to be ok cos the show wouldnt be the same without him.

Well, she was reduced to 'recurring character' for next season, but now she has a movie role or something, so I've got my fingers crossed that she won't be coming back at all. Or, if she insists on appearing, I can deal with flashbacks. But not still-alive-Lauren. They can't make us watch that - they just can't!

Margot

I agree it would be traumatic, just think, all those GSW's she must at least be deformed!

Another thing Alias shares with Buffy. :lol:

I would hope after about 6 gun wounds and a fall down a mine shaft(?) she would be dead, but you never know. :angry:

I've already mentioned this to Kate, but I thought the season came off the rails quite badly in the last few episodes. Don't get me wrong, it's still been entertaining, but not up to the standards it set itself in the previous two seasons.

That finale exhibited all of the worst aspects of it - there was just lazy writing all over the place: Vaughn's miraculous recovery from punctured lung to sliding down a fire hose in minutes; How did Derevko know where he had taken Lauren, very convenient; Vaughn manages to hit Lauren with every shot when he couldn't hit her with a machine gun last week :rolleyes: ; when did they suddenly get the ability to make such perfect masks? Kind of renders the procedure used on Allison a bit redundant doesn't it?; And how on earth did Jack know that Syd was going to the vault at the end, conveniently waiting until she'd read the documents before interrupting?

Sorry to be so negative. I love this series but I feel a bit let down cos it was pants.

Hopefully they'll pull it around next season. :)

No, I agree. I've thought this whole season was a let-down, so it was no surprise that the finale was nowhere near the standard of the previous two. Ridiculouslness and contrivance aside though, it wasn't a bad ep, imo. I love the fact that Lauren's dead. That scene was so great to watch :lol:

And, well, I'm a total S/V shipper, so the ep where they get back together was always going to go down well with me.

I actually liked the cliffhanger. JJ's managed to turn the Alias world upside down again! Hopefully the next season will be focused on the Jack/Syd relationship. I also think the twist with Sloane and Nadia should provide some interesting storylines.

Margot

Let's hope so. I'm curious as to how Lauren knew about the documents, too. And what about poor Marshall? :o

I'm very worried about Marshall. They didn't seem to care too much about him though, did they? I mean, we got one sentence "oh yeah, he'll be fine" and that was it!

Margot

Yes, and I thought Syd would've been a bit more concerned about her sister going missing, too! :huh:

JJ says he's excited about the first episode which gets me all happy cos It means season 4 will prob be an improvement.

I agree with what Steve said, there is way too many coincidences, and I dont like the way Katya was dealt with either. It struck me the other day when I was watching her first episode that she was helping a Covenant defect go ahead, it doesn't seem right that she could still work for the Covenant after that...

Hmm, but JJ also said that we would love Lauren and be torn between her and Sydney for whose side we should be on. Oh, and then there was the "Season 3 will be the season of Sark" promise.

I don't believe it til I see it now :)

Margot

I'm sure they had great plans for season 3 when they started out. Sometimes these things just don't go according to plan. I think every great series is entitled to one below par season. Just so long as it's only one, JJ :lol:

Youve got a point :lol: but Im feeling good about it because JJ himself realised how bad it was, we did see a lot more of Sark than usual and some people, though its hard to believe actually love Lauren :shudder:

This review of Resurrection on the BBC Cult site amused me:

Meeeeeow! :lol:

Somebody's in a bad mood... :alien:

It's a bit over the top, but I think it picks up a lot of the things we've already discussed - they're just trying to provoke a reaction. ;)