Final Ever Alias Tonight

AliasFan47

The 2 hour series finale of Alias is on tonight at 10PM on Bravo. Even of you haven;t watched it in a while the whole Rambaldi story is supposedly resolved form what I've heard.

So watch it tonight at 10PM

Lump

Saw it months ago. - I almost cried.

lostexpectation

rimbaldi = dharma?

saw the one the other night on rte with sloan doppleganger, what is he famous for again

one question I always wanted to ask was what with the longer then any other program intros? its gotta atleast 5 to 10 minutes before the theme music comes in? no other show goes so long...

John R

lostexpectation wrote:

rimbaldi = dharma?

saw the one the other night on rte with sloan doppleganger, what is he famous for again

one question I always wanted to ask was what with the longer then any other program intros? its gotta atleast 5 to 10 minutes before the theme music comes in? no other show goes so long...

Veronica Mars has long intros as well.

It is the trendy thing these days to mess about with the title sequences or not have any at all.

Metacortex

I love Alias. I have yet to see any of the last series though.
It was only 3 weeks ago i realised Bravo were showing it. Darn.
I guess i'll have to wait for the DVD boxset. I'm interested to see how they will wrap up the Rambaldi story

John R

Metacortex wrote:

I love Alias. I have yet to see any of the last series though.
It was only 3 weeks ago i realised Bravo were showing it. Darn.
I guess i'll have to wait for the DVD boxset. I'm interested to see how they will wrap up the Rambaldi story

Bravo are repeating Series 5 in big chunks over two weekend afternoons from Saturday August 05. 5 episodes each Sat and Sun from 12pm.

ixoy

lostexpectation wrote:

rimbaldi = dharma?

Not even close - have you seen much of "Alias" Rambaldi storyline? Rambaldi is an ancient inventor who predicted designs and concepts centuries before they were invented/discovered in the modern world. He was also something of a prophet with a century-spanning end-game.

Dharma is an inititiave who likes to give cryptic season-dragging videos...

There's no suggestion they're in the same shared universe, especially since they've already had actor cross-over.

saw the one the other night on rte with sloan doppleganger, what is he famous for again

What's who famous for? The actor playing Sloane - Ron Rifkin? He's been in loads of stuff but
you might have seen him recentlyish in "L.A. Confidential". I certainly know him best from "Alias".

one question I always wanted to ask was what with the longer then any other program intros? its gotta atleast 5 to 10 minutes before the theme music comes in? no other show goes so long...

I agree. "Veronica Mars" has long intros but "Alias" had ones lasting over ten minutes - far longer than any other show I can think of. Makes a nice change of pace.

AliasFan47

I have to admit I loved the finale. Series Finales are difficult to do as you can't please everyone as each person has their own perceptions and ideas as to how the series should end. Everthing from the opening narration to the final shot was excellent. I will admit that some plots were not wrapped up but to me it didn't matter. This show was about Sydney and I think a certain leve of closure was achieved yet the door was left open for JJ abrahms to possibly make a movie in the future.

BTW, did anyone notice that after three years airing on bravo they showed Alias in widescreen which is always a complaint made against Bravo. The picture quality was brilliant for a change.

tvnutz

Not a bad finale...a lot of deaths as I expected.

Tom...kind of sad,but we didn't really know him. Irina...she had it coming! :P

and Jack...poor Jack. That was the saddest. But he did go out with a bang!

However the rambaldi end game wasn't really done properly was it? Immortality? Ok,it was cool,Sloane dies but then comes back,and now he is trapped down in the cave forever,which makes me shudder :P But all the years of all the clues,was it just all about that? Seems a bit...meh.

Metacortex

John R wrote:

Bravo are repeating Series 5 in big chunks over two weekend afternoons from Saturday August 05. 5 episodes each Sat and Sun from 12pm.

Thank you!
I never would have found out about that.

Wheels

What an almost perfect final. For a show that had been throw from pilar to post by a network unwilling to allow it get on with things and tell a decent story it was a fantastic final and wonderful last season. The last 10 episodes were heart stopping.

Two things I didn't like:

One was bringing Ana back, from day one I was never sold on Ana as more then a flashy "I'll kick your ass" bad guy and she's never been anything else. Sark had charisma but Ana was just meh. I never bought that she was Sydney's "biggest foe" and I was never pushed when they brought her back.

Secondly, Francie, or Faux Francie if you will. Can anyone enlighten me as to the characters fate? I was under the impression that the Helix transformation had made Faux Francie nearly indistructable, given that she survived a number of shootings, stabbings and various other things they threw at her. I'm pretty sure it was even implied that she was next to imortal, and this was our first hint of Rambaldi's end game. Though perhaps I was just presupposing. If anything Alison Doreon/Faux Francie was Syd's biggest foe (after Sark and her mother), I would have been much happier to see that show down in the last season then the Ana one.

But aside from those two points, it was wonderful. It proved that the show worked best when left to its own devices and given something solid to aim for (i.e. not being told to drop Rambaldi, or change the pace or format every other week) it could be fantastic. Even the secondary characters of Tom, Rachel and Payton despite my initial reservations worked. Tom dieing on the train was very fitting to his character.

And the
"Thank you for five wonderful years"
was pretty nice.


I only noticed in the last episode (though I assume it has been the case for a while) that Jennifer Garner was a producer on the show. I can't help but feel that we haven't seen the end of Sloane (because duh... living forever) and her mother (I don't buy the fact that she didn't utilise the sphere before Sydney came) and that (as AliasFan47 pointed out already) they've purposely left the door open for a film in a couple of years time.

Anyway, top notch stuff. We all knew it would never reach the peak of season 2 again but it did keep most of us glued for five years and it was a pretty special show. Now if only I could stand Lost, then I wouldn't have so much free time on my hands again.

Wheels

tvnutz wrote:

However the rambaldi end game wasn't really done properly was it? Immortality? Ok,it was cool,Sloane dies but then comes back,and now he is trapped down in the cave forever,which makes me shudder :P But all the years of all the clues,was it just all about that? Seems a bit...meh.

I think it was hinted pretty early on that it was imortality. It certainly justifies Sloane and Irina's obsession with him and why they were willing to risk the lives of everyone around them to achive the end game.

AliasFan47

whassupp2 wrote:

Thank God its over. Another **** programme off the air. I hopr they dont do a "friends" on it and show repeats.

Whats so **** about Alias? Let me guess your favourite TV show is Charmed.

tvnutz

Wheels wrote:

I think it was hinted pretty early on that it was imortality. It certainly justifies Sloane and Irina's obsession with him and why they were willing to risk the lives of everyone around them to achive the end game.

Ye I know it was hinted at,and its a good idea for the end game. But it just seems maybe the writers hadn't decided on it from the start. remember all the artifacts that were put together and spelt out the word "peace",and a few other things,what was all that about?

And wasn't the evil Francie killed off by Will?

sweetie

Anyone ever hear about them?

AliasFan47

sweetie wrote:

Anyone ever hear about them?

Who is "them"?

tvnutz

Im presuming he means spoilers...but the last episode aired,and the title is about the last episode,so if you are reading the thread and havn't seen it,your fault.

jor el

tvnutz wrote:

Ye I know it was hinted at, and its a good idea for the end game.

Didn't Syd meet Rambaldi when she got a clock from him in Italy some place, think it was in S2. Certainly hinted quite a bit at immortality.

And wasn't the evil Francie killed off by Will?

I believe she was, yes.

sweetie

Saw this today and really enjoyed it. The finale came as a bit of a surprise though as I thought we would get 22 episodes like other seasons. One thing that still puzzles me is how, from one episode to another, they found out Vaughan was still alive but we didn't see how. We had seen clues to him being alive and obviously suspected it but how did Sydney/APO know?

jor el

Sydney and Jack faked Vaughan's death in order to protect him from Prophet 5, they were the only ones who knew. This was mentioned in the episode where they brought Vaughan back into it.

sweetie

Thanks. Just thought they could have written it a bit better though.
What will I replace my Alias fix with?

Metacortex

sweetie wrote:

One thing that still puzzles me is how, from one episode to another, they found out Vaughan was still alive but we didn't see how. We had seen clues to him being alive and obviously suspected it but how did Sydney/APO know?

Thats one thing that really bothered me, it was very badly written. It was like they rushed it to get to the finale. I was sitting there thinking i really had missed an episode.

Anyway, really enjoyed the finale though. Jack dying was so sad, i love how he got Sloane in the end though.
They could do some sort of spin off - Sloane 3000AD

Seriously though I would love a Sark spin off. I really thought Vaughn was going to kill him.

jor el

Yeah it was a bit poorly written but I think ABC killed the series early (at ep 15) and hence the writers had very little time to iron everything out. You'd think they would have let it finish out the last five episodes, after five years they at least deserved that.

I thought Jack blowing himself and Sloan up was a great end, the alternate at that point would have been Jack using Rambaldi's water to cure himself and become immortal too, but that wouldn't really be his style. Nadia's "ghost" leaving Sloan alone was quite good too. Trapped for eternity with not even his hallucinations to keep him company, what a way to go.

AlexSummers

Sloane finally got what was coming to him. Alias R.I.P. September 2001 - May 2006

Lump

Until there's a movie

Basq

AlexSummers wrote:

Sloane finally got what was coming to him. Alias R.I.P. September 2001 - May 2006

AliasFan? :rolleyes:

AlexSummers

Lump wrote:

Until there's a movie

Alias is done and dusted. J-Garner is definantely not returning.