Comments on: Christmas only comes once a year

By: Rain

Rain — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 05:04:07 +0000

Well, i don’t want to spoil anything, but the zombies don’t show up until WAAAAY into season 4, so you wouldn’t be seeing much of the season if you just watched from there on…I’d say that about half of the season was good, and the other half lame, but the thing is sometimes that goodness and lameness appears in the same episode.

You need to get yourself a bigger TiVo, my friend.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 00:02:55 +0000

Yeah, I’ve read other people saying that the episodes in season 4 were self-contained. On “Buffy” and “X-Files,” my favorite episodes were always the ones that were self-contained and could tell a whole story without getting bogged down in the bigger continuity. But that seems counter to the whole format of “Alias,” which is all about the twists and cliff-hangers.

But I don’t have a VCR anymore, and I don’t have enough space on my TiVo for enough of season 5 to get caught up with it. I wonder if I can just watch 4 from the zombies onward and then get back into the flow of the new episodes?

By: Rain

Rain — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:21:05 +0000

Exactly: The utter lameness of season 4 is almost saved by the ultimate appearache of zombies, AND the last 5 seconds of the season finale.

But the majority of that season is just maddening. They basically start the entire show from scratch and only occasionally do the characters have any past-season recall. It kind of reminded my of the dreck that was “Star Trek: The Next Generation” in that most of the episodes were self-containted storylines, and no one would ever say to someone else on the ship, “Hey, remember when you were taken over by the Borg and you tried to kill us all? Man. Good times.”