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Yesterday I suceeded in getting Volume 1 of Alias Season 3 from Blockbuster. I have their movie pass deal now, so I had actually gotten Volume 2 like a week ago and was just sitting on it like an asshole until such time as their one copy of Volume 1 turned up. And now it has, and since they package Alias two discs to a volume, I'm currently in possession of 16 episodes of the show. Glee. I think I'm officially giving up on 24... maybe after this I'll actually watch all of Band of Brothers.
I watched the first five episodes of Season 3 last night. The show continues to be as much fun as I remembered. I had heard they moved away from the Rambaldi plotline, and I'm OK with that I guess (I was never really bothered by it.) But I had also heard they moved to a more episodic format, trying to minimize the number of episode-to-episode cliffhangers. Thus far that's proved true and its upsetting me slightly - I'm really not OK with Sydney being happy and out of danger at the end of the majority of the episodes.
What I am OK with is MORE WEISS! That is to say Eric Weiss, played by the inestimable Greg Grunberg, who has finally moved to the Major Character status I always knew he was destined for. He's a definite favorite of mine. I do find it amusing that he's so OK with moving directly into the role of platonic best friend with Sydney. I mean, c'mon, dude, she's beautiful. How are you not falling for that? I also find the new and improved father-to-be Marshall Flinkman, although I find the frequency with which their employing the "Dixon is forced to cut off Marshall's rambling" gag oddly high. Anyway. Its good stuff.
Yesterday I suceeded in getting Volume 1 of Alias Season 3 from Blockbuster. I have their movie pass deal now, so I had actually gotten Volume 2 like a week ago and was just sitting on it like an asshole until such time as their one copy of Volume 1 turned up. And now it has, and since they package Alias two discs to a volume, I'm currently in possession of 16 episodes of the show. Glee. I think I'm officially giving up on 24... maybe after this I'll actually watch all of Band of Brothers.
I watched the first five episodes of Season 3 last night. The show continues to be as much fun as I remembered. I had heard they moved away from the Rambaldi plotline, and I'm OK with that I guess (I was never really bothered by it.) But I had also heard they moved to a more episodic format, trying to minimize the number of episode-to-episode cliffhangers. Thus far that's proved true and its upsetting me slightly - I'm really not OK with Sydney being happy and out of danger at the end of the majority of the episodes.
What I am OK with is MORE WEISS! That is to say Eric Weiss, played by the inestimable Greg Grunberg, who has finally moved to the Major Character status I always knew he was destined for. He's a definite favorite of mine. I do find it amusing that he's so OK with moving directly into the role of platonic best friend with Sydney. I mean, c'mon, dude, she's beautiful. How are you not falling for that? I also find the new and improved father-to-be Marshall Flinkman, although I find the frequency with which their employing the "Dixon is forced to cut off Marshall's rambling" gag oddly high. Anyway. Its good stuff.
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Date: 2004-09-29 01:16 pm (UTC)Alias!!! Squeal!!!
I, too, am watching Season 3. My family and I only started watching the show this summer when we got my dad Season 1 for his birthday because we'd heard the show was good. We devoured the first two seasons in about a month. I just finished Episode 12 the other night.
I know a lot of people bitched about season 3; I don't get it. It's still fantastic, and my family, who's already finished out the season at home, confirms that it keeps on being good until the end.
I don't see the lack of cliffhanger thing as much; yeah, a few have ended on a resolved note, but a lot of them still make you go, "WHAT?!?!" and want to immediately move to the next show. When I heard "episodic" I worried that they would have less of a continuing story arc. They still have it though, so I'm not concerned.
I enjoy Weiss too. :) But I get the sense that he's going to be similar to Will--being the platonic best friend but really wanting her at the same time.
And the Marshall getting cut off gags...I don't know if those have really increased in frequency from, say, the first season. I still love 'em though; Marshall's just so damned cute.