Alias Marathon

Lame picture for this post.  I'm on my new (refurbished) laptop and don't have access to my photos and didn't have time to take some spy pictures.  Soon it will all be smoothed out.


I love Alias.  I've already watched the whole series once and am currently on a mad dash through it for a second time.  I have no one to talk to about this so I will essentially talk to myself about it right here.  Many thoughts and comments run through my mind as I watch it and here are some of them:

First of all, and no offense to anyone who has one, but I generally don't find myself attracted to men with cleft chins.  I know that it is generally thought to be sexy as hell, but it just isn't my fave.  I pardoned Cary Grant for having one, cause everything else about him was super fine.  I am officially pardoning Michael Vartan for having one too.  I forgive him because of his eyes.  And  because it impresses the shit out of me that he can play a character that almost never smiles on screen for several seasons.

Marshall is one of my very favorite characters on the whole show.  Every time he starts talking and everyone starts rolling their eyes or cutting him short I want to smack them all.  As is generally true, I would like to relate (and look and behave) most like the sexy kick-ass woman of the show, but instead I know that I am Marshall.  But without the genius.  Which is really pathetic of me.  Anyway- Marshall is GOLDEN.  (He is also the only person in the entire show who never stabs anyone in the back either literally or figuratively)

Why oh why must Jack make every single thing he says to Sydney a lie?  I know he's a spy and all that but it would be nice if he would quit lying his ass off to his daughter all the time.

Marcus is an incredibly gorgeous man. 

Sark is one sad son-of-a-bitch.  His character is enjoyable even though he's always evil.

I really truly love that Jennifer Garner actually has an ass.  It's such a relief to see a real one in a sea of buttless skinny wonders.  Oh, and while I'm creepily discussing her body which is so rude of me, can I just say how much it pleases me that they didn't enhance her knockers to be enormous for the show?  I really love an action woman who isn't made to look like an impossible Marvel Comic.

I'm so happy Lauren was always evil because I always hated her.  I hated her so much that I felt bad for Melissa George for having to play such a hate-able character.

The guy who plays Lauren's father really creeps me out.  The way he looks and the way he talks.  Especially the strange way he talks.   I'd like to go the rest of my life without hearing that icky diction again.

The wigs!  Oh man, the wigs terrify!  Especially the one in season 3 in the episode where Sydney is supposed to be a fashion designer.  I hated that one so much I almost couldn't watch the episode.

This Rambaldi dude had way too much time on his hands.  May I suggest a hobby other than hiding "artifacts" all around the globe in the biggest silliest human chess game ever?  How about some knitting? 

It pissed me off big-time that Vaughn married Lauren because he should have realized that when you're a fictional spy with a fictional spy girl-friend there's always a chance that she'll:

a) be cloned and you won't find out til you have her babies
b) come back to life several times after having convincingly and irrefutably dying
c) will kill you

I wouldn't expect any human to not get hooked up again after losing their partner because in real life people almost never come back to life after dying.  But I expect more from fictional love interests.