my brain hurts
Okay. There are not many things that piss me off. [Says everyone who knows Eve, "Yeah, sure."]
Shut up.
But everyone who watches ALIAS should go read this post by corngirl_jo where she speaks about 'Blood Ties'. [Is this blood? Am I real? Wait, ooops. Wrong fandom.]
There is lots of snark, and notes about the lack of continuity with regards to Syd's age, Michael's age, and the whole William-Vaughn-was-murdered-by-Irina-and-then-he-stole-her-child [she says it much better, my brain is still muddled] thing.
Take note, I am not so up in arms about the episode as she is. What I am aghast over is this, which she quoted from the New York Post:
The master plot lines of the serial spy drama "Alias" are kept on a corkboard in the writers' room, on index cards that track the progress of every character at each point in the season. ... The cards, however, get the writers only so far. "I look at them now," said J. R. Orci, who has been with the show since it began, "and none of them are relevant. We use that as a road map but at some point we end up ditching it." ... "You put in all these random pieces," said Monica Breen, who began writing for the show this year, "and then you have to fill it in."
"[W]e didn't know what the passenger was. We've mastered the art of having the characters say things that are vague and open-ended because we don't know what's happening next." So while, on screen, Sydney and her fellow C.I.A. agents were trying to figure out who or what the passenger might be, behind the scenes the show's writers were doing the same thing.
During Sydney's lost two years, Michael Vaughn (Michael Vartan) married Lauren Reed (Melissa George), an intelligence agent who was originally conceived as Sydney's romantic rival. "We wrote to that direction for 11 episodes and then decided it would be much more exciting if she were evil," said Ms. Breen.
What. the. fucking. fuck?
Someday, I still want to detail my big issue with BtVS season six. To put it simply: they abruptly changed plots post-Tabula Rasa, and so late that my newspaper's TV Week gave me different episode descriptions for Smashed and Wrecked. It is things like these that make me question the sanity of paid writing teams.
I never expected ALIAS to make sense. But I also never knew about this.
My brain hurts.
Oh, and it was 95 degrees today. Insane.
ETA: Read my S/B ficathon fic, bitches! Communication Breakdown.
ETA2: OH my goodness. I love teh Bowie. Bowie Invites Fans to Bootleg His Music.
Shut up.
But everyone who watches ALIAS should go read this post by corngirl_jo where she speaks about 'Blood Ties'. [Is this blood? Am I real? Wait, ooops. Wrong fandom.]
There is lots of snark, and notes about the lack of continuity with regards to Syd's age, Michael's age, and the whole William-Vaughn-was-murdered-by-Irina-and-then-he-stole-her-child [she says it much better, my brain is still muddled] thing.
Take note, I am not so up in arms about the episode as she is. What I am aghast over is this, which she quoted from the New York Post:
The master plot lines of the serial spy drama "Alias" are kept on a corkboard in the writers' room, on index cards that track the progress of every character at each point in the season. ... The cards, however, get the writers only so far. "I look at them now," said J. R. Orci, who has been with the show since it began, "and none of them are relevant. We use that as a road map but at some point we end up ditching it." ... "You put in all these random pieces," said Monica Breen, who began writing for the show this year, "and then you have to fill it in."
"[W]e didn't know what the passenger was. We've mastered the art of having the characters say things that are vague and open-ended because we don't know what's happening next." So while, on screen, Sydney and her fellow C.I.A. agents were trying to figure out who or what the passenger might be, behind the scenes the show's writers were doing the same thing.
During Sydney's lost two years, Michael Vaughn (Michael Vartan) married Lauren Reed (Melissa George), an intelligence agent who was originally conceived as Sydney's romantic rival. "We wrote to that direction for 11 episodes and then decided it would be much more exciting if she were evil," said Ms. Breen.
What. the. fucking. fuck?
Someday, I still want to detail my big issue with BtVS season six. To put it simply: they abruptly changed plots post-Tabula Rasa, and so late that my newspaper's TV Week gave me different episode descriptions for Smashed and Wrecked. It is things like these that make me question the sanity of paid writing teams.
I never expected ALIAS to make sense. But I also never knew about this.
My brain hurts.
Oh, and it was 95 degrees today. Insane.
ETA: Read my S/B ficathon fic, bitches! Communication Breakdown.
ETA2: OH my goodness. I love teh Bowie. Bowie Invites Fans to Bootleg His Music.