Rereading The Day of the Jackal on the domestic flight to Wagga Wagga today, I realised where my model for Julian Sark must have come from. Indeed, the passage in the novel which introduces the Jackal is so reminiscent of sections of "Deep Play" and Slippage, I might have to accuse myself of committing accidental plagiarism ( Read more... )

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ABC is considering an Alias reboot? Can we have Sark and Jack Bristow back, please? (E! Online)
'Again, it's only very initial talk at this point, but I'm told that the development folks over at the Alphabet network are considering doing a new version of Alias that would borrow some elements of the original series that starred Jennifer Garner (and ( Read more... )

As if I didn't have enough work to do, I went to the library to borrow Rosie White's Violent Femmes: Women as spies in popular culture, after class today. Reading the pilot script for the new Nikita TV show, and the nostalgia for Nikita in her previous incarnations it stirred, made me want to write more about it, yet I also felt grossly ( Read more... )

I LOVE YOU HELEN CUTTER.

(AND MARYANN FORRESTER AND IRINA DEREVKO AND ALL YOU FOXY EVIL GENIUSES.)

Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.

transtempts asked me about:

( Lucifer, Sark, Adam, Eric, Lucas )

Yesterday, I saw Alias 5.15 -- there was Sark, how could I not? When it was good, it was very very good. When it was bad, it was time to push Rachel and Tom off-screen with a slide of the playbar in Windows Media ( Read more... )

• Oh GOLLY. Will there be an Alias spin-off/movie??
  Producers are mulling ways to continue the franchise. "I would say we haven't seen the end of all things Alias," Pinkner teases. "There are versions of this show which could exist after this season. There are plenty of stories we'd love to tell ( Read more... )

( The Golden Age, Batman sequel, Casino Royale, Superman Returns )

( Alias 4.08 )