Oh, I still know what's happening. I read people's recaps and reviews, and occasionally I watch individual scenes when they're rumoured to be especially good and/or I can easily get hold of them. And I read fics when they show up on my friendslist. But I just can't get into sitting down with the show for a full hour, every week, right now.
I'm not averse to coming back if it suddenly takes a turn for the better, though. It's not like I hate the show, by any means; I just find myself emotionally disengaged from it at the moment, and not particularly worried about what happens to any of the characters. It's a bit like Season 9 of X-FILES, where I caught an episode here or there but really couldn't trouble myself to tune in until the finale, because watching Doggett and Reyes and Scully without Mulder just didn't interest me and from everything I'd heard Scully was Not Really Herself anyway. Still, I didn't have any trouble following the plot then, so I doubt I'll have much trouble catching up on ALIAS at the end of this season
Trying this comment thing again, since the mistakes of the my last one hurt my head. I'm really not a morning person.
That is definitely some good news. I've actually been watching Alias but making fun of it with Rick. It's fun, we're thinking that maybe what the show really needs is a good dose of actual plot.
So does that mean you'll try to catch up on past episodes? Maybe not as in watch them but read up on what's been happpening? The actual important parts probably would only take about 10 minutes. Sad really...
I'm not sure what I think the show needs -- I haven't really sat down and analyzed it that much. I just know that all the farfetched spy stuff that was fun and exciting in Season One and Two is utterly failing to compel my interest this season. As far as all of them going back to work for Sloane again with the CIA's approval goes, I think my suspension of disbelief was finally stretched so far that it broke. Even Victor Garber and Ron Rifkin rippling their impressive acting muscles at me is not enough to make me buy in to this scenario after everything else that went down the past three seasons.
So I find myself watching the show in a state of complete detachment from the actual story, with no sense of personal involvement or concern for any of the characters. If a character says something that makes me laugh, I no longer think, "Aw, Marshall's such an adorable nerd" or "Ooh, I just love Weiss," I think, "Heh, that's a pretty decent bit of dialogue scripting there." It's more like watching The Making of ALIAS than watching
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I'm not averse to coming back if it suddenly takes a turn for the better, though. It's not like I hate the show, by any means; I just find myself emotionally disengaged from it at the moment, and not particularly worried about what happens to any of the characters. It's a bit like Season 9 of X-FILES, where I caught an episode here or there but really couldn't trouble myself to tune in until the finale, because watching Doggett and Reyes and Scully without Mulder just didn't interest me and from everything I'd heard Scully was Not Really Herself anyway. Still, I didn't have any trouble following the plot then, so I doubt I'll have much trouble catching up on ALIAS at the end of this season
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That is definitely some good news. I've actually been watching Alias but making fun of it with Rick. It's fun, we're thinking that maybe what the show really needs is a good dose of actual plot.
So does that mean you'll try to catch up on past episodes? Maybe not as in watch them but read up on what's been happpening? The actual important parts probably would only take about 10 minutes. Sad really...
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So I find myself watching the show in a state of complete detachment from the actual story, with no sense of personal involvement or concern for any of the characters. If a character says something that makes me laugh, I no longer think, "Aw, Marshall's such an adorable nerd" or "Ooh, I just love Weiss," I think, "Heh, that's a pretty decent bit of dialogue scripting there." It's more like watching The Making of ALIAS than watching ( ... )
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