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On ep 6 and im so glad they got rid of the cliche music but ummmmmmmm is it just me or does it now seem like a version of criminal minds?
The other ones had stories that literally went on all season and I liked that!

If you could remove, add or change any storyline or character what would it be?

How would you rewrite the show?

Hi! I watched the show many years ago so I can’t remember particulars, but I loved it. My daughter is 12 and I’m always looking for stuff we can watch together. We’ve watch Psych, Monk, and Lost recently. I think she’d love this show, but I’m just worried about any explicit sexual content or severe scariness/violence. Innuendo, skimpy clothes, etc… is fine. As is some moderate violence and tension. Thoughts?

AKA the basements and hallways and outdoor spaces that seemed to be the same in every mission and country 😆 I’d recognize those electricity boxes anywhere!

First of all, I want to say Dixon beats them both.

But let's say it's just Sydney and Vaughn fighting each other, and no additional factor is involved (neither of them is in love with the opponent, and won't go easy on them). Based on what we know about their strengths, training, tactical competence, and fighting techniques -- who wins?

Sydney has the one disadvantage that females are naturally weaker than males. Even a female CIA agent should be easily beaten by a male CIA agent. However, in all other areas, Sydney dominates Vaughn.

was there ever truly a meaningful distinction between the “good” and “bad” guys? Sydney often used these terms, yet many characters seemed far more invested in Rambaldi’s prophecy than in the organizations they served. It has always been about rambaldi - they didn’t really care about CIA/COVENENT or any other organization

I'm doing a rewatch after not seeing the show in over 15 years and, although I know there are some plot holes and inconsistencies, I'm trying to make sense of something in the infamous Season 3... I'm on Ep12 right now. In the first part of the season, Sark is focused on finding his father's killer to ger revenge. He eventually finds out it was Sydney and goes after her. Later it's revealed his death was faked but then it switches to Sark kidnapping Lazarey, torturing him for info, and eventually they have him killed.

* Was Sark ever actually mad about his father being murdered?

* Why does he continue to go after Sydney and then also Lazarey after he's found alive?

* The $800 million... I'm not really sure how to unravel that. Was it that The Covenant wanted the money so they offered to help him find his father's killer, and the rest is just coincidence that worked in their favor? Did the Covenant know he was never dead, or did they find out around the time Sark discovers the truth?

Is my general understanding correct? Julia & Lazarey working for the Covenant -> they fake his death for him to go into hiding & as a bonus Sark is gifted his inheritance -> the Covenant sees this opportunity to make a deal with Sark for the $800 mil since to help him find out who 'killed' Lazarey -> Sark is mad at Sydney when he finds out -> Sark finds out she didn't kill him but now he's mad about... his father abandoning him? Also why doesn't he try to get the money back since his father was alive? -> Sark tortures his father for info about the Rambaldi artifact -> the Covenant has him killed so he doesn't spill any Covenant secrets(?)
Bonus: Why isn’t Sark upset at them for now actually killing his father? (Or is he? I’ll update this post in a few episodes!)

Jack's lines are always multiple layers deeper and more complex than other characters'. Only upon a full series rewatch did I notice that Jack was actually an expert in game theory. His thinking process and talking style are likely hugely influenced by game theory literature.

I'm thinking if the writers had to read a lot of game theory books just to make Jack's lines sound more authentic. Or would they need a consultant to help polish his dialogue. A lot of work, I assume. Season 5 Jack was notably toned down in this aspect and talked just like a normal person. Maybe due to a budget cut?

Please give me some links to your favorite Jack/Irina Fanfic.

got season 2 and 3 in svcd/.mpg format taken from the initial abc airing in good quality 480i/p, if your tech savvy and old enough to have used edonkey or lime wire then chances are you know what these are

i can share if theres enough interest, i've always preferred these older good quality tv rips over dvd/blu ray/streaming site

We spent considerable time on Nadia having this genetic memory and liquid that triggers it.
At the end she didn't get to finish her writing. But Sloane implied that she still remembered what to write. So she could continue her work.
Then it's never visited again.

Then we have that French woman's (the CIA most wanted who knew Vaughn.) father in cryo sleep.
It's implied that the body got mind swapped (or something, Idk) with someone else.
I didn't really understand it and I don't think it was ever really explicitly explained.
Anyway. This guy manages to lose the good guys and is never seen again.
What was that for?

Admittedly I didn't pay much attention at some parts. So maybe I just don't remember. But these were some parts that just felt abandoned. Yet they used considerable amount of screen time.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czd2dj24jgdo

Hi, i just started to watch season 3 and Sydney is so annoying, telling Vaughn she would have waited for him is complete bs. But i wanted to talk about season 2. I liked it, but the writing was so much weaker than in season 1. Jack does 180 on his character two times and looks so incompetent. The stuff with Sydney ´s mother was so predictable and everyone is so stupid at the CIA. Jack was right all along but for no reason he just switches up. Destroying the alliance and getting Dixon on the good side was also so anticlimatic. Sydney is portayed like one of the best agents but doesnt notice that her best friend is acting completely different? Come on. The mystery and plot twists from the first season are almost completely gone. Only thing i really liked was Sloanne, he was pretty interesting. Unlike Sark who needs to be killed of.

My wife already watched it during its original airing, but thankfully it was so long ago that she didn’t remember much, and what she did recall she kept to herself as we watched.

My thoughts… it was entertaining… something action packed to watch that wasn’t too deep... like the TV equivalent of a decent “popcorn movie”. BUT… so much of the story was utterly ridiculous… particularly the final season. How many times are they going to continue to trust Irina/Sloane/Sark only to be duped yet again? The Irina character was especially awful, because it was never clear what she really wanted. They kept making you think she actually had some more noble motives, but in the end, she said she wanted “power”, tried to launch ICMB’s at DC and London, and was willing to try and kill Sydney to get whatever it was she was supposedly after. The whole Rambaldi thing ended up being another big letdown. How did the prophecy come to be? In true JJ fashion there was plenty of buildup but minimal payoff.

There were also various tropes over and over throughout the series that got pretty old…

- Having the blueprints and security intel to easily infiltrate pretty much anywhere on the planet

- The time warp type traveling that enabled them to instantly get to any place at just the right moment (and find exactly whomever or whatever they came for)

- Also had the ability to just “show up” literally right next to the person they were pursuing without them even hearing someone approaching. There were several instances of this in the final couple episodes alone

- There were so many episodes where Sydney pretended to be working at a night club and nobody questioned who this woman was that was waiting on customers when none of the regular employees would have been familiar with her (they finally did have an episode near the end of the series where her cover was blown in a situation like that, but that was one out of many)

- There is no way in hell Vaughn would’ve survived being shot that many times (he was shot a BUNCH of times over the course of the series, but I think you can deduce which time I’m referring to)

And yes, I know you have to suspend some disbelief for a series like this, but even though I was for the most part entertained, I felt like I was definitely asked to suspend more than a reasonable amount at times, almost like watching a soap opera where the characters keep coming back to life.

I'm watching the whole series again and am reluctantly watching season 5. Episode 4 Sloane asks Jack to thank Sydney and Dixon for writing letters of support during his trial. Jack says they volunteered. After watching both of them read Sloane to filth all of season 4 for the crimes, i find it laughable and unrealistic that they would have anything approaching support for that man.

I have been rewatching Alias and thinking about how completely chaotic and unhinged the Bristow/Derevko family tree is. Jack Bristow and Irina Derevko are constantly keeping massive, life-altering secrets from Sydney, so it is entirely within the realm of the show for Sydney to suddenly discover she has a secret, long-lost brother out there in the world. If the writers had actually pulled the trigger on this storyline back in the mid-2000s, it would have fundamentally shattered and rebuilt the entire trajectory of the series.

Having a brother would completely change Sydney's entire emotional character arc because for the first time, she wouldn't be the lonely, burdened soldier forced to carry her family's dark legacy all by herself. She would finally have someone who shares her exact trauma, someone who knows what it feels like to have a mother who is a lethal KGB assassin and a father who chooses national security over his own children. Instead of the show always focusing on her fractured relationship with her parents, we would get this incredibly tight, ride-or-die sibling bond where they protect each other from the very people who raised them. It would give Sydney a true anchor and a sense of normalcy, knowing there is one person in the espionage world she can trust with 100% certainty.

Operationally, the show would have shifted into the ultimate high-tech heist series by dividing the physical and intellectual labor of their missions. We would have seen Sydney acting as the ultimate muscle on the ground, wearing her iconic neon wigs and kicking down doors, while her brother acted as the master strategist and literal mission architect. Instead of Sydney having to figure out both the tactical fighting and the complex structural logistics on her own, her brother would be the one designing the structural bypasses for SD-6 vaults, calculating the exact millisecond she needs to run past thermal cameras, and hacking into global mainframes. He wouldn't be a field agent; he would be the brilliant mind in the surveillance van or the CIA bunker mapping out the flawless blueprints for her impossible heists.

Now, if we are talking about who actually should have played this character, I am completely biased because I love Prison Break, but it literally had to be Wentworth Miller. If you put Wentworth with his signature close-cropped buzz cut next to Jennifer Garner, they share the exact same striking, sharp, and symmetrical facial structure. They both have that intense, highly calculated, staring-into-your-soul look when they are trying to profile a room or face down a villain. Plus, channeling his iconic Michael Scofield energy makes him the perfect passive, structural genius to act as Sydney's mission architect. Nobody plays the "carrying the weight of the world on my shoulders and deeply traumatized by my parents" vibe better than Wentworth Miller, and he would have fit right into those depressing, high-stress family dinners with Jack Bristow.

It would also turn the internal family drama up to eleven because Jack Bristow would suddenly have a son who inherits his cold, calculating, chess-master brain. This would create an incredible psychological standoff at the CIA office over who gets to plan the missions, with Jack trying to control his son's intellect while his son rebels to protect Sydney. Furthermore, it would completely break Arvin Sloane’s manipulation tactics. Sloane loves playing a twisted father figure to Sydney, but the moment Sydney and her brother form a united front, Sloane loses all his psychological leverage. They would become a completely unstoppable team against the global shadow government.

bro i am actually losing my mind thinking about how peak mid-2000s television would be if Sydney Bristow and Michael Scofield existed in the same universe. like imagine Sydney tracking some rogue CIA sector and realizing their black-ops funds are literally coming from The Company, aka the exact same shadow government framing Lincoln Burrows. it fits so perfectly it hurts.

instead of Michael taking months to sweat out a whole prison blueprint, Sydney just pulls up to Fox River in a latex disguise and a neon wig, beats up five guards, and walks Michael and Lincoln right out the front gate. the brainpower between Michael and Sydney alone would literally break the scale like imagine them sitting in a safehouse mapping out a global conspiracy on a whiteboard while Lincoln just sits in the corner providing the muscle. Michael would be trying to logically calculate the physics of the escape while Sydney is explaining how she survived getting tortured by a secret society and honestly they’d probably just stare at each other like ?? but it would work so well.

i feel like the vibe matches perfectly because both shows have that unhinged, fast-paced 2000s energy where everyone is constantly betrayed by a parent and running for their life. like please tell me i’m not the only one who sees this because The Company vs SD-6 is the ultimate crossover we were totally robbed of.

Quisiera que hubieran edits de alias en tiktok y otras redes sociales, es difícil pq es una serie antigua y no muy popular, pero ojalá hubieran

We know for a fact that in the season 3 ending, Jack's big moment of "Sydney, you're never supposed to have found this" was meant to be something other than Jack murdering Irina. The timeline doesn't add up. Sydney found a document that dates back to the 1970s. Jack's operation of killing Irina can't possibly go that far back. It's obvious that the writers changed the whole plot between season 3 and season 4.

Now, I'm asking about the season 4 ending, with Sydney asking if Vaughn was a bad guy, and Vaughn answering "it depends on who you ask", and "my name isn't Michael Vaughn". Do you think the writers had something much more substantial planned here? The season 5 explanation of this whole situation is very underwhelming. None of the explanation would make Vaughn a "bad guy", so that line in season 4 doesn't even make sense.

Be careful there are fake Jennifer Garners out there everywhere, seems like all they want is your money, and make promises at every turn. Online you don't know who is real, and trying to stop after you get attached doesn't lake it any easier for your heart or your bank account.