I've picked up a nasty variety of Victorian Heroine Flu (you look very pale, have no appetite and sit around coughing weakly and worryingly all day), and one of my friends lent me the first series of Alias to watch while I was recovering. I've been watching episodes back-to-back, and it's all very exciting if a bit confusing in the who-works-for-what-and-who? way. Up to about episode 8, I think.
Amazon(.co.uk) is selling an Alias box set, seasons 1-4 (I gather there's a fifth?), at about a third of its usual price. Special offer, limited time and so on and so on. That works out very much worth it if it's a good series, but not if it goes downhill, and I know quite a few people on my f-list are Alias fans, so... worth it? Yes? No? It's great so far, but I've been burned before.
(Okay, on a more useful level: I like the characters, the suspense, and the idea of whatever Big Underlying Intrigue Drama Thing is behind the existence of the various, um, competing factions. The techno-gadget stuff is fun (okay, Marshall's fun) but isn't really my thing if it starts taking over plotlines. I'm worried about either a 24-style downhill slide into ever more implausible gadgets, shouting, and kidnapping of people you don't care about, or a Lost-style annoying narrative progression in which everything's very mysterious but nothing ever seems to actually happen. It's fun so far - does it keep that up? I'd browse around and read fan stuff about it, but I'm scared of spoilers.)
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kangeiko wrote the gorgeously wonderful story resolve me of all ambiguities for me in the ninebillion ficathon, on the subject of what Milo Rambaldi is to Jack Bristow. I suggest you read it when you've got quite a few moments free, because if you're anything like me you're going to go straight back to the beginning and read the whole thing through again at least three times...
