Alias and other
Dec. 4th, 2005 03:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vaznettiWhile searching through this journal for a recipe I could have sworn I posted here (to no avail -- does anyone on my flist have Nigella Lawson's How to Eat?) I ended up tagging a lot of entries about Alias from early season 3 -- oh, that was a great time! The confusion of the end of that season made me forget how happy we all were that fall. And I really will have to acquire seasons 3 and 4 to watch them again and see how the S4 revelation about who was really in charge of the Covenant affects my understanding of them. I have a feeling that a lot of stuff that seemed really random at the time could now be retconned into submission.
It was a real pleasure to relive that Alias joy. I must admit that I hate it when I see people posting about how much they hate the show now; there's no real reason it should impact my own enjoyment, but one of the things that made that time particularly fun was the community of interested and sympathetic fans here on livejournal. I do miss that. (Not that I haven't indulged in fannish hate myself, and my own good friends have every right to mock me if I start complaining about negativity in fandom...) Because I still feel that joy. I think that S5 is very nearly as good as S1, in its own way. I'm glad, I think, that Alias is going to go out on a high note, and I have a feeling that when the five seasons are put together the show is going to work as a whole. It's always been easier to understand in retrospect, and it's had a good record for pulling things together at the very end of the season. I do have a few worries, but they're about content, not quality -- to my ear, final season leads all too easily to character deaths, and the characters I tend to like tend to be the kind of characters who get killed off. There's always resfic and denial, of course, but I rather like this show for what it is as well as for my imagined versions of it.
In other news, livejournal is still sending only sporadic comments to my mailbox. It's cold here, and I wish it would just go ahead and snow. And there's apparently a meme going around in which one invites people to comment anonymously on whether they find you intimidating; I prefer to cling to the illusion that you all find me terrifying, thank you very much.
And my new never-happen (but they'd live happily ever after if it did) crossover couple is Susan Ivanova/Dana Scully. Fresh coffee and xenobiology in one of those worlds where Scully really doesn't die.
It was a real pleasure to relive that Alias joy. I must admit that I hate it when I see people posting about how much they hate the show now; there's no real reason it should impact my own enjoyment, but one of the things that made that time particularly fun was the community of interested and sympathetic fans here on livejournal. I do miss that. (Not that I haven't indulged in fannish hate myself, and my own good friends have every right to mock me if I start complaining about negativity in fandom...) Because I still feel that joy. I think that S5 is very nearly as good as S1, in its own way. I'm glad, I think, that Alias is going to go out on a high note, and I have a feeling that when the five seasons are put together the show is going to work as a whole. It's always been easier to understand in retrospect, and it's had a good record for pulling things together at the very end of the season. I do have a few worries, but they're about content, not quality -- to my ear, final season leads all too easily to character deaths, and the characters I tend to like tend to be the kind of characters who get killed off. There's always resfic and denial, of course, but I rather like this show for what it is as well as for my imagined versions of it.
In other news, livejournal is still sending only sporadic comments to my mailbox. It's cold here, and I wish it would just go ahead and snow. And there's apparently a meme going around in which one invites people to comment anonymously on whether they find you intimidating; I prefer to cling to the illusion that you all find me terrifying, thank you very much.
And my new never-happen (but they'd live happily ever after if it did) crossover couple is Susan Ivanova/Dana Scully. Fresh coffee and xenobiology in one of those worlds where Scully really doesn't die.
