Alias, Adieu

So I finally got around to watching the series finale of Alias...
okay granted the finale was a wee bit (Okay a LOT) Scooby Doo ending. And yes, I was kinda wishing for the ultimate cliff hanger (anhilation with no definitive resolution for our heroes...) and what was that afterlife retribution between Sloan and Jack? and Irina reaching for the orb when she knew she could die? SOOOO Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade (etc...) and the Sydney and Vaughn on a deserted island was pretty much a foregone conclusion from the time that cancellation was announced, so you just had to accept that that was the way it was gonna end, and that in order for that to happen, ALL the baddies would have to be eliminated. I thought the ending "Thanks for five wonderful seasons" graphic was a nice touch. Don't see that very often.

But despite a lackluster finish, I think back on all the funky wigs, exotic accents and sexy outfits our gal Sydney has adorned over the run, I have to say I have thoroughly enjoyed the show. Granted the fact that JJ Abrams had abandoned it in favor of his new love Lost was utterly apparant, and the show lost some steam when Syndey/Bennifer pt.2 aka Garfleck got pregnant, but the whole mystique of the show carried me through watching every episode. I'm thinking back tonight, maybe because it was I could relate to Project Christmas (the adolescent CIA(?) training program that papa-Jack put his daughter in to essentially train her from age 6 to be a spy) because I flash back to a moment in my own childhood where my mother enrolled me in a brief psychology study at Holy Cross (I remember little but puzzles and I have a mental snapshot of the room that springs up every so often) or maybe it's because running hard to a syncopated beat is fucking sexy. Or maybe because the desire to lick Michael Vartan from head to toe is very very strong. Or that Sark is a dead sexy ringer for my ex? The mythology, the intrigue, the suspense. Alias, I shall miss you. (P.S. Garner, pick your projects wisely, don't think you need to cover those gambling debts yourself. That's his problem.