All the Time in the World
May 27, 2006 – 12:29 pmFive years. And it all comes down into one finale. I have only one word to say to it: Heart-breaking.
Not because it ended. The ending killed me. The writers - what were they thinking? Jack died the hero’s death, that was okay, but did he have to die? And well, he was being quite the superman walking into the chamber a few hundred feet below the ground with two bullets in a lung and dynamite.
Irina. This is the character I’m most disappointed in. Everyone was played into thinking she was good, etc, that she’d always put Sydney first. But I guess the writers proved us wrong. She died reaching for the Rambaldi Sphere instead of taking Syd’s hand which Syd offered despite the fight earlier on.
And there was no SpyFam scene. This is the most depressing part of all. No Jack/Irina interaction at all - just a mess of jumble stopping the final bombing of DC and London. (I wasn’t even sure what was going on, being too traumatized by the fact that J/I were dead). The writers killed the ship - sank it, blew it into a gazillion pieces. They even made sure Jack was dead, really dead, by burying both him and Sloane (the poor immortal stuck under a rock) in the mines.
Let me just complain again - Stupid Ending, Stupid Writers. I probably will never be able to watch the previous seasons properly again. Knowing it would all end up this way. If only they could make an alternate ending! I know it’s too lame and far-fetched to have every couple living happily ever after on some deserted island, but it will satisfy me. If only…
The ending seems to have killed the show for me, almost. Now I can only look back in time, remember the happy years I had with Alias, cursing the ending which was heart-breaking and depressing, dreaming of what could be, screaming at the waste of screen time between J/I in the end. And wishing Jack wasn’t dead and Irina wasn’t dead.
Almost everyone is ranting and raving and screaming threats at JJ Abrams on the boards. A fine show - brilliant, in fact - degraded to such a position. It is unbelievably depressing.
Seems like I have all the time in the world now to mourn.
R.I.P. ALIAS, Jack, Irina.
2 Responses to “All the Time in the World”
I have a theory on the ambiguous ending here at Lets Talk Alias
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By Dan on May 27, 2006
OMG, you have no idea how much I agree with you!! I mean - whaaaaat were they playing at by writting such a monumentally bad ending? All I could think was - they had months, whole moths to come up with sth and they had to make Irina bad, kill Jack and make Slone immortal. Un-freakin-belivable>:@! And I agree, I also can’t watch the previous seasons in the same way anymore … it’s redicilous. That’s why I’ve decided that this ending didn’t happen…it doesn’t matter what some handful of people say (what I can’t understand is how the actors upon reading the script ever agreed to act it out), to me Alias ended differently - whatever - we don’t know - the woman that died reaching for the Rambaldi ball is a dublicate of Irina and the real Irina actually saves Jack from the cave just a second before it explodes. How bout that?;) I don’t know…otherwise it’s just to depressing. I can’t stand it:(
By Becca on Jun 21, 2006