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Summary: Great tv spy series
Review: This is one the best tv programs that is currently on. There are so many different plot twists and surprises for season 3. In this season, Jennifer Garner has to deal with her own personal crises and various CIA missions all at once.I definitely recommend buying this dvd just because of the brilliant scriot writing that J.J. Abrams provides.
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Summary: ALIAS SEASON 3!!!!
Review: This season has been incredible. With only a few episodes left im dieing to see what plays out. I hope Sydney kicks the crap out of Lauren. hehe. Anyway Alias along with Angel (this is Angels last year) are the only good shows left on tv. This dvd set is of highest priority on my list in september.
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Summary: Alias... the best!
Review: This season may not have been like the previous 2, but it was still wonderful TV and still the only hour of TV that I absolutely will NOT miss. If you have been on the fence about buying the DVD for Alias, don't...if you watch the show from season 1 through season 3 you will be as excited and desperate to see season 4 premier in January of 2005 (ABC). I only got into this show after bying the DVDs for season one and becoming an absolute Sydney Bristow addict. First, the writting is great, the suspense and action is always a plus, but it is the cast the really makes this show unforgetable. Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow... quite simply no one else could do this character justice, Victor Garber as Jack Bristow.. he was one of my favorites before and I love him more now. Michael Vartan as Michael Vaughn and the list goes on... I will say this if you are looking for a series that gives you the whole package (innovative, creative, suspenceful, great character development, action packed, lots of eye candy and a little romance thrown in to the mix) this is your show. If I could give it more than 5 stars I would. Go ahead get these DVDs you deserve it! I can't wait for season 4.....Is it January yet???
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Summary: Alias, Oh Alias
Review: Though not as strong as it's previous seasons, Alias still has the best action and plotlines on TV. The only thing most people have a problem with is the awful casting choice of Lauren (Melissa George). Jack and Sydney give their best perfformances yet, however. I would say that anyone who likes Alias would enjoy this; anyone who wishes to start watching should get season one first, then, if they like that, get season 2 and 3. Season 2 is the best.
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Summary: get irena back
Review: we're only on the ricky gervais episode in england but overall i agree with other reviews not as good as season 2 but still the best suspense tv we have can't wait for laurens treachery to be discovered by the people that need too know so she can be eliminated with extreme prejudice but please don't let vaughan and sydney get too slushy with each other irena needs to come back (offer her whatever it takes) she just made the first 2 seasons working to her own agenda sloane needs to be ruthless bad again his cover is too unbelievable although nasty sark works well need too see more of quentin tarantino being bad as well especially as he is pulling sarks and laurens strings can't wait till 2005 for next season hope the producers read the reviews and take notes
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Summary: THE WORST SEASON SO FAR!
Review: What Happenned to Alias? I didn't understand the reviewer that said this is the best season and it's packed with action?!
This season barely shows all of the cool action scenes we saw on the last 2 seasons, Sydney barely kicks ass! And don't let me get started on the plot , which is quite boring compared to the last 2 seasons, they seem to recycle materials , just with new characters and that's another downer , all the cool characters were gone- her best friend francy and even her evil clone, will and her mother. The love triangle of Sydney, Vaughn and Lauren is quite lame too, it seems like a bad soap opera, they just go on and on and all they give is a good yawn!
Sark is annoying too!
I'm just waiting for this season to end so I can see what happenned.
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Summary: Excellent Season
Review: Wow, now that i've finished watching the dvds i question a lot what most have been saying about this season, yes, i am part of those who think this was an excellent season. In fact i liked it more than season 2. True, the story is not as strong as the last season, but hey, most of the missions looked more of a swat team than cia spies, specially in the second half. In this season the missions go back to how they were. Great characters, environment, mistery, missions and characters from the past enrich this season more than the last one.
The season opener of this season just me away, one of the best episodes there have been, and the guest stars were superb. The character of Lauren was well done and mysterious, i think even more than Irina Derevko, since most of the time she was in a cell. The mistery leading up to the half season got me hooked and then the surprise with vaughn's wife made me stay.
However, it is true that there were a few mistakes in the way, the relationship between syd and vaughn looks like a classic sope opera, and kathya and jack's relationship is ridiculous as well as barnett and slone's. And yes, the story leading up to the end of the season was a bit stronger in season 2, but most that say it was a bad season are those who saw it in the tv, this season needs to be watched with certan fludity and continuty in order to appreciate it best.
Don't listen to those who say this was wreck! it is more similar to the 1st season, which was perfect, than the second one.
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Summary: What's up with Syd and Vaughn????
Review: [About 3.5 stars, a letdown from prior seasons.]
I'm going to try something a little different for this review of "Alias: The Complete Third Season". I'll start by telling you that "Alias" is still one of my favorite shows, and then I'm going to tell you about the worst episode of "Alias" to date, "Blowback", #14 of the third season.
In "Blowback" Sydney and Vaughn are (unknown to them) chasing Lauren and Sark to first find the location of a "plasma charge" in a data vault, and then find the plasma charge itself. There's a product placement for Ford F-150 trucks that only lasts 1.5 minutes but was the main focus of planning for the show, as revealed in the DVD bonus material. And much of the script is a tricky device showing the same scenes twice, from two different perspectives. The writer for this turkey was Laurence Andries, and the director Lawrence Trilling, one of the literally dozens of producers on "Alias".
For a bomb of a type that he'd never seen, Marshall knew that detaching the blue wire and shorting the red and black wires together would both stop the countdown and render the external trigger inert. (I guess there's an international standard wire color code for bombs that all terrorists follow. That's certainly a comfort in these troubled times!)
At the data vault facility: "Our telescopes generate over 350 gigabytes of information per day." "Not a problem. Our vaults are designed to accomodate teraFLOPs. You can store 20 years of data in the vault you've leased." (This is like comparing apples and aardvarks. A FLOP is a FLoating-point OPeration, a unit of processing power. Data is in bytes, units of storage. What's the lease rate on 2.5 petabytes, with twice-daily backup, anyway? Whatever it is, it must be worth it because the approximately TEN THOUSAND drives in that room were *really* quiet.)
"Let me know when you're connected to the mainframe" in the data vault. (Must be what's generating all those teraFLOPs. A real data vault needs a firewall and a high-speed traffic router; mainframes haven't been needed for mass storage since the 1980s.)
While downloading data from one of many rooms with 2 petabytes each, it's echoed scrolling across the antiquated white on black block text screen at about 1200 bps. (I guess they assume you can wait 50,000 years for your data.)
The act of downloading data injects a virus into a running system. Stopping the download on the sending end stops the spread of the virus on the infected receiving end. (Even AOL users know viruses don't work this way. Plus the CIA's virus detector tells you there's an infection by blanking the screen, but doesn't automatically stop the virus. That's OK, though; Marshall is such a stud that he can manually quarantine the virus by typing commands furiously while the screen is still blanked.)
The Ford F-150 product placement was both blatant and ironic. The irony of this Ford "promotion" was that it showed the F-150 truck could be stolen so fast that they could keep a Mustang fleeing the scene in sight; that's got to be less than 5 seconds. Of course, the F-150 fishtailed at least twice trying to keep up with the Mustang. In addition to its ease of theft, the F-150 was chosen because it could push a parked car out of the way. Yet while the Mustang could push an obstructing non-parked car out of its way, the F-150 couldn't do the same. (The bonus material showed they spent several days planning this car chase scene, and 12 hours shooting it. Apparently this left no time for anybody to read the script.)
A "plasma detector"? Something that detects a gas so dispersed that the electrons aren't tied to any particular nuclei, with 100 feet of atmosphere and metal walls intervening? (Puh-lease! There's also the basic problem of an explosive sniffer being able to point to a source through metal ship decks, instead of following the air path to get there. Or it having a fixed 100' straight line detection range, whether in open air or through multiple steel walls.)
Every time Syd and Vaughn point their Glock pistols, they make hammer-cocking sounds. (Glocks don't have hammers.)
Sydney's generally got perceptions that would make Sherlock Holmes look myopic, yet she referred to the masked Lauren as "him". (I must have missed the part of the briefing when they revealed that most male Covenant agents use mascara. And one of these years the CIA's highly-trained agents will take the basic course that tells you not to stand within touching distance of someone when you have them at gunpoint. But apparently not in 2004.)
Crack shot Syd obviously couldn't shoot Lauren running away in a straight, narrow corridor at a distance of 8 yards, so she didn't even bother to try. And Sydney's a runner; she was a track star in high school and college. She successfully runs away from pursuing enemies in practically every episode. Yet she couldn't catch up with Lauren. (Script armor is better than Kevlar PLUS a jet pack!)
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In one of the DVD episode commentaries they mention that "Alias" episodes generally either shine or stink. "Blowback" was quite the stinker. Luckily for all of us there are still some shiny bits this season. But be prepared to hold you nose occasionally for Season Three. The acting is still top-notch, but the rest of the crew seriously needs to buy a clue. I'm glad I bought my DVD set used; I'd be grumbling more if I paid full price.
Summary: Recommended, with Reservations.
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