kill alias

last night’s alias had to be the stupidest episode of anything I’ve ever seen. and I watch a lot of stupid tv.

finding a way to explain jennifer garner’s impending pregnancy on the show was pretty lame to begin with, but suddenly making vaughn a double agent? without any prior indication, it’s suddenly “wait, why are you calling me vaughn? I’m not vaughn, I’m this other guy pretending to be him.” that’s just idiotic. might as well switch darrens while you’re at it. it’s become painfully obvious that jj abrams has been spending much more time crafting lost, because that show is so much more intricately detailed, though it makes no goddamn sense whatsoever.

** spoilers below for those of you who care. I sure as hell don’t anymore **

so then they kill off vaughn to keep the “mystery” of his true identity hidden. it was pretty obvious they were trying to write him off the show (if I were michael vartan, I’d be begging to leave, too) in the most half-assed way possible, but still somehow get a story arc shoved in there. this is probably so they could do some sort of fake-death thing like with every other damn character on the show.

alias has been going steadily downhill since the midpoint of the first season, when they completely changed the show to draw in the post-superbowl audience. somewhere along the line, it devolved from a trendy, somewhat witty spy drama to a random evil syndicate of the week show to showcase jennifer garner’s teenage-boy-body and latest pouty look. I don’t know what people see in her. give me carla gugino any day.

they seriously need to kill this show before a. tarantino returns for yet another “very special” episode, or b. ben affleck makes a guest appearance. either way, it’s not going to be soon enough.