In the twenty-second and final episode of the third season of Alias<\/i>, what the HELL. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Alias<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
You know, I wanted to like this finale more than I did. On the one hand, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bold that the show doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really resolve anything<\/i> aside from the fate of Lauren Reed. I get why it was important for Vaughn to be the one to kill her, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s at least some poeticism in that act. (I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll ignore that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand how it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible that he made it to Palerno in that short span of time and<\/i> with a punctured lung, yet he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem winded once<\/i>. JUST NITPICKING, I SUPPOSE.) I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve certainly enjoyed most of season three, but this ending left so much unresolved or unanswered, and thus, it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel like a complete season, not like the past two did. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a bad thing, necessarily, and the writers should feel free to experiment with their narrative where they see fit.<\/p>\n
At the same time, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still a risk, and of the many plots swirling about this finale, only one of them gave me any sort of closure. LET\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S DISCUSS.<\/p>\n
Lauren<\/b><\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll say this: this show did a fine job making both Sark and Lauren the kind of antagonists who are easy to hate. Because lord<\/i>, do I ever dislike them and what they do. The opening scene in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Resurrection\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is one of the most disturbing in the show thus far, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a perfect demonstration of how uncaring Lauren always has been. It wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t enough for her to cause a distraction so that she could get the Rambaldi equations. No, she had to stage a set of explosions that nearly killed multiple people. (And she executed that man who she carjacked instead of just taking his car.) She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s spiteful, cruel, and vicious, and I did not feel bad for her when Vaughn captured her, nor when he later shot her. Along with Sark, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s caused so much suffering in the world. And for what?<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll touch on Rambaldi in a bit, but right up to her death at the hands of Vaughn, we never get a sense for why<\/i> she did everything that she did. That means Vaughn doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get that information either! So how can he ever get the closure that Jack spoke of? Unless there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more Covenant stuff to come, Vaughn will forever have a chasm within him that was created by Lauren. He was betrayed simply because Lauren was following orders. Look, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really believe that she was actually in love with him, you know? She might have said that adamantly, but you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hurt someone you love! Certainly not to this degree! And so Lauren dies, knowing that Vaughn loved Sydney more, and… that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s it. Vaughn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reckless anger backfires (I KNEW IT WOULD), but in the end, he still gets to put a bullet in Lauren. How does he feel about that? \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Legacy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give us the aftermath, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m interested in seeing if the show addresses it.<\/p>\n
Katya<\/b><\/p>\n
I truly don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get what her angle was here. Is she actually<\/i> Covenant? That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the only possible explanation for why she nearly killed Vaughn, freed Lauren, and then tried to assassinate Sydney. Why would her interests lie with the Covenant? What possible gain could they provide her? Was she always with them? What about the mystery of Irina, who was an ally to Jack right up until he mentioned the Passenger?<\/p>\n
The Passenger<\/b><\/p>\n
There has got<\/i> to be something to this Rambaldi story if Nadia, who fully rejected Arvin more than once before, can find an appeal to it even after<\/i> Arvin did what he did to her. I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get the sense that she was lying about her experience, and Arvin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s words resonated with her. That has<\/i> to be part of the explanation of why she lied about the coordinates, you know? She has to have a reason why she believes the story of Rambaldi!!! But this episode ends on such a frustrating place for the audience. We learn that the dig site in Palerno is utterly meaningless, which means it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s there just to set up the Lauren\/Vaughn confrontation. Cool, not the worst thing. But the writers hint at what is at the actual<\/i> coordinates\u00e2\u20ac\u201dRambaldi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s consciousness, or the man himself???\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand then don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t deliver. Nadia leaves with Arvin Sloane for a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153long\u00e2\u20ac\u009d journey, but to where<\/i>? And for what<\/i>? I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T GET IT.<\/p>\n
Deposit<\/b><\/p>\n
Even more frustrating, Lauren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death brings about a new plot twist in the fucked up family dynamics of the Bristow family. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m making an assumption based on Sydney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reaction to safety deposit box that Lauren was telling the truth. Somehow, Sydney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t an accident. The revelation of Nadia was too<\/i> coincidental, and the reason for it all: Jack Bristow.<\/p>\n
We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve known Jack has been willing to do practically anything to secure what he wants, and I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be surprised if Sydney was subjected to the same sort of testing Nadia was. But the other major cliffhanger in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Legacy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d comes from the show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s refusal to show us what was on those files were in the box. Jack signed off… on what? And why<\/i>? CLEARLY IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S NOT A GOOD THING. Actually, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll go a step further: whatever is in those files isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a surprising<\/i> thing. If anything makes perfect sense in this jarring, complicated finale, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that Jack Bristow is ruthless and self-centered. I believe that he would do something alarming enough to warrant the response we see from Sydney. But how the hell<\/i> did Lauren know about it? What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s this whole business of being a pawn, and why was Lauren okay with it? WHAT ABOUT HER MOTHER?<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Resurrection\u00e2\u20ac\u009d left me with far more questions than answers, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like the end of the previous seasons, which opened doors and left the audience with possibilities. Well, new<\/i> possibilities, I should say, since there are still stories left to be resolved. But they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re the arcs already introduced in the show, and one has been around since the first season. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve enjoyed the way that Alias<\/i>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s writers have been willing to write change, to mold this show into new forms, sometimes right in the midst of the season. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m hoping that season four show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that same creative energy. This finale is just okay, and admittedly, the show had a lot to live up to. But I did enjoy season three, and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m eager to find out what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s next for these SUPER MESSED UP CHARACTERS.<\/p>\n
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