May 31, 2004

Alias Season 4: Early Thoughts

Happy memorial day, may all the families of the men who have given their lives for this Country be blessed today!

For those of you who saw the season 3 ending on May 23rd and those who watch the show regularly, please share your thoughts on my suppositions.

As we all know, hopefully, season 3 was a bit of a bust. Not as good as the previous two seasons... a little disapointing. I don't think it's the fault of the acting; it was more that the story line didn't seem to go much of anywhere. I am impressed that they (the writers) started picking up the pieces, finally, about 4 episodes from the end. However, I am not sure that this 'Top Secret Experiment' that Sydney is supposedly involved in will pann out to be anything substantial.

On the other hand, they have been building towards this for quite a while. If you remember the First Season, which I have the felicity of owning, the storyline dealt with the fact that Sydney had been betrayed by her father in some way as a 6 year old...after her mother left/died. They explained this as being the 'Project Christmas' operation which Jack tested on his daughter. This was not explained until the Second Season however, when Irina questioned what her daughter knew.

In re-watching First Season:Episode 4 (A Broken Heart) this weekend I noticed an interesting sequnce of events. Jack went in for his regular psych eval at SD-6 and was under hypnosis, he had just seen Syd in the hallway and this was before any real relationship developed. As he 'went under' he saw a woman, who I think was supposed to be Syd's mom, holding a baby. Then the image faded and came back, but this time you saw full into the woman's face and when she looked up, it was Sydney and she was still holding the baby. She looks straight at Jack and says 'I am going to find out some day.' Jack then wakes up and leaves the session....

This early indication, along with information Irina supplied, and even when Sydney was trying to regain her lost two years and imagined herself as a 7 year old at her own birthday party, seem to point to an issue more sinister than Project Christmas. I thought perhaps she was a 'created' or 'test tube' baby but that doesn't make much sense, her age pre-dates the earliest 'test tube' baby by at least 7 years. Genetic manipulation has come a very long way since it was discovered in early 1970 and I doubt that she could be the product of something that deep. I am assuming it is something that has to do with Project Christmas, but is must deeper. She was recruited because she 'fit a profile' and one might wonder what that profile was...

Does anybody have any items deeper than what I think might be the issue? Mine are no deeper than what one might suppose just by hearing about the series and putting interlocking pieces together....

PS my mouse is broken, do you know how annoying it is to nativagate the computer and the internet by hand?? tab, tab, tab...I never realized how many links there are on one page...

Posted by 10lees at May 31, 2004 12:01 PM