# ALIAS rant **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alias-rant/199925 "2003-09-06T13:09:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rythefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d07c76/32.png) [@Rythefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rythefly)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2003, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alias-rant/199925/1 "2003-09-06T13:09:27Z")
Sorry, but I refuse to give in to this notion that ALIAS is/was too complicated for the general American public. Why is the lowest common demoninator constantly pandered to? Also, why do people give up every time a show forces them to think. ALIAS is complicated but, let’s face it, it’s not Nietzche. I also find it ridiculous that a journalists, many I’m sure college graduates, find ALIAS “ludicrously confusing” (to quote one)…are we surrounded by a bunch of idiots? It’s just that kind of press that seems to have possibly deterred people from tuning in. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alias-rant/199925/2 "2003-09-06T19:03:38Z")
It’s not “ludicrously confusing” to those of us that have been watching since day 1 and haven’t missed an episode. But lets face it, if you plunked someone off the street and sat them down for a random episode of Alias they wouldn’t have any idea what’s going on. It’s why the show needs these “reboot” points like the Super Bowl episode and the season 2 finale. Without them no one would ever be able to jump in. DVD sets help too. ---
**Author:** ![gawen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a88e57/32.png) [@gawen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gawen)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alias-rant/199925/3 "2003-09-06T19:56:51Z")
is it cancelled? season 2 just began here and i’d be really disapointed if there was no more ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alias-rant/199925/4 "2003-09-06T20:11:06Z")
No, it’s still very much alive and season three starts over here within the month I believe. ---
**Author:** ![AmericanMaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@AmericanMaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmericanMaid)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alias-rant/199925/5 "2003-09-06T21:01:24Z")
What pisses me off is since the Super Bowl episode, in every frickin episode Jennifer Garner gets semi-naked with slo-mo and cheesecake poses. It’s gotten completely ridiculous. I know she has a great body but for a season and a half, she wasn’t being sold for her looks. It’s getting distracting. I’m just worried that J.J Abrams has no plan about the prophecy and Sydney’s connection to it. I personally think most people in Hollywood, actors and journalists are a couple beers short of a six-pack so of course they find Alias and 24 confusing. ---
**Author:** ![Rythefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d07c76/32.png) [@Rythefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rythefly)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2003, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alias-rant/199925/6 "2003-09-06T23:15:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AmericanMaid \* > \*\*I’m just worried that J.J Abrams has no plan about the prophecy and Sydney’s connection to it. > \*\* I too was worried until Irina…um…mentioned it in the finale.