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TV Review : ALIAS
Spoiler saison 5
27 mai 2006
TV Review : ALIAS - SEASON 5 -"Reprisal/All The Time In The World
Everything comes together in the end with Rambaldi, Jack and Sloane and Syd and her mother squaring off in a final steel cage match battle royal
By : PETER BROWN
Contributing Editor
As Darth Vader once said, the circle is now complete. The series finale to ALIAS left hardcore fans with a proper send off, wrapping up all the plotlines involving Sloane and his obsession with Milo Giacomo Rambaldi, Sydney’s parents and the relationship between Vaughn and Syd. The only big questions left - who was gonna die and who would survive the onslaught of a series finale with so much history and hype built into it.
The first half of the series finale, “Reprisal,” was just OK with Sloane making a power grab with Sark and Peyton in tow helping him get “The Twelve” out of the way as well as bombing APO’s facilities in the process taking out Thomas Grace (Balthazar Getty) in the process. Supposedly this was a big deal in the series that Grace died but having only watched the previous three episodes and being extremely bored by the romance between Grace and Rachel Gibson (Rachel Nichols), it was a huge “eh” moment. Had Dixon or any of the other characters taken the plunge, maybe it would have been cool but not some dude who has only been with the show for one season.
“Reprisal” featured a great intro with Sydney explaining who Prophet Five are and did a good job wrapping up what has happened until this point just in case some long time fans tune into to see the end (although moving it to Monday at the last minute, probably not the best idea to keep a good fan base). But I kept thinking this should have been done sooner, maybe a simpler explanation would have had more people understanding and watching the show rather than be so cryptic about everything for so long.
By far, however, the real gem of the two-hour ALIAS send-off was the second hour, “All The Time In The World,” a fast-paced, emotional and very enjoyable hour bringing everything back round with wonderful flashbacks filling in the blanks between Jack and Sydney’s time when they were together without Irina and her first few days with SD-6. I also really enjoyed the highly emotional final conversation with Syd and her father. After everything the two has been through it was nice to have that sincerity come through and the love that obviously was there for the past five seasons.
So the main build-up in “All The Time In The World” was Sloane finally discovering Rambaldi’s secret (immortality) only to have Jack, Vaughn, and Sydney arrive just in time to stop him from carrying out his plans. Fitting that these have been all of the main characters from the show and the pursuit of Rambaldi’s machinations has been the centerpiece of the entire show. Again, bringing everything full circle.
Sloane shooting Jack was not unexpected but the quickness with which Sydney emptied an entire clip into Sloane was anti-climatic and I’m glad it was not the last we saw of Ron Rifkin’s character. How brilliant was Jack to go back into the cave where Sloane was and say “You couldn’t defeat me” bringing down the entire mountain on top of a now immortal Sloane (thanks to the secret Rambaldi juice he cooked up) with a truckload of explosives. Having lost every one he cared for only to have the one thing he wanted come to fruition be for naught was a fitting end for the immortal Sloane who is forever trapped under a mile of rock and stone.
Unfortunately, that’s where the good ends and we must witness the obligatory wrap-up with Irina and Sydney, who it seemed, was just penciled in because they didn’t know what else to do with her so why not make her a bad guy again then quickly kill her off, and the final few moments with the new Bristow clan and another burgeoning prodigy in Sydney’s daughter by putting together some impossible puzzle that seems like a piece of cake.
So for those who just want the bottom line here it is - Jack, Irina, Thomas Grace, Sloane (for all intents and purposes) are dead ; Syd, Vaughn, Marshall, Sark, Dixon are alive.
Source : iF Magazine
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