"it would horribly mess up the show if we're just jolted 2 years into the future!!!"
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Sorry to say, i don't agree with that right there. There are so many twists and turns that this plot line could take and still make the show kick-ass! You're telling me that you wouldn't watch if the show slowly revealed what everyone was up too? Like memory flash backs? I would. And, I think other people would too. About the whole time travel gig, Alias is a relatively normal show, y'know? Just normal people working as double agents for the goverenment. So, time travel doesn't fit there. Besides, there has to be an ulterior(sp?) motive. there always is. Time travel would be a little too far fetched and a little too Buffy-like.
I still say Syd was brainwashed, used by some unforseen evil agency (or whatever
) and then dumped with her memory of the ordeal wiped from her mind, leaving her thought dead by everyone and alone in utter confusion herself. She could have been brainwashed to be some bad-ass agent for a rogue company, since she has access and knowledge of lots of super secret agent stuff, y'know? But, I somehow doubt Irina knew anything about this. She seems to love her daughter too much. ^_^
As for the Vaughn-being-married-thing, people do crazy and unreasonable things in a time of grief. Who's to say that little-Miss-Alice wasn't there for him and he turned to her for comfort and married her to try (unsuccessfully, I mean, did you see his face when he saw Syd in the motel room? Utter pain, grief, and misery
) to dull the pain of losing Syd? It could happen people, I'm not saying it did, but y'know... Or he could have worn the ring in honor of Syd, as someone said earlier. I can totally picture that happening too.
But, we'll probably be guessing all summer what's going to happen and then we'll finally see the season premier(sp?) and smack ourselves when we see what's going to happen, because it'll probably be something so reasonable and obvious and we didn't guess it. We have to start thinking outside the box, lol.
I'm done with the babbling now, lol.
*Stacie*