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Yes, I boldly braved spoilers to bring you this article from Entertainment Weekly. Spoilerish details hidden . . . ^_^ (Please discuss spoilers in the spoiler forum.)
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Alias
ABC 9-10 PM
Starts Sept 28
"How many cliff-size hangers have we seen?" says Garner with a chuckle as the camera reloads. "This one flips everything and sets up 100 more flips . . . . It's such a mind trip." She scrunches up her face. "I mean, what's JJ's deal?"
JJ's deal--and by JJ we mean JJ Abrams, Alias' creator/exec producer--is that once again he's tossed the guidebook to ABC's complex spy drama off the roof of an 88-story building. "Creating this show is like being Sydney," he opines. "You keep finding yourself in these incredibly crazy circumstances and you have to be as creative as you can to find your way out."
Mission accomplished. After unleashing a polarizing post-Super Bowl episode that abruptly altered the show's course, Abrams dropped another what-the-hell??? whopper for the second-season finale: Sydney passed out after a duel to the death with her roomie's evil double (who had knifed Syd's pal Will) and regained consciousness in Hong Kong, where her CIA handler/boyfriend, Vaughn (Michael Vartan), informed her that she'd been presumed dead for two years and that he, umm, yeah, married someone else. "If you gasped when you saw it, imagine what a sucker punch it was to those of us who have spent the last two years earning this relationship," says Garner, who, incidentally, has earned her own real-life relationship with costar Vartan. "Of course, JJ has thought it through 150,000 steps further than any of us have."
Try telling that to fans who felt Vaughn gave up too easily on Sydney--and let Vartan know it all summer. ~
While we'll learn about at least one place Sydney's been-- ~
--Dan Snierson
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A very nice (& large, over 1/4 of the page) photo of Jennifer Garner accompanies the article. EW was kind, it was one of the featured returning shows, garnering (um, sorry about the pun) a full-page article.
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Alias
ABC 9-10 PM
Starts Sept 28
~ And if we reveal any more, we'll lose a finger.SPOILER - PART OF A SCENE - HIGHLIGHT TO READ said:
"How many cliff-size hangers have we seen?" says Garner with a chuckle as the camera reloads. "This one flips everything and sets up 100 more flips . . . . It's such a mind trip." She scrunches up her face. "I mean, what's JJ's deal?"
JJ's deal--and by JJ we mean JJ Abrams, Alias' creator/exec producer--is that once again he's tossed the guidebook to ABC's complex spy drama off the roof of an 88-story building. "Creating this show is like being Sydney," he opines. "You keep finding yourself in these incredibly crazy circumstances and you have to be as creative as you can to find your way out."
Mission accomplished. After unleashing a polarizing post-Super Bowl episode that abruptly altered the show's course, Abrams dropped another what-the-hell??? whopper for the second-season finale: Sydney passed out after a duel to the death with her roomie's evil double (who had knifed Syd's pal Will) and regained consciousness in Hong Kong, where her CIA handler/boyfriend, Vaughn (Michael Vartan), informed her that she'd been presumed dead for two years and that he, umm, yeah, married someone else. "If you gasped when you saw it, imagine what a sucker punch it was to those of us who have spent the last two years earning this relationship," says Garner, who, incidentally, has earned her own real-life relationship with costar Vartan. "Of course, JJ has thought it through 150,000 steps further than any of us have."
Try telling that to fans who felt Vaughn gave up too easily on Sydney--and let Vartan know it all summer. ~
~ "Girls were like, 'How could you?'" says the actor. "It got to the point where I thought of having a T-shirt made that said: ~MINOR SPOILER - HIGHLIGHT TO REVEAL said:
To those wondering if Sydney's time twist means that Alias--which saw its numbers dip last season--is still searching for direction, Abrams insists he has a plan. "I've seen stories of people who are in comas and they wake up," he says, "but I'd never seen one where someone wakes up and literally where they've been is a mystery."AGAIN MINOR SPOILER AS ABOVE - HIGHLIGHT TO REVEAL said:
While we'll learn about at least one place Sydney's been-- ~
~ But Sydney's greatest danger could come courtesy of Garner herself. "I'm in the market for a big stunt," she says. "I want to hang from the bottom of a helicopter and just freak out. Let's kick it up a notch." Fans--and paramedics--are standing by.SPOILERS - DETAILS OF WHERE VARIOUS CHARACTERS WIND UP - HIGHLIGHT TO READ said:
--Dan Snierson
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A very nice (& large, over 1/4 of the page) photo of Jennifer Garner accompanies the article. EW was kind, it was one of the featured returning shows, garnering (um, sorry about the pun) a full-page article.
