Prison Break Shockers! Alias Insanity! ER Mouth-to-Mouth! It's Future Husbands Gone Wild
by Kristin Veitch | Apr. 14, 2006
Wentworth Miller. Michael Vartan. John Stamos. Yes, they all appear in this column. And yes, they just so happen to be my top three future husbands of all time. But if you think I'd stoop so low as to write about these shows just because I want to put their names at the top of this column, well, you know me too well.
(First page is Prison Break news)
Then the Alias part....
Your Countermission: Try Not to Cry I'll admit it. My voice cracked this week while interviewing Kevin Weisman about the end of Alias. And I'm not talking about a Peter Brady kind of hormone-induced crack, but rather, the kind you get when you're saying goodbye to not one but a whole group of friends you've adored for years. The kind that puts a vice grip on your heart 'cause you realize it's the end of a really good era.
Say what you want about Alias' ups and downs over the seasons; even in its darkest days, it continued to be 99.9 percent better than anything else on television. And that is why Weisman told me the cast and crew are actually at peace with the timing of the show's final wrap.
"It's hard, but we really feel like we're going out on top," he said. "You know, we're not getting the ratings that some of these other shows get, but we still have our loyal fan base, and I think ABC is honoring that and honoring the fans by really promoting these last episodes."
"It's a bittersweet thing," echoed creator JJ Abrams, "but it's wonderful to know it's the end, so that we can actually end the series the right way, as opposed to finishing a season and then having the network just say, 'It's over.' "
FYI, by all accounts, JJ was so not kidding about "the right way." Everyone I've spoken with who has seen the final episodes told me more or less the same thing: They are "classic Alias" and "the fans are going to love it."
Of course, with the Rimbaldi storyline finally coming back and giving us some long-awaited resolution, the return of one Mr. Michael Vaughn, aka the delicious Michael Vartan (whose life-pulse status I will reveal in this Monday's chat, if you still don't know), not to mention Irina (Lena Olin), Will (Bradley Cooper), Nadia (Mía Maestro), Anna Espinosa (Gina Torres) and Weiss (Greg Grunberg), how could we not?
That's one hell of a bon voyage party.
Speaking of celebrations, in case you hadn't heard, Kevin's wife just gave birth to his first child, Maya Rose. "My mother was excited, 'cause she was a TV grandma first and now a real grandma!" he laughed, referring to Marshall starting a family a few seasons back. "So, yeah, I didn't change diapers or anything, but I think the love I had for my TV son prepared me for the love I have for my real-life daughter."
By the way, we're gonna see Marshall's spawn before the series ends. "My son on the show is now, like, three and a half, and in the 16th episode, the kid has a couple scenes. He was really cute." Amanda Foreman of Felicity, who plays Marshall's wife, also is back, and Kevin said it's one of his favorite episodes yet. "I was actually doing that episode when the baby was born and it was crazy," he said. "It's a really big episode for me, where I get captured and tortured and all this crazy s--t happens."
Crazy s--t? On Alias? Ya don't say! Still, Kevin promised we won't be disappointed. "Creatively, the end is amazing," he said. "I wish I could tell you all about it, because I think they really did a good job. It's insane what happens at the end, and you know, not everybody survives. That's all I'm sayin'! Get ready, 'cause yeah, it's a little sad."
That's when he says "There's only one Sydney Bristow" It reminds me of Remnants when Will said "Cause you are you" or something like that 
Thank You! Thank You!! Thank You!!! 
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