Is an Alias Revival in the Cards? Its Writers Seem to Think So

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Is an Alias Revival in the Cards? Its Writers Seem to Think So

Lest you thought Alias would be left out of TV’s endless revival craze, the beloved series’ writers hinted at an ATX panel on Saturday that Jennifer Garner’s Sydney Bristow could be back on our screens before too long. “It would be amazing to do it,” co-executive producer Josh Appelbaum said of a possible new season. “We’ve even talked with J.J. [Abrams].” Appelbaum then cautioned that it’s all talk right now, and that nothing is even close to set in stone: “The right idea would have to come — we wouldn’t want to do it unless it was absolutely perfect.” (Probably the right approach, given the success rate of recent revivals of mid-2000s dramas.) He and the four other former Alias writers on the panel also reminisced about the show’s infamous Super Bowl episode, its unmatched guest star list, and, yes, that ending. “If [Sydney] could move on,” André Nemec explained of the final scene, “then the audience could move on.”
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aaaaa0 said:
I'd watch it. If they could get back to seasons 1 and 2 quality.
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Yep. If they just do a straight up espionage thriller, I'm down. If it's more convoluted "mythology" nonsense, no thanks.
 
Hey, why not, I'd watch it. Hopefully every now and then they cut away to
Sloane just chilling under all those rocks for eternity
.
 
This show was my network tv shit back in the day. Well that and 24 and eventually LOST, but the early noughties would've been an even more shitty period for network television if it wasn't for this show.

As long as we can get Giachinno back (or Bear McCreary as replacement), then I'm game. The OST was as important to the show as the characters and nonsensical plot. And give me a few more Tarantino episodes too and bring in some other Hollywood directors for some episodes.
 
dabig2 said:
As long as we can get Giachinno back (or Bear McCreary as replacement), then I'm game. The OST was as important to the show as the characters and nonsensical plot. And give me a few more Tarantino episodes too and bring in some other Hollywood directors for some episodes.
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Giacchino isn't coming back to television. It's a lot more work than film for a lot less money. McCreary might do it but I feel like he's *just* on the cusp of transitioning to a film career.

Alias is a guilty pleasure of mine, even the crappier later seasons.
 
I loved the show (even all the Rambaldi stuff) until the season 4 (I think it was 4, might've been 3) finale where they had the giant floating ball and the zombie-like people. That went too far into goofiness.
 
Alias without Rambaldi is just a run-of the-mill spy show, especially after the SD-6 storyline ended. There was a lot of cool stuff in there, but the writers didn't know what to do with it and it went in a million different directions.
 
Pedrito said:
Alias without Rambaldi is just a run-of the-mill spy show, especially after the SD-6 storyline ended. There was a lot of cool stuff in there, but the writers didn't know what to do with it and it went in a million different directions.
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It was a spy show where the lovely Jennifer garner got to play dress up each week. And it was awesome.
 
jelly said:
This, the rest was pretty awful.
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The first half of season 3 was really good with the whole mystery about the two missing years. It went downhill when it was resolved and there was the big reveal.

I rewatched season 4 last year and it's not nearly as bad as I remember. The episode in which Sydney is burried alive is one of the best in the serie. Also the one with the fake american town (though it's been done a few times before). I even like the batshit insane finale.

Season 5 is pretty awful though.
 
Pedrito said:
The first half of season 3 was really good with the whole mystery about the two missing years. It went downhill when it was resolved and there was the big reveal.
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But Alias never had proper resolutions for anything. It was the same as Lost. They'd hype a "thing" for a season, then limp out with some half-assed explanation and a big "event" to distract you. Then it was on to the new thing next season.

Also I'm not Michael Vaughn. Ugh.
 
BlackLagoon said:
But Alias never had proper resolutions for anything. It was the same as Lost. They'd hype a "thing" for a season, then limp out with some half-assed explanation and a big "event" to distract you. Then it was on to the new thing next season.

Also I'm not Michael Vaughn. Ugh.
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If I remember correctly, abc execs started meddling with the show causing them to be all over the place. They really, really didn't want the "sci-fi" stuff.
 
Enough with the revivals that can never live up to the original. There is no point other than retroactively ruin the entire show.

I mean, the best of the revivals so far has been Gilmore Girls and even that is only a 6/10 riddled with missed opportunity and a weird vaccuum where ten years passed and none of the characters had any character development in the years between the last ep and the new season.

Revivals were a mistake.
 
"Its Writers Seem to Think So"

Please create this article when an actual production company or television network expresses interest in reviving the show. Of course the writers would like to have more work, but they are in no position to helm a new production.
 
Anyone who didn't appreciate Rambaldi clearly didn't get it.

The show had its varying waves of quality but I'd rank them like this: 2, 1, 5, 3, 4. Season 4 was the worst season, let's be honest. I know everyone loves to shit on S5 but it brought the focus back to family themes ahead of everything else. I've rewatched the show at least 47 times so I should know. ;)

I have this idea in my head hat will also undo choices that were made in the finale even though I appreciate the closure they tried to give. One particular death/character choice still doesn't sit well with me even 11 years later.
 
Rambaldi said:
Anyone who didn't appreciate Rambaldi clearly didn't get it.
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You seem a little biased.

My favorite Alias Trainwreck parts: The
zombie apocalypse
; the introduction of 100% realistic, lifelike latex masks that were used in like, one episode; explicitly stating the Rambaldi device didn't do X but then the finale revealing that yeah, that is literally all it does.
 
TurnipFritters said:
You seem a little biased.

My favorite Alias Trainwreck parts: The
zombie apocalypse
; the introduction of 100% realistic, lifelike latex masks that were used in like, one episode; explicitly stating the Rambaldi device didn't do X but then the finale revealing that yeah, that is literally all it does.
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The giant Mueller Device in Season 4 didn't grant immortality: the Horizon did. You have to read between the lines a bit because the writers never explicitly say it but the Orchid/Mueller plus the Horizon was a two part endgame for Rambaldi: world peace (or chaos, in Elena's case) controlled by the immortality recipient. I'd imagine Rambaldi intended it to be himself but he was excommunicated and died before he could complete it. Sloane and Elena just got two different pieces of the endgame.

And yeah. Obviously they stretched it out and made it up as they went along but Sloane's crazy outburst saying it wasn't only about immortality wasn't completely wrong. The writing in S4 wasn't the greatest. I mean, Hell, Irina and Jack imply Nadia's not Sloane's child but then the extra book that came with the collectors DVD set was like "NO WE DIDNT MEAN THAT WHY WOULD YOU EVER THINK THAT WAS THE CASE." (Even though I'm glad Nadia was Sloane's because it broadened his character even if her existence hurt Irina's imo.)
 
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