Farewell Sydney Bristow

Due to some fortuitous Desperate Housewives watching last night I learned that the Series Finale for Alias is on tonight - Monday night not the usually scheduled Wednesday night. I almost missed it and then ABC I would have brought down the wrath of one angry viewer on you. Maybe that's why the show had trouble keeping an audience ABC kept moving it around until the death knell of being opposite Survivor was cast last fall. I've seen every episode of Alias, I own every episode that's out on DVD. I've looked forward to Alias every week for five years, I watch the reruns on weekends. As with any show it had its low points - the year Sydney lost her memory and became whiny and angry almost made me lose faith. But the show redeemed itself with solid spy vs. spy the next season. I like the way Sydney Bristow always kicks ass, I like the way characters swap sides from good to evil and back so you're not sure what's going on. But Sydney is always a good guy, always the one you can count on to save the world. And I'm amazed at the many different ways in which the world needed saving in the past five years. I've been jaw droppingly shocked at events, cried at the tradgedies and completely swept up in the cliffhangers that end most episodes. This weekend I saw Mission Impossible III also directed by JJ Abrams and it was very Alias - packed with action, excruciating scenes of torture, bombs implanted in the brain, undefined bad guy technology that will destroy the world. So there is hope that though Alias is gone the same delights may be seen in other outlets. Tonight there will be no cliffhanger there will only be one last night to say farewell Sydney Bristow.