Monday, December 15, 2008

Alias; or, How I Keep From Being Addicted to TV

1. Laura rented the first season of Alias this weekend, and has been watching it in the living room.

2. Which is a REALLY cruel thing to do to me during FINALS WEEK!!

3. Unfortunately, by Sunday we'd already watched a couple... um... discs of it (ok, in my defense, I sort of wandered in and out of the room. And I had a textbook open on my lap, so it really COUNTED as studying, right?)

4. So I decided it was time to take action. Solution...

5. I wikipedia'ed it and read all the plotlines.

6. No more suspense! No more temptation. Back to studying and living a healthy and engaged life.

7. Before you judge me for my lack of proper TV-watching-patience... I did this with Lost last year, too.

8. Lost: 2 (more) seasons X 25 episodes/season X 45 min per episode... plus Alias: 4 seasons X 25 episodes/season X 45 min per episode... I just saved myself 112.5 hours of unnecessary television.

9. All that said... I now have a clear picture of who I want to be when I grow up. Sydney Bristow. Kind, brilliant, beautiful, brave, she can out-kickbox eight strong international spies at once, and she speaks 24 languages. Heck. Yes.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

what joy is there in your life?

StarMesa said...

I love love love Alias (and Sydney Bristow!) and have all 5 seasons on DVD. So, if you ever are in the mood to waste some hours (which I'm sure you won't be, cause you are a girl who does incredible things with your time :) just let me know..I'm always up for a good Alias marathon :)

Elise said...

OMG I did the same thing in India! My host fam had season 1 and I watched the whole thing in like a weekend, then I couldn't stand the suspense/sexual tension with vaughn so I googled all the plot lines too!! we're like show soulmates!

and I think Sydney's amazing too, and so rare for an action series like that to star a woman...go women...

:) love you!

amy@flexibledreams said...

Sydney Bristow is my hero.

I'm thinking of doing the same thing with Dexter Season 2 since season 1 was great but really sad.

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