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Sloane has never been a good guy, he's always had his own agenda, and what he was trying to do in controling people doesn't make him a good guy at all.


but they set him up as a good guy. i'm not talking about looking at sloane in the big picture with hindsight. i'm saying as a viewer watching. they set up his reform in year 3 and waited awhile to show he was bad. then they did the same in year 4. year 5 they're showing that he has ulterior motives right away, but the characters think he's good.
its basically the same plot repeated over and over again.



Only if the viewer was an idiot. We knew Sloane to be evil and knew he had an agenda, that's been a given since the pilot episode. If you were dumb enough to buy into him reforming then you're too stupid to watch Alias.


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As for the whole story arc thing, they've been doing that since the first episode. Each episode is tied into the next and Rambaldi's been around since then as well.


Its a seriously flawed story arc. Nothing real has been revealed. Its all been device this, prophecy that, but no real revealation. You can tell Abrams learned his lesson from this in Lost. Lost has made a point to set up mysteries and reveal them leading to new mysteries and the grand picture. but they still have the sense of revealation.




I think the network has more to do with that than Abrams. Look at the way ABC has raped Alias. They'll preempt it any time they want, all but pull it off the air for crappy specials and other crap, while they treat other shows better. I watch Extreme Makeover Home Edition and that's treated with the utmost respect by ABC. The show is now 2 hours long, is almost never not on, if another show is going to air during its normal timeslot, they'll go out of their way to put EMHE an hour earlier or something.

Trust me, ABC is the one that screwed Alias over since day one.

It's a rented tux ok? I'm not going comando in another man's fatigues.