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April 20, 2006

A Bone to Pick

Ok, "Alias," this time you've really stretched my disbelief to its limits.
I was with you when Sydney's mom, believed to be dead, turned out not just to be alive, but also to be some sort of super-terrorist.
I was with you when Sydney's roommate Francie was killed and replaced with a genetic double.
I was with you when Sydney woke up in Hong Kong and realized that two years of her life had miraculously vanished.
I was with you when Sydney's mom died -- again! -- and then turned out to still be alive -- again!
I was even with you when a red ball in the sky somehow poisoned the water supply, turning everyone in its path, including Sydney's sister, into rage zombies.
But when the show returned from its hiatus last night, something happened that I just couldn't accept. In the episode's final moments, Syd, her dad and her mom infiltrated a bank building looking for some sort of mysterious device. Repeat, it was a bank building. No one was there except for them and a team of terrorists who also wanted the device.
Then pregnant Sydney went into labor, and delivered seemingly in minutes, despite having a breeched birth. But that wasn't the truly unbelievable part.
No, the unbelievable thing -- the thing I just can't my head around -- is that, after the baby was born, Syd's mom handed the little one to her in a hand-woven baby blanket, which appeared seemingly from thin air! I mean, where do a bunch of spies find a baby blanket in an empty bank building? Were they carrying it around just in case?
I'm sorry. I just didn't buy it.
But Vaughn still being alive after getting shot, like, 20 times? That makes total sense.

Posted by amanda on April 20, 2006 10:21 AM

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