Freezer Brain

This is pretty random, but let's just say that since I've been back stateside all I find myself wanting to do is crawl into our den ("tv room" for you more 2000 era folk) and hide. Hibernation is key these days. So with that in mind, the first thing that struck my fancy when I got back was to turn on Alias. I watched it all through high school, every Sunday night with B-Fab; she would fold the laundry, I would straighten my hair for school. It became our routine. Then one summer I came home from camp early after getting really sick and I spent two weeks eating nectarines on the couch and watching Alias seasons 1 through 3 - that was around the time when TV on DVD was beginning to get popular.

My pet peeve about well executed television shows is starting to overpower my ability to sit and turn my brain off for a few hours each day while watching Alias. In fact, that was the whole point of this post. Turn on TV on DVD, avoid brain tangents about Romania, orphaned children, ministry, doing God's work.. you get the idea. Season two crept up on me fast and I'm finding that I already feel myself getting frustrated with the way JJ Abrams and the entire production staff (I'm looking at you writers) really dropped the ball on this show. I would tackle a detailed argument about the things I would have done differently, like give actress Lena Olin whatever money she wanted to keep her on, dropped the ridiculous Rambaldi plotline, and focus on what the show did best, flesh out characters who lead complex lives. Sometimes I felt this way about Lost too.. but that's another story and this is exactly what I wasn't looking for these last two weeks home: in depth thought, cause I've got too much of that already.