I'm up, I'm up.
I'm already feeling very festively festive this Thanksgiving Day.
As to Alias, the producers have repeatedly promised "a bang" the last couple of seasons, but the "bang" has been a whimper 80% of the time, and this season has been completely pathetic - with an actress whose ego has pretty much put the nail in the coffin of her own show (oh, I'll direct the show now, oh, I'll be a producer now). The producers very obviously did not have the usual "bible" for this show beyond season two, really, because they just began flailing around like a beached whale, going this way and that way, and their flailing became predictable - predictable is what kills shows like Alias. They got cocky, really cocky, thinking the audience would just accept whatever silliness they came up with. The Arvin Sloane endless back-and-forths were especially idiotic after the tenth time. Miss Garner's pregnancy should have told the ABC executives everything they needed to know, and they should have done one two-hour wrap up before she was showing - that was the only way they were going out with a bang. But, no, it was better to switch the show to a bad time slot, let it limp along, and THEN cancel it. Now, they promise the bang. They'll wait until Miss Garner has her baby, and is back in shape to be the old Sydney, then they will try to tie up everything - they'll pay Michael Vartan whatever they have to to do the one last episode, Nadia will return, Irena will return, hell, people long dead from the first season might even return - maybe even the Rambaldi artifact will return - for all the earth-shattering importance of it, it has just disappeared.