Mmmm....cookies....

I finally moved Alias to the top of my Netflix queue and I've watched the first two disks. I really should have been watching this from the beginning, it's very neat and Jennifer Garner looks great kicking ass. But I'm starting to have issues with some of the double agent stuff and I'm not sure how much handwaving I need to do for the show.

A few things that have bugged me ---in episode three where she goes to meet Anna , Sydney has a ear piece going to Vaughn, but why isn't that picked up by SD-6. I'd think they'd be listening in on the conversation.

Also, I don't mind being spoiled -- but does Will die? Because it seems like he's heading to a bloody death. Frankly, I thought SD-6 would have done better about building a backstory for Kate Jones (is that the right alias?) in case anyone (like the bad guys) decided to check up on her.

I'm not sure how much handwaving I need to do for the show

All of it. This might make it easier for you to watch Lost, or you may find your hands are too tired.

Will doesn't die in the first season. Which isn't to say he dies in a later season. Just that he doesn't die in the first.

Well, I got the meeting invite off. And many people have even accepted, after I accepted one counter.

Now I need to work out how to tell my boss I have a doctor's appointment at three that I need to leave for at 1 since I have a conference call at 2. And physical therapy at 4 tomorrow.

Urgh.

Also, eek.

Askye, no, he doesn't.

I also have this question about Lestat!:

We have unified these books into a linear storyline and our intention is to make a stylish, sexy, intelligent and richly hypnotic show that is stripped of gothic clichés and that shows the vampire dealing with his damnation on a more realistic and human level. Please let me make this clear this is not a rock opera.

Is it possible to remain remotely faithful to the books and not fill the show with gothic clichés? And why not a rock opera? Lestat is a rock star, for fuck's sake!

t /issues

I'm not sure how much handwaving I need to do for the show.

Hmmm. I'd say, buy a wrist brace so you don't sprain anything.

I don't remember the specific eps, but it seemed to me she would occasionally flip comms on or off as needed. I think.

Will - no. Barely.

Trying to synthesize Alias seems as futile as trying to understand the artistic coherence claimed for Lestat! the non-gothic vampire rock star musical.

bon bon has no magic in her heart.

Magic-free for over a decade. Ask me how!

Don't the A's have a huge walkup biz because everyone knows that the park never sells out? That's sort of a chicken-egg situation.

Yeah, but it's a supply and demand issue. The supply of seats is over abundant since it's really a football stadium, and the local baseball market is smaller. The new owner is a sharp businessman and has done a lot of developments and I think the condo element is what makes it financially feasible for him.

The one place it will really cost him is in post-season ticket sales which is a fat juicy golden goose.

The new park looks pretty cool, even though it's symmetrical.

Not bad looking. I presume those green shades in the outfield are basically a retractable batter's blind? I know there is a hotel attached to the park in Toronto, so that you can watch the game from your hotel room window (if you pay enough).

Don't think the Red Sox org. wasn't crying into their enormous piles of money that the World Series didn't go two more games. They lost out on a huge take from a potential game 6. Nobody would have complained if the hotdogs had been $20 apiece.