Amanda’s Comments (group member since Jul 13, 2008)

Amanda’s comments from the Alias group.

DJ, I hope you got to see season 5. :)

FINALLY!!!!!
I found Season 4 at the used bookstore. Good Lord, I did a happy dance! I've been waiting for those DVDs, since, when? December?

I'm gonna post my happy pic on my profile in the "other photos" section.

PS. I love, love, love your new avatar picture!!! It rocks. And makes me giggle.

Oh yeah, that was VERY cool. He was standing in the background and Syd didn't see him there... He's stealthy fo sho! I'm eager to get to season 4--I forget what happens. Which is kind of nice, actually, because it's like watching it all over again for the first time... Hee hee

Hey, turn that frown upside down!!! All is well in the world today...
Finished season 3, but (dun, dun, dun) I DON'T OWN SEASONS 4 OR 5! :( *sigh* I think I'm gonna have to buy 'em online or something...

I'm onto season 3. !

Ok, I'm watching the episode where they're at Dixon's wife's funeral, and I see a little girl that Dixon is hugging. But I'm confused. I thought Dixon had two sons! I mean, even in Strategic Reserve I thought they were saying that he had two sons.

Yep, it's morbid. It's official--you're a freak! ;)

I see you down there! You can't hide! :) ha, kidding. But join our discussion if you want. We don't take up much time, I promise.

Oh yeah, baby. When they used those plutonium cores to open the box containing the orchid, I watched Irina to see if she got excited at all. She did a little, but not as much as I'd expected. I wonder if the writers hadn't decided that she's Rambaldi-crazy yet. OR, is this the phase where she's trying to wean herself off her Rambaldi obsession? She's quite an intriguing character FOR SURE! And very beautiful, too.

Tonight we watched the episode where the CIA destroys the Alliance! Sooooooo exciting! Robbie said, "What? That was too easy. Something else has to be going on." And then they cut to Sloane and Sark and "bad" Francie. Awesome!

Oh, last thing--I love Olivia D'Abo! (Emma Watson--no, wait, what's her character's name?) She got blown up by Ethan Hawke in Berlin... Anyway, I thought her character in The Wonder Years was a real bitch back when I was a kid. But I've seen her in other stuff and in Wonder Years re-runs and I really like her! I wish she was in more stuff.

My friend Robbie wants to do an Alias short play for our local playwrights group. hee hee hee.

Anyway, he comes over to watch the shows with my roomate and me. We just finished Episode 8 of Season 2! :) Moving right along, slowly but surely. I'm happy to be rewatching the episodes! It reminds me that I really loved Season 1--it's probably my favorite.

Anyway, right now, they're on the mission where they had to take Irina with them and she was wearing that C4 necklace which they used as a bomb to fend off their attackers. Jack's being the hardass that makes him who he is. He's my friend Robbie's favorite character.

I finished it. (Did you see my review?) I was disappointed! :(

The characters in the book seemed somewhat misaligned with the characters from the television series. Like, they'd say or do things that didn't quite jive with the way the tv characters talk/behave. I hope the other APO books aren't like that. I'll read more in the series, naturally, because I'm a sucker and I can't help myself! haha.

Have you read any of the prequels? Remarkably, I like those better than I liked Strategic Reserve. I guess one of the reasons is because there are characters in the prequel novels that you never (hardly ever) see or hear from in the tv series. Like Noah. He's in a bunch of the books even though he's only in 2 or 3 episodes of the tv series. Kinda cool to see how his and Sydney's relationship worked while she was still a young recruit! :)

Gasp! You finished it??? I just started Twilight yesterday, so I'll read Strategic Reserve next and we can DISCUSS!!! Awesome! I have to admit, I did start to read it once already and I was bored... :( I'll try again!

Kick ass!!!

eh. It doesn't pay well, and the hours are horrendous, but you can't argue with passion.
:)

Depends. Acting, yes--it's hard to get a job in acting. And directing? Right out of college? No way. But any good school will have job placement assistance, or at the very least will tell you to go to SETC. My undergrad program didn't even tell me about SETC until I was a senior, so I missed out on summer stock opportunities the entire time I was in college. Bummer. Anyway, I was a stage manager, so jobs were NOT hard to come by. Almost everybody does a paid internship their first year or two, which is what I did and it was AWESOME!!!

School is freakin' awesome! So, are you 100% college now, or are you in the advanced HS program where they make you finish the last couple HS classes, but then you get to take the fun college stuff. Part of me wishes they would have let me do that in HS--I almost left school a year early, but I didn't have my final English credit, b/c my HS wouldn't let me take it until Senior Year.

Well, I guess I shouldn't complain. That was a long time ago, and my path would have been totally different if I'd gone to college early--I never would have done theatre as a career. (Of course I'm not doing that now, except for on the side...) Ok, Amanda's stream-of-consciousness mode is acting up. I'll stop now.


What are you studying? Did you pick a major yet?

Very cool. What was the sketch about? Was it the Alias character studies you and Melissa were talking about a few months ago?

The good news is: we finished Episode 7 tonight (Color Blind) and Robbie is really starting to get into the story! Woooooo hoooooooo!

I really like that guy that plays Shepherd (the one Sydney rescued out of the insane asylum). And the two asylum episodes are really fantastic. They always have me on the edge of my seat even moreso than other episodes.

Blah. Was it at least on a decent subject? I suspect that you won't have much time to read for leisure for the next several years. That's what school does for ya... hee hee