The show just has a certain feel to it of them holding back for no good reason.

Continued high ratings = good reason.

I love the show, but it makes me scream every week, although not nearly as much as Alias does.

Watch Alias the way I do: as if it were a strange foreign film with bad overdubbing and very pretty people. You'll be charmed. (Alias is my "just go with it, please check your brain at the door, mmm... Sark" show.)

I think the 3rd way by pressing a button on the handle that sprayed holy water. Also the silly noise it made often times caused vamps to stake themselves in fear.

Am I the only one wondering what will happen to Smallville after they graduate? Will it change it's name to Metropolis or just shift there and keep the same name. I have already noticed a considerable effort by the writers to work in a gradual push for more Metropolis.

I scream at Alias more now because I WANT WILL back...NOW... also if that jackass Vaughn defeats death one more fucking time I will start calling him Darla.

A SCREWDRIVER...A FUCKING SCREWDRIVER!!

Still bitter about that one. Thought he was gone for good then.

Gleebo, it's not like Clark can't just go back whenever he feels like it. It'll be like Gilmore Girls. But I do think that at least one of the non-adults needs to stay in Smallville for it to work. Are they Juniors or Seniors this year?

Big word on the "we don't need no stinking logic" of Alias. There are some shows (unfortunately, Angel fell into this category a lot last year), where it's best to think of events on them only in the context of what happened just before, and not try to bring in larger continuity.

Buffy was continuity porn. Angel's soft core. Alias is a friggin children's book.

(Angel made perfect sense to me last year, but I am willing to admit that a large portion of that is probably that I'm nuttier than a bag of pecans no matter how you say it.)

I think Angel's been busted down to See Spike Run this year. Note to ME writers: Mindwipe did not affect longtime viewers as it did characters on the show.

(psst... Matt--not a NAFDA thread.)

Ack! Sorry, forgot it reverted to non-NAFDA.

IMO, you can make it make sense, without that much trouble, but there are leaps that you have to make that aren't pointed or nodded to in the text. This is where I normally start my "give us a line, one line, that's all I want" speech. Anyway, this year looks like it's getting back on track, from my perspective.

Umm...Buffy....yeah....there were things from Buffy that I wish they'd mentioned when relevant things were happe...yeah, not gonna work.

BTW, does anyone no where I might find screencaps from last night's Alias? (I'm talking about that Sark-Simon scene.)