Yeah, I've been rereading Season 8 with my girlfriend, and it's apples and oranges between the absurdity of Season 8 versus the very down-to-earth-ness of Season 9.  Even with the pregnancy storyline (which I'm more "wait and see" than "up in arms" about), I'd put it above Season 8.

I'm still kind of amazed that people don't like the Rome episode.  I mean, I can see why, but I just think it's a fun episode.

^Anonymous until proven guilty is dead on.  Buffy wasn't afraid to go in new directions and significantly grow the characters, but Alias wishes it could be Season 1 forever.

Yeah… it shows.  They may as well be brother and sister at that point.

I kind of like Season 4 as well — if you're watching it hoping for a big story arc, it would be disappointing, but on an episode-for-episode basis, I like the show embracing its goofier ideas (minor SPOILERS, Arvin Clone is just weird enough that I liked it, and I'd rank the Marshall-heavy "Tuesday" as one of my…

I'm currently watching the show for the first time (just finished Season 4) and I find myself in a similar predicament.  Much as I think "Phase One" is an exciting hour of television, and certainly a healthy dose of wish fulfillment the series needed, the show never seemed to have a strong idea of what to do going…

Another great Marshall episode — way forward in Season 4 (so SPOILERS if you care about that sort of thing) — is "Tuesday," in which the office is locked down by a biochemical agent, Marshall happened to come into work late that day (and avoided the lockdown), and he has to fly around the world to rescue Sydney, who's…

Hear hear. I'd say Alias itself fell into the "takes itself too seriously" trap in the 3rd season (aside from that great Ricky Gervais episode) — trying a bit too hard to shock the audience and upend the status quo, between (SPOILERS) Sydney's memory problems, Vaughn's wife, Sydney's sister, etc.

"Apollo Kids" finally got me to listen to Ghostface Killah.

I feel like having Carmela find out, concretely, about Adriana would've short-changed her character arc — that she always had to choose, on some level, whether to stay with Tony.  Having her find out, beyond the shadow of a doubt, Tony was responsible for the murder of somebody she knew would've ultimately taken that…

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Mannnnn, how am I going to spend my Fridays at work now…

Me — Buffy versus Faith in "Graduation Day, Part 1."  That fight is electric.

I'm not sure there's anything on Angel more disturbing/hilarious than Angel and Connor's "Oh Jasmine" duet.

The "Charlie's Angels" pose is seriously overplayed to begin with, but this show even managed to screw *that* up on the advertising.  Limp, unexciting, lacking energy. Seriously, it's not that hard to put your hands together like a gun and *look* excited.

Coming soon to the re-re-release, to make them more like the prequels:
•Every time Darth Vader shoots down an X-Wing in the Death Star trench, he says "This is so wizard!"
•Grand Moff Tarkin now armored cyborg with hacking cough
•Half-hour scene of Lando explaining the complex political workings of Cloud City
•When…