{"id":1523,"date":"2005-07-08T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/07\/08\/you-call-this-archaeology\/"},"modified":"2005-07-08T08:49:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-08T15:49:00","slug":"you-call-this-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2005\/07\/08\/you-call-this-archaeology\/","title":{"rendered":"You call this archaeology?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I’m making my way through the first season of Alias<\/span> on DVD<\/a>, and I get to the part about the Rambaldi prophecy<\/a> and okay, whatever. Then James Bond<\/strike> Roger Moore tricks Arvin Sloane into assassinating someone. Yeah. This, I’m not sure I can deal with.<\/p>\n

Sure, I’m willing to suspend a certain amount of disbelief, but if nothing else, I expect spies to be smart<\/span>. And how bright can you be, if the guy from Moonraker<\/span> can dupe you with Photoshop and Excel? I’m having a really hard time believing that Sloane could be that gullible and sloppy. I mean, hello, independent corroboration? Is you a spymaster or ain’t you?<\/p>\n

(Aside: does J.J. Abrams love the clip shows, or what? It’s episode 17 of Alias<\/span>, episode 21 of Lost<\/span>, and the final episode of Felicity<\/span>. Shave that budget! SHAVE IT!)<\/p>\n

It’s kind of strange that, for a show which is ostensibly about espionage, the actual espionage elements are the weakest parts of the story– sometimes, it feels like the SD-6 stuff is just the “B” plot for all the touchy-feely relationship through lines: Sidney’s non-spy friends, her estranged father, her missing mother, her crappy love life, etc. And there’s nothing wrong with all that; I’m just saying, I’d like to see a real spy show someday, a hardware<\/span> show. But maybe there’s no audience for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I’m making my way through the first season of Alias on DVD, and I get to the part about the Rambaldi prophecy and okay, whatever. Then James Bond Roger Moore tricks Arvin Sloane into assassinating someone. Yeah. This, I’m…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}