I am working my way through Alias.

I never got the chance to sit down and watch every episode in a row before and boy this is a really good show and it has decent fight scenes. One thing that always bugs me about female leads in action shows is when they win a fight too easily because the producers or the director doesn't want to show her getting her so they seem to win just because they are the hero. This bugs me when it happens to male leads too, but is seems to be something that happens more to female leads. Well this show doesn't have that problem. Sidney is tough and she will win in the end by fighting smarter but they are not afraid of showing her bleeding or having to run to fight another day if the person she is up against is too big or well trained for her to take at the moment, yet they don't end up making her look weak either. Like James Bond or Indiana Jones when she gets herself into a mess she gets herself out of it.

I also love the way they show her trying to balance being a spy and having a real life. I kind of wish Spiderman would became a TV series instead of a film series after watching this, because this type of problem just seems to work better when played out over a number of episodes instead of in a couple of films.

Oh and Victor Garber is one of the coolest characters ever.

I am up to episode eight and overall I am enjoying it and I am shocked to find that the writers of the last two Star Trek movies may be the best writers on this show. How did that happen???!