Fonzie is strapping on his water skis...

So, Melissa and I watched the season premiere of "Alias" tonight.

Meh.

As I previously said to someone, this show has "jumped the shark, circled back around, and jumped it again just for good measure."

Not only do I now despise Ben Affleck for forcing us to sit through a season of "baby" plot lines, but they killed off Vaughn (or did they?) in pretty boring fashion. You're telling me that after all these years of artfully dodging death in the C.I.A. (and apparently other areas as well) that he gets killed....? Right in front of Sydney....? At point-blank range.....? After this project that he's apparently been working on for at least half a decade.....? In a show that has already shown us a machine that can clone people....?

I know Michael Vartan probably wants off the show, as Melissa always mentions how much it must suck to play the love interest of your former real-life love interest, and to act as though the baby in the plot of the show you're on is yours even though it actually belongs to the formerly-Jenny-from-the-block-owned blockhead who stole your girl.

If this show lasts past this season, I will be surprised. Last season was bad enough where everything was always wrapped up in a nice little package at the end of each episode (more like a sitcom than a drama), and where the finale might as well have had an "inspired by '28 Days Later'" tagline in the credits. But this? One of the three main characters is dead and I have to hear about Sydney's freaking baby for an entire season?

Methinks no.

Ironically, I was originally pissed that our bowling league was on Thursday nights, because we wouldn't get to watch it. Now, we find that Alias will be on every Thursday at 8, and we don't have to leave the house until 9. Now I'm not even sure that I'll want to watch it, even though we will be able to.

For shame, Ben Affleck. Buy some condoms.