-or- the long cold winter is over
I am a total Alias junkie. I think it is quite simply one of the most interesting and best done shows on TV. That it never seemed to garner the public respect and attention it should have (just about every TV critic agrees that more folks ought to be watching it) befuddled me.
I place a lot of blame on ABC for stupid scheduling. The Wonderful World of Disney just doesn't seem like an appropriate lead in for an action-packed spy thriller. But what do I know. I think that Lost will be a much better lead in and I am hoping that the show finally gets the attention it deserves. But if it doesn't I am okay as long as they keep making it! 
It has been many months now since we last saw Sydney Bristow thumbing through a file containing incriminating information regarding her father Jack. But tonight the long cold winter of no Alias is over. I am thrilled and will be glued to my tube for the two hour season opener tonight. After three seasons of a developing relationship between daughter and father, I look forward to seeing what kind of twists JJ Abrams comes up with next.
I don't watch a lot of TV, but since the first episode of Alias it has been one I watch without fail. And I look forward to a season with fewer interruptions and hopefully more twists and turns.