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Zap2it
October 3, 2005
TV Gal Worries Over TV's Presumed Dead
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - - AAACCCK. What a stressful week of TV viewing. I need a brand new anti-wrinkle cream to combat my now permanently furrowed brow. I'm sending my bill directly to J.J. Abrams.
I spent most of last week rocking back and forth in a corner repeating "Vaughn can't be dead, Jin can't be dead, Martin can't be dead."
The boys of "Lost" and "Without a Trace" lived to tell the tale, but despite the producers promise that the reports of Vaughn's death had been greatly exaggerated, despite the fact that Michael Vartan continues to be listed as a cast member, there he was dead and buried on the season premiere of "Alias." [But, fret not, will soon see Vartan when he reunites with Bradley Cooper as a guest star on "Kitchen Confidential." Can I have a whoo and a hoo?]
But it certainly seems like we've seen the last of Vaughn. Although I'm always suspicious when there's an actual funeral. Whenever a show works that hard to convince viewers someone is dead, often they are still alive. Will Vaughn, in a classic soap opera move, return played by a new actor? Look at how many people have played Roman on "Days of Our Lives" over the years?
I am glad the series leaped forward four months because there's only so much we could take of Jennifer Garner hiding her pregnancy behind coats, purses and moving trains. What's next? Sydney always arriving at APO carrying a bunch of groceries? Could Vaughn's untimely demise combined with the launch of a brand new mythology (prophet five) mean the death of the show? The easy answer is yes. But after watching the first two episodes of "Lost," I know to never, ever under estimate J.J. Abrams.
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