Alias: Where are they going?

Alias: Where are they going? In the super bowl episode, they completely retooled the show. They hooked Francie with Will. They hooked Syd with Vaughn. They destroyed SD-6, so Syd's officially only on CIA missions now. They killed Francie so she no longer has a home life. In some ways, this makes sense. It's extremely hard to bring in new viewers with a continuous story arc. It's much easier to do if the episodes are episodic, with a few story arc elements sprinkled in, but these past few episodes have very conclusive finishes, nothing like the cliffhanger endings that characterized much of the first season. They've managed to destroy a lot of the tension that made the series work. I liked the colorful SD-6 staff -- Marshall, Dixon, Sloane. The CIA staff is quite cardboard by comparisson. In some ways, I feel like they've written themselves into a corner because aside from the Sloane/Francie arc, and the hasn't been touched for the whole season Rambaldi storyline there's nothing else unresolved. In writing they teach you to raise the stakes, to continuously keep the protagonist (as well as the reader) on edge. The stakes aren't very high right now, and the sense of danger is gone.

The gene resequencer is not outside the realm of possibility, as it is simply taking the practice of genetic therapy to the next level. However, completely replacing all the living cells with a new genetic profile and leaving no trace of the original genes seems quite impossible to me. Of course, it could be entirely possible that we simply aren't ready for that kind of device yet.