Alias TV Show Mentioning Peak Oil (Transcript)

by **Lora** » Sun 13 Mar 2005, 01:27:34

Early in the show in Paris, Sydney spray-paints an SUV with the slogan "OIL IS..." in order to get arrested on purpose. They never show the rest of the slogan. Later in the episode, at a small dinner party, the following conversation takes place...

Eric: She was crazy in Paris. I'm not kidding. I'm thinking about making my next car a hybrid.

Sydney: You should, I have one.

Jack: Well, considering the rapidly growing demand for fuel in nations such as China and India, not to mention the world's oil production is expected to peak within the next 5 years and then sharply (with emphasis) plummet, I think it's pretty clear we're looking at an exponential rise in global conflict as well as an energy crisis of unfathomable proportions. So yes, I'd say a hybrid is an excellent idea.

Eric: That's what I thought.

by **Lora** » Sun 13 Mar 2005, 02:20:24

Current events? I didn't think a fictional TV show episode was a "current event", but who knows.

by **TrueKaiser** » Sun 13 Mar 2005, 02:39:42

it shows some people are willing to talk about, even though it's in a fictional world.

by **savethehumans** » Sun 13 Mar 2005, 02:55:52

Well, it WAS a current episode! :lol:

Badly written, though. That guy who plays Jack (Sydney's dad, I think?) must be one good actor to actually SAY those words the way they were written! They look like they were directly lifted from a PO technical report, which ain't exactly normal human speech!

Thanks for putting the scene in, though, Mr. A! If you ever try writing one for a LOST episode, though, please tell your writers to have the characters talk like human beings, OK? OK!

by **Lora** » Sun 13 Mar 2005, 10:16:02

Jack, Sydney's father on the show, does talk in dry technical and unemotional terms almost all the time. It really wasn't out of character for him to say something like that.

by **ararboin** » Sun 13 Mar 2005, 12:04:10

Gee, and look what I've been missing by not having a tv.

by **BabyPeanut** » Sun 13 Mar 2005, 22:38:25

Gee, and look what I've been missing by not having an econ class.

by **savethehumans** » Mon 14 Mar 2005, 01:30:10

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')ee, and look what I've been missing by not having a tv.

by **Grimnir** » Mon 14 Mar 2005, 04:36:51

So were they presenting the idea seriously, or was it more like "look what this idiot believes"?

Alias TV Show Mentioning Peak Oil (Transcript)

Alias TV Show Mentioning Peak Oil (Transcript)

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