http://www.viewpoints.com/aboutme/aliasroks Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:38:16 GMT Reviews by aliasroks http://www.viewpoints.com/Televisions-Greatest-Characters-review-2b191 <p>Sydney Bristow, college student by day, superspy by night, is one of the greatest characters in television history.  The central character on ABC's "ALIAS" had a dysfunctional family life (to say the least) when growing up.  Her mother died when she was young, or so she was led to believe, and her father, Jack, a CIA double agent under the guise of an airplane parts salesman, was mostly absent....at least emotionally.   Sydney was recruited into the spy game to work for a covert branch of the CIA...but she found out that was all a ruse, once her fiance was brutally murdered by Arvin Sloane (her current boss and former father-figure) due to her revelation that she was in fact a spy.  She had been working for a terrorist cell called SD-6 which duped it's lower level operatives into thinking they were the good guys.  She tried to walk away, only to have them attempt to take her life, seeing her as a security risk.   Then she found out her father was a member of SD-6 as well.  His...</p>... Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:38:16 GMT http://www.viewpoints.com/Televisions-Greatest-Characters-review-2b191 aliasroks 5