I'm not replying to the possibility that this show has been cancelled but I will say that I am so disappointed by this season. When Season One ended on the cliffhanger "Is this her mother? Is this her sister? Who is the man? Will Vaughn live?" I couldn't wait for next season but with such a great cliffhanger typically "us" the viewers will be let down. The answers are never as interesting as the questions. But this was not the case here. The twist and turns kept the show moving and made the obsurd believeable. Second season, they can't possibly top the first season ending but they did w/ Will finding out and the cliffanger of him being kidnapped and shot. And Third Season no way. Well, my mouth fell to the floor when Vaughn told Sydney she'd been missing for two years and that he was married. I told my friends that it had been a while since I felt f***ed by a TV show. And the girl fight was not some gay *bleep*ed sexed up fight but literally two women, Sydney and Francie, fighting for their lives.
Some people felt that the friends on the show is what brought it down, but actually I realize w/ their absence (this season) that they are what kept the balance in Sydney's life it's what kept the show and her going. It's what made her CIA life real. She was just like us, a roommate, school good friends and then she was a double agent and I too wondered how would I balance, lie, conceal.
She wasn't really a double agent to her double agent life. Her dad knew, Vaughn knew. To her friends that's when she was the double agent that's where we really saw the chance that her identity could have been revealed. Taking her friends away took part of the reality of her away.

I am so disappointed by Season 3. There have been some good episodes but my GOD if she cries one more time in that "ah life is so tough" way I'm going to shoot myself. It's soooooooooooooooo overplayed. I don't even feel sympathy for her anymore she's always crying, "Dad". "Vaughn" no one else cries on this show, just her. Her crying undermines her ability in my opinion. Here she is the best of the best, yes making her emotional humanizes her and makes her the special bird they want us to believe she is but it denotes the intelligence they want us to believe she has as well. And honestly I'd like to see her have some balls make some tough decisions and not cry to her dad or Vaughn afterwards.
Also, nothing has changed in this woman's life. When the season ended and Vaughn told her he has remarried and she had been gone for two years I was like oh my god! What does this mean? Poor Sydney? Poor her love and sacrifice for Vaugh? What about her relationship w/ her mom? What about her dad? Poor nothing.
What's changed in this poor woman's life? Seriously She still has her job. She still has her dad and her friends, everyone is still doing the exact same thing they were doing when she left. The only big thing is she doesn't have Vaughn as a boyfriend anymore. Well did the series hang on their relationship anyway? Was that all that the show was about? And he still works there and they still are together and honestly her crying and their looks have become so overplayed and so lame I don't care if they do get back together. Plus the way it's written it's like he's with her anyway so it's almost like why is he with Lauren. And Lauren don't even get me started on her b/c this whole she just loves danger thing as a motive for why she's working for the convenant or whatever is lame. I mean the fact that she's bad, cool idea but the way they play it out lame. I mean come on "I love danger" that's why I'm willing to kill two innocent people and jeopardize all these other peoples' lives.
If this was me writing the show, and up until this season J.J. has delivered great Television, I would have had her gone Rogue this season and had them following her for a year as she did her own thing. Her against the CIA. Not for it. I would have her hate Vaughn and have everything be the polar opposite as it is now. And maybe have her have to work w/ Sloane (not like how it is now) to do the unthinkable to get her life back. And I would have had her fall in love w/ someone else or at least be with someone else not in that lovey dovey way she is with Vaughn but in a cool calculated way. I would have changed her. She's still the same willowing flower who just so happens to cry everytime after she saves the world from destruction.
They've changed her life and yet gave they've given her the exact same life right back. PLEASE pull a DALLAS have this whole year have been a dream and then really f*** up her life so it's actually fun to watch again. And where is the MOM? She was like this supernatural human being she was amazing standing on that ledge it's one of the most powerful episodes of TV I've seen. I felt like I was watching bateman and it was Jack Nicholson on that ledge as the joker. Empowering really and now UGH I'm soooo annoyed. Make it good again. Please.
If it gets cancelled I'll be bummed but fix this show or I'll stop watching b/f that happens. Not saying this holds much weight but I just don't like the show like I used to.

you do know that this forum is for the Alias GAME and NOT for the SHOW, don't you??