Fans fight for Michael Vartan
August 24, 2005 at 05:15:00 PM
The
Internet is alive with speculation about the fate of his
Alias character. Will the power of the Web save Agent
Vaughan, or is it all just a publicity stunt?
Will the Web save
Agent Vaughan?
Diehard fans of Alias star
Michael Vartan have been tapping away at their keyboards
in an effort to save his character's life. When it was
leaked in the New York Post that Vartan had
filmed his last day on the set of the hit spy show, fans
took to their computers to raise the rally cry against
killing his character. Vartan's character, Michael
Vaughan, plays the lover and fellow CIA operative of
Alias herself, Sydney Bristow (played by Jennifer
Garner).
Although ABC has not confirmed that his
character is being killed off in the upcoming season, in
the season-ending cliff-hanger for the show, Vaughan and
Sydney were involved in a deadly looking car accident
just as Vaughan was about to reveal a huge secret to
Sydney.
In real-life, Garner is pregnant with the
baby of her new husband, actor Ben Affleck, and
Alias writers say they will involve her pregnancy
in the show's storyline. Previous to her relationship
with Affleck, Garner was romantically involved with
Vartan. On-set tensions have been rumored between Vartan
and Garner, leading worried fans to fear that he's being
written out of the show to alleviate these personal
issues.
While a Web site has sprung up to let
fans express their dismay at the possibility of Vartan's
character being killed (www.mvcampaign.com), there has
been some speculation that the leak was just a publicity
stunt meant to generate buzz for the show.
Alias
returns for it's fifth season this Fall.
