College Drama: A Look Back At Felicity

Alias Connection

JJ Abrams came up with the idea for the show while on his honeymoon and his thoughts drifted to an old classmate named Felicity. He decided to write the coming-of-age tale. At one point in the series run, he felt rather stifled creatively and wanted to make something more extreme. He started imagining that Felicity was actually a spy – clearly, this didn’t happen.

Instead, JJ created Alias and tapped Jennifer Garner to play the main role. Jennifer had previously never played “a tough” role that like the character of Sidney Bristow and she enrolled in Tae Kwon Do classes and buffed up for the part, which probably led to her being cast as the superhero Electra. The network thought that JJ’s attention shift from Felicity to Alias, caused the show to suffer in its final season.