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vaznettiAlias thoughts...
RIP Lindsay. You should never have threatened Sloane and Sydney, you dumb fuck.
If there are odds on Allison being dead, I'd vote that she's alive--unless the super healing thing she had last time just stopped working? Which I suppose is possible, in Alias-logic. Maybe a knife in the heart is what it takes. But I was somewhat unsatisfied by the way that worked out, in part because the scen where Allison is sobbing over Will's body is so effective, and Will seemed... I know he said that it was empty, at the end, but he didn't regret it. And I think Allison did.
Julia volunteered to have her memories removed? Now that's fascinating. Last week I hypothesized that she and Lazarey were working together--now, I'd guess that Julia was calling the shots. Was Sydney her safety-valve, as she was Sydney's?
So it's confirmed: Lazarey is alive, if not well. To be honest, he seemed tired and bitter. Granted he wasn't having the best time ever--tranquilized and tortured by his own son--but he was abrupt, and possibly frightened of something, even in the scene with Will. And clearly, he's not winning father of the year any time soon.
Which is just as well, given that his own son decided to use a creme brulee torch on him. Sark was in very poor form this evening. Torturing random mad scientists may be part of the game, but torturing your own father? Their relationship is worse than Jack and Sydney's ever was. I felt rather badly for Sark, despite the blow-torch episode, to be honest--his father first failed to recognize him, then failed to help him, preferring Julia/Sydney to his own son, and seemed to feel that the money should have been enough for him. Whereas I still think that for Sark, the "that which I never had" is a family connection of some kind. He wants to matter to someone. Unfortunately, he's also a sociopath and incapable of figuring out how to go about achieving that.
Anyway, I'll be sad to learn that Sark killed him. Surely they still have catching up to do?
As for the "good father," Jack was on fine form this evening: hitting Lindsay simply because he could--although Sloane was more effective on that count. As for his speech to Vaughn... I'm not surprised that Vaughn is doing what he's been told. Would you disobey Jack Bristow? The man's a killer!
OK, and by the way, in the scene with Will and Sydney in the safe house, when he says, "So you and Vaughn's wife..." was anyone else thinking of the Syd/Lauren slash vibe? I really wanted Sydney to say, "Yeah, we keep having sex--I don't know what it means!"
By the way, did it seem that Sydney had all too easy a time catching up with Sark? Perhaps that was just "she's the hero!" show logic, rather than being significant. And speaking of show-logic, how the hell did Sark know to turn up at Dr. Cronenberg's place? Who told him that Sydney had been there? The Covenant? Sloane? How many people knew where she was? And does this mean that the Covenant also knew that Jack, Sloane and Vaughn rescued her? Perhaps Sloane is the Covenant, so there's no conflict of interest there? Or is Sark going freelance on this one, tracking Sydney? Or using her to track Lazarey? When did he learn that Lazarey was alive? Because he didn't look all that surprised to see him (although he looked deeply annoyed about not killing Will.)
Despite all this Sark related ink, I still like Sloane best. He's such a cutie! I adore the way he plays innocent with Sydney. And I'm glad he got Il Dire back, however he managed that.
I'm sure there's more to be said, but it's late, and I have a long day tomorrow. I really want to comment on a number of other people's episode reviews as well. I only hope that tomorrow I'll remember what I meant to say.
RIP Lindsay. You should never have threatened Sloane and Sydney, you dumb fuck.
If there are odds on Allison being dead, I'd vote that she's alive--unless the super healing thing she had last time just stopped working? Which I suppose is possible, in Alias-logic. Maybe a knife in the heart is what it takes. But I was somewhat unsatisfied by the way that worked out, in part because the scen where Allison is sobbing over Will's body is so effective, and Will seemed... I know he said that it was empty, at the end, but he didn't regret it. And I think Allison did.
Julia volunteered to have her memories removed? Now that's fascinating. Last week I hypothesized that she and Lazarey were working together--now, I'd guess that Julia was calling the shots. Was Sydney her safety-valve, as she was Sydney's?
So it's confirmed: Lazarey is alive, if not well. To be honest, he seemed tired and bitter. Granted he wasn't having the best time ever--tranquilized and tortured by his own son--but he was abrupt, and possibly frightened of something, even in the scene with Will. And clearly, he's not winning father of the year any time soon.
Which is just as well, given that his own son decided to use a creme brulee torch on him. Sark was in very poor form this evening. Torturing random mad scientists may be part of the game, but torturing your own father? Their relationship is worse than Jack and Sydney's ever was. I felt rather badly for Sark, despite the blow-torch episode, to be honest--his father first failed to recognize him, then failed to help him, preferring Julia/Sydney to his own son, and seemed to feel that the money should have been enough for him. Whereas I still think that for Sark, the "that which I never had" is a family connection of some kind. He wants to matter to someone. Unfortunately, he's also a sociopath and incapable of figuring out how to go about achieving that.
Anyway, I'll be sad to learn that Sark killed him. Surely they still have catching up to do?
As for the "good father," Jack was on fine form this evening: hitting Lindsay simply because he could--although Sloane was more effective on that count. As for his speech to Vaughn... I'm not surprised that Vaughn is doing what he's been told. Would you disobey Jack Bristow? The man's a killer!
OK, and by the way, in the scene with Will and Sydney in the safe house, when he says, "So you and Vaughn's wife..." was anyone else thinking of the Syd/Lauren slash vibe? I really wanted Sydney to say, "Yeah, we keep having sex--I don't know what it means!"
By the way, did it seem that Sydney had all too easy a time catching up with Sark? Perhaps that was just "she's the hero!" show logic, rather than being significant. And speaking of show-logic, how the hell did Sark know to turn up at Dr. Cronenberg's place? Who told him that Sydney had been there? The Covenant? Sloane? How many people knew where she was? And does this mean that the Covenant also knew that Jack, Sloane and Vaughn rescued her? Perhaps Sloane is the Covenant, so there's no conflict of interest there? Or is Sark going freelance on this one, tracking Sydney? Or using her to track Lazarey? When did he learn that Lazarey was alive? Because he didn't look all that surprised to see him (although he looked deeply annoyed about not killing Will.)
Despite all this Sark related ink, I still like Sloane best. He's such a cutie! I adore the way he plays innocent with Sydney. And I'm glad he got Il Dire back, however he managed that.
I'm sure there's more to be said, but it's late, and I have a long day tomorrow. I really want to comment on a number of other people's episode reviews as well. I only hope that tomorrow I'll remember what I meant to say.
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Date: 2003-12-08 06:08 am (UTC)Very strange.
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Date: 2003-12-08 04:21 pm (UTC)Maybe she doesn't know? And frankly, I can see Sydney shrugging off the whole idea of being a bad father to Sark, because she has such a dualistic view of the universe: hurting Sark can't be wrong, because he's a bad guy. Even if it happened when Sark was four or something. Maybe that's unfair to her?
Any why is Sark suddenly really trying to kill Sydney?
Was he? That wasn't my impression, to be honest. It seemed like he wasn't even trying to run away very fast. (At the meeting with Lazarey, I thought it was Will he wanted dead, which makes sense to me.)
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Date: 2003-12-09 06:05 am (UTC)You're right of course. I watched it again last night and it was Will he was totally trying to shoot. I just wish we knew more of what happened behind the scenes. Obviously Sark thought Syd killed him, hence why he gave the intel to Lauren, but now's he back to just sort of ignoring her? OK, I'm going to stop obsessing now! ;)
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Date: 2003-12-08 07:43 am (UTC)LMAO - no I didn't think of that, but now my brain is going there . . . I seen a handful of decent S/L slash fics.
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Date: 2003-12-08 09:15 am (UTC)Bwahahahaha. He should never have played the "I'm smarter than you and know your endgame" card with Sloane. That is as close to inviting your own death by random Argentinian marksman as I've seen!
Methinks Allison is still alive. Not because it really makes sense or anything, but because I think MD has more episodes under contract and well, no one ever really dies on Alias.
On the Sark front, two thoughts:
1. Seeing Sark confront his father like that (creme brulee torch in hand), I wondered if Sydney would've done the same thing with Irina had they come face-to-face in different circumstances in S1.
2. He was really slow in that hallway. Call it show logic, because there is no way she should've been able to catch up with him. Especially in that skirt!
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Date: 2003-12-08 10:27 am (UTC)an excellent point. hadn't thought of that. I definitely think that's likely.
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Date: 2003-12-08 04:25 pm (UTC)Maybe. Particularly after she learend about the CIA agents Irina had killed. But I think Sydney has a stronger attachment to her illusions than Sark does, and one of Sydney's illusions is that she has a motehr who loves her. I think that Sark wasn't really looking for a reason to crisp Lazarey, but he wasn't looking for a reason not to, either. Lazarey played him very poorly, whereas I have a high opinion of Irina's ability to manipulate everyone she comes into contact with.
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Date: 2003-12-08 01:51 pm (UTC)Nor diplomat of the year, either. He seemed under an immense amount of stress, running scared from something or someone. He certainly didn't handle Sark well. His words seemed to hurt Sark. It's only after that that Sark lights the torch. As for his asking if the inheritance wasn't enough? What the fuck? Sark was in CIA custody and didn't even know about it - what bloody good did a bunch of gold bullion do him then, much less as an abandoned child?
And I'm glad he got Il Dire back, however he managed that.
That sort of threw me. I had this impression that Il Dire was a lot larger - like the size of minivan or something. I don't know where it came from.
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Date: 2003-12-08 04:18 pm (UTC)If you find out let me know, because I had the same idea. But it's not something I'm going to worry about figuring out. It was probably the smallest plothole in that episode.
He seemed under an immense amount of stress, running scared from something or someone.
And the line to Will about needing money seemed particularly funny. Perhaps he should have been more careful with the gold bullion? It all seemed so careless of him. Surely we're not supposed to take this guy seriously as a player?
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Date: 2003-12-08 04:56 pm (UTC)