Alias commentary (4x07)
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vaznettiA few comments and questions
I liked it, overall, but I agree with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
corngirl_jo that it was very clear that the episode was shown out of order--and I saw elsewhere that it was supposed to be the third episode of the series. That makes sense, I think: Nadia was still coming to terms with Sloane, here. Dixon's speech to Sydney was clearly prior to his outburst to Sloane, shown last week. And Weiss's relationship to Nadia was also at an earlier stage than it was when he was thinking about sleeping over.
It also would make sense of Sydney's "not in my house" comment to Nadia--because it's not her house as well, yet. Otherwise, that's just cruel and self-centered. (But, you know, par for the course for Sydney.)
Weiss, by the way, after he made that comment about "dating sisters" to Vaughn, was clearly lost in a very personal fantasy about a threesome. But was it a threesome with Sydney and Nadia, or with Vaughn and Nadia? I leave that to you to decide.
I would probably watch Arvin Sloane read the telephone book, but I do wish he were a little less inscrutable here. At the very end, as he looked out from his office at Sydney, Nadia, Weiss and Vaughn, his expression changed behind his hands--I wasn't sure, though, if he was smiling or grimacing. I'd like to say smiling, because then we could have some hint of an overarching plot--the nefarious plans of Crazy Uncle Arvin, for example. Did anyone else notice that?
I really miss the story arc.
Of course, watching an episode where the characters are chasing after some kind of dangerous black substance in canisters did send me to the happy XF flashback place, so I'll just pretend that this is all a giant XF crossover, and we'll be seeing Marita any day now. Insert mytharc at will, with mysterious resurrections.
I rather liked the interaction of Nadia and Sydney--the little rivalry between them on the firing range, the bonding moment where they're playing at rich Eurotrash. It distracted me from the plot holes, of which there were too many to count. Nothing that happened on that yacht made any kind of strategic sense, for example--if I were writing that scene I'd have a little chart and map to let me know how many people there were, and who was where, and if I can make the effort, so can the writers.
I don't know what to think about Sydney and Nadia's great disguise being "a girl," so I'm just going to forget about it. Dodgy politics, dodgy ideas about gender, whatever. I'm just here for the shiny and the Sloane.
I notice that the television gods are angry with me, because I will be away in Oxford next week. Typical. I'm as happy about the preview as you would expect, of course.
I liked it, overall, but I agree with
corngirl_jo that it was very clear that the episode was shown out of order--and I saw elsewhere that it was supposed to be the third episode of the series. That makes sense, I think: Nadia was still coming to terms with Sloane, here. Dixon's speech to Sydney was clearly prior to his outburst to Sloane, shown last week. And Weiss's relationship to Nadia was also at an earlier stage than it was when he was thinking about sleeping over.It also would make sense of Sydney's "not in my house" comment to Nadia--because it's not her house as well, yet. Otherwise, that's just cruel and self-centered. (But, you know, par for the course for Sydney.)
Weiss, by the way, after he made that comment about "dating sisters" to Vaughn, was clearly lost in a very personal fantasy about a threesome. But was it a threesome with Sydney and Nadia, or with Vaughn and Nadia? I leave that to you to decide.
I would probably watch Arvin Sloane read the telephone book, but I do wish he were a little less inscrutable here. At the very end, as he looked out from his office at Sydney, Nadia, Weiss and Vaughn, his expression changed behind his hands--I wasn't sure, though, if he was smiling or grimacing. I'd like to say smiling, because then we could have some hint of an overarching plot--the nefarious plans of Crazy Uncle Arvin, for example. Did anyone else notice that?
I really miss the story arc.
Of course, watching an episode where the characters are chasing after some kind of dangerous black substance in canisters did send me to the happy XF flashback place, so I'll just pretend that this is all a giant XF crossover, and we'll be seeing Marita any day now. Insert mytharc at will, with mysterious resurrections.
I rather liked the interaction of Nadia and Sydney--the little rivalry between them on the firing range, the bonding moment where they're playing at rich Eurotrash. It distracted me from the plot holes, of which there were too many to count. Nothing that happened on that yacht made any kind of strategic sense, for example--if I were writing that scene I'd have a little chart and map to let me know how many people there were, and who was where, and if I can make the effort, so can the writers.
I don't know what to think about Sydney and Nadia's great disguise being "a girl," so I'm just going to forget about it. Dodgy politics, dodgy ideas about gender, whatever. I'm just here for the shiny and the Sloane.
I notice that the television gods are angry with me, because I will be away in Oxford next week. Typical. I'm as happy about the preview as you would expect, of course.
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Date: 2005-02-17 07:42 am (UTC)Yes!!! I thought he might be smiling behind his hands, but why? Is Sydney playing into his (assuredly) Evil Plan?
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Date: 2005-02-17 01:42 pm (UTC)I really hope that this will turn out to be the case, although at the moment I don't really believe that there's any kind of arc at all. So instead I can just sit back and daydream about Sloane and his plans for world domination.