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vaznettiDue to my pathetic fangirl status, no sooner do I return home than I watch the Alias episode that I missed. And as you might expect, I have a few thoughts about Sak and that thing he said about Lauren. You know, that thing.
There was a good deal less of the wailing-and-gnashing of teeth online than I would have expected from a declaration by Sark that he loved Lauren. Actually, it's probably out there, but I missed it all. Thank goodness. I'm not much bothered, and not because I think that Sark and Lauren were omgmeant2beee!!! Although I might as well say now that I never disliked that relationship, and still think that much of the resistance to it came from a subset of Sarkney readers and writers who felt that it was getting in the way of "their" ship.
I don't really think Sark's declaration was out of character. Over-dramatic, yes, but not out of character. He'd clearly spent the intervening months working on the lines he used on Vaughn, which may be why they sounded a bit flat (what was that thing about the passion he could offer her? Please.) But I don't find it strange that Sark believes that he was in love with Lauren. And note the "believes" there, because I'm not entirely certain that Sark is capable of love, or would know the real thing if he encountered it. Passion, yes; love, not so much. No doubt Sark believes that the full range of human emotions are open to him, but Irina Derevko brought him up, and I think she did quite a number on him, whether or not they were sexually intimate. She made him her tool, and then she abandoned him--because she had stronger emotional ties to Jack and Sydney. Of course, in her absence, he'd fall for Lauren--he thinks that he's the one person who really knows her, and that she's the one person who chose him for himself. Of course he believes that he loved her, and of course he sees that as a weapon he can use against Vaughn or anyone else he encounters.
God only knows what Sark thinks a healthy relationship looks like, but it probably does involve a lot of running around and shooting people, and then having sex in cars. And a certain amount of deceit, since his model on this is likely to be la famille Derevko.
As an aside, one of the benefits of this declaration is that it will (I hope) keep Sark and Anna Espinosa from having sex. This is good, because Anna needs to keep far, far away from Sark's dick of death, so that she can come back in later episodes to mess with Sydney and Nadia some more. How I hope she doesn't get killed next week.
Now, alas, my todo list is calling me.
There was a good deal less of the wailing-and-gnashing of teeth online than I would have expected from a declaration by Sark that he loved Lauren. Actually, it's probably out there, but I missed it all. Thank goodness. I'm not much bothered, and not because I think that Sark and Lauren were omgmeant2beee!!! Although I might as well say now that I never disliked that relationship, and still think that much of the resistance to it came from a subset of Sarkney readers and writers who felt that it was getting in the way of "their" ship.
I don't really think Sark's declaration was out of character. Over-dramatic, yes, but not out of character. He'd clearly spent the intervening months working on the lines he used on Vaughn, which may be why they sounded a bit flat (what was that thing about the passion he could offer her? Please.) But I don't find it strange that Sark believes that he was in love with Lauren. And note the "believes" there, because I'm not entirely certain that Sark is capable of love, or would know the real thing if he encountered it. Passion, yes; love, not so much. No doubt Sark believes that the full range of human emotions are open to him, but Irina Derevko brought him up, and I think she did quite a number on him, whether or not they were sexually intimate. She made him her tool, and then she abandoned him--because she had stronger emotional ties to Jack and Sydney. Of course, in her absence, he'd fall for Lauren--he thinks that he's the one person who really knows her, and that she's the one person who chose him for himself. Of course he believes that he loved her, and of course he sees that as a weapon he can use against Vaughn or anyone else he encounters.
God only knows what Sark thinks a healthy relationship looks like, but it probably does involve a lot of running around and shooting people, and then having sex in cars. And a certain amount of deceit, since his model on this is likely to be la famille Derevko.
As an aside, one of the benefits of this declaration is that it will (I hope) keep Sark and Anna Espinosa from having sex. This is good, because Anna needs to keep far, far away from Sark's dick of death, so that she can come back in later episodes to mess with Sydney and Nadia some more. How I hope she doesn't get killed next week.
Now, alas, my todo list is calling me.
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Date: 2005-02-27 11:03 am (UTC)I would just like to state for the record that I almost shrieked in laughter and scared the crap out of the roommate at that line. You do rock.
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Date: 2005-02-27 12:50 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-02-27 12:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-27 12:35 pm (UTC)Clearly I stopped watching the show at the wrong juncture.
There's already threesome incestuous femslash, right?
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Date: 2005-02-27 12:50 pm (UTC)She was so amazing! She BRANDED Nadia. I'm not kidding. And said something about how "Every time she sees you, she'll be reminded of me." They might as well have had sex onscreen. (Personally, I'd stick to Nadia/Anna, but I'w weird about incest.)
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Date: 2005-02-27 12:49 pm (UTC)I do agree with you that passion played a big part in it, especially given that Sark went after Lauren with such immediate fervor.
I also hope that him and Anna aren't and won't have sex but given that he's been sexually and/or emotionally involved with just about every "bad" girl on the show it wouldn't surprise me if they were.
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Date: 2005-02-27 03:55 pm (UTC)This is true enough, and of course who knows how much weight the writers will give to Sark's declaration? They might decide to disregard it.
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Date: 2005-02-27 01:04 pm (UTC)I thought that was the definition of a healthy relationship. ::shakes head:: so maybe that's why I'm alone, lol.
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Date: 2005-02-27 03:56 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2005-02-27 03:36 pm (UTC)Camille
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Date: 2005-02-27 03:58 pm (UTC)Personally, I think that Sark is faithful to the one true love of his ife--Irina!
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Date: 2005-02-27 06:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-28 03:01 pm (UTC)Actually, I think that is why I have trouble watching it now. I keep getting that "didn't I see that before" feeling.
And sadly, the news has sort of put me off the whole torture thing in my fiction. It's supposed to be a mythic trial, not a learner's guide.
Camille
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Date: 2005-02-28 05:41 pm (UTC)Is this about Alias or BSG? Or both?
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Date: 2005-02-28 06:21 pm (UTC)camille