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icepixieSo I've been hunting down clips from the Alias season finale episodes. Um, I don't think the intended reaction to basically everything I've seen courtesy of Alias Media is gut-busting laughter, but...that's what it got. Hoo, boy. This is so worse than a soap opera! Thomas Hardy would be proud. The ending, with the "My name isn't Michael Vaughn," and then the car crash...what else could you do but laugh? I mean, really. And Irina's cryptic little "I wonder where she gets that [being exceptional] from" to Jack, when all along we've been allowed to believe that Nadia is Sloane's daughter...oh, my. (Granted, I could be reading into that. But they so mean for you to read into it.)
Perhaps all of this is less amusing when seen in the context of the full episodes. But knowing Alias, the context only makes it funnier.
(BTW, what was that THING in Lena Olin's hair in the dancing-by-the-pool scene in "Search and Rescue"? Good lord, that was almost as bad as the tribble on John's face in "Jeremiah Crichton.")
Speaking of Alias-y things...I'm ready to get the full storyline on Irina, 'cause I'm getting conflicting impressions from fanfic, and we all know how reliable fanon is when trying to figure out canon. Specifically, when did Sydney find out that a.) her mother wasn't dead and b.) her mother was a Russian spy? When she met her face to face in S2? (When was that, anyway? I feel like I saw this episode at the end of last year when Meg had those S2 DVDs, but it's completely escaping my mind.) And was Jack sent to prison for six months after "Laura's" "death" because the CIA thought that nobody could be dumb enough not to realize they'd been living with a Russian spy for ten years, and so he must have been helping her? Was "Laura" a college literature professor, or is that just heavily-embroidered fanon?
I'd get into the whole Rambaldi-Sloane-Nadia thing, but that's right up there with the X-Files mytharc circa season 6 on the Makes My Brain Hurt-O-Meter, so no.
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Perhaps all of this is less amusing when seen in the context of the full episodes. But knowing Alias, the context only makes it funnier.
(BTW, what was that THING in Lena Olin's hair in the dancing-by-the-pool scene in "Search and Rescue"? Good lord, that was almost as bad as the tribble on John's face in "Jeremiah Crichton.")
Speaking of Alias-y things...I'm ready to get the full storyline on Irina, 'cause I'm getting conflicting impressions from fanfic, and we all know how reliable fanon is when trying to figure out canon. Specifically, when did Sydney find out that a.) her mother wasn't dead and b.) her mother was a Russian spy? When she met her face to face in S2? (When was that, anyway? I feel like I saw this episode at the end of last year when Meg had those S2 DVDs, but it's completely escaping my mind.) And was Jack sent to prison for six months after "Laura's" "death" because the CIA thought that nobody could be dumb enough not to realize they'd been living with a Russian spy for ten years, and so he must have been helping her? Was "Laura" a college literature professor, or is that just heavily-embroidered fanon?
I'd get into the whole Rambaldi-Sloane-Nadia thing, but that's right up there with the X-Files mytharc circa season 6 on the Makes My Brain Hurt-O-Meter, so no.
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Date: 2005-06-15 09:45 pm (UTC)Ohhh, my head. I haven't seen Alias in a million years. This will all be very foggy. Hmm... well, it all started when Syd (S1) found some old books of her mother's with Cyrillic spy-codeyness in them, leading her to believe that *Jack* (he gave Irina the books) was the Russian spy... then I think Vaughn was the one who sorted her out about the whole your-mom's-evil-and-Russian issue, via sneaky research (what sticks most in my mind from that episode is Vaughn's opening a can in a bar fight and threatening to set a guy on fire and looking really pretty... oh wait, Irina-lore...). She first found out Irina was alive when she's all chained to a chair and whatever in the S1 finale and then "The Man" (guy rumored to be in charge of whatever baddie nest they were fighting at that point) walks in, and it's Irina. I'm thinking that until then, she thought her mom was just a dead Russian spy. I think. The Jack-in-jail business sounds plausible, but I can't remember any specific canon that confirms it. "Laura" was definitely a teacher, quite likely of the college lit variety.
Anyway, I'm probably getting this all wrong, use all that free time of yours and go to http://abc.go.com/primetime/alias/missions/episode101a.html . They've got all the episode recaps, very cut-and-dried, but useful. Or try Television Without Pity, and get the snarky, extremely long versions. : ) And stop reading fanfic, it rots your brain. Much like trying to understand the stupid Rambaldi mythology. Even the show's writers have no idea what's up with that. Just tune it out and count Vaughn's forehead wrinkles.