Spy!FamilyMember vs. Spy!FamilyMember
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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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chiroho, besyd, and rowdycamels*
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Date: 2005-06-17 01:17 am (UTC)