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[sunshine_queen]

Alias musings.

Pre-viewing note:

I am both beyond-words excited and beyond-words frightened for this episode.

Excited:
- Dude, Syd as Irina? BEAUTIFUL.
- Dude, Victor Garber flexing his superior acting muscles? It's like Christmas came early. Show them at the Emmys how it's done, Garber. You SHOW THEM HOW IT'S DONE, SON!
- ... Syd! As! Mommy!

Frightened:
- Dude. Syd as Irina. Effing SCARY.
- Syd's in the kitchen! DOES SHE NOT REMEMBER THE TOASTER STORY?
- Daddy. DYING.
- Syd playing Laura. How freaking weird and creepy and not of the earth.

Mixed:
- ... Elektra complex. Why is it so deliciously disturbing and yet alluring? Why am I so sick?
- But why, why couldn't it have been Nadia? Is NO ONE ELSE afraid of Elektra-ness?

The recap's no good on the TV, either. It's all, "[Syd] finds out that [Daddy has a creepy radiation disease and is going to croak but not before ekeing out enough wonderful SpyDaddyness to make us ALL WISH TO SACRIFICE OUR LIVES FOR HIM]. [Meanwhile,] Sophia (Sonia Braga), Nadia's [psycho aunt] ..."

And literally, it ...s into oblivion. I hate when it does that.

The brackets were my contributions, btw. I found it more amusing than, say, studying.

Let's go!

 

Mission to... somewhere, a bar. A short red wig. Dixon's playing the guy from last week. Anyway, long story short, Will Ferrell came back, tried to pull the wool over Syd's eyes, and blew the place up. Last week's bad guy died, they got the biochemical thinger. Vaughn's useless, but damn pretty.

There is an ad at the bottom of the screen for 11 o'clock news about Jen being pregnant. LORD HELP ME.

LA. Nadia wore the shirt. I decided I love it like I love J.Lo. Nadia convinces Sonia Braga to stay because Nadia Is The Worst Spy Ever. Sonia's smile is all, ahh, all goes according to plan. They spoke spanish.

Daddy is missing. Syd and Vaughn go to his house. He has a picture of Little Jen on his table. It's cute. Syd finds drug paraphenalia and journals of his vitals and whatnot, including the word "radiation." Ain't lookin' good.

Nadia wears the pendant, Sonia hears shit, including that they're getting a visual on Will Ferrell.

Daddy sees Dr.Lenny. He's worse and progressing. He's going to get super duper big ass drugs to make him well. They talk about penicillin.

Daddy goes to see a Dr. who looks like Coop in the shadows and made my heart leap. He gets the drugs.

Sonia says she'll spy on Nadia using her laptop. Great. Sonia wants to cook dinner for SyVa and Neiss. Nice, says Nadia. Eric's all for food. Duh.

Syd goes to Marshall to get the scoop on Daddy. He is dying. She goes to Sloane and says "We need to find him." After he's been missing for TWO DAYS.

back

I DON'T UNDERSTAND!

AHHH!

Daddy's all, tell my girls I love them, Sydney and Laura... I love them... and I'm all, AHHHH LAURA... and now he hallucinated Dr. Lenny... and was injecting himself with crazy drugs...

Daddy's crazy...

Syd's the most important thing in his life BUT DADDY IS OUT OF HIS MIND AND OH MY GOD I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO THINK OR DO AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

They had a meeting about finding him, Syd makes sad faces about her daddy... she's a good little actress, that Jen...

back.

So, Daddy has very lucid hallucinations. Dr. Lenny is named Atticus, go fig, and he exists, somewhere, but they don't know where.

Nadia and Syd share a cut sister moment. She does not hug her sister. Die, Nadia, die.

Nadia and Eric go home. Sonia gives Eric a big hug and Eric's all, mmm, sugar. She takes all their stuff and puts it in Nadia's room so that Will Ferrell can hack into Nadia's laptop ('87 was SUCH A SHOUT OUT) and make Nadia never trust anyone again.

There was Neiss moment. I love Nadia.

Meanwhile, Daddy wakes up in the hospital, all disoriented. Syd's all, Dad? Dad, I need to ask you something. (Not, "how are you?" or "thank god." i hate syd.) Daddy says, all lost, that he forgot to get Sydney from dance class, could she handle it? And calls her Laura. More than once. And sweetheart. Syd's all, "Laura? [meep.]"

break

So, Syd's all, He called me "Lah-rah." And Sloane's like, he called you Laura? Not Ee-ree-nah? Really? And Sloane's mind is so twisted that he comes up with the Laura ploy off the top of his head in two seconds. Syd is like, fuck, man. You are an evil genius.

Nadia and Eric have dinner. Sonia was going to SHOOT NADIA when Nadia went to answer her phone where Will Ferrell was working. She's damn scary.

Anyway, Syd gets dressed up in a heinous sweater. They have a little actress to play Little Syd, and they RECREATED SYDNEY'S HOUSE. Vaughn gives Syd a pep talk and says that he has snipers if Daddy gets inappropriate. Syd says she can't remember her parents together, or her dad. Or anything. Damn.

Her and Sloane go over the house, bowls and pianos and pictures and an old TV and ugly wallpaper and Sloane gives her another pep talk, telling her that Laura called Jack "Sweetheart" and that he'll be waking up soon and HOLY GOD THIS IS WEIRD. They bring in Daddy and shoot him up with something and close the house up.

Syd looks at her Daddy.

and... break.

Next up: Weirdness.

No.

I have nothing to say about that scene except that it was amazing and perfect and oh my god.

Daddy loved Syd and Laura just... so much, and every little thing Victor Garber did was SO amazing and emitted it so effortlessly... when he sat down to play the piano with not!Syd, and saying that thing about his Dad, and talking to Laura... it was just so amazing.

And I cried.

And Syd got all teary, and it was perfect, because at least now she really does know that her Daddy loves her more than anything and it's just so amazing... wow.

I'm still crying. This is insane. I can't even describe it.

Vaughn called and they got a location on Dr.Lenny, but does it matter? That scene was so beautiful. It was beyond my wildest dreams.

back, but nothing can top that.

Anyway, Syd goes to Helsinki to get Dr.Lenny, who probably was all, You're Jack's Little Sydney? Wow!

Back in LA, Marshall's all, Weiss, Nadia? What's up with moving the SUPER EVIL GOO to a REALLT LOW LEVEL SECURITY PLACE? And they're like, uh, you tell us, genius? And he's like, why, you asked for it? And Neiss is all, huh?

Anyway. Long story short, Sonia Braga and Will Ferrell go to the place, and Sonia looks WAY like Isa Rossellini, and then they get the Black Goo thing, and she kills Will Ferrell. Nadia and Eric run up to be all good guys but the thinger is gone and Will Ferrell is dead so whodunit? Could it be SONIA BRAGA, who is no longer at your and Syd's house.

Back at APO, Syd brings Dr.Lenny in. He looks old and fat. Poor Lenny. He's all, Sloane. And then they bring him in to see Daddy.

Syd touches his hand, all gentle like, and says that he's got a friend-visitor. Daddy, still into his hallucination, asks if he's cured. Dr.Lenny says he will be.

Next week, Jen directs what kerlin is referring to as Irenicon.

All in all, I was amazed. If only for Victor Garber and The Scene.

Although it did shatter a whole lot of illusions for me about Daddy's quality of life. Where's the Bristow Compound? Where are the Mercedeses? WHAT IS WITH MAKING DADDY POOR WHEN WE ALL KNOW HE'S RICHER THAN GOD?

Huh?

 

 

Comments

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

-DUDE. Okay, I'm not alone in the Will Ferrell thing. Thank the almighty Lord. I kinda thought I was crazy.

-Pregnant? Oy. And I'm so weirded out by Vartan playing J.Lo's fiance. It feels like The Importance of Being Ernest gone horribly wrong, or something.

-'Sonia wants to cook dinner for SyVa and Neiss.' There is something so bizarrely hysterical about that sentence.

-Elena is crazy. And she scares me. And reminds me bizarrely of Lauren in After Six. There is no goodness here.

-Ditto about the scene. It's just . . . The Scene. I . . . I don't know. What to do. It's The Scene. (EMMY. EMMY.)

-This episode rocked my world. Man . . . The Scene.

I think I am slightly kinda sorta still in an awed state.