My nails are TEAL.

[sunshine_queen]

Today I watched Dr. Phil again. My love grows exponentially. How can one man be so wise?

I also saw my first clippit of Jon Stewart. Really, it was my first time ever seeing him. This prompts me to watch his show tonight at 8 because I made a fool of myself laughing in TOK.

COLDPLAY IS GOING TO BE AT THE VMAs. I might actually die of excitement. I couldn't go to the Coldplay concert, AND NOW COLDPLAY IS COMING TO ME.

We had a meeting today about college things. I'm too young for this.

Painted my nails teal at lunch. Tomorrow's the first pep rally of the year, and all my friends and I are going all out. I intend to be picked up early because I hate pointless Pep Rallies.

AND BECCA IS HOME.

Now, for memes.

 

Relationship Meme

For agent_nica :

Obi-Wan/Padmé.

Okay, let me preface this by saying I have absolutely no concrete idea how I feel about them. It used to be all,

EW EW EW HIS BEST FRIEND'S GIRL (or worse, his like, pseudo-son's girl) HAVEN'T YOU EVER SEEN PEARL HARBOR OBI WAN?

Then I kinda... thought about it. In terms of comfort, and whatever. Like, you know how Arthur was able to forgive Lance and Guinevere for being horndogs because he loved them both so much? Obi-Wan and Padmé both loved Anakin, and then he went crazy, so it would kinda be like, having him, or something. And? It's like the GFFA's Sweiss, which I am completely and utterly and FIERCELY against, but I still can kind of understand, because it's the best friend and the girlfriend and are you catching my drift here, Nica? Because I'm lost.

for dollsome :

Vaughn/Lauren.

I am a SyVa shipper. Die-hard. Hardcore. To the death. Catch my drift?

So my knee-jerk reaction to Laughn is HOLY MOTHER OF ALL THAT IS SACRED, NO.

... But then the whole logical part of my brain kicks in. Gah.

So, here goes.

Sydney died. And Vaughn was very, very sad, and nearly died himself, and moped and drank and talked to Sydney's spectre because he was a crazy crazy mourning man, and it was very sad, and don't we all love Vaughn? I know I do.

And then Vaughn decided to crawl out of his hole, and honestly, good for him, because had Sydney been really dead, she would've hated him being so miserable on her account 'cause Syd was that kind of sunshiny bouncy person. So, Vaughn joins the living again and he meets pretty blonde Lauren.

Lauren is normal. She works for the NSC, so she isn't going out on dangerous missions. She's pretty, she intelligent, she's nice to him. And Spectre!Syd gave him permission to date.

I really do think that Lauren saved Vaughn from a miserable half-life of misery. I think he loved Lauren- not in the can't eat, can't sleep, reach for the stars, over the fence, world series kind of love, but it was love and nice and good and safe and real and NOT HALLUCINATORY, so all in all, it was a really healthy step for Vaughn.

He moved on. Sydney. Was. Dead.

Of course, then Sydney turned out to be totally not dead, and it's kinda Pearl Harbor all over again- because

Sydney, like Ben Affleck Rafe, was dead, and Evelyn Vaughn moved on, and what were either of them to do? It was a REALLY SUCKY situation, because Syd was innocent 'cause she had just come back from two years of nothing-she-can-remember, and Vaughn was innocent 'cause he had thought, logically, that she was dead and moved on and Lauren was innocent 'cause we did not, at the time, know that she was a Cheap and Evil Girl, placed there in the grand tradition of all American Girls With the Name Rooted in 'Laur-'

But before she was TCaEG, (which, really, was when Nica loved SyVa and was brainwashing me into loving Alias and hating Lauren and Irina and Will and Sloane,) which I only saw retrospectively 'cause the first episode of Alias I ever saw on television ended in her Being The Sniper With Lots of Evil Black EyeLiner of Doom, she seemed super cute! And without Syd, Vaughn could've totally loved her! He loved Alice before Syd! He DID!

But Syd's like- like, when you eat the super spicy Salsa doritos? You know how it's super good, so you eat a bunch, and then your tongue is completely numb, and then when you eat something else, you can't taste a thing? It's like that. Well, at least with Alice. I guess with Lauren it was an entirely different food analogy, like... Coke and Sprite, or something. I don't know.

So, um, like communism, Laughn is good in theory.

Emily/Sloane

Sloane's sole redeeming relationship, like, ever. He recruited Syd at nineteen against Jack's wishes to destroy her life, etc. etc. He's a bad guy. He does bad things. Mofo is a goddamn terrorist, but damned if he doesn't look good in striped socks!

And then we have Emily. Sweet, angelic, soft-spoken Emily, who, somehow, even though it seems like it would  be like pairing, like, Shirley Feeney with Lord Voldemort, it totally isn't. Because Emily humanized Sloane. When they were together, he was Arvin, Emily's busy, busy husband who brought her flowers and expensive houses in Italy and kept her tethered to the world when she was dying- Arvin was devoted to his wife. Completely.

... And then TPTB throw in the Irina Affair for good measure. And I looove Nadia. To pieces.

But the idea of (A) IRINA SLEEPING WITH SLOANE (my EYES) and (B) Sloane cheating on Emily is just absurd. Sloane loved Emily, period. And Emily deserved much, much better, but she got almost what she deserved with Arvin. Because his ookiness washed away around Emily's pretty, cleansing presence. Oh, Emily, come back!

 

For thepodsquad

Jack/Sloane

... Um? I so hope you mean friendship, Hannah Elisabeth, because if you mean sexual I have NO IDEA what you're talking about. Because? Like whoa with the ew.

I believe that, like Irina said, Jack and Sloane were at one point true friends. And then the whole Laurina thing went down, and Jack got sent away to prison, and he came back and his baby hated him and Sloane was all, come over to the dark side, Jack, we have cookies, and Jack was all, teh hell not? (Or, conversely, he might've been, now I can bring down that BASTARD who shtupped my wife from the inside out! DIE SLOANE DIE)

I don't know when the hatred started- was it really when Sloane recruited Syd? Because sure, it way sucked recruiting her to SD-6- but what was Daddy telling him? "Sorry, Arv, you can't recruit my pride and joy because I want her to work for the good guys?" Because isn't that a little weird when you're working for the bad guys?

Was it before, realizing that Sloane's Super Great Idea of forming SD-6 wasn't so great? Why did Jack and Arvin stop being friends?

Sloane, I think, just has an unnatural attraction to things he finds better than himself, or cleaner, or nicer. Jack is the steady, strong badass who will fuck your shit up. And Sloane... well, I mean, he's one scary mother, but he's not Jack. Sloane can press a button and get you killed by his henchmen, but Jack could kill you with one pearl earring and a limited time frame. Sloane is an evil genius, Jack is just brilliant. It's almost like they're through the mirror darkly- and that's why Sloane is still kinda like, Jack, my brother! I loooove you! And Jack's all, Slime, the Hate. It Surges.

Are they both trained in the Jedi arts? Oh, yeah. Can they both team up and take down the world? Uh-huh. Will they partner up? Probably. Will Jack like it? Probably not. Will Sloane make up Best Friend T-Shirts. You know it.

 

And now, the character meme

Lauren for dollsome

Let me start this off by saying that I am a very passionate person. I love and hate in pretty much the same degree on opposite sides. I either love love love you or hate hate hate you. The love ebbs and flows. I love pretty much everyone that's ever shown up on Alias, with the exceptions of Noah, Ariana Kane, various bad men, Francie (although I do like her) and Evil Evil Auntie Elena.

That said, as previously mentioned, I was all gung ho with the Lauren hatred. I was groomed to hate Lauren. I would not like her with a fox, I would not like her in a box, I would not like her with a mouse, I would not like her in a house. I would not like Ms. Lauren Reed, I would not like, I would not need.

How dare that blonde, omniaccented NSCer marry Sydney's man! How dare someone replace Sydney!

(Honestly, the poor girl never had a chance. The entire writing staff is a SyVa fan, except this season.)

Lauren was placed as an obstacle to the OMG, OTP of the show, and the writers really wanted everyone to feel conflicted as to who they should be rooting for- the heroine of the show, or the poor misplaced little blonde?

Well. It totally blew up in the writers' faces. The Scary, Rabid Fans of Doom were out for blood, poor Melli George was being sent death threats, Season Three sucked, etc. etc. Suddenly, JJ was all conflicted himself! The world hated Lauren aieeeee!

So, he made Lauren a Cheap and Evil Girl.

And I loved the Cheap and Evil Girl. Suddenly, it was alright for Vaughn to be with Lauren, because it was super obvious that it was doomed for serious now, which meant only good things for SyVa (ha.) and Lauren wasn't going to be heartbroken or anything if Vaughn left her for Syd because he was only a mission and she was evil and HOLY MOTHER OF SNAP SHE'S BOINKING THE ENTIRE UNDERWORLD AND SARK BESIDES!

I loved Lauren. I loved her being evil. I loved her eyeliner. I loved her new slick wardrobe. I loved her stupid phone calls to the Covenant in the middle of the JTF, I loved her sleeping with Sark. I loved her messing up, I loved her being caught by Vaughn. I LOVED LAUREN UNTIL THE END.

And as Vaughn shot her to death (!) I felt a stab of pity because, Lauren? Gone. Forever, it seems. Sure, JJ taunted us with almost Lauren's at the beginning of the season (and how I longed for it to be true!) and occasionally someone would bring her up, and damned if I wasn't convinced that Sark loved her in the episode where Melissa George came back and played dead.

I miss Lauren. And I love her.

 

Skinner for thepodsquad .

It's difficult doing the hierarchy of love for the X-Files, because really, in all I've watched it's been mainly Mulder and Scully with a smattering of Skinner(!). So, while it's easy for me to rearrange my favorite's list for Alias and to have multiple fave-fave-favorites, it's not so easy with a triumvirate of characters.

I mean, Dana is my absolute favorite. And I love Mulder.

But Skinner.

There is nothing to not like about Skinner. He's in charge, which I LOVE. He's got this strange attractiveness about him. He's BALD for god's sake, and he has killer glasses and he is TOTALLY in love with Dana, and he's so... nice and calm and charming and intelligent.

And, if I may- he is the SEXY BEAST of XF.

Comments

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Love these, especially the Emily/Sloane one -- I agree -- and the Vaughn/Lauren one; good points there. Unlike you, I liked Good!Lauren of the first half of the Season better because after that, she was exactly the plot device you describe, but still.

I'll have you know I wrote a Jack/Sloane piece once. *g* It's locked, though, not for the pairing or the rating but because it's just ramblings of questionable quality, a SOC written for kangeiko, who's into that sort of thing (along with andrastewhite and selenak).

And yeah. Skinner loves Scully, definitely.

& :-)

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

Well, after Lauren was the Cheap and Evil Girl, I loved her in the early episodes, because I knew it was a lie and she was no real threat to Syd, and oh, isn't she pretty and normal and adorable!

*shudders* At first, I had issues with the idea of Jack sleeping with anyone. I accept Irina, I accept Nadia, I'll even except Katya. But I have this thing for Jack being firmly heterosexual.

... Although I will admit Sloane is quite the SEXY BEAST.

And maybe one of the reasons I love Skinner is because he loves Dana. Because I love Dana.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Oh, I get that. I never believed Vlauren was Forever, anyway, so the fierce hatred of fandom puzzled me a little. (But then, I had the same with Riley on Buffy...)

... Although I will admit Sloane is quite the SEXY BEAST.

Hee!

What an image...but I've got friends who'd agree, wholeheartedly.

Because I love Dana.

Oh yes. So very much. Did you have WWSD moments? I still have them. & :-)

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

Of course Laughn wasn't forever. Hellooooo. SyVa.

And Sloane IS a SEXY BEAST. Haven't you seen his bare chest?

And of course I have WWSD moments. Only mine are WWDD moments, 'cause it's What Would Dana Do? WWSD moments are What Would Sydney Do moments.

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Hellooooo. SyVa.

Oh, I know. Half of fandom? Not sure. 0 :-)

Haven't you seen his bare chest?

I sort of wish I hadn't.

::ducks::

nd of course I have WWSD moments. Only mine are WWDD moments, 'cause it's What Would Dana Do? WWSD moments are What Would Sydney Do moments.

Ahh, I see! *g* Yup, makes sense. I have the latter, too, these days...

[dollsome.livejournal.com]

Man, you ramble so well. Colour me envious. You manage to be all witty and to make sense, which is something I very much have yet to master.

I would not like Ms. Lauren Reed, I would not like, I would not need.

Hee! That's something beautiful, right there.

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

*snort* That's totally BS, Miss Nita.

And thank you. ;-)

[agent-nica.livejournal.com]

I asked you about Obi-Wan/Padme to see how you stood in terms of them, and I still have no idea. ;)

And Skinner does have the best glasses. I laugh at the part that goes over his ears, because it's rounded and actually hugs his ears.

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

LOL, I'm sorry. I was real against them in the first two prequels, but then Anakin went all crazy and shit, so I was kinda all about the Obidala, but then Padmé died. So her being Jessie's Obi's girl is a moot point.

i KNOW! Skinner's glasses rock. I love Skinner. And I love when we're on the phone watching it and we both exclaim "Skinner!"