Alias rambling

[sunshine_queen]

 

Here's hoping that Alias doesn't suck this week!

 

The previouslies had Nadia! Yay!

So, um, this girl goes to Istanbul to go into this place, and it's all pretty, and then she kicks ass, and removes her thinger, and oh look, it's Princess Leia. Princess Leia steals a thingie and kills other people. Luckily, the rats live.

Back in LA, Syd's REALLY PREGNANT, y'all. Like, in case we were all watching from space. She got a hockey magazine of Vaughn's, and she lives on Zephyr Ave in Venice. Cool. Syd goes to cancel the subscription, so we can do the Danny parallel of the message, and oh, Vaughn's dead. BUT HE'S SO SO NOT.

Anyway, at work, Marshall has a penpal in Istanbul who told him about Leia breaking in, and it's here that I remember that that Amy girl from Buffy is there this week, but whatever. Anyway, they're sending Syd and the new kid and Marshall to Prague. He has an attitude. Bad. Syd has to go have a snit attack at her daddy.

"I want Dixon to come!" she whines, but too bad, Sloane and Dixon are going to FIND A CURE FOR NADIA! Yay.

But then she's all, Daddy, I read [noob's] file and he's a loner! There is no I in TEAM, Daddy!

Daddy tells her to suck it up and go. Good for him. Spare the belt and you'll spoil the child.

 

I love Dixon, he's cool, and he's in charge, SO THERE, Sloane!

The gang goes to Prague, and Marshall details the mission, and then there's a power play between Noob and Syd. Like there should be. Honestly. Syd whips out some Czech and gets the mint package and goes to flirt.

To flirt with the kid with the Red Sox cap. Oh, the Affleck shout out. That was really amusing.

Anyway, I think flirting with a pregnant chick is a bit creepy, but diff'rent strokes, you know? And Syd's a Grade A flirter.

But then Lauren Nichols is the bad guy! Like we didn't know. So the boys rush off to follow her and I think I have a crush on Noob. He's kinda hot. What's his name again?

Anyway, they get LN and there's a big moment of UST and oh, look. The new whatchit called, relationship of the season. Rapture.

 

The important part of this segment was to fall in like with Lauren Nichols (I won't! You can't make me!) and to hear the strings of OH MY GOD DEAN IS AROUND THE CORNER KILL HIM KILL HIM!

Um, and Sloane got let free by Dixon 'cause he played the Daddy card and was all, you have my daughter, that's all the security you need, etc. And whatever.

Syd recounted the story of her being duped by SD-6, and LN is all, oh my god, you so read my file, bitch! And Syd's all, nuh-uh! I lived it, woman!

And they did a test and got rerouted and lo, Gordon is there and it's all bad.

But LN is kinda cute. I kinda hate it. I won't! You can't make me! :-(!

It's so funny watching with my mom. She first called Syd a whale, and then she kept calling Noob various things, including "Balthazar" and "Beautiful" and "Wise Man." I love Alias.

 

So... poor LN is sad about being a double, and they talk her into going back into the Devil's Lair and oh lord that's the appeal of Ellen, isn't it? That's she's Syd, Redux. Aw, maaaaan.

Anyway, she and Marshall talk tech and they form a mutual admiration society and I wonder how much money Marshall makes.

And then we're with Sloane and that dude and they hug and shoot the shit that I couldn't hear 'cause my mom was cracking jokes the whole time about Balthazar and yeah, and suddenly Sloane opens the trunk and there's nothing to get and there's a gun at his head and he wants Sloane dead! And Sloane doesn't get it and neither do I because we all love Sloane! So I'm waiting for Dixon to come and save him. Come on, Dix!

 

Oh, and Sloane is okay, because the guy lost his daughter in Sevogda and he wanted to avenge her but Sloane played the Daddy card and got him to back off and it all went well.

Took me twenty minutes to realize that "Peyton" was Leia, but whatever. Anyway, they send Ellen in, and it's all SD-6y and slo-mo and SD-6 music and oh, yes, WE GET THE PARALLELS, y'all. And then she has to do all this double work in like, the computer lab...

... and then Gordon comes! And I literally said "Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate" over and over until he left, because I do.

Oh, before she went in, Syd showed Ellen the picture of Vaughn and how he's dead and doesn't she know that he's not? Silly goose, Sydling.

They (Syd and Ellen) did a brush pass and Balthazar flirted and and now Leia is telling Gordon that they have a problem and her name is Ellen. And dun dun dun.

 

So, Gordon tells Leia that they're gonna kill everyone... so there... so they dash off in black mercedeses. Downstairs, Syd, Balthazar and Marshall and kinda uncorking champagne for their brilliance, when things start getting screwed up. So they try to contact Ellen and nope, nothing.

So, Balthazar like, LEAPS out of the van and DASHES up the stairs. Ellen, realizing that things are seriously bad, goes to the stairs, unaware that the bomb says like, 00.02 minutes left. And dashes. And Balthazar goes up and then- BOOM!

Czech SD-6 blows up, everyone dies. Balthazar gets up to run- and there's Ellen! She's barefoot. No, I don't get it.

Downstairs, Syd, who should've KNOWN this might happen, as, hello, THE BOX PART ONE AND TWO?, runs outside... and then upstairs. And for those of you who are blind, Balthazar and Ellen are the new OTP. Just a head's up.

Syd runs up TEN FLIGHTS OF STAIRS, and Balthazar is all, she's okay!

So, she is. ALIAS screen. Stupid goddamn episode.

And I'm really disappointed that we didn't save Nadia. Waste waste waste.

Where was Renée? Shouldn't we have been worried about that missing... thinger?

ETA: Oh, dude. I thought his real name was Bartholomew! No, his name really is Balthazar! That's just... it's fantastic, man. Fan-damn-tastic. Balthazar, man. Shit. That rocks. Also? Jen Garner is a producer. Way to go!

Comments

[xenaamber.livejournal.com]

Did you know that Jen has been house-hunting in Charlottesville? :D Would it not be cool if she lived in the same town as me?

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

When Nica told me that we both were like, THAT'S WHERE UVA IS!

Which puts a lot of weight on UVA's side. ;-)

[xenaamber.livejournal.com]

UVA rocks on! Wahoowa!

They should write "Jennifer Garner is considering making her home here" in the admissions book. :P

[snapplesons.livejournal.com]

I missed the episode. I meant to tape it, but I guess I accidently taped TBS instead of ABC. I SUCK! I saw part of it; where Syd was telling the blonde chick that about the SD-6 thingy and "LN is all, oh my god, you so read my file, bitch! And Syd's all, nuh-uh! I lived it, woman!" Hehe. AND I MISSED AMY!!! :( She was Ellen, right?