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[sunshine_queen]

Next Wednesday, TNT is starting with Season One of Alias. Oh, TNT. You joker.

Man, today I figure, screw it, I'm not running back and forth to the computer, the write up can wait... and the episode, in comparison, ROCKED. We're not up to Alias standards, but when you put up against the other episodes... man.

 

This episode dragged in a few places, but.... (and snagging yahtzee63 's setup)

I liked:

- Sloane telling Jack to care for Nadia as if she were his own daughter. I got SO giddy at that. That, and Sloane being so concerned, and starting to write a letter to her, and... oh, I had such Sloane love in this episode. And? When Daddy entered the courtroom, and just... just touched Sloane's shoulder? It was so amazing. Like, "Hey. I'm here. I got your back." And oh, when he thanked Daddy for getting Syd and Dixon to write letters on his behalf. My mom snorted and didn't believe when Daddy said that they actually volunteered- but I can see where they were coming from. He wasn't really in violation of his parole agreement, and Syd was always very big on not turning Sloane in for something he didn't do. Plus... he's one of their own. And even though he's evil... Sloane comes through. He has evil ideas and he's a bastard, but oh, does he rock.

- Sydney. Oh, I loved the mission. She was so cute, and bubbly, and missiony, and she's awesome, and she panics well- and when she said "I have to call my Dad," I melted. Because Sydney knows what to do when she's in trouble. And just the way she was talking to Rachel, especially in the Jaguar of Death, part 2... it was cute. I liked Syd.

- The Cayman Islands. My god, I don't even like the beach and I was salivating. Absolutely gorgeous. And that sassy little banker woman!

- My boys on a mission. How I love missioning Dixon. And I love Balthazar. So watching them interact... and why do I have a bad, bad feeling that now we're dealing with twelve prophets? I don't want twelve. I wasn't too happy with one. Anyway, Balthazar seems to be behaving as a team player, and oh, he's pretty.

- Sloane walking into the light with the "oooh, he's a baddie!" music playing.

I disliked:

- The visuals of the exploded office before they got to into themselves. The Titanic effect was cool at first, but then they were like, "wow! Look, guys, if I do this..." and it got boring.

- Rachel. I kinda love her, I'll admit it... but she kept whining. I mean, whining with good reason... but I was still irritated. Why did they keep dragging her on missions? Sending her back into... Dean's office, that made sense. Making her go back... they could have had a video feed and had her watching it back at APO. They could have taken Marshall on the Monte Carlo mission. She's very uncomfortable, and she's not field-trained. It's a liability.

- AHHH THE SCARY MAGNET THING. I am... oh, heights. I'm not scared of heights, per se, I'm just very, very respectful of their potential death capabilities. Ergo? A HANGING CAR scared the bejesus out of me.

- Again, lack of Renée. Why oh why are they pretending that a potentially important COFFIN with someone being kept alive inside is completely unimportant? Plus, I like Renée. She's feisty. Rachel's just very, very pretty.

Petty things:

- GORDON. DEAN. I mean, he's just so... I hate him. It's a blind hatred, really, he could turn around and be like, the second coming and I'd still be reallllllly bitter. But that's just me.

- The lead tribunal man. I mean, at least when we were doing Syd's tribunal... forever ago... he was Kendall. Kendall was great. This guy? He was just obnoxious. Arg.

 

Next week, however, they promised Renée would come back and... DUN DUN DUN... who's in the box?

 

Comments

[yubsie]

I actually watched half of that episode!

Though for the record, "WHO'S IN THE BOX?" cracked me up. :p

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

Oh, dude, I think the whole world cracked up at that.

[yubsie]

If they were trying for dramatic, they totally should have rethought their wording.

I was picturing, like a Jack-in-the-box.

Though obviously it can't be Jack. :p

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

I was all, oh, jeez, not another mystery box.

[yubsie]

One day, the mystery box will contain leftovers. :p

[snapplesons.livejournal.com]

who's in the box?

An arm with Vaughn's hair!!!

[sunshine-queen.livejournal.com]

LOL, a disembodied arm! And a head with grey hair at the temple. LONG LIVE VAUGHN!

[snapplesons.livejournal.com]

Hehe... I just thought of a semi-funny dirty joke to add to this, but I'm afraid to suggest it.