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If my best friend were a pod...
Mar. 17th, 2003 11:05 amSpoilers for Alias episode Truth Takes Time
So, if my best friend had become a Pod!Agent, I'd like to think I'd know that person well enough that I could guess that suddenly they were acting a little different. I might, if I were a trained espionage agent, even look into things a bit more... oh, deeply... if I had suspicions that somehow my best friend's behavior had changed, and she was living with me, which would make access to spying on her a bit easier. Possibly, I'd think, I could suss out what's up with her strange behavior. If she gave my boyfriend a somewhat personal gift, in front of her current boyfriend (but did not, in fact, give her boyfriend a gift, as well) and it wasn't his birthday, even, but just that she was shopping and saw something that reminded her of him (and they'd only known each other a few days, technically), I think that would arouse my suspicions, especially when coupled with this fact that she'd recently been acting like a pod person.
Sydney Bristow, however, is apparently too busy saving the world to notice this. Not that, you know, I'd blame her much -- her mother's a traitor again, she's close to finding the guy who seriously messed up her life and nailing him, and the job's all screwed up and she probably has permanent jet lag from all the criss-crossing of the globe. Nonetheless, Francie has a big old "freak" sign on her head, and Syd needs to wake up and smell the coffee.
Otherwise, much fun to be had in this ep, especially with Lena Olin, again, as Irina. I'm convinced now that it is a triple-cross, because saving Syd's life and sending the message by Morse code (earring Morse code! Heee!) seems like a pretty big sign that more's afoot. I'm a little confused by why Dixon hit Emily and not Sloane; if he's that good a marksman (to be asked to do that, he'd have to be rated pretty damn highly with a rifle), he should never have hit the secondary target like that, especially when Sloane was in the foreground. But I suppose then we would have had our main black hat gone, and there's too much still to do for him. I'm also a bit confused about the disc and who's extracting for whom; but as along as Sark gets to run around with sexy headsets on, I won't complain if the disc is being jockeyed around for a while. Plus, Sark's hair is taking on a new life of its own, which is fun (has he been stealing grooming tips and gel from first season Angel?) Jack's bullheadedness also seems like a big old clue that this is a triple-cross engineered between him and Irina, and I can't wait to see where it goes. The Spy!Parents are cool.
The one thing that truly surprised me was that Arvin actually wanted Emily to come with him. In some ways, I expected his ruthlessness to extend to Emily if he felt she had betrayed him, and it was a touching surprise to find out that even her informing on him didn't shake his need for her at all. That makes him a more complex and layered character than he has been before, to me, and I'm curious to see how he deals with this, as well as with Irina, who had her own doubts about him as a husband. I never expected much from old Arvin; his will to power was just too much of a defining characteristic and having a vulnerability like love for his wife didn't appear to be in the cards for him. Nice surprise to see that I was wrong.
So, if my best friend had become a Pod!Agent, I'd like to think I'd know that person well enough that I could guess that suddenly they were acting a little different. I might, if I were a trained espionage agent, even look into things a bit more... oh, deeply... if I had suspicions that somehow my best friend's behavior had changed, and she was living with me, which would make access to spying on her a bit easier. Possibly, I'd think, I could suss out what's up with her strange behavior. If she gave my boyfriend a somewhat personal gift, in front of her current boyfriend (but did not, in fact, give her boyfriend a gift, as well) and it wasn't his birthday, even, but just that she was shopping and saw something that reminded her of him (and they'd only known each other a few days, technically), I think that would arouse my suspicions, especially when coupled with this fact that she'd recently been acting like a pod person.
Sydney Bristow, however, is apparently too busy saving the world to notice this. Not that, you know, I'd blame her much -- her mother's a traitor again, she's close to finding the guy who seriously messed up her life and nailing him, and the job's all screwed up and she probably has permanent jet lag from all the criss-crossing of the globe. Nonetheless, Francie has a big old "freak" sign on her head, and Syd needs to wake up and smell the coffee.
Otherwise, much fun to be had in this ep, especially with Lena Olin, again, as Irina. I'm convinced now that it is a triple-cross, because saving Syd's life and sending the message by Morse code (earring Morse code! Heee!) seems like a pretty big sign that more's afoot. I'm a little confused by why Dixon hit Emily and not Sloane; if he's that good a marksman (to be asked to do that, he'd have to be rated pretty damn highly with a rifle), he should never have hit the secondary target like that, especially when Sloane was in the foreground. But I suppose then we would have had our main black hat gone, and there's too much still to do for him. I'm also a bit confused about the disc and who's extracting for whom; but as along as Sark gets to run around with sexy headsets on, I won't complain if the disc is being jockeyed around for a while. Plus, Sark's hair is taking on a new life of its own, which is fun (has he been stealing grooming tips and gel from first season Angel?) Jack's bullheadedness also seems like a big old clue that this is a triple-cross engineered between him and Irina, and I can't wait to see where it goes. The Spy!Parents are cool.
The one thing that truly surprised me was that Arvin actually wanted Emily to come with him. In some ways, I expected his ruthlessness to extend to Emily if he felt she had betrayed him, and it was a touching surprise to find out that even her informing on him didn't shake his need for her at all. That makes him a more complex and layered character than he has been before, to me, and I'm curious to see how he deals with this, as well as with Irina, who had her own doubts about him as a husband. I never expected much from old Arvin; his will to power was just too much of a defining characteristic and having a vulnerability like love for his wife didn't appear to be in the cards for him. Nice surprise to see that I was wrong.
