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gwynArg. Evil Twin lives in San Diego, where there are four major fires raging right now and the winds have picked up again. So far, none have encroached on her area, but one is getting closer and if the wind shifts, it will head in her direction. Right now, though, she is on her way to do an animal rescue, even though all but two freeways are shut down. She is an animal rescue volunteer for the Humane Society, and has been in some very hairy situations before, especially in fires, but even though she's done all right in the past, it scares me every time. She may be the evil twin most of the time, but sometimes, she's got her halo on.
Finding it hard to concentrate on the show when many people I know could be tragically affected by the fires... but one of the things I kept thinking last night was that this seems to be the TV Season of Shorn Hair. So far we have Eric Close sporting a jarhead-wannabe look on Without a Trace and David Anders going for the "I just left the Rangers" style on Alias. Rory got a stylish new short 'do on Gilmore Girls. I swear if Spike ends up with a flattop, I will have to take drastic measures. It's not that I'm a hair fan, but it's messing with my worldview. Besides, Eric has always just looked most fetching with spikey hair, and I liked Sark's more collegiate style, because it made him seem so average, and then you found out he wasn't. He looked so average, it was like a disguise.
I am more in love with Weiss every day. He's so easy going, such a good friend, and not half bad at his job. But I'm more confused about Lauren and her overbite every day. Last week, they seemed to want to steer us in the direction of thinking she's a queen bitch on wheels, with her dressing down of her husband for his work reports. Now this week they pile on more hateful behavior, then for no other reason than her and Syd sharing a car chase, she immediately takes it back and apologizes and tries to be friends. I'm getting whiplash trying to figure out what we're supposed to want to think about her.
I'm hoping that Djimon Hounsou comes back later -- he seemed largely wasted in the role, and he's a hunka hunka purdy, I think, so I'd love to see if he can become some sort of fun nemesis for Sloane and for the CIA. And Jack...well, Jack should know better. I'm surprised at him, letting himself get caught out like that, but then, I wondered... did he do it on purpose? Did he know he was being photographed and possibly ID'd? Hard to tell with Mr. Cool, but I loved how he dispatched Walker so cleanly and efficiently when he knew he wouldn't get what he wanted. Jack Bristow, the master of sang-froid. It was a nice idea, too bad it didn't pan out, but then... where would the season go if it had? And Marshall, so cute with his 'stache and hat. And his high school photo! How utterly sheer perfection.
They packed a lot of stuff into the hour, which must have been why they chose not to use the opening title sequence and just run credits on the film. Vaughn's dream was pretty cliched, but I liked the ending scene with the four of them so much it didn't matter. And Syd's poor haunted face over the heartbreaking quaver of Beth Orton... wah. But most of all, I'm left wondering, far more than I wonder about the missing two years -- who is Sark now? He seems to have his fingers in every pie, he's moving around at the speed of light, but there's no clear picture of what role he's playing. Is he a mastermind who was hiding behind the flunky role before? Does he have a plan, or is he just a mercenary? And with the preview for next week showing us Francie's double, is there something else going on from the two years ago timeline that he's trying to settle? Many confusing storylines; lots of potential for sweeps month!
Finding it hard to concentrate on the show when many people I know could be tragically affected by the fires... but one of the things I kept thinking last night was that this seems to be the TV Season of Shorn Hair. So far we have Eric Close sporting a jarhead-wannabe look on Without a Trace and David Anders going for the "I just left the Rangers" style on Alias. Rory got a stylish new short 'do on Gilmore Girls. I swear if Spike ends up with a flattop, I will have to take drastic measures. It's not that I'm a hair fan, but it's messing with my worldview. Besides, Eric has always just looked most fetching with spikey hair, and I liked Sark's more collegiate style, because it made him seem so average, and then you found out he wasn't. He looked so average, it was like a disguise.
I am more in love with Weiss every day. He's so easy going, such a good friend, and not half bad at his job. But I'm more confused about Lauren and her overbite every day. Last week, they seemed to want to steer us in the direction of thinking she's a queen bitch on wheels, with her dressing down of her husband for his work reports. Now this week they pile on more hateful behavior, then for no other reason than her and Syd sharing a car chase, she immediately takes it back and apologizes and tries to be friends. I'm getting whiplash trying to figure out what we're supposed to want to think about her.
I'm hoping that Djimon Hounsou comes back later -- he seemed largely wasted in the role, and he's a hunka hunka purdy, I think, so I'd love to see if he can become some sort of fun nemesis for Sloane and for the CIA. And Jack...well, Jack should know better. I'm surprised at him, letting himself get caught out like that, but then, I wondered... did he do it on purpose? Did he know he was being photographed and possibly ID'd? Hard to tell with Mr. Cool, but I loved how he dispatched Walker so cleanly and efficiently when he knew he wouldn't get what he wanted. Jack Bristow, the master of sang-froid. It was a nice idea, too bad it didn't pan out, but then... where would the season go if it had? And Marshall, so cute with his 'stache and hat. And his high school photo! How utterly sheer perfection.
They packed a lot of stuff into the hour, which must have been why they chose not to use the opening title sequence and just run credits on the film. Vaughn's dream was pretty cliched, but I liked the ending scene with the four of them so much it didn't matter. And Syd's poor haunted face over the heartbreaking quaver of Beth Orton... wah. But most of all, I'm left wondering, far more than I wonder about the missing two years -- who is Sark now? He seems to have his fingers in every pie, he's moving around at the speed of light, but there's no clear picture of what role he's playing. Is he a mastermind who was hiding behind the flunky role before? Does he have a plan, or is he just a mercenary? And with the preview for next week showing us Francie's double, is there something else going on from the two years ago timeline that he's trying to settle? Many confusing storylines; lots of potential for sweeps month!
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Date: 2003-10-27 01:57 pm (UTC)These are all million dollar questions for me, too. He thoroughly confuses me. Working for the Covenant or not? As in willingly working. Or perhaps undermining them? Allowed Syd to get that intel in Mexico City or not? Ratted Jack out because it was not wise NOT to? Or because he doesn't give a damn?
JJ better make sense of all of this.
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Date: 2003-10-27 03:30 pm (UTC)Sark the Mysterious.
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Date: 2003-10-27 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-28 07:10 am (UTC){{{hugs}}}
Between the ash and the smoke,
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Date: 2003-10-28 12:06 pm (UTC)