In the fifteenth episode of the first season of Alias<\/i>, you are all evil, and you all orchestrated this. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Alias<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Why? Why are y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all doing this to me? DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T I MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU?<\/p>\n
Francie<\/b><\/p>\n
Well, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s official; Charlie is probably gone. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible that he may come back into the narrative, but \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Page 47\u00e2\u20ac\u009d definitively shows us that Francie has broken things off with her fianc\u00c3\u00a9. I cant believe it took until this episode for me to realize that BOTH FRANCIE AND SYDNEY LOST THEIR FIANC\u00c3\u2030S. It was right there! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in the goddamn opening credits! Oh gods, it was just so sad<\/i>, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, to see how both of these women had their lives upset by the actions of others. Granted, Sydney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s case is a little extreme, but the writers brilliantly pair these two to provide one another some comfort. I absolutely loved<\/i> that scene where they both removed their engagement rings. In it, they get to bond over something traumatic, and it helped them grow closer. WHICH WAS GREAT TO SEE AFTER THEIR CONFRONTATION IN \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Coup.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
I have a lot of feelings about Francie. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad that of her and Charlie, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the one to stick around.<\/p>\n
Will<\/b><\/p>\n
I feel like the show is quietly giving us a parallel between Will and Sydney, in the sense that both of them with a moral predicament that involves risky behavior. Will\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s experience investigating SD-6 has tumultuous at best, but here, Jack is forced to escalate matters when Sloane discovers that Will\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been visiting McNeil in prison. That escalation is also<\/i> Jack\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attempt to stop Sloane from having Will assassinated. So, Will experiences the physical cost of this act. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s beat up, and Jack threatens his friends and family. Is he like Sydney? Does he accept that the threat is real and go along with what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s asked of him? This is the first time that he does, because up to this point, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d pursued what he thought was right. But what if that pursuit endangered other people? Was it worth it? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like Will hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t had to answer that question before. He was worried that his initial investigation of Danny would hurt Sydney, and then he became convinced that McNeil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s daughter was at risk.<\/p>\n
In the end, he chooses to drop the story. (And Jenny, which was SO FRUSTRATING TO WATCH. Will did not treat her well at ALL.) Does that make him a coward or unlike Sydney?<\/p>\n
No, I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say so. Sydney has lines she doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to cross, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also seen her act to save her friends and family, even if there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a big-picture problem that she could solve. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t blame Will for reacting as he does to a group as powerful and scary as SD-6! He just chose to protect his loved ones differently. What this means for his sotry is still unknown, as I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t guess what role he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll play outside of tracking down Danny\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s murderer. WE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122LL SEE.<\/p>\n
I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M ON A BOAT<\/b><\/p>\n
I just want to say that I love how absurd the boat heist is. She didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just take the Rambaldi papers. SHE STOLE SARK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S ENTIRE BOAT, TOO. BLESS HER FOREVER.<\/p>\n
Dinner<\/b><\/p>\n
Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, I admire and respect how deeply principled Sydney is. When asked to bug Sloane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home by USING HIS WIFE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S POOR HEALTH TO GET INSIDE, Sydney immediately<\/i> rejected it. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so thrilling to me that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re getting a spy character who isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/i> willing to do absolutely anything to achiever her goals. Rather, Sydney constantly wrestles with her morality. In this case, she finds it abhorrent to use Emily\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cancer in order to gain entrance to the Sloane household. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clear that when she does<\/i> end up there, she really does care about this woman. (I do hope she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as innocent as Sydney claims she is, or else this is gonna get AWKWARD.) I LOVE THAT SHE HAS STANDARDS, OKAY. It makes her a much more interesting character!<\/p>\n
And then this goddamn show has to stage that UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE heist IN SLOANE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S HOUSE, and I hate everything. ALL OF IT. Because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s too good! It was too suspenseful! And just having Sydney sneak around Sloane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t enough. There just had<\/i> to be that conversation about evil bosses, because WHY DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T WE PAINT A PARALLEL BETWEEN SLOANE AND A MAN CURRENTLY IN JAIL? (Which\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 I dunno, I did feel a bit<\/i> weird about the parallel, given that I would consider Jack and Sydney to be far more privileged than the man in Will\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story. It felt a little uncomfortable to use something that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s absolutely real to paint a portrait of Sloane where he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153slave driver.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d)<\/p>\n
Rambaldi<\/b><\/p>\n
How<\/p>\n
HOW<\/p>\n
H O W.<\/p>\n
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHOW!!!!!! HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!<\/b><\/p>\n
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