In the fourteenth episode of the second season of Alias<\/i>, this show is very much not what I thought it would be. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Alias<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Trigger Warning: For talk of consent in regards to sex<\/b>.<\/p>\n
The future of Alias<\/i> is an unknown for me. The endgame I expected to come much, much later than it did is now a moot point. The Alliance is gone. All the SD cells have been infiltrated and shut down. Vaughn and Sydney are now able to date one another, and boy, do they waste no<\/i> time doing so.<\/p>\n
What the fuck<\/i> happens next?<\/p>\n
APPARENTLY, ALIAS<\/i> TURNS INTO A SPECULATIVE FICTION SHOW. Which I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m okay with! It kinda already was<\/i>, given all the stuff with the Rambaldi devices. (What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up with those, by the way?) So it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like the huge reveal in the midst of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Double Agent\u00e2\u20ac\u009d doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fit within the framework of Alias<\/i>. But it is<\/i> a pivot, a change in the dynamic of practically everything that made up this show. The main source of tension\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe conflict between the CIA and SD-6\u00e2\u20ac\u201cis now gone. So what does this show look like? How do you maintain the same sort of dramatic tension without such a huge piece of the puzzle? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m eager to see how both Marshall and Dixon will be folded back into the show, for example, because as of right now, their lives have been upended and destroyed. Where do they fit within this world? Will the CIA hire them? If so, how are they going to cope with the knowledge that they were complicit in so many horrible things?<\/p>\n
One thing hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t changed, however. Amidst a burgeoning romance, a doppelg\u00c3\u00a4nger, a revitalized CIA, and a new global focus, Arvin Sloane still sits at the center of all this. I still believe that he and Sark were responsible for the development and execution of the Helix program and that they destroyed the Alliance in order to create a new world order under themselves. Most of that was confirmed at the end of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Phase One,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but the pieces that are left unexplained are intriguing to me. I admit that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m still interested! I want to know what Sloane is planning and why<\/i> he had Francie replaced with… well, who the fuck is that? The Helix program doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t create clones; it merely manipulates the DNA of an existing person to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mimic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d someone else. Now, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure the science here makes any sense at all, as gene editing doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem like it would provide such a massive change in just a few days while unconscious. BUT WHO CARES, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M IN BECAUSE IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S SO CREEPY.<\/p>\n
We learn how all of this works through the story of Jim Lennox, whose double MURDERED HIS FIANCE\u00c3\u2030<\/i>. (As I said on video, this provided YET ANOTHER reason to hate Arvin Sloane. WOW, HE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S THE WORST.) Well, he did a lot more than that. Through implication and suggestion, we are shown that Lennox\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s double may have had sex with Wallace? WHICH MEANS HE VIOLATED HER CONSENT, JUST SO YOU KNOW. And this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really addressed (and is rarely addressed on any show ever<\/i>), so it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just like… one more horrific detail on top of everything. The same goes for Francie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s double, who has installed a camera in Sydney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bedroom to spy on her, WHICH UTTERLY RUINS THE FIRST REAL SEX SCENE BETWEEN VAUGHN AND SYDNEY.<\/p>\n
But what is the goal<\/i> of all of this? In Lennox\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s case, Dr. Markovic used his own procedure to trick the CIA, and then send a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153message\u00e2\u20ac\u009d through the murder of Agent Wallace. However, it was clear that the point of Helix was to create agents for Sloane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mysterious organization that could evade CIA detection, since they matched the physical appearance of other people.<\/p>\n
BUT.<\/p>\n
WHY.<\/p>\n
What is going on here? I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T GET IT. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a compelling enough story that I want<\/i> to know what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s happening, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll give the writers credit for that. But halfway through this season, the entire mythology of Alias<\/i> changed. Is this new story going to be as engaging as the old one? TIME FOR ME TO FIND OUT.<\/p>\n
The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Double Agent\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n – My YA contemporary debut, ANGER IS A GIFT<\/a>, is now available for pre-order!\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>If you’d like to stay up-to-date on all announcements regarding my books, sign up for my newsletter<\/a>! DO IT.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the fourteenth episode of the second season of Alias, this show is very much not what I thought it would be. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Alias.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[681],"tags":[682],"class_list":["post-6759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alias","tag-mark-watches-alias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}