In the fourteenth episode of the third season of Alias<\/i>, LAUREN AND ARVIN ARE REAL FUCKED UP. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Alias<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
HELP ME, THIS IS JUST SO FUCKED UP!!!<\/p>\n
Arvin<\/b><\/p>\n
Look, let me just start here because I just have to yell forever and ever. I CAN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T BELIEVE HOW MUCH THIS TWIST EXPLAINS TWO AND A HALF SEASONS WORTH OF HORRIFIC BEHAVIOR. This entire time, Arvin has been tormented by his betrayal of Jack Bristow, BUT HE ALSO ISN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T SURE WHETHER OR NOT HIM SLEEPING WITH IRINA MEANS HE IS<\/p>\n
SYDNEY\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S<\/p>\n
ACTUAL<\/p>\n
FATHER<\/p>\n
I hate typing that I DESPERATELY DO NOT WANT THIS TO BE TRUE. I hate the idea that he has anything more to do with Sydney than he already does, but y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. This is like the keystone of Arvin Sloane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s characterization. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the<\/i> big thing I was missing this whole time, and I DIDN\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T EVEN KNOW I WAS MISSING IT. And look, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to introduce shit like this in a serialized narrative and have it make sense. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all watched shows, read books, or devoured comics that suddenly changed a part of the story that we had accepted as true or gotten used to. (Hell, I know of a few moments in other J.J. Abrams properties. I SHALL GLARE AT YOU, LOST<\/i>.)<\/p>\n
This reveal doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t make Sloane more sympathetic of a character. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t excuse his behavior. If anything, I feel worse<\/i> about him. I trust him even less than I did, WHICH WAS NONE. IT WAS NONE AT ALL. So now I have negative trust for him? Something like that!<\/p>\n
The point being: my gods, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, he is continuously the worst. I really, really hope this isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t true, DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T RUIN ME MORE THAN YOU ALREADY HAVE, ALIAS<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Duplicity<\/b><\/p>\n
For the record, I did enjoy this episode, and from a character standpoint, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blowback\u00e2\u20ac\u009d does wonders to truly reveal Lauren Reed to the audience, to give us a better idea of what she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been doing during season three. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been given a rubric: How did she deceive the CIA and Vaughn all these months? What does she do when she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s away from home, when she isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t with Vaughn, when she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plotting with the Covenant?<\/p>\n
With a slight nod to Rashomon<\/i>, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blowback\u00e2\u20ac\u009d gives us a frustrating set of cat-and-mouse chases that demonstrate how Lauren is able to thwart her opponents, who make up all her coworkers and her husband. Of course, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an extra punch in the gut because we see how hard she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s playing into her competitive relationship with Sydney. YOU ARE LITERALLY CHEATING ON YOUR HUSBAND WITH HIS CURRENT #1 ENEMY. Yet Lauren is so good<\/i> at maintaining this lie that she actually calls Vaughn while<\/i> in bed with Sark. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s truly evil, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. Well\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 actually there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a far worse moment in this episode than that. Her execution of the man at the storage facility is downright demonic, and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see her ever<\/i> coming back from that. Granted, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done a lot of awful things prior to this, but that showed how willing she was to be completely cruel without any remorse. And for what?<\/p>\n
That is<\/i> the one part of this that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been left out, though. Why<\/i>? Why is Lauren so committed to the Covenant? Why was she willing to go under deep cover to such extreme lengths? She is literally undermining Vaughn and then, hours later, comforting him over his failure even though she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s responsible for it!!! That is cold<\/i>. And she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got to have a motivation for it! I imagine we won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get that until Vaughn discovers the truth about who he is married to. I honestly thought it was going to happen in this episode! Regardless: she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on borrowed time. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M FREAKING OUT.<\/p>\n
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