{"id":6824,"date":"2018-05-04T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T20:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=6824"},"modified":"2018-04-23T15:04:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T22:04:39","slug":"mark-watches-alias-s04e16-another-mister-sloane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2018\/05\/mark-watches-alias-s04e16-another-mister-sloane\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Alias’: S04E16 – Another Mister Sloane"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the sixteenth episode of the fourth season of Alias<\/i>, I STILL DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T GET IT. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Alias<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Help me, WHAT IS THIS SEASON DOING!!! I cannot figure out any of this!!!<\/p>\n

Arvin Clone<\/b><\/p>\n

I just need to truly appreciate this in all of its glory. This is the best joke provided by Alias<\/i>, and it is the canonical name given to us by the characters themselves. I really, truly don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand what I did to deserve this joke, but I accept it. I accept it for all of us, and it is the gift that shall never stop giving.<\/p>\n

Seriously, Arvin Clone<\/b><\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand this. Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, this episode features a battery imagined by someone in the 15th century that, when built, looks like a giant, vibrating water balloon. And somehow\u00e2\u20ac\u201dsomehow!!!\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not nearly as weird as Arvin Clone. IT IS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING AS WEIRD. I cannot explain it. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even theorize<\/i> as to why someone who resembles Arvin at a distance would do all of this. Because as Sydney points out, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just a matter of someone taking advantage of a coincidental resemblance. I could understand that. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 way too good of an opportunity if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re an evil overlord, I guess.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But this<\/i>? This man\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhomever the FUCK he is\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhas completely taken over Arvin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s identity. His mannerisms. The way he speaks. His unnerving aura. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so bad that Roberts flips when he meets the real<\/i> Arvin. I JUST?!?!?! What the fuck is going on??? Is this happening just because this guy can<\/i> do it? Because there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another motive? Because Alias<\/i> just wants to fuck with me? BECAUSE WHO CARES ABOUT MY FEELINGS???<\/p>\n

Regression<\/b><\/p>\n

Oh, Nadia. So, is it safe to assume that Sloane and Nadia never really found anything between seasons three and four? I feel like that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where this episode led me, which means that it was Sloane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s obsessive behavior that briefly ripped these two apart. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s understandable and definitely in line with what we know of Sloane. Instead of bonding with Sloane, Nadia got to see a terrible side of him, and it was only with the promise that he wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/i> go back to his Rambaldi obsession that Nadia signed up with APO.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Which makes this particularly difficult for Nadia to witness. This is literally the ONLY THING he was never supposed to get involved in again!!! What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worse is that for a moment, I almost<\/i> believed him. I almost believed that Sloane had broken the spell of Rambaldi. He didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seem all that different after spending time in the DSR, and then\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

AND THEN.<\/p>\n

Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, once he was in the presence of that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153battery,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he just changed<\/i>. It was so sudden and terrifying. It was a transformation<\/i>. In a matter of seconds, he was right<\/i> back to that obsessive self he used to be. Even writing that seems weird because\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 hell, what if he really did<\/i> change? What if Nadia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s presence motivated him to finally abandon all these terrible tendencies of his, and this<\/i> is what triggers a relapse, a regression? What if he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t<\/i> lying about his personal growth??? I HATE THIS, OKAY, IT GOES AGAINST ALL MY SENSIBILITIES. Of course, we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t forget that Sloane is<\/i> still plotting some sort of manipulative scheme with Jack, so\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that? I guess??? Well, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that and<\/i> Sloane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brutal murder of Carter, which\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 good fucking gods<\/i>, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. It was like he was offended<\/i> that Carter didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand the true purpose of Rambaldi. (And what was that bit about not being worthy?) Oh my god, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s back in, isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t he? He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not going to be able to stop.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And for what<\/i>? What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the endgame??? WE STILL DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T KNOW. After four years, I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t provide you with the possible end to all of this, but I suspect that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re close to something<\/i>. But for now, I just need to know who the FUCK Arvin Clone is. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more important.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Another Mister Sloane\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded here for $0.99<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n

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