{"id":6836,"date":"2018-05-17T13:00:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T20:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=6836"},"modified":"2018-05-01T12:05:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T19:05:24","slug":"mark-watches-alias-s05e02-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2018\/05\/mark-watches-alias-s05e02-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Alias’: S05E02 – …1…"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the second episode of the fifth season of Alias<\/i>, wow, this got real sad real fast. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Alias<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Trigger Warning: For discussion of grief<\/b>.<\/p>\n

This is hard to watch, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. And maybe that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actually a compliment to the writing. I believe the sadness that I see onscreen, and I believe that this cast of characters is in mourning. How could they not be? Vaughn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s absence is a terrible vacancy on the show, and I cannot get over how strange it all feels. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help that three<\/i> new recurring characters have no popped in the cast, either. Granted, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a difficult thing to deal with regardless, but with the loss of Vaughn, Nadia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coma, Arvin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s imprisonment, and Weiss\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new job opportunity, season five is practically unrecognizable when compared to past seasons.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot to ask the audience to deal with spread over a season, but in just two<\/i> episodes? Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, this is A Lot. Thankfully, because of my Trash love of conspiracy theories, I find myself engaged in this season\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arc. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not perfect\u00e2\u20ac\u201dagain, the show really is doing the most right now\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help it. I NEED TO KNOW. What the fuck<\/i> is Prophet Five?<\/p>\n

There are a few more clues given to us in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a61\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d though there are a lot of frustrating red herrings or last-second fake-outs that prevent the audience from truly knowing what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on. Renee only gives us a hint of her history with Vaughn, though I understand why she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s portrayed as being so reluctant and hesitant to get involved. Despite that Vaughn has spoken of her for years, Sydney is still a stranger to Renee. Weeeelllllll, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that inconvenient fact that Sydney works for the CIA, and Renee is #8 on the FBI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Most Wanted list. WHOOPS! I do like the idea of these two working together; Renee seems like such a wild card. (ESPECIALLY BECAUSE SHE STOLE THAT WEIRD BODY, WHAT THE FUCK.)\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As for Thomas Grace\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 yeah, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have it in me to care for him yet. His introduction doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exactly make it easy for the audience to like him. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a mess, and when we meet him, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s losing a bar fight. This is the guy who is supposed to replace Vaughn? No one<\/i> could have done that easily, but this dude comes off as an uninterested jerk. So\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 not gonna pay him much mind until he becomes more interesting.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

LOOK, THERE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S JUST SO MUCH ELSE TO OCCUPY MY ATTENTION, OKAY??? And I admit that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m most invested in Sydney herself. And her journey in this episode alone is so heavy<\/i> that it was hard for me to give my emotional energy elsewhere. The tragedy is\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so pervasive. Vaughn isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t on missions. He doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go with Sydney when she gets her first ultrasound to see her baby. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impossible not<\/i> to think of him for the majority of this episode because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all about Sydney toying with the notion of getting revenge on Curtis, the man who killed Vaughn. WHICH IS A VERY FAIR THING FOR HER TO WANT. I gotta admit, though, that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty rare for a man<\/i> to be killed off so a woman can get a revenge arc. Still: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d rather have Vaughn back. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d rather that Sydney didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to suffer. Like, can the finale just be one 45-minute vacation or something??? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m so stressed for Sydney and everything that she is going through!!!<\/p>\n

So, I liked \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a61\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and this whole Nuridium preservation shit is very<\/i> interesting. Is that what Prophet Five is obsessed with? Keeping people preserved? Do they have a means of healing<\/i> people who have died? I could see that being something that rich elites would want to viciously hide from the general public. Maybe???<\/p>\n

Basically, the main thing I want to impart is that I think there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some compelling stuff happening here. I am eager to see where this Prophet Five stuff is going, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m also going to need some things to happen soon because this shit is dire<\/i>. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how much more I can take of people leaving, things changing, and Sydney being utterly sad about her predicament. I ONLY WANT THE BEST FOR HER AND EVERYTHING HURTS.<\/p>\n

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

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