{"id":6839,"date":"2018-05-22T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=6839"},"modified":"2018-05-04T19:42:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T02:42:08","slug":"mark-watches-alias-s05e05-out-of-the-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2018\/05\/mark-watches-alias-s05e05-out-of-the-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Alias’: S05E05 – Out of the Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the fifth episode of the fifth season of Alias<\/i>, Arvin is back to his old ways; Sydney and Thomas track down Renee. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch Alias<\/i>.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

SUPER SPECIAL ALERT: OH MY GOD, MY BOOK IS OUT TODAY.\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong>You can buy\u00c2\u00a0Anger Is A Gift\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>now wherever books are sold. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH<\/p>\n

Yeah, I still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how all of this fits together, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS SEASON.<\/p>\n

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

What a nightmare<\/i>, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. It seems that Arvin only wanted redemption but through his own means. His dedication to Nadia, though, cancelled out his expressions of regret and contrition. In the end, did<\/i> he ever care about doing the right thing? Probably not. His view of morality was so limited, so situational, that he was willing to work for the very person the team is trying to take down.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, look at the lengths he is going to for a cure. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s working for Gordon Dean and he knows it<\/i>. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no mysterious benefactor anymore. (Well, apparently Gordon works for someone else, too, soooooo\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 great. Another mystery to consume my time!!!) And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like he can deny that what he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing is terrible. He is initially tasked with THREATENING THE WOMAN BLOCKING HIS APPOINTMENT TO APO. Like??? 100% bad and terrible and immoral! That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just the first step<\/i>, because now he is a spy within the organization, and apparently this is all gonna be worth it if he can find a cure for Nadia. But how is she gonna feel about that cure when she wakes up? When she learns the cost of it?\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

THIS IS GOING TO BE A DISASTER. Arvin deserves whatever is coming for him.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Box<\/b><\/p>\n

Well, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say that Thomas is all that much more interesting as a character<\/i>, but at least we get to see him in action this time around. And shit, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good<\/i> under pressure! So\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s entertaining? He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still boring on a personal level, and it was even harder to care about him due to what was happening around him.<\/p>\n

BECAUSE HOLY SHIT, WHAT ARE PROPHET FIVE DOING??? <\/i>The reveal of what was in that weird cryogenic box was deeply, deeply satisfying, and I say that while also acknowledging that this opened up multiple new mysteries for me. It was brilliant, first of all, that Renee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father, Luc, was the man held in suspended animation. (Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the right term, but you understand what I mean.) There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an instant emotional component to all the scenes between Luc and Renee, and they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re portrayed beautifully by both actors. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an impossible reunion, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all! This shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t happen, and yet, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Renee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s father, who survived all these years by\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 what? I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t understand the technology yet, and the twist at the end makes this more confusing. Was Luc actually doubled long ago, and Dr. Desantis aged as<\/i> Luc? What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the purpose of that box? What did Gordon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s team stabilize?<\/p>\n

Those questions are left unanswered, and it makes this story viciously uncomfortable. Renee was gifted her father twenty-three years<\/i> after he disappeared, and she put his faith in him. She believed him instantly<\/i>. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s contrasted with her reticence to allow Sydney and Thomas to help her. The irony, of course, is that they actually did<\/i> have her best interests in mind! By the end of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Out of the Box,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sydney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s proven herself, but that doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t negate that Renee paid a price for trusting her \u00e2\u20ac\u0153father.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d At the very least, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gained an ally in Sydney and the CIA at large, despite that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still one the FBI\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Most Wanted. (And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m curious if we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to get a backstory on that. Is she really just a ruthless assassin, or is there something more to it?) I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guessing that Renee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to play a much larger role in exposing Prophet Five\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s real agenda. I still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a theory to piece it all together, by the way. So, they have doubling technology? And There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something important to the genetic research he did? I DON\u00e2\u20ac\u2122T KNOW WHAT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S HAPPENING.<\/p>\n

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