{"id":6847,"date":"2018-05-29T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T20:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=6847"},"modified":"2018-05-10T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T23:32:06","slug":"mark-watches-alias-s05e10-s-o-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2018\/05\/mark-watches-alias-s05e10-s-o-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches &#8216;Alias&#8217;: S05E10 &#8211; S.O.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the tenth episode of the fifth season of <i>Alias<\/i>, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do this. THIS SHOW IS SO MUCH. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch <i>Alias<\/i>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Trigger Warning: For nonconsensual drugging, body horror, tension\/horror around pregnancy<\/b>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>HELP I MADE A JOKE AND IT BECAME REAL.<\/p>\n<p><b>Grace<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, the video for this episode is great solely because I thought I was being witty as hell by joking that Tom was breaking into WITSEC to finally find a story for his character. I DID NOT REALIZE THAT WAS ACTUALLY GOING TO HAPPEN. I admit that I <i>still<\/i> think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a problem that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve gone so long before getting <i>any<\/i> details about his life prior to APO. Even if that was because it was all part of a secret identity, the show could have <i>lied<\/i> to us, too. Just\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 anything? Any detail whatsoever? So is the reveal that his name is really Peter and that he worked for another organization the detail that Arvin and Jack said they&#8217;d have to work around? Maybe? I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t fucking know, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. WHO IS THE CARDINAL. Why isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Peter\/Tom all that upset about his <i>wife<\/i> dying? WHAT IS HAPPENING.<\/p>\n<p><b>Inside Job<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I think that when <i>Alias<\/i> is all said and done, when I finally watch the last minutes of the series finale, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll still come back to one thing as one of my favorite aspects of the show: Jack Bristow escalating things way too far and in ways in which he can never come back from. Let me remind you that <i>twice<\/i> in <i>one season<\/i>, he killed people and then immediately revived them in order to satisfy some endgame. TWICE IN ONE SEASON!!! Yet in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153S.O.S.,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jack somehow tops himself by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calling a meeting with the top 7 people within the CIA who have Alpha Black clearance.<\/li>\n<li>Placing a device on the door to prevent it from being opened.<\/li>\n<li>IMMEDIATELY TELLING ALL SEVEN PEOPLE THAT THE MEETING IS FAKE AND HE DID IT TO CONFRONT THEM ABOUT WHICH OF THEM IS PROPHET FIVE.<\/li>\n<li>(Seriously, he wastes no time.)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>When they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t identify themselves, he has Marshall call them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>When one man\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s phone rings<\/li>\n<li>he<\/li>\n<li>shoots<\/li>\n<li>him<\/li>\n<li>IMMEDIATELY<\/li>\n<li>WITH NO WARNING OR CHANCE TO FESS UP<\/li>\n<li>JUST STRAIGHT-UP SHOOTS HIM<\/li>\n<li>And when he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give up Sydney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s location, <i>he shoots him again<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li>Then he bashes his nose in.<\/li>\n<li>HE IS IN LANGLEY\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S HQ THE WHOLE TIME, MIND YOU.<\/li>\n<li>He does all of this in front of multiple witnesses, knowing that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be arrested or fired or a million other negative things, and he<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>does<\/li>\n<li>not<\/li>\n<li>care<\/li>\n<li>at<\/li>\n<li>all<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jack Bristow, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all.<\/p>\n<p><b>Freighter<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Can anyone in a J.J. Abrams project have, like, a normal pregnancy? Is that possible? I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even get pregnant, and this shit <i>stresses me out<\/i>. I felt so much dire urgency and terror in all these scenes, and I know it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s partially because these people were taking advantage of Sydney at her most vulnerable. It enraged me! Y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all, her doctor was the worst part. That pissed me off more than anything, because you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re supposed to be able to trust your medical professional with your body, and THAT DOCTOR VIOLATED THAT. That doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mean the rest of these people are off the hook; they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just as terrible.<\/p>\n<p>And for <i>what<\/i>? I admit that I was surprised by the twist at the end of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153S.O.S.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I fully expected that Prophet Five was going to take Sydney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s child and move them to that creepy nursery. (Ostensibly in a new location, of course.) They just wanted to <i>protect<\/i> Sydney and the child? That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 not comforting, actually. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the opposite. See, they still have some interest in that child, and maybe they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just stalling for later. They <i>need<\/i> that child to be born. WHICH MEANS WHAT??? What does that lead to? WHY ARE PROPHET FIVE SO OBSESSED WITH SYDNEY.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Oh, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m so worried.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153S.O.S.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/markdoesstuff.com\/products\/mark-watches-alias-season-5\">here for $0.99<\/a>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <strong>My YA contemporary debut, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markoshiro.com\/blog\/2017\/9\/22\/i-am-proud-to-announce-my-ya-contemporary-debut-anger-is-a-gift\">ANGER IS A GIFT<\/a>, is now available for pre-order!\u00c2\u00a0<\/strong><strong>If you&#8217;d like to stay up-to-date on all announcements regarding my books, <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/ey636\">sign up for my newsletter<\/a>! DO IT.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the tenth episode of the fifth season of Alias, I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do this. THIS SHOW IS SO MUCH. 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-6847","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\/6847","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=6847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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