ALIAS episode "Page 47" etc.
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thalia_seawoodThe ALIAS episode Page 47 is my favorite so far.
First of all, it's lovely to see Arvin Sloane in his private life, to meet his wife and to see how he and Emily interact.
This is topped by Will Tippin being the dinner guest. The irony made me jump up and down in my seat. :-)
And then it gets even better: Jack Bristow is invited, too. And he appears to be totally mortified by the situation.
But yes, it gets even better: The dinner conversation about the evil boss who kills his workers when they try to leave his company. This was were I started laughing out loud.
Now if Will knew with who he was having dinner he would probably faint.
In addition to the brilliant dinner scene, we also get a big shock when Arvin enters his private office and finds Sydney there. I really don't know how much he has seen. He's definitely suspicious though.
The end of the episode: I'm not sure I like it. As soon as everyone went pale, when looking at page 47, I knew what it would show.
Regarding Will Tippin and his conversations with "the man behind the bug": I'm pretty sure he was talking to Jack Bristow there. (I'm a bit in doubt now, because if it's Jack it means that he found the time to talk to Will while SD6 was under attack. But then ALIAS logic is occasionally different from Earth logic asselenak pointed out.) I'd like my suspicion to be correct though, because I'd like the irony that Jack also gets the job to scare Will Tippin away from pursuing the story.
Totally unrelated:
- Sarks looks as if he could be an interesting character.
- The nickname "The Man" cracks me up every time, especially how you can see the capital letters when people say the name. Maybe I can ask my coworkers to call me "The Woman".
- There are some very attractive men in ALIAS. I'd be hard-pressed to rank them in order of attractiveness. :-)
And, of course, I'm still trying to figure out who hugs Jack for the first time. So far I guessed Arvin Sloane (wrong), Marshall (wrong) and Vaughn (wrong). My guess after watching Page 47 is Will Tippin, because it would be so very ironic.
First of all, it's lovely to see Arvin Sloane in his private life, to meet his wife and to see how he and Emily interact.
This is topped by Will Tippin being the dinner guest. The irony made me jump up and down in my seat. :-)
And then it gets even better: Jack Bristow is invited, too. And he appears to be totally mortified by the situation.
But yes, it gets even better: The dinner conversation about the evil boss who kills his workers when they try to leave his company. This was were I started laughing out loud.
Now if Will knew with who he was having dinner he would probably faint.
In addition to the brilliant dinner scene, we also get a big shock when Arvin enters his private office and finds Sydney there. I really don't know how much he has seen. He's definitely suspicious though.
The end of the episode: I'm not sure I like it. As soon as everyone went pale, when looking at page 47, I knew what it would show.
Regarding Will Tippin and his conversations with "the man behind the bug": I'm pretty sure he was talking to Jack Bristow there. (I'm a bit in doubt now, because if it's Jack it means that he found the time to talk to Will while SD6 was under attack. But then ALIAS logic is occasionally different from Earth logic as
selenak pointed out.) I'd like my suspicion to be correct though, because I'd like the irony that Jack also gets the job to scare Will Tippin away from pursuing the story.Totally unrelated:
- Sarks looks as if he could be an interesting character.
- The nickname "The Man" cracks me up every time, especially how you can see the capital letters when people say the name. Maybe I can ask my coworkers to call me "The Woman".
- There are some very attractive men in ALIAS. I'd be hard-pressed to rank them in order of attractiveness. :-)
And, of course, I'm still trying to figure out who hugs Jack for the first time. So far I guessed Arvin Sloane (wrong), Marshall (wrong) and Vaughn (wrong). My guess after watching Page 47 is Will Tippin, because it would be so very ironic.
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Date: 2005-07-05 09:03 pm (UTC)First of all, it's lovely to see Arvin Sloane in his private life, to meet his wife and to see how he and Emily interact.
Kudos to the show who in its first season has the bright idea to show the main antagonist as a loving (and loved) husband who in between giving dastardly orders worries about his cancer-stricken wife. The thing about Arvin Sloane is, if you're inside of the magic circle of people he loves, his affection for you is pretty much unconditional, and he'll go to incredible lengths to protect you. If you're outside, you're cannonfodder. Emily of course is at the heart of the circle, which at this point of the saga has only two more people besides herself, and that, of course, is why her husband is a villain and not a hero. Caring about three people just isn't enough.
Irony of the dinner scene and poor Will: oh yes. No comment on what Sloane suspects.
Incidentally, this dinner scene gets tough competition in delicious awkwardness and irony by a season 4 one. Can't name the guests without spoiling something, though.
"The Man" and "The Woman": pray do so. You'll... but that would be spoilery, too.
My guess after watching Page 47 is Will Tippin, because it would be so very ironic.
I'm not saying anything.
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Date: 2005-07-05 09:14 pm (UTC)It's certainly a very realistic attitude for a villain. Stalin loved his daughter (if I remember the article I read once correctly) and many high-ranking Nazis would have done everything for their family and their closest friends.
I find it very interesting that I love TV villains when they care about people close to them, but when I think about this in real life terms it's very chilling.
Oh, and I love all your vague hints. :-) I think I have to watch another episode now.
Just tell me one thing: Will Jack get The Hug in season 1?
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Date: 2005-07-05 09:29 pm (UTC)Oh, and it's always safer to fangirl fictional villains from the distance of living in another universe. Mind you, best of all is when they're not static villains, eternally repeating themselves, and let's just say Sloane over the course of four seasons gets a complicated and always surprising character arc.
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Date: 2005-07-06 09:47 pm (UTC)Hmm, I've been pondering this hint. Since ALIAS appears to drive on irony "The Man" could in fact be a female agent. The only female agents we know so far are Sydney, Anna and Syd's (supposedly) dead mother. Syd can't be "The Man", Anna is a highly unlikely candidate, so my money is on Syd's mom.
I think I spend too much time on building crazy ALIAS theories. :-)