Um... the FUCK?!?!

[brynnmck]

Firstly, we went to see X2 on Friday night. Lame title, kick-ass movie. Alan Cummings just totally rocked my socks. There were a couple of things that bothered me, but on the whole, it was definitely a worthy successor to the first one. And fully 45 minutes longer, so that was a good thing.

And now, Alias finale discussion.

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[brynnmck]

Eunice, get back here so I can lick you from head to toe. This is the first thing I've read that's given me any hope about where things might be going. The idea that Syd is the Rambaldi device is very intriguing... but then what about the two years we missed? Has everyone just been treading water? At first, I was thinking major flashbacks, but that wouldn't make sense because Syd wouldn't be interacting with any of the other main characters, and that's no good... so I dunno. But your idea that she's been hidden away somewhere getting transformed would get around that problem for the most part.

There's also the possibility that Irina spirited her away somehow... but her, "Good luck, sweetheart--I love you" (sob! I'm such a sucker) seemed like a fairly long-term goodbye. How brilliant was she in that scene in the hockey rink with Syd? God. Broke my heart. Plus, for a non-native speaker, that woman has a hell of a vocabulary. Sexy.

I did consider the option that perhaps Syd is the victim of some huge mindfuck--that's not Vaughn, she didn't skip two years, this is all part of someone's evil plan to break her, etc. Which would be the easiest way out of this mess, and has the added bonus of making the audience go through the same mindfuck that Syd's going through, which has an appealing sort of symmetry to it. But something tells me that's too easy.

I hadn't considered that Mrs. Plot Device might leave Vaughn. I suppose I could see that happening... he's never really been hers, he's even more distant now that Sydney's been found, etc. And, on repeated viewings, I'm more and more impressed by MV's acting in that last scene--he really captured all the regret and bittersweetness and shock and relief and angst of that moment. So I can see, a tiny bit, where the angst might be interesting to explore. But only for a little while, dammit! Syd's suffered enough. She doesn't deserve to lose every man she loves. The problem is, though, if Mrs. Plot Device does leave Vaughn, she's truly Mrs. Plot Device, and only that--a temporary obstacle shoehorned in for shock value. Alice times ten. And that's kind of disappointing, from a storytelling perspective. (However, if it clears the way for S/V, I'll have to take it.)

Say, Mrs. Plot Device has an affair, or is a drug addict, or compulsive shopper who has sent them into debt, or doesn't like the way Vaughn always leaves the toilet seat up.

BWAHAHA! Yes, excellent points. Though frankly, Michael Vartan could leave the toilet seat up every time AND leave the new toilet paper roll sitting on top of the empty one... and I still wouldn't kick him out of the house. :D

Then he and Jack could bond over a couple of whiskeys and the field is wide open again.

BWAHAHA again. That is one freakin' hilarious mental picture. In that sick, twisted, not-of-the-Lord Alias way, of course.

If I'm right about this I expect some sort of prize for figuring it out. And then I'd like one of those gallon whiskey jars and a glass.

I promise to provide you with all of those things... since you will, of course, be watching the premiere at my house.