Will someone please write me Syd/Sark fic that includes Sydney saying "I'm Luke Skywalker. You're just Greedo."? Please? *bats eyelashes
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I always hoped the edge and moxie she exhibited under her aliases would bleed though into real!Sidney, but it seldom did, which I blame on timid writers terrified of making Sydney seem unsympathetic/unfeminine/unNICE
I didn't watch much Alias, so this is just in general, but: man, I hate that. Just give them a personality and GO with it. I know thousands of screaming fangirls will hate her then, but I won't -- and it's all about me.
I know! It always annoys me when writers contort themselves into pretzels to make female characters pull their punches so they don't seem "too aggressive" or "not nice." Ugh!
Sydney Bristow is a textbook case of the phenomenon. There were moments when it really seemed that she was deservedly kicking ass and taking names in her own life, but every time the writers chickened out and softened her right back up.
OMG, don't get me started. The sheer number of times she cried on the show was pathetic. Ok, I get it that the Spy!Fam redefines dysfunctional, but seriously, get over it, already. Not to mention the "our love is so star-crossed" stuff they pulled with her and Vaughn. Please. It killed that ship dead for me halfway through Season 2. Sark had completely eclipsed whatever I'd once felt for Vaughn by that time.
Seriously. I mean, I have been known to cry a lot, but Sydney has me beaten by GALLONS.
I can't believe that someone who was such a sweetly sad little marshmallow in her real life could possibly survive everything Sydney endured. It was insulting to me as a viewer, and to the character, who deserved much better than what the writers usually gave her. Come to think of it, it's not Sydney/Vaughn I hated so much as what the writers inflicted on Sydney in the name of their alleged soulmateness.
And of course our golden-haired princeling is quite put out at being dismissed as some petty bounty hunter who dies at the beginning of the first movie. Which is why Sydney says it, of course. *glee*
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I didn't watch much Alias, so this is just in general, but: man, I hate that. Just give them a personality and GO with it. I know thousands of screaming fangirls will hate her then, but I won't -- and it's all about me.
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Sydney Bristow is a textbook case of the phenomenon. There were moments when it really seemed that she was deservedly kicking ass and taking names in her own life, but every time the writers chickened out and softened her right back up.
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I can't believe that someone who was such a sweetly sad little marshmallow in her real life could possibly survive everything Sydney endured. It was insulting to me as a viewer, and to the character, who deserved much better than what the writers usually gave her. Come to think of it, it's not Sydney/Vaughn I hated so much as what the writers inflicted on Sydney in the name of their alleged soulmateness.
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Hahahahahahahahahahaha! That is such a Syd thing to say to Sark.
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But, yeah, other than that complication, I'm sure he'd prefer to be Darth Vader, as long as he could keep the pretty, unscarred Anakin body. :D
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