It's an excellent episode, and one of my favourites well.
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
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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.
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?
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.
"The Man" and "The Woman": pray do so. You'll... but that would be spoilery, too.
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. :-)
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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 ( ... )
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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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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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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. :-)
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