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vaznetti

Alias: On Sark

May 21, 2006 15:40

It's time to start that Alias post, isn't it? The one where you look back at your experience in the fandom and think about the show and the characters and all that kind of thing. Here's a start: there'll be more after the finale. This is mostly about Sark, although I talk a bit about the characters who interest me in other fandoms. Cut for length ( Read more... )

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the_grynne May 21 2006, 15:02:10 UTC

He's also very much an outsider to the main relationships of the show: he's not a member of the extended Bristow-Derevko family, no matter how much he might like Irina to see him as a surrogate child. Irina has real children, and can tell the difference. Bluntly speaking, Sark's useful, but he's not special.

YESYESYES. Yes to practically everything, is all I'm capable of saying right now at nearly 1 am.

One thing though. The acting plays a large part too in the appeal for me: Ander's impeccable comedic timing, his voice and manner of speaking, his ease of his physicality, and of course his face -- the lean, hungry hollow-cheeked wolf and the sad puppy in one -- that always makes me care and share in his predicaments. Just now, rewatching 5.15, the scene in the betting club when he rings the police, I notice the little touches to his performance that make a delight of every screen-second. The tiny sniff he gives after saying to Sydney, "I guess you'll have to do." The movements of his face that convey both boyish mischief and ( ... )

vaznetti May 21 2006, 15:47:43 UTC

Yes, perhaps I should have talked about David Anders -- he took a forgettable minor villain and turned him into this remarkable character, with so much unspoken depth. And humor, because Sark clearly has an excellent sense of humor.

There was a vague rumour around a few months ago that there might be the chance of a spinn-off involving the 3 current villains of the show: Sloane, Peyton and Sark.

I agree that it's an unlikely project, for the reasons you cite but oh! Wouldn't it have been fun to watch?

the_grynne May 21 2006, 15:59:25 UTC

I declare that they WILL have their own show! And they will be the Anti-Bristow-Derevkos.

Fighting for the cause of immorality, every week on your television sets. Tune in! Hee.

dagnylilytable May 21 2006, 16:34:02 UTC

I suppose it's quite typical of me that the first thing I have to say to this post is that not only should Sark make it out alive, he should get to have subtext with Irina again. Their subtext was always so tasty. Some of my best stories came from it.

Also, Sark as Marthe makes perfect sense.

I would be squeeing about Supernatural, but consider this the placeholder- I have a terrible cold at the moment but Sark was enough to stop by for. :)

vaznetti May 21 2006, 20:32:48 UTC

I would very much like to have a Sark and Irina scene in the finale, just some sort of recognition of the connection between them. Because oh, the subtext. There was so much of it, and it was so good.

And I'm glad you like Sark-as-Marthe. I like it too.

We must have Supernatural squee together sometime soon!

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vaznetti September 30 2007, 22:16:00 UTC

Thank you! I'm glad you liked this, and I'm glad you commented, since it brought me back up think about the character again.

I sometimes think that hidden behind the main storylines of Alias is the story of how Sark grows up -- because he is so very young at the beginning of the show, despite all his competence. And it's a sort of zig-zag process for him; he certainly isn't done at the end of the show. But I'm so pleased that he got out alive at the end, even if it wasn't quite walking away.

When I think of Sark's youth, I think Irina -- what she did to him, making him what he becomes -- broke him very badly, and he only barely puts himself back together, but he never really recovers.