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schmericaI'm still slowly working my way through my rewatch of all of Alias, and man, I think the show might be even more satisfying the second time, just because it's so much easier to let yourself stop trying to make the plotlines make sense and ignore the stuff that won't ever get resolved and just concentrate on the AWESOME bits.
The king of those awesome bits: BRISTOWS. I am pretty sure that the Bristows have my favorite non-romantic relationship ever to appear on TV. They love each other! They're badass together! They do fucked up things to each other! They do even more fucked up things to anybody else who tries to hurt the other! SOMETIMES THEY HUG. BRISTOWS HUGS > EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD, OKAY.
It doesn't hurt that the episode I just finished was 2x06, Salvation, aka one of the first real instances of pure Bristow goodness, straight to the vein. Sydney hates Jack for experimenting on her to make her a superspy when she was 6 and for setting up her mother! Jack wants to protect Sydney from her evil spy mommy! Sydney thinks when Jack looks at her he just sees ALL HIS FAILURES made flesh! They have to go on a mission posing as super-loving dad and daughter with hilarious Texas accents! Even when they are most emotionally fucked-up, they still work together amazingly perfectly and are bad-ass! Jack tells the US government how much he looooooooooooves her (HE LOOKS AT HER AND SEES THE POSSIBILITY OF HIS OWN REDEMPTION OMG)! Sydney kidnaps a freaking senator and makes up huge treasonous lies to keep him from going to prison!
BRISTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWS.
The king of those awesome bits: BRISTOWS. I am pretty sure that the Bristows have my favorite non-romantic relationship ever to appear on TV. They love each other! They're badass together! They do fucked up things to each other! They do even more fucked up things to anybody else who tries to hurt the other! SOMETIMES THEY HUG. BRISTOWS HUGS > EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD, OKAY.
It doesn't hurt that the episode I just finished was 2x06, Salvation, aka one of the first real instances of pure Bristow goodness, straight to the vein. Sydney hates Jack for experimenting on her to make her a superspy when she was 6 and for setting up her mother! Jack wants to protect Sydney from her evil spy mommy! Sydney thinks when Jack looks at her he just sees ALL HIS FAILURES made flesh! They have to go on a mission posing as super-loving dad and daughter with hilarious Texas accents! Even when they are most emotionally fucked-up, they still work together amazingly perfectly and are bad-ass! Jack tells the US government how much he looooooooooooves her (HE LOOKS AT HER AND SEES THE POSSIBILITY OF HIS OWN REDEMPTION OMG)! Sydney kidnaps a freaking senator and makes up huge treasonous lies to keep him from going to prison!
BRISTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWS.
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26/1/08 22:37 (UTC)*quirks eyebrow at DVD sets*
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