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cherryMy stars.
Here there be spoilers.
Heee!
Okay. So, not very good spoilers, because I'm still trying to pull something more than incoherent noises together.
I love Weiss. I love Marshall. I love Will.
Luckily, I never particularly liked Francie, or I'd be rather upset around now.
Dixon's reaction was perfect.
"I'm just calling to say I love you."
"When will you be home?" "...I'm not sure."
"Don't. Don't talk to me."
I mean, you can't really expect the poor man to take it with a grain of salt. Garner and (Lumbly?) carried off a scene well that could easily have become cheesy. And you just have to love him pulling Marshall down behind his desk. And Marshall, with the toad-in-a-blanket.
What I love about this show is the sense of constant flow, the motion. It's always changing. Before we even start to get comfortable, they throw us in a completely new direction. With the destruction of SD-6, everything the show's been up until now is thrown out the window. Except for that you just know that all these little plot points that interwove with the story up until now are going to become mega-important. Nothing on this show is ever just droped, but they like to give us some time to forget the things that will later come and rear their large, ugly heads.
Of course, this makes fic of any length a bit tricky. You almost have to pick an episode, and not let cannon thereafter affect what you're writing. I'm thinking that after this ep, though, we're really going to need an archive for fic of the non-Syd/Vaughn stripe.
Then we've got FauxFrancie. How long will she maintain her cover? How long have they been planning this, to have someone through that much plastic surgery? The Will/Francie thing is going to throw it all for a loop, but I hope that they draw this out for more than one episode. I forsee much pain for poor Will. Syd's distraction over... things... with Vaughn, her father's recovery, the destruction of SD6, and angst about her coworkers and their rehabilitation may keep her from noticing that something is wrong with her friend.
My biggest question, though: Why was Francie still in LA? Will promised to take her out of town, and she was obviously in the restaurant to be shot. FauxFrancie was lying in wait for her there (I assume. Being lured by oneself would not quite work). Where was Will when all of this was going down?
I'm hoping this doesn't mean that Will was evil all along. I think that would be over kill -- if they already had a mole, they wouldn't need a second one. Unless Will was being retrieved as a sleeper agent... ::Cough:: I'll get into my pet idea later, though.
Sark and Sloane obviously know that Syd and Jack are double agents -- Is Irina working with them, too? Perhaps she was in on the plan, but then really did give herself up. I want to believe in her, but everything is just so pat. I want her to have given herself up, but not able to betray Sark. I want her to be good so badly.
Nit-picks: Mainly, the plane flying five thousand feet away from the other plane. The other plane, which is of super-high security. A) Turbulence, B) Any sort of radar equipment, or C) Someone looking out the window. I also think they should have sent a larger team into SD6. I mean, would you sent eight people into a CIA facility? No. These people are trained. They think they're working for the CIA. You need more than eight or ten people. I also would have liked to see Marshall's face when Syd was with the people who'd invaded. Now, I need the next episode to have Syd sitting in with him, where he's being held, explaining everything.
Rambling off into waaaay out there speculation, now.
I still think Will should be a sleeper-agent. What if Sark and Sloane were working together for a while now, and part of the next step is activating sleeper agents left by Irina, and the intel and programs she stole from Jack? I still think that that's too major of a point to just drop, and the way Will found out, in a week, what 'All of the CIA's best analysts hadn't been able to locate' seems a bit suspicious.
They've been leading up to something about Will all season, and this is my favourite theory as of yet. My one friend, upon watching the show, remarked that Vaughn and Will were looking quite a bit alike, but that's a whole other kettle of fish. With FauxFrancie, we don't need him to be a double agent. In fact, that would be getting a bit silly.
If you move backwards, he's been drawn into this from the start. Assuming that Sark and Sloane were previously plotting together, they've been setting him up as part of the next phase of their plan from the very beginning.
Here there be spoilers.
Heee!
Okay. So, not very good spoilers, because I'm still trying to pull something more than incoherent noises together.
I love Weiss. I love Marshall. I love Will.
Luckily, I never particularly liked Francie, or I'd be rather upset around now.
Dixon's reaction was perfect.
"I'm just calling to say I love you."
"When will you be home?" "...I'm not sure."
"Don't. Don't talk to me."
I mean, you can't really expect the poor man to take it with a grain of salt. Garner and (Lumbly?) carried off a scene well that could easily have become cheesy. And you just have to love him pulling Marshall down behind his desk. And Marshall, with the toad-in-a-blanket.
What I love about this show is the sense of constant flow, the motion. It's always changing. Before we even start to get comfortable, they throw us in a completely new direction. With the destruction of SD-6, everything the show's been up until now is thrown out the window. Except for that you just know that all these little plot points that interwove with the story up until now are going to become mega-important. Nothing on this show is ever just droped, but they like to give us some time to forget the things that will later come and rear their large, ugly heads.
Of course, this makes fic of any length a bit tricky. You almost have to pick an episode, and not let cannon thereafter affect what you're writing. I'm thinking that after this ep, though, we're really going to need an archive for fic of the non-Syd/Vaughn stripe.
Then we've got FauxFrancie. How long will she maintain her cover? How long have they been planning this, to have someone through that much plastic surgery? The Will/Francie thing is going to throw it all for a loop, but I hope that they draw this out for more than one episode. I forsee much pain for poor Will. Syd's distraction over... things... with Vaughn, her father's recovery, the destruction of SD6, and angst about her coworkers and their rehabilitation may keep her from noticing that something is wrong with her friend.
My biggest question, though: Why was Francie still in LA? Will promised to take her out of town, and she was obviously in the restaurant to be shot. FauxFrancie was lying in wait for her there (I assume. Being lured by oneself would not quite work). Where was Will when all of this was going down?
I'm hoping this doesn't mean that Will was evil all along. I think that would be over kill -- if they already had a mole, they wouldn't need a second one. Unless Will was being retrieved as a sleeper agent... ::Cough:: I'll get into my pet idea later, though.
Sark and Sloane obviously know that Syd and Jack are double agents -- Is Irina working with them, too? Perhaps she was in on the plan, but then really did give herself up. I want to believe in her, but everything is just so pat. I want her to have given herself up, but not able to betray Sark. I want her to be good so badly.
Nit-picks: Mainly, the plane flying five thousand feet away from the other plane. The other plane, which is of super-high security. A) Turbulence, B) Any sort of radar equipment, or C) Someone looking out the window. I also think they should have sent a larger team into SD6. I mean, would you sent eight people into a CIA facility? No. These people are trained. They think they're working for the CIA. You need more than eight or ten people. I also would have liked to see Marshall's face when Syd was with the people who'd invaded. Now, I need the next episode to have Syd sitting in with him, where he's being held, explaining everything.
Rambling off into waaaay out there speculation, now.
I still think Will should be a sleeper-agent. What if Sark and Sloane were working together for a while now, and part of the next step is activating sleeper agents left by Irina, and the intel and programs she stole from Jack? I still think that that's too major of a point to just drop, and the way Will found out, in a week, what 'All of the CIA's best analysts hadn't been able to locate' seems a bit suspicious.
They've been leading up to something about Will all season, and this is my favourite theory as of yet. My one friend, upon watching the show, remarked that Vaughn and Will were looking quite a bit alike, but that's a whole other kettle of fish. With FauxFrancie, we don't need him to be a double agent. In fact, that would be getting a bit silly.
If you move backwards, he's been drawn into this from the start. Assuming that Sark and Sloane were previously plotting together, they've been setting him up as part of the next phase of their plan from the very beginning.
EEE!!!
C, I promise I will post more later today when I don't have to be awake in less than 6 hours. :)
~Me
See!! Comments!!!
This was an awesome episode!!!!! First, this show always amazes me. The commercial breaks go by SO fast. There seems like there are less of them. And it starts right away during the credits. I like that part.
So that "24 Hours Earlier" thing bugged me, lol!! I thought it was going to be like "What Kind of Day Has It Been" where it takes them the whole show to get 'back' to the present. But I really enjoyed how well they did it quickly.
With Sloane being "MIA" for 5 days, I was immediately suspicious. We SAW him on the island with his wife, so he wouldn't be there for nothing. I had a feeling he had SOME sort of role, but I could not have thought of what. And Sark (aka my boyfriend) is still not a large character, so I didn't notice his absence. And what are they going to do now? They don't have an office to work out of. Where/when/how will Sloane return? Wouldn't the CIA realize "Hey we still don't have one of the big boss guys?"
Yeah I TOTALLY had peeves about that damn plane, as I vented to you during the commercial. :) Wording you there. I've flown - you get turbulance within 5 miles; I think *5000 feet* would be a bit obvious.
I thought Dixon was going to run away! He didn't know when he'd be home. I think he might've, had nothing happened. I like the element that his tension and anger added to the suspense/show. Will, FauxFrancie, and Irina are now going to become very interesting characters!! But I don't know enough about the show to comment on speculation, 'cuz I'm still relatively new.
{{{Syd & Vaughn}}} See, I love them. :) I knew it was going to be difficult to play their relationship out, because their relationship is so obvious. And I totally predicted that kiss at the end. When they invaded the same SD unit, I was yelling at the TV (in my head) "They BETTER kiss at the end of this!!!!!" And they did. Heeee. So it'll be fun to watch now, and hope the creators don't destroy it.
I still maintain this episode was called "Hi, we're an Emmy-worthy show, we're awesome. Who are you?"
~Mrs.Sark-Anders