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If any of you are insane enough to have watched Alias tonight instead of 24 ... or if you're clever enough to have watched one while recording the other ...
WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT THE CRAP IS UP WITH RAMBALDI?
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I didn't watch it all, and this is the first Alias I've seen in a long time (years?), but I'll do my best.
The endgame is eternal life, which Sloane gets (though he was killed by Sydney in the meantime - very cathartic). But Jack, dying from a gunshot wound, manages to blow up the mountain they're inside, killing himself and trapping Sloane for a very long time.
In order to get to the final artifact, Sloane traded some intercontinental missiles to Irina. She tried to launch them at DC and London but was thwarted by Vaughn and company. In chasing after the final artifact (brought to her by Sark after Sloane's apparent death), she dies one last time. But not before she and Sydney get in one more showdown.
As for Rambaldi's story, I'm not quite sure. Irina tells Sydney that Rambaldi is alive, and then we cut to Sloane coming back from the dead. I'm not sure if Sloane is supposed to be Rambaldi, or that Rambaldi is living through Sloane, or what.
In other news, Tom sacrifices himself to delay a bomb so that the headquarters can be evacuated safely. Rachel takes it hard because he just told her that he likes her.
Marshall shows some balls when being tortured by Amy Acker (I don't know the character's name) and his wife finds out what he really does for a living. And that everyone else knew before she did.
Amy Acker's character kills off the 12. I don't know who they are, but they seemed important.
At the very end, we see Sydney and Vaughn at a beach house with their daughter, who looks to be 8 or 9, and their new son, named Jack. All very idyllic. Then 'Uncle Dixon' arrives and recruits Sydney and Vaughn to do a job concerning Sark (who Vaughn had let go earlier in the episode). There's some ominous music while Sydney's daughter makes an odd shape with her blocks (I don't get the reference) and then the happy family walks off into the sunset.
Sorry for the disjointed account, but maybe that'll stave off the curiousity long enough until someone who knows what they're talking about can post a summary.
quote:Originally posted by Miro: The endgame is eternal life, which Sloane gets (though he was killed by Sydney in the meantime - very cathartic). But Jack, dying from a gunshot wound, manages to blow up the mountain they're inside, killing himself and trapping Sloane for a very long time.
Quite possible forever. "You may have beaten death, Arvin. But you didn't beat me." It was excellent.
quote:Originally posted by Miro: In order to get to the final artifact, Sloane traded some intercontinental missiles to Irina. She tried to launch them at DC and London but was thwarted by Vaughn and company. In chasing after the final artifact (brought to her by Sark after Sloane's apparent death),
That's the Horizon, which we've seen before. And she did die with it in her hand, but I think she's dead for good.
quote:Originally posted by Miro: she dies one last time. But not before she and Sydney get in one more showdown.
As for Rambaldi's story, I'm not quite sure. Irina tells Sydney that Rambaldi is alive,
Not exactly. She said, "Rambaldi is life." JJ had hinted that Rambaldi would show up, and if he is alive (no reason to doubt it, given that he was clearly able to make people immortal), I'm guessing that he's the old guy Sydney met in San Cielo last week.
quote:Originally posted by Miro: Marshall shows some balls when being tortured by Amy Acker (I don't know the character's name)
Kelly Preston. Who, I think, survives. If she died, I'm blanking on it. Sark survives as well.
quote:Originally posted by Miro: Amy Acker's character kills off the 12. I don't know who they are, but they seemed important.
The 12 were Prophet 5. All of them. Except for rogues like Irina and Sloane, I guess.
quote:Originally posted by Miro: At the very end, we see Sydney and Vaughn at a beach house with their daughter, who looks to be 8 or 9, and their new son, named Jack.
And a third one in the oven, about 7 months along, near as I can tell. They may have filmed that scene while Jennifer Garner was still pregnant.
quote:Originally posted by Miro: All very idyllic. Then 'Uncle Dixon' arrives and recruits Sydney and Vaughn to do a job concerning Sark (who Vaughn had let go earlier in the episode). There's some ominous music while Sydney's daughter makes an odd shape with her blocks (I don't get the reference)
There were several flashbacks throughout the episode. The night Laura/Irina "died" and Jack had to tell little Sydney, the day Syd was recruited by SD-6, the day Sloane told Syd she'd be promoted to field work. We got to see Francie (the real Francie; not the clone). But at the beginning of it all, there was a scene where little Sydney got into these blocks Jack had and assembled them into a tower. Jack was stunned, because he couldn't do it. It was some indication of being extremely gifted at spacial relationships. Isabelle obviously has the same gift.
Oh, and there was the day that Syd told her father that she got a job at Credit Dauphine. He was very upset. That was the source of the original anger between them in the pilot. He didn't want her in the spy life, and he knew what "Credit Dauphine" was a cover for.
The fight between Syd and Irina (I keep thinking of them as Spy-Barbie and Spy-Mommy) wasn't nearly as good as the classic fight between Syd and the Francinator at the end of the second or third season (I forget which), but it would take a lot to equal that one. Suffice it to say that Irina was done playing games, and it was no-holds-barred.
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Oh, I forgot to mention. The ep began with a voiceover from Sydney, talking about SD-6 and Prophet 5, while panning over the Prophet 5 Wall of Weird created by Vaughn and Renee's fathers. And then they go to the first scene, and the first location. Which was, of course: Sydney. <grin> It was a nice touch. I don't recall if they'd ever had Sydney in Sydney before.
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