Alias question and Six Feet Under ponderings

[selenak]

Idle thoughts from a not so idle woman between Real Life business: when chatting with monanotlisa at the Book Fair, it occured to me that generation-wise, Arvin Sloane and Jack Bristow could have been involved in any number of rather infamous CIA operations (Bay of Pigs, and a lot of ugliness in South America including assassinations and coup d'états in Chile), and that what could have led Sloane & the other eleven agents to defect from the CIA could have been the basic idea that if they're committing murder, dealing weapons to thugs and support dictators for Uncle Sam and not so great pay, they might as well do this for themselves. Is there any later season Alias canon which cancels that theory?

Secondly, German TV got around to showing the second season of Six Foot Under, which I've been following for a while, and something londonkds wrote today about another universe and show entirely has reminded me of something which bugs me, and made me wonder about double standards (mine). To be specific, I'm irritated by Brenda's storyline and the way the show has her going for casual sex as a manifestation of her anxieties re: Nate and her relationship with him. Now, in season 1, we already had a regular going for more and more casual sex and this being clearly coded as a manifestation of self-loathing and anxieties - David. Now why, I wonder, didn't it bother me as part of David's season 1 storyline but does bother me as part of Brenda's season 2 storyline?

Perhaps because Brenda is a woman, and the combination of, to paraphrase KdS, ferocious female sexuality and emotinal messed-up-ness annoys me in a way the same combination with male sexuality did not? In which case, as I said, double standards.

Lastly, a reminder from the Book Fair in the form of a photo monanotlisa made.

Comments

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't think the superiority thing is overt. I just get that impression from a sort of detached amusement she has.

I like the actor very much; I first saw her in the wonderful Muriel's Wedding.

Rachel Griffiths

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

she also plays a cop in the very funny "Children of the Revolution" (where an Australian Communist true believer maybe-maybe-not has Stalin's baby). Rachel wears a lot of leather and plays with handcuffs, and my brother -- generally not of the fannish persuasion -- insisted that I watch it to see "the most beautiful woman in the entire world." Which is funny because I generally consider RG striking, even handsome, but not beautiful. It must have been the leater, because she's definitely hot in that movie.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've have to look out for that film; I love Australian comedies. Yes, I consider her interesting rather than beautiful--which, I might add, I much prefer.