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selenakIt occured to me in between Dr. Who enjoyment that, travel descriptions and their illustrations aside, I never did a picspam post. Also, I was surfing through lj world and found various people making rather nice picture spam posts offering a quick and personally slanted guide through their various fandoms. Like this one, which has excellent Xena and Star Wars pics and which I hence encourage you to have a look at.
Anyway, all of a sudden I wanted to do that, too. But not with one of my Jossverse shows, though Mr. Whedon has this propensity for casting almost supernaturally beautiful and/or sexy people on his shows, which basically ensures that you can't go wrong with a Jossverse picture post, no matter where your preference lie. (I mean, the most avarage looking person in a Joss Whedon show is Wash, and I find Alan Tyduk adorable.) Nor will I offer a Farscape illustrated tour, or a (new) Battlestar Galactica illustrated tour, where again, you really have to look hard for the normal looking people. (Otoh, my Farscape illustrated tour would include a lot of Rygel pictures. All of you breathe a sigh of relief now. But not in helium.)
No, I offer you my personally skewered and extremely partial picture guide to that entertaining spy show, Alias. Only few spoilers up to the third season, so it should be reasonably safe for actual Alias watchers who haven't caught up with the fourth season yet, as well as for those of you who contemplate watching this series. Besides, the, err, perspective isn't exactly the usual one. Screencaps all from Alias Media.
This is Arvin Sloane. Former CIA Agent turned Evil Overlord turned Something More Complicated But Occasionally Employed By The CIA. If you catch the occasional episode and are not a regular watcher, you can tell which season it is by Sloane's surroundings. If he's sitting or briefing people in an office with a dominantly blue colour scheme, it's season 1 or the first half of season 2, and he's an Evil Overlord. If he has a nice office with brown furniture, it's season 3, and if it's a glass and white combination, it's season 4.
Arvin with his favourite (younger) agent, Sydney Bristow, during adate field mission. Sydney's like a daughter for him, except for the part where she hates him because he had her fiancee killed (this happens in the pilot, so no big spoiler) and he gives her disturbing looks.
They do work well togther, though.
Sydney's parents, Jack Bristow and Irina Derevko, aka SpyDaddy and SpyMommy. The hottest couple on the show. Irina is a former KGB agent who became an Evil Overlady. She and Sloane share a thing for Jack, ruthlessness, and a daughter (not Sydney). Jack is a CIA agent with severe problems about showing his feelings and Arvin's best friend, when he isn't his enemy.
As you can see, their relationship is... complicated.
No, Jack hasn't figured it all out, either. Incidentally, for some reason, the show occasionally offers Arvin the opportunity to be shirtless when Jack or Sydney are around, even if he has to survive assassination attempts to be so.
However, he does have non-Bristows in his life as well.
Arvin with his wife Emily. He adores her. When you see him wearing white instead of his usual black or grey, she's usually around. Emily is the cause of much angst both before and after her death; she and Arvin get the "most tragic couple" award.
And this is Nadia, the result of that fling he had with Irina. Also the cause of much angst. Fanfic has her sharing her parents' thing for Jack.
Arvin Sloane is a man of many facets. During the course of the show we see him:
cunning (well, it's sort of a sine qua non for an Evil Overlord, isn't it?)
grief-stricken
being threatened with slashy lines by Jack
and lethally obsessed with Rambaldi (don't ask; basically, if Emily, Nadia, Jack and Sydney have one rival for Sloane's affection, it's him, and he's been dead since 400 years)
Note: if you're not related to Sloane or if your last name is not Bristow, you do not want to be near him when he's in that last mood.
Rumour has it that Alias also features some younger male characters named Vaughn, Weiss and Sark, but as they do not have an impact on the main relationships and storylines as you can see, their portraits are not found in this illustrated introduction.
Anyway, all of a sudden I wanted to do that, too. But not with one of my Jossverse shows, though Mr. Whedon has this propensity for casting almost supernaturally beautiful and/or sexy people on his shows, which basically ensures that you can't go wrong with a Jossverse picture post, no matter where your preference lie. (I mean, the most avarage looking person in a Joss Whedon show is Wash, and I find Alan Tyduk adorable.) Nor will I offer a Farscape illustrated tour, or a (new) Battlestar Galactica illustrated tour, where again, you really have to look hard for the normal looking people. (Otoh, my Farscape illustrated tour would include a lot of Rygel pictures. All of you breathe a sigh of relief now. But not in helium.)
No, I offer you my personally skewered and extremely partial picture guide to that entertaining spy show, Alias. Only few spoilers up to the third season, so it should be reasonably safe for actual Alias watchers who haven't caught up with the fourth season yet, as well as for those of you who contemplate watching this series. Besides, the, err, perspective isn't exactly the usual one. Screencaps all from Alias Media.
This is Arvin Sloane. Former CIA Agent turned Evil Overlord turned Something More Complicated But Occasionally Employed By The CIA. If you catch the occasional episode and are not a regular watcher, you can tell which season it is by Sloane's surroundings. If he's sitting or briefing people in an office with a dominantly blue colour scheme, it's season 1 or the first half of season 2, and he's an Evil Overlord. If he has a nice office with brown furniture, it's season 3, and if it's a glass and white combination, it's season 4.
Arvin with his favourite (younger) agent, Sydney Bristow, during a
They do work well togther, though.
Sydney's parents, Jack Bristow and Irina Derevko, aka SpyDaddy and SpyMommy. The hottest couple on the show. Irina is a former KGB agent who became an Evil Overlady. She and Sloane share a thing for Jack, ruthlessness, and a daughter (not Sydney). Jack is a CIA agent with severe problems about showing his feelings and Arvin's best friend, when he isn't his enemy.
As you can see, their relationship is... complicated.
No, Jack hasn't figured it all out, either. Incidentally, for some reason, the show occasionally offers Arvin the opportunity to be shirtless when Jack or Sydney are around, even if he has to survive assassination attempts to be so.
However, he does have non-Bristows in his life as well.
Arvin with his wife Emily. He adores her. When you see him wearing white instead of his usual black or grey, she's usually around. Emily is the cause of much angst both before and after her death; she and Arvin get the "most tragic couple" award.
And this is Nadia, the result of that fling he had with Irina. Also the cause of much angst. Fanfic has her sharing her parents' thing for Jack.
Arvin Sloane is a man of many facets. During the course of the show we see him:
cunning (well, it's sort of a sine qua non for an Evil Overlord, isn't it?)
grief-stricken
being threatened with slashy lines by Jack
and lethally obsessed with Rambaldi (don't ask; basically, if Emily, Nadia, Jack and Sydney have one rival for Sloane's affection, it's him, and he's been dead since 400 years)
Note: if you're not related to Sloane or if your last name is not Bristow, you do not want to be near him when he's in that last mood.
Rumour has it that Alias also features some younger male characters named Vaughn, Weiss and Sark, but as they do not have an impact on the main relationships and storylines as you can see, their portraits are not found in this illustrated introduction.
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Date: 2005-06-20 06:19 pm (UTC)I've seen a bit of season 1, and occasional season 2; one day i will have to catch up with the DVDs if only to figure out how sloane got from Evil Overlord to -- whatever he is now.
I have to think about who I want to picspam now.
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Date: 2005-06-20 07:21 pm (UTC)And is this even a question? I await the Wesley or Starbuck spam with eagerness.
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Date: 2005-06-20 08:42 pm (UTC)as rich a subject as Wesley is? I don't think there's much of anybody on my flist in need of a Wesley education.
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Date: 2005-06-20 06:27 pm (UTC)::laughs. Out. Loud::
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Date: 2005-06-20 07:20 pm (UTC)Hey, I figured that if Spike and Sark and their ilk get that kind of treatment...
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Date: 2005-06-20 07:29 pm (UTC)& ;-)
Really, this is much appreciated. Hee!!
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Date: 2005-06-20 07:53 pm (UTC)*bats eyelashes*
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Date: 2005-06-20 11:50 pm (UTC)& :-D
I'm not entirely happy with the font, but well, they are my weakness.
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Date: 2005-06-21 04:21 am (UTC)Fanfic has her sharing her parents' thing for Jack.
Bwahaha. Love that in particular.
And darnit, now I'm tempted to do this.
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Date: 2005-06-21 05:23 am (UTC)And yes, Nadia is clearly genetically coded for Bristow fascination, from both sides. *veg*
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Date: 2005-06-29 03:34 pm (UTC)You know, I think you feel a subconscious need to write a little Jack/Nadia story.
::puppy-dog eyes::
Don't you?