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[delga]

Continuing the picspam of scenes that make me squee like an idiot: Alias, 2x01, The Enemy Walks In. Why? IRINA FUCKING DEREVKO is why. (Upon the rewatch I noticed that the beginning of the episode is actually fairly lacklustre? In terms of narrative, I mean. There's a whole lot of 'previously on Alias' in the actual episode which makes the pacing a little awkward, and it has the flash forward to the shrink, so the suspense is kind of middleman'd - which is something Alias did a lot, now that I come to think of it. Does that make me love it any less? Pffft, no. IRINA FUCKING DEREVKO, BITCHES.)

Ah, the summary cards. &hearts, yo.

I love Sydney's wigs. I couldn't actually remember why she was wearing the blue one and then I realised that Almost Thirty Years ended with Sydney and Vaughn undercover as ravers, so that made 100% more sense (or: more sense than Alias usually made). Also: Alexander Kasinau! The man the whole of the second half of the first season was dedicated to! Admittedly this whole opening scene is just a replay of the end of the s1 finale, but who cares? "Yes, but I am not The Man." !!!!

Say it with me: IRINA FUCKING DEREVKO. This time with 100% more Lena Olin who kicked ass in this role. The second season kind of tripped out on other points, but Lena/Irina was just amazing.

And thus begins the 'evil! not evil!' portion of Alias, and what a way to do it. I remember watching this with my sister and being completely gobsmacked. (She shot her. I mean. WTF.) And thus Derevko was dubbed irretrievably hardcore.

Sigh, anticlimax. I include this only because I wanted the next set of caps, and because this woman was pretty fierce in her own quiet way. (Ugh, remember when she was sleeping with Sloane? Ugh, ugh, ugh.)

Run, Vaughn! Run! Vaughn fails to run fast enough and possibly dies in a tragic punk swimming accident. At the time this was SHOCKING. Now it's hilarious and a little pathetic. Sydney is being followed by a GINORMOUS WAVE and Vaughn just STARES at it. Way to go, Boy Scout. *golf claps*

And now, as a bonus, another scene that made me gasp a lot: the end of the third act.

In which Irina Derevko continues to shift lines in the sand by KILLING her second-in-command and then disappearing in the way that she was wont to do. (And THEN she fulfils the episode title by HANDING HERSELF to the CIA at the end of the episode. I mean... WHAT. The woman was madcap and amazing and uncompromising in a hundred hundred ways and very much loved by everyone who didn't watch season 5.)

Hell. Yes.

Comments

[daygloparker.livejournal.com]

Things that I have always known to be true: Irina and Kasinau? TOTALLY DOING IT. And he maybe, I don't know, is the one who tells her that her little girl has grown up to be a spy. (OMG, I love that I had completely forgotten about this fanon - THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME.)

Man. I kind of really want to rewatch Alias S2. "Passage" is, like, one of my absolute favorite things in the WORLD? Or - wait. IRINA/JACK JUST IN GENERAL.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

WAIT.

That's not canon? I mean. That they were an item?

Haha, oh, Toaster Love. Which is so many levels of fantastic. Passage is so awesome. Jumping out of trains! Dressing in faux-saris! Stories about booze and burning out the house! WIN.

Re: My favourite episode

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Season 4, y/n? I liked that one, but my favourites are all in the first two seasons. Classic Alias

[natushka.livejournal.com]

IRINA FUCKING DEREVKO, FUCK!

She owns my soul. FOREVA. she shoots Syd, shoots Kasinau. she is so FUCKING HARDCORE AND NO ONE WILL EVER TAKE THAT.

LIKE EVA

She will be forever known as Irina fucking Derevko, because she pwns everything and deserves it.

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Haha, I hereby dub thee IF DEREVKO.

(Lols, 'if'.)