Wow, the thread is here.

A question: Is everyone comfortable with whitefonting everything, or could we find a more permissive policy that worked for everyone? My suggestion would be plain-text for everything except maybe truly shocking things (character deaths, resolutions to cliffhangers), with the show title and a few lines of blank space at the top of each post to facilitate scrolling/skimming/skipping. But if the whitefont works, it works.

Just when I thought my time in Buffista Land was over, here's a new crack den. Well, a much cleaner crack den than the other one due to whitefonting rules. Cool.

Hi Candyb!!

Just when I thought I was safe, they made another spoilers thread!!

Alias:

S4 is looking very much back on track so far. (And damn if reading the scripts isn't almost better than watching the show -- some of the asides read like spoiler ho commentary. Sloane/Jack is practically canon.)

S4 starts with Sydney on a mission with some new guy, and the mission is going incredibly badly. We then flash forward to show that actually this already happened, and she's currently giving a report on it. The end result of this report is that she gets into a shouting match with the agent interrogating her, which gets her demoted...to the mail room. She quits on the spot, and walks out. She runs into Jack, who starts to question her about what she's done, blah blah rash decision-making etc. The script says "How could he know? This just happened! Of course he knows. He's fucking Jack Bristow." But all is not well in the Bristow household. Sydney is furious at Jack for something he's done, which they both know, but we don't. So she's not really speaking to him at the moment. In fact, she's never speaking to him again, because she hates him. This probably has something to do with the end of S3, but we don't know what. Yet.

We then go to see what Vaughn's been up to. Vaughn is repeatedly described as being intense and angry and other words that translate to me as "emotions Michael Vartan is going to have trouble with, which will make Vaughn more funny than angsty." But at the moment, he's letting off some steam with a punching bag. Weiss walks in and seems worried about Vaughn's mental state. He asks him if he's sure he knows what he's doing, but Vaughn seems very committed. Weiss asks him if he wants to talk about it at all, but Vaughn explains that, and I quote "I don't want to talk about it. Last year sucked." Yes yes, Vaughn, we know. Then Weiss asks if he's talked to Sydney. Why? Vaughn asks. "Well, because she quit today too," says Weiss. Oooooooh, intrigue.

We follow Syd to a locked door in a nondescript building. The door is marked "Authorized Personnel Only." While there, she runs into... OMGWTF! The very agent who fired her ass in scene 1. Chase (that's the agent's name) asks Syd if she's ready for this, and Syd heartily agrees. They engage in some light banter about how everyone TOTALLY bought their little catfight in the beginning of the ep. Syd is ready to meet her new team.

Who are, not totally surprisingly, Jack, Vaughn, and Dixon. They all realize that it's the old team from S1 back together again, only this time in a real CIA black-ops unit. Sydney is furious about Jack being there, but Jack is being cool and professional about it. Syd and Vaughn are awkward and untalky. Dixon is Dixon. And then, in walks Sloane. Their new boss. Naturally, Syd is freaked out and unhappy with this, but she is reassured that (a) Sloane isn't evil anymore and (b) at least this way, the CIA knows what he's up to, right? Riiiiiight. No, really, this sounds like a completely airtight plan that will not backfire on anyone in any way.

That night, at home, Syd hears a knock at the door. It's Vaughn. They look at each other soulfully, and have a short conversation about how they can't just pick up where they left off and should take things slowly. And then they have sex. And then they talk about the new work situation, and Syd complains that she's stuck working with the two men she hates most in the world -- Sloane and her father. Vaughn doesn't know why Syd is so angry with Jack, but he wants to. I think she tells him now, but it might be later in the ep. To be honest, a lot of what's in this ep and what's in the second one is kind of fuzzy. But the big secret turns out to be that Sydney discovered an execution order for Irina Durekvo...signed by Jack Bristow. "He killed my mother," she sobs into Vaughn's arms. Vaughn is stoic, as the episode ends. (I think.)

RE Alias: I read that Gina Torres is reprising her role from Season 1 for a few episodes.

Sue, I TOTALLY hope so! That would rock so hard.

I heard Sue's spoiler as well, so if it's wrong it's at least a wrongness being bandied about in several places.

Ooh, I hope so!

Yay! candy and le nub have a place to play.

(laughing)

sandboxes!