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Mehgrjhgthge. ALIAS!!! Fuck. Dude. FUCK. Like... fuck.

-The fugitive gang! The fugitive gang is my new favorite thing. Even Lauren. Because, dude, they're just COOL.

-My GOD dude- Syd beating up Lauren. That the first punch was for real, just... dude. Ouch. Beat-up!Lauren rocked, though. (i tell you, everyone looks more kickass with a couple of scrapes and bruises.) The smile when she was talking to Lindsey? THAT's the wicked coolness i like to see.

-Man, that hand looked SO fake. Sooooo fake. But i try not to let it get to me. Whenever there are bad special effects i just sort of shake my head and move on, because i can't let stuff like that hinder my enjoyment. I can't! But the hand still looked fake. And grooooooss. Also, Jack's hat was hilarious, because he looked like he should have been going fishing. Hee. Hee hee.

-Aww, Dixon! His kids have names! Oh... whoah. Waitaminute. I just now realized that the reason i kept thinking they looked so much older than they did when we saw them before is because we're TWO YEARS IN THE FUTURE. Like... i forgot that. Uhhhm. *wanders away*

-JACKANDVAUGHN!!!! "I used to think you didn't have much of a spine." "And has that assessment changed at all?" "No." EEEEEEE!!!!!!! Seriously. I could not stop squealing. The smiles!! My god, they just... they're so, so cute, and i love them so, so much.

-Seeing Syd, Vaughn, and Jack together, just the three of them, makes me so very happy. They're like a little family! Aww.

-The stuff with the tripped-out doctor and his assistant was just... weird. Not that the entire episode wasn't weird, but they were incredibly odd. Funny, but odd. And then Syd went unconscious, and it all. got. fucked.

-Awww, the ambulance scene. *sniff* I could tell from the preview that it would be a sort of alternate ending for The Telling, like if Vaughn had gotten back to the apartment in time and all that. "I thought we'd go to Santa Barbara first."!!!!!!! First, as in, BEFORE getting married, like would inevitably happen, RIGHT?? That's how i'm hearing it. Heh. Aww, a non-vague declaration of looooove! Although it just made me flail around and hit things, because all this stuff happening but NOT happening is really getting frustrating. That knife in my chest? Yeah, give it a few more twists. Twoooo S/V dream-kisses so far this season. TWO. ... I need a drink.

(also, according to parkergray, that was the mindfuck spoiler that came out a few weeks ago! I'm so relieved. I was freaked out, but to find out it was completely, totally out of context... dude. So glad i don't read spoilers.)

-I did all my squicking about the Syd/Sloane kiss last week. Ew. Yep, still squicky. To go from Syd/Vaughn to Syd/Sloane- now that's what i call an unfortunate segue! Ha! Ha ha! Heh. Ew.

-All the crazy dream stuff was just COOL. Granted, i was screaming "WHAT THE FUCK" about seventy-five percent of the time, because trying to understand it? Not so much. I need someone who's smarter than me to analyze it. Because i WOULD and all, but then there's the lazy. And the lack of insight. But in spite of all the WTF!!!!!!1, it was really hopped-up-on-goofballs cool. Yeah, i love shit like Buffy's Restless. Symbolism! Weird new visuals! Symbolism! Pretty! Gooood.

-I loved the messy, wavy blonde wig (or maybe it was red and i'm just very confused) Syd was wearing in the red light. And then there was the wavy brown hair, and i'm trying to figure out why lucid!Syd (heh, luSyd) had those costume/hair changes. At first i thought the blonde one was a Julia representation (because she was blonde in the Lazarey murder tape), but it could also be a whole Sydney-identity-crisis thing. As in, even her subconscious representation of herself is disguised. Or maybe it was lucid!Syd separating herself from dream/memory!Syd, because the unconsciousness started with Syd just as herself, but as soon as she started watching herself, there was the most drastic appearance change (the blonde wig). Then, as it went on, she went back to brown hair (but wavy), and then her normal appearance. Yeah. So. I'm not making sense, and this isn't of much greater importance anyway.

-I LOVED the park scene. It's all about the pretty lighting and close-ups. The very first shot of Syd in the sunlight just had me yelling "want! WANT!". Yeah, i'm kind of like that with pretty pictures. Have you noticed? It's so cool little!Syd was played by the same girl as in The Indicator (i love casting continuity). And as soon as [dark-haired!]Jack handed her that bigass knife i knew something gross was gonna happen. Yeah, the bloody cake and hand slicing was pretty gross.

-Heh, when they shoved the needle into Syd's chest, all i could think was "look familiar, Vaughn?" Boy, Syd and Vaughn sure are all about the matching.

-Oh MAN. Okay, so when the S/V bedside scene started, i immediately thought "well, this is reality, and Syd thinks it's still a dream". But then Vaughn was way too smiley and happy, and i thought "oorrr, maybe it's still a dream." And then she kissed him, and i was like "Wait, NO! No, it's not a dream. OHMYGOD IT'S NOT A DREAM." So yeah, that was painful and humiliating and really, really awkward. But, uhm, WAY TO PUSH HER AWAY, VAUGHN. Yeah. He really put a stop to that right quick. *cough* Heh. So we've finally had the first real S/V kiss this season. Wow. It's reaching Clark/Lana levels of absurdity, though, what with the "we're gonna kiss all these times, but there's gonna be something that negates it, so we're not actually hooking up!" GAH. Oh, and adultery is bad, kids. I do not condone it in any way. Yeeeep. And aw, Syd- "We can do whatever we want." Owwwwww. Knife. Twisting.

-The scene with Lindsey and Sloane was quite curious. Great- another piece of paper revealing something important that we're not allowed to see yet. DAMMIT ALIAS I WANNA KNOW STUFF!!! It's not faaaaair. Argh. And also, i've discovered a fun little game i like to play called "Who's Going to Kill Lindsey Now?" This week it was Dixon, and then Sloane. Maybe they'll all team up and kill him together. We can only hope.

-More crazy dream stuff!! The retro thing going on was so cool and so utterly "WTF!!". I do not understand. But it was neat. I'm not getting all these St. Aidan references. (has that been mentioned before this week and i just totally blanked on it? I don't know. And all this talk about people knowing Sark's first name now- i'm so betting it'll be Aidan. Pleeeease don't tell me or hint or anything if you know, but that's what i'm guessing. It's so weeeeird though. Sark doesn't have a first name! Except for "Mister". Mister Sark. And speaking of Mister, WHY IS HE NOT IN EPISODES ANYMORE??) Anyway. Dixon! Aww! And WEISS AND MARSHALL!!!! I was alternating between giggling and yelling "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!?!?" Yes. THEY WERE USING THE SEASON ONE RAMBALDI CLOCK AS AN ASHTRAY. OMG THAT IS THE BEST THING EVER.

-The Syd/Syd fight was way cool and, of course, fucked up. I'm guessing the other Syd was Julia, because her voice sounded like the altered voice from the phone call Lauren found in The Nemesis. So Syd killed subconscious!Julia, and i still do not understand. But i'm pretty okay with that. And DAMMIT that ending pissed me off. Cliffhangers these days make me even crazier than they did back in season one. GAAAAAAH!!!

So that was all very insane. But i enjoyed it a lot, even though the lack of any kind of concrete answers is getting frustrating. Sark needs to come back, and Weiss needs to come back for more than five seconds (but, oh, what a brilliant five seconds it was). I want next week now.

Oh, and speaking of next week. Uhm. YEAH. I already knew Will was coming back, because even being spoiler-free, there are some things that are impossible to avoid. So EEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! And EEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! And EEEEEEEEEE some more!!! But then... then... nononononononono. NO. I've been randomly speculating and fretting ever since i heard about his return that he would hook up with Syd, just because it would FREAK ME OUT (and, well, it makes sense what with him being such an important part of her life before), but i didn't actually belieeeeve it. But i was RIGHT! I'm never right! And now i'm scared. Because... oh god, as great as Syd/Will is, as best friends and unrequited love and adorable ice cream tequila kisses and in fanfic and all that, the fact that it's so sudden and 'BAM! Let's bring him back and have Syd sleep with him in ONE EPISODE!' is just. not. right. And it feels so odd to not have seen Will in so long (seriously, as happy as i am that he's coming back, it has a strange incongruence with s1 and 2 everyday!Will... ya know? no? okay.) Plus there's the whole it's-not-the-right-time and it's-not-gonna-last and it's-not-fair-to-either-of-them and i just have SO many issues with this. And if they kill him off i will DIE. GAAAAAAHHHH why can't i just be happy that Will's coming back??? Because i AM! But then there are all these other complications, and it's upsetting. I worry too much. Someone please pass me a tall, cool glass of DEALING WITH IT.