#alias 3x09

[robntunney]

one ALIAS per episode | 3x09 conscious

[wandering-----wonderings]

Dude, it’s the same cake. How have I not noticed that before? The ‘’memory’‘ cake from Conscious (3x09) is the same one from Color Blind (1x07). Ok, I’m sure it’s not the same exact cake, they probably ate the one from season 1 - you wouldn’t keep a cake in the freezer for two years just to reuse it in another episode, would you?

[juliareed]

ALIAS 2x03 I 3x06 I 3x09 I 5x12

How satisfying it must be for you to know you have it all figured out. I would think you of all people should know the world is never black or white. (Alias, “Pandora”)

[workingonmoviemaps]

Popular Locations Wednesday

Los Angeles’s Vasquez Rocks

A nearly 1000-acre park located north of Los Angeles with distinctive uplifted rock formations. The distinctive look and location within the Thirty-mile zone have made the rocks an extremely popular filming location since it first appeared in Werewolf in London back in 1935.

The rocks can be seen above in Alias, Hail, Caesar!, Westworld, various versions of Star Trek, MacGyver, and New Girl.

A few other places it can be found include Gunsmoke, Monk, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Wild Wild West, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, & Blazing Saddles.

[ninjagoat]

Notes on Supergirl 3x07

Just think about the whole Legion of Superheroes thing for a minute. Ten years ago, doing this on a *movie* budget would have been out of the question. Five years ago, doing it on television would have been an absurd notion. Now it's here. Look how far we've come.

Come on, show, throw in a joke for these two day players in the sub. It's a thankless task, give 'em something to play.

You haven't even put the pasta in yet, Sam! That's ten minutes minimum, plus draining, and mixing with the sauce. Don't make Ruby sit at the table the whole time.

I really hope this boiling water test is merely the end of her pre-established test protocol and not just a random idea she's come up with in the moment. Does she have a lab book?

I have been granted a Winn/M'yrnn scene. The goat sacrifices were worth it.

"Mr J." This is now his name.

More should be made of the fact that Winn is a polyglot genius.

Has Mr. J needed a slash this whole time, or...?

No task is ever below Winn's pay-grade. Never has been.

J'onn harping on "hot sec" and Winn waving it away so they can get to the point is a nice bit.

Just how much stuff has Winn pre-programmed this system to do? That 12,000 years analysis is immediate (yes, I know it's expository efficiency, but still)

Any callback to Superman: The Movie is nice.

Awkward Space-Dad hugs!

How is the Legion ship underneath the street when we've already established it's in the bay? Is National City built over a giant cave?

"That was horrible. That was amazing. Can we do that all the time?" Winn's reaction to being phased through solid rock is priceless.

Not a warning shot. On the other hand, she's gone straight for heat-vision. Quite the impasse.

Ms. Benoist completely selling that she hadn't seen this man for seven months when she had, in fact, berated him just that morning for incorrectly loading the dishwasher.

Why has Kara gotten changed for this scene?

Mr. Wood is so good in this med-bay scene. The self-satisfaction that defined Mon-El is GONE. Instead, there's just this sadness; he won't embrace Kara, but he can't push her away.

HOW OLD IS SAM? HOW OLD IS RUBY? HOW THE HELL DID A TEENAGE SINGLE MOTHER WITH NO SUPPORT SYSTEM BECOME THE CFO OF A MAJOR CORPORATION WITHIN RUBY'S LIFETIME? HOW MUCH MONEY DID LILLIAN LUTHOR GIVE HER TO 'GO AWAY' (we're all clear on Ruby being Lex's kid, right? How else would Lena know her?)? HOW DO THESE PARENTS KEEP GETTING PAPERWORK FOR THESE CHILDREN THAT FALL OUT OF THE FUCKING SKY?

I ask these questions like the teen pregnancy element isn't just padding out the episode to account for Ms. Benoist & Ms. Leigh being busy on Multiverse Adventures In Nazi-Punching.

Much has been made of the similarity of Sam's story to Clark's, but honestly; where the hell else can you *keep* a one person space-ship besides a barn? You can't keep it in a one bedroom flat now, can you? It'd be like owning a secret jetski.

BREAKING NEWS! James Olsen spotted being genuinely supportive of another person with no immediate or implied benefit for him! More on this, as it develops.

"You are my heart." STOP MAKING ME CARE ABOUT RUBY, SHOW.

"I should not be put in charge of anything." All signs still indicating Winn's gonna be the handler for the Legion. No-one's more qualified, and they need SaturnValor to have an escape hatch (I'm not happy about this).

I love Mr. J's suit. I love his over-pronunciation of coffee. I love he loves his unpronouncable game. I love Carl Lumbly.

May I have a Mr. J/Lena chess game, please?

"You have glanced at your smart devices 43 times since we arrived." Dammit, J'onn. Stop doing the last verse of Cat's in the Cradle. Your dad deserves better.

Okay, if they could have found a way to integrate *this* Mon-El - uncompromising, experienced, 'R-rated' hero Mon-El - into the wise-cracking mouth of last season, I think it would have worked a lot better. 2x13 especially.

Ms. Benoist is killing it in the brig scene. She's wonderful. There was a rumour going around for like five minutes one time that Supergirl was going to be in the DCEU. She can't. Not within five years of this show being on the air. Melissa Benoist owns this now.

And he's just sat there, silently considering just exactly how much he's betrayed her, and how much he'll still have to. I didn't know Chris Wood had this in him.

Additional Reign scene is additional. But I didn't know they had deserts like this in Canada.

Scenes where Winn tells the more 'alpha' men in the show's cast that they're full of shit give me life.

I respect that Mon-El still knows Winn is the safety valve of the DEO. "Hope for the best, have Winn Schott plan for the worst," is still a functioning axiom for him.

And if you haven't exploited Winn's generous nature for well-intentioned but otherwise illicit ends, are you even really his friend?

I really like the expression Ms. Benoist makes when she sees Mon-El is gone, but I don't know why.

Ok, I can accept that Winn and Mon-El could get back down to the Legion ship with the trans-mat portal. Does Kara burrow through the rock? And how would they get back?

"You kidnapped him." Kara occasionally needs reminding that Winn is not *actually* Meat-Kalex, but actually a person with agency.

The boys' faces when Kara calls them out are PERFECT. Winn is torn between 'Do you want to tell her?' and 'I hadn't actually thought that far', while Mon-El is very much 'there is no point in having this conversation'.

"You just forgot about me?" HIS FACE. It defines 'fuck you for asking me that'.

He's so broken and earnest and panicked trying to punch his way through that glass. It's such a big change from last season, but it feels so natural. Who picked this cast, and where is their Emmy?

Ms. Benoist successfully landing 'I don't know who this woman is, but I don't think I'll be happy when I find out'.

Fortress of Loneliness!

Kara's gotten changed again.

I can't say for sure if Mon-El doesn't have a right to keep his marriage to himself. It's been seven years. How much information is Kara owed? How much space does Kara owe him? It's not one of those questions with a single right answer (which is not to say there can't be wrong ones).

Christmas at the J'onzzes, yes?

This scene. Mon-El is keeping his emotional distance: he's apologising, being as honest as he can be about what *he* has been through; but not promising anything more for Kara, or making demands from her. And he *knows* she knows Imra is important to him.

Special shout-out for "You've never needed my protection." Took a long time for that one to sink in, didn't it, your Highness?

I admire the show's nerve to suggest there is a single all-you-can-eat outlet within five miles of National City that does NOT have a photograph of Kara Danvers up on its 'DO NOT SERVE THESE PEOPLE' wall.

And he knows the smiling was a mistake. It promises too much; promises what he knows he can't give, but that doesn't mean he doesn't want to.

Dammit, Imra, if you'd just give him two more minutes! You're a PSYCHIC, you should know when someone's about to drop the angst bomb!

This, at least, looks serious. It's not like Vaughn and his Mrs on Alias.

"This is Kara Danvers." Was it Kara Zor-El when he introduced her to his parents? I forget.

I will admit, I wouldn't even know how to begin that conversation.

We must always respect the Kryptonians ability to form computers out of unexpected materials, such as ice and dirt.

I take it this is the 'Melisandre'-like character. Robes? Accent? Done.

Poor Sam. She was so excited. This was gonna be a good thing. Now she's a World-Killer.

Ms. Annable's face when M describes Ruby as an 'error'. YES.

"I have awoken." Yeah, but we're gonna be putting you on pause for a week, is that okay?

Episodes since a Winn/Lyra scene: 11. ELEVEN. Can someone please explain what happened? Do I need to e-mail TVLine or something, so they can ask?

Episodes since a Winn/Lena scene: 7. Absent Earth-X shenanigans, still on track for 3x09.

Next week: the four-part Multiverse Adventures In Nazi-Punching Extravaganza!

[wandering-----wonderings]

I don't understand why Sydney wasn't able to find the doctor to get her memories back. When she was looking for Rambaldi's tissue with Will, she found it by asking herself where she would hide it; not where Julia Thorne would hide it but where she would hide it. So why didn't she apply the same method to find the doctor who erased her memories? After all, Sydney was the one who reached out to the doctor, not Julia, so if she'd just thought like herself she should have been able to find the guy. Yet, a search as to who could help her revealed ... this dude? Mr. Facon?

[wandering-----wonderings]

What do Dixon’s kids look like now?

So the actress who played Robin was the same girl in all three episode appearances: Tristin Mays (middle). Two actors played Steven: Robert Bailey Jr. (left) in Season 1 and Daniel E. Smith (right) in Season 3. All three had 2019 projects:

Robert Bailey Jr.: Shameless, The Malibu Tapes, Emergence.

Tristin Mays: Breathe, MacGyver.

Daniel E. Smith: NCIS.

Alias episodes are from: 1x05 Doppelganger (top), 3x09 Conscious (middle), 3x16 Taken (bottom).

((I actually thought that the names were spelt Robyn and Stephen but IMDb and the Alias wiki page says otherwise.))

Edit: Dixon's kids are also shown in the 2x20 episode, Countdown, but they weren't credited for their appearance so i don't know who they are.