Vaughn has been infected by the lethal virus he was exposed to at the Taipei lab, and will die within a few days unless the antidote is given to him. Sydney learns from her mother that the antidote can be found at an Estonian military facility, but right after getting it, Sydney is captured by Sark and forced to make a deal with him: he'll let her leave and later give her what she came for; she'll somehow render Sloane unconscious and deliver him to Sark, who announces that he plans to kill him. That presents her with a moral dilemma, but she doesn't take too long to make up her mind: if Vaughn is to be saved, Sloane must go. However, there are still more twists and turns on the road ahead, including a new plot development that certainly changes a lot in the game. The scenes between Irina and Vaughn are particularly well written and acted; on the other hand, I can't say that Sydney as a Japanese masseuse is one of her most convincing disguises. *** out of 4.
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Finding the cure
Tweekums23 March 2012
Warning: Spoilers
After last week's bombshell that Vaughn was infected it is up to Sydney to get the cure. Normally when she has a mission she gets cornered by the bad guys then beats up most of them before making an impressive escape; not this time however. Sark has her trapped and if she wants to save her life and that of Vaughn she must undertake a mission for him... a mission to kill Arvin Sloane! Meanwhile Will is continuing to investigate to see if tested in the school United States could have been used to identify potential agents; it looks as if there is nothing to find until he learns that one of the questions concerns events that hadn't happened at the time meaning somebody had switched the records.
This was a decent episode; it was nice to see one of Sydney's missions go wrong in a way she couldn't escape from for once; it makes her more human when we know she can get caught. This also provided the means whereby David Anders would return as Sark, it looks as if he will become a more regular character now; I don't know if that was always the plan or it just happened because writers liked how the character turned out; either way I'm pleased as he is a great character. On the downside this episode did feature one of Sydney's least believable disguises; I do not think she could pass as Japanese even under the heavy make up; certainly not well enough to fool a Japanese person or Sloane!
This was a decent episode; it was nice to see one of Sydney's missions go wrong in a way she couldn't escape from for once; it makes her more human when we know she can get caught. This also provided the means whereby David Anders would return as Sark, it looks as if he will become a more regular character now; I don't know if that was always the plan or it just happened because writers liked how the character turned out; either way I'm pleased as he is a great character. On the downside this episode did feature one of Sydney's least believable disguises; I do not think she could pass as Japanese even under the heavy make up; certainly not well enough to fool a Japanese person or Sloane!
This show is going nowhere
esoquisieras24 May 2016
This is not a review of this particular episode but more like a review about everything that has happened in the show until this point. Especifically the way everything have changed.
I started watching the series a few days ago and even though it started on a good direction and seemed to have a clear path of what they wanted to do, now it seems that the show is backing on its own tracks confused as to where to go or how to keep interested the audience. From a show that look a lot like 24, it's turning into a soap opera about spies. Not really an improvement from my point of view although I admit it must be easier for the writers to keep people interested this way as opposed as the plot twists and cliffhangers at the end of a lot of episodes of season 1.
Maybe the show have changed because they can only show you similar cliffhangers to keep you interested so many times and after a while you simply realize that no matter how bad the situation is, Sydney will always escape unharmed in the first 3 minutes of the next episode and forget about it 10 minutes later. This may be because, unlike 24, none of the main characters seem to be in any real danger even though they are constantly exposed to situations where they could technically be killed.
The show went from episodes where the CIA and SD6 were racing each other for Rambaldi artefacts to a Mom-Dad-Sydney drama or Vaughn and Sydney and their feelings for each other. There is still a lot of the things from before but now they feel like filler. Although I admit that having that as filler is MUCH better than having to endure those boring scenes with Francie on season 1. That character is pointless and I wish she went away already. Thankfully we don't see her as often as we did early on season 1.
With all that said, at the end of season 1 Sydney and the CIA somehow felt that the organization leaded by "the man" was the real threat and that she needed to prioritize them over SD6 and try to stop us with the help of SD6. All because Kasinov was the one giving orders to her mother 20 years ago.
Now Kasinov is dead, we find out that her mother was Kasinov's boss, she turned herself in and we somehow are being told that the bigger threat is SD6 again and Sydney is willing to work together with her mother to bring them down. It makes no sense changing their minds like that for no reason.
Not only that but Sydney said that she wished that her mother dead for what she did once she was in jail. She gave every indication last season that Kasinov and his organization was much worst than Sloane. But now she betrayed her father telling on him to the CIA to save her mother because it was "wrong" to kill her that way, while at the same time she was completely fine with murdering Sloane. It makes no sense the actions she is making compared to the way she was behaving a few episodes ago or at the end of season 1.
The change of heart also happened a few episodes ago and it was so fast and out of nowhere that makes you think that Sydney it's incredibly naive and extremely easy to persuade. Her mother gave her good intel once and she was completely convinced that she is now one of the good guys, and even though she "says" she doesn't trust her, her actions indicate otherwise.
I don't like where this is going because it feels that the writers don't know "where" to go, they are going in circles in this way. I'm going to keep watching it because despite this new flaws the show is amazing, but unfortunately I fear that it doesn't have the same quality as before.
I started watching the series a few days ago and even though it started on a good direction and seemed to have a clear path of what they wanted to do, now it seems that the show is backing on its own tracks confused as to where to go or how to keep interested the audience. From a show that look a lot like 24, it's turning into a soap opera about spies. Not really an improvement from my point of view although I admit it must be easier for the writers to keep people interested this way as opposed as the plot twists and cliffhangers at the end of a lot of episodes of season 1.
Maybe the show have changed because they can only show you similar cliffhangers to keep you interested so many times and after a while you simply realize that no matter how bad the situation is, Sydney will always escape unharmed in the first 3 minutes of the next episode and forget about it 10 minutes later. This may be because, unlike 24, none of the main characters seem to be in any real danger even though they are constantly exposed to situations where they could technically be killed.
The show went from episodes where the CIA and SD6 were racing each other for Rambaldi artefacts to a Mom-Dad-Sydney drama or Vaughn and Sydney and their feelings for each other. There is still a lot of the things from before but now they feel like filler. Although I admit that having that as filler is MUCH better than having to endure those boring scenes with Francie on season 1. That character is pointless and I wish she went away already. Thankfully we don't see her as often as we did early on season 1.
With all that said, at the end of season 1 Sydney and the CIA somehow felt that the organization leaded by "the man" was the real threat and that she needed to prioritize them over SD6 and try to stop us with the help of SD6. All because Kasinov was the one giving orders to her mother 20 years ago.
Now Kasinov is dead, we find out that her mother was Kasinov's boss, she turned herself in and we somehow are being told that the bigger threat is SD6 again and Sydney is willing to work together with her mother to bring them down. It makes no sense changing their minds like that for no reason.
Not only that but Sydney said that she wished that her mother dead for what she did once she was in jail. She gave every indication last season that Kasinov and his organization was much worst than Sloane. But now she betrayed her father telling on him to the CIA to save her mother because it was "wrong" to kill her that way, while at the same time she was completely fine with murdering Sloane. It makes no sense the actions she is making compared to the way she was behaving a few episodes ago or at the end of season 1.
The change of heart also happened a few episodes ago and it was so fast and out of nowhere that makes you think that Sydney it's incredibly naive and extremely easy to persuade. Her mother gave her good intel once and she was completely convinced that she is now one of the good guys, and even though she "says" she doesn't trust her, her actions indicate otherwise.
I don't like where this is going because it feels that the writers don't know "where" to go, they are going in circles in this way. I'm going to keep watching it because despite this new flaws the show is amazing, but unfortunately I fear that it doesn't have the same quality as before.
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