#Danny dealt with the duplicates in secret

[tanglepelt]

Dc x dp idea 119

Sam and Danny accidentally blow up social media. Except Danny just gets to laugh at the headlines.

Recluse Manson daughter and *insert Batkid name here* caught red handed

It was another fake out make out fiasco. Sam had agreed to go to a stupid gala. Only because vlad was going. Danny hated his eyes in front of his mom to make vlad take him along. He doesn’t trust the fruitloop.

Of course she and Danny were finding out why vlad had to come to this particular Galla in Gotham. It was some stupid overshadowing scheme. They put a stop to it and Danny phased them into the coat closet.

They didn’t think a reporter had managed to get into the gala. Let alone get a picture of them.

#dcxdp #dpxdc #sam and Danny’s fake out make out #who let the reporter in?? #no one payed attention or noticed Danny at the gala #chalked him up as a Wayne kid #or his just went invisible when people looked like they were going to talk to them #vlad did force him to meet brucie Wayne #the bats knew something was up #but the scheme never Happened??? #oracle what do you mean he’s just gone #Danny dealt with the duplicates in secret #no need to get attention from the bats #his fragile heart wouldn’t survive an interrogation #danny phantom #sam Manson

[pass-the-bechdel]

Alias s01e21 ‘Rendezvous’

Does it pass the Bechdel Test? 

Yes, once.

How many female characters (with names and lines) are there?

Four (25%).

How many male characters (with names and lines) are there?

Twelve (75%).

Positive Content Rating:

Two

General Episode Quality: 

A good time, but it still features brownface.

MORE INFO (and potential spoilers) UNDER THE CUT:

Passing the Bechdel: 

Francie and Sydney trade good-byes. In another scene, Francie and Sydney talk about soap opera developments, which I would have counted even though it involves male characters, except that it’s also meant to mirror developments in the actual story, making their maleness less-than-coincidental.

Female Characters:

Sydney Bristow

Francie Calfo

Emily Sloane

Dr. Levin

Male Characters:

Michael Vaughn

Dixon

Sark

Weiss

Will Tippin

Jack Bristow

Arvin Sloane

Ramon

Alain Christophe

Marshall

Alexander Khasinau

Lucques Trepanier

Other Notes:

Will and Jack’s dynamic is one of the more pleasant elements in the tail end of the season, and one of the more underrated dynamics in Alias. I kinda ship it.

I realize Roger Moore was probably never going to be a recurring guest actor, but it’s disappointment to see his character, Poole, being dealt with offscreen, particularly given the smackdown he gave Sloane.

On that note, it makes little sense that Poole would get executed, but for Sloane not to be, given what we know about the Alliance.  

Given Sydney’s off-the-cuff lie to Dixon, it becomes much easier to believe that her lie to Francie and Will about her international travel was also improvised.

This episode is one of the first where its clear that the writers are losing the ability to keep track of all the details they’ve set up. During an SD-6 briefing, Sloane mentions Rambaldi’s “now-familiar invisible ink.” While it’s true that it should be familiar to the audience, there’s no way for Sloane to know about it, or, rather, for him to think that anybody else would be familiar with it.

J.J. Abrams is not good at endings. Most of the planet now knows this, given the utter disaster that was Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but the original Alias fandom knew it as early as 2004, when they realized that, oh no, he doesn’t have a plan.

Alias is far from the only series with stories that started very strong, only to fizzle out by the end. What makes it distinctive is the quickness, thoroughness, and consistency with which it happened: Alias is largely a series about missed narrative opportunities, all of which make this episode an outlier: one that features a fantastic resolution, which also makes all the missteps the series took getting here much easier to ignore.

Will is, I believe, a fairly well-liked Alias character.  This is somewhat surprising, given that his story, as a whole, is not that great—even Bradley Cooper’s extreme levels of charisma have their limits.  While his investigation into Danny’s murder has definite potential—it’s good to see the world of the series from a different perspective, and his arc allows the series to further its themes of duplicity and secret lives—the execution is all too often not there. Will, not unlike Sydney, is often thoughtless with his approach, which in addition to the initial lack of clear stakes and inconsistent progression make him less than sympathetic through much of his arc. While it eventually gets going properly with “Page 47,” the story is, in the end, not one that deserved an entire season’s worth of build-up.  

And yet, it’s hard to begrudge the arc’s existence, given how good everything this episode here is. Will and SpyDaddy?  Fantastic together.  Will in the clutches of The Man and completely out of his depth?  Highly dramatic.  Will’s face when he realizes he’s been rescued by Sydney? Extremely meme-worthy. Will having to don his own alias which he did not ask for and was not prepared for? Heartbreaking. His conversation with Sydney, about how he loves her despite everything?  Tears-worthy—especially given the fact that, at this point, the series is not actively working to romantically pair him with Sydney.  It’s all so good. The trip might have taken too long, but I’m glad we’ve taken it.

#Alias #Alias Season One #Rendezvous #Female Representation #Bechdel Test #MimeParadox