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pandoraparrot · 8 months
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Ok, so I think I just had a realization. In the fight between Julius and Alex they were almost face to face. In a gun fight, that is termed at 'in point blank range'.
Alex killed Julius, point blank. Point Blanc. Point Blanc. Where is ALL started. Anthony Horowitz, you genius.
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metrgabalbilicious-xd · 7 months
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This is exactly what it looked like
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aliveaudiencegang · 8 months
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they gave him a distress signal and when he used it they still were like hmmm maybe we should wait a whole day??
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peupeugunn · 1 year
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i could not have been the only one that was. extremely disturbed and horrified when i was a kid and was reading the part in point blanc when alex finds out he was drugged and every inch of his body was photographed and studied. and in the show, alex went through the gemini files, saw those pictures and came to the realisation that THAT'S what that terrible fucked up nightmare he had on his first(?) night was. and reading that? seeing that? it was like, wow, this was meant to be a YA series?
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hightensileyoyo · 30 days
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yes season one of the alex rider tv show really changed up a lot and set a different tone for most of the following plot but can we talk about the real most drastic change which is that we didn't get the crane and barge scene. absolutely crucial information to show that alex rider is also just Like That even outside of mi6
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winter2468 · 9 months
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Alex Rider: No I don't want to kill people because killing is bad and wrong. Also Alex Rider: *shoots a snowmobile at Hugo Grief's helicopter, killing him in a fiery inferno, then makes a pun about it*
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bright-was-right · 7 months
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Rewatched both seasons of Alex Rider over the last few days... I need more, dammit! Time to reread the books and dig up some good fics* until season 3... whenever that might be.
*recommendations appreciated <3
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lolli-says-stuff · 1 year
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random-n-fandom · 1 year
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HECK YEAH! our precious tortured baby looks so broody and ready to get sniped AND OUR OLDER MURDERY ASSASSIN BABY YASSEN ISN’T DEAD
maybe we can finally have canon SCORPIA!Yassen and Alex as mentor and mentee with them leading the board…?
🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
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lilac-landscapes · 1 year
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Ian Rider Was Not Training a Spy, He Was Protecting His Remaining Family the Only Way He Knew How
Ian Rider loved his nephew. It’s a given with the way he is remembered in the books and yet again with how he is portrayed in the recent show. He took every safety precaution with his nephew, the beginning of Stormbreaker meticulously goes over how Ian was a stickler for safety. Even though he was quiet and self-contained, he kept up with Alex’s schoolwork and hired Jack so he wouldn’t be alone while Ian was gone (a huge move, considering most kids whose parents are always gone for work just leave takeout in the fridge, or some microwaveable meals)
It was said Alex was a handful growing up, and suggested that the best way for him and Ian to connect was through sports. Ian, whose job was very physical, could give Alex’s energy a run for its money.
Considering the languages Ian had Alex learn is interesting in itself. Ian had the means and opportunity to teach his kid useful life skills. Children who grow up knowing more than one language tend to do better and have greater opportunities. Ian was always traveling, so having Alex learn local languages and customs makes sense on many levels. Ian making Alex argue only in certain languages, or ask for permission in others was most likely thrown in as a funny throwaway line. Examining it more, it’s a useful way to ensure Alex retained his ability to use that language when there was no one else around who could speak it.
Now, Alex’s parents were killed by Scorpia as direct retaliation for John being an MI6 spy. Both Helen and John were killed because of his job. Little Alex was saved because of an ear infection that meant he was unable to fly.
Picture this: You are Ian Rider, a single man whose brother and sister-in-law were just assassinated, and have been given guardianship over your only remaining family. A baby, your baby.
You are Ian Rider. You are also a spy, you carry the same title that got your brother and your nephew’s mother killed. You look to your last remaining family and realize that you’re all he’s got left, as much as he’s all you’ve got.
You are Ian Rider and most of your family was killed by a man they trusted.
Ian wanted Alex to always be safe, and maybe that means teaching him advanced self defense in case Ian’s job or the Rider surname ever compromised them. Maybe that means making sure he’s prepared for any situation, so that when time catches up to Ian, Alex won’t be so unprepared to save himself.
Yes, the skill sets are similar. When you fight fire with fire, you begin to notice similarities.
Finally, let’s examine who says what. It is stated by Jones that Ian was training Alex for this. Consider the source. MI6 was making plans to use Alex before Ian’s body was even cool. They wanted him bad. What better way to pull at the heartstrings of a child than to insist that this is was his recently deceased parent would have wanted. MI6 are unreliable narrators. In fact, most adult characters in the book series are shown to be unreliable narrators. Blunt and Jones play the field. They are, after all, master spies. Anything they say that is supposed to look like the truth should be taken with a whole box of salt.
A parting question: Why would Ian train his nephew for something he worked so hard to keep him away from? Ian never once let his cover story slip. Even when Alex was old enough to understand, he kept it from him. Why? Perhaps because he wanted Alex to grow up and have a normal life, and to choose a normal career. If Ian had really wanted this for Alex, there most likely would have been more career-tailored ways of going for it.
TL;DR Ian Rider love him nephew.
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equidistantsquid · 1 year
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One thing about the Alex rider TV show is that they love to put yassen gregorovitch in a car park
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sunlitlemonade · 1 year
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James: !!! you're a spy?!?!
Alex: bitch believe me i don't want to be
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random-jot · 2 years
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I keep thinking about the possibilities of a book about Alex Rider as an adult; like hard-cut 20/30 years into the future, dealing with the lasting psychological trauma of his experiences with MI6 - what kind of man would he be? Would he have been able to leave the spy world behind? Or would it be too deeply ingrained in him that he can’t leave it, even if he wants to. What would his relationship be to Mrs Jones? Would they speak at all? Would he be trying to live a normal life, would he be bitter, would he be jaded? How would his teen experiences impact his day-to-day living?
Oh, what if he caught wind of MI6 trying to pull the same stunt again, recruit some different teenager and he has to step in and stop them, save this kid the horrors that he went through?
Anyway, unlikely to happen, since it would be a pretty jarring tone-shift for what is ultimately a children’s book series but man, I just think a grown-up Alex Rider would be such an interesting concept to explore
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aliveaudiencegang · 1 year
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you know what alex was right because if my only living relative just suddenly died leaving me as an orphan (for the second time) and my whole school including my teachers think taking two weeks off is dramatic and spoiled, dropping a make-shift drug den into the middle of a police conference would actually be sane for the amount of anger i would feel
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peupeugunn · 1 year
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the snowboarding scene in the show is amazing and hilarious but also watching alex struggle really drove home the fact that. he's using an ironing board that he bent a little. he's got straps around the board around his feet. but the straps are only loosely attached to the board. they only had five minutes to make that plan and for him to rush out of there. he doesn't have those stick things that they use, unless I'm mistaken. he's balancing based on sheer willpower and half a braincell that's already flying back up the mountain to kyra.
the show's done a really great job with bringing an element of reality and logic to the events of the story so if he'd had a nice smooth ride and landed perfectly, i would honestly have been a surprised and maybe irritated.
(but also seeing him land on his ass was fucking hilarious i love my dumb baby)
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hightensileyoyo · 26 days
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once again thinking about how in point blanc blunt tells alex that children of successful parents often suffer for it and he doesn't even know how true that is for himself because of john
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