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Watched "Alias" tonight

Watched "Alias" tonight because John Hannah was on. My thoughts? I'm lazy and have just copied my JHAC post.

The first time I saw the photo of Shepard (John Hannah), I squealed and Alex rolled up into a little ball, making fun of me. It feels like it's been a long time since I've seen him in something *new*. I've seen old projects I just got ahold of, but it's been several months since TMR.

For the longest time, I thought I was watching the wrong episode because there was no mention of Shepard and they didn't seem to be building up to him. But that's Alias for you - one moment Charlie's singing in the bar, the next, Sydney's locked up in a Romanian mental institution.

(Martin?) Shepard is a programmed killer who, if you read him a certain line of poetry once, will do what you want him to do and twice, will forget that he did it. To get to him, Sydney gets herself admitted into a horrible Romanian insane asylum. You see several views of him staring rather sinisterly (?) at her, then she approaches him in the cafeteria, tries out the poetry, and he attacks her, probably thinking she's with THEM. Whoever THEM are.

At this time, I will point out that I was reading something on an Alias bulletin board posting that was the same thought I had: "Wouldn't it be ironic if the little snippet of poetry was Auden?" Or Wordsworth, for that matter. Or hell, Lord Byron. Do we have enough poetry-connections for JH? Unfortunately, 'twasn't. It started out "No man is an island..." which I recognized as John Donne, but when I found the Donne poem online, it didn't sound like I remembered the Alias poem sounding. I'll have to check the tape. Here's Donne:

[...]No man is an island, entire of itself
every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main
if a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were,
as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were
any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind
and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls
it tolls for thee.
- John Donne

Anyway, Shepard jumps on her and gets tazered by the nicey-nice guards, then you don't see much more of him until the "Next Week's Episode" clips, which seemed chock-full of John Hannah and gave me hope for the future. :)

srah - Monday, 19 November 2001 - 3:49 AM
Tags: alias, john hannah, poetry, quote, reviews, tv

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