Vaughn You Bitch
(U2 - With or Without You)
Now I'm not a fan of Alias nor do I watch it regularly. In fact I think I've seen 2 episodes to date. However, tonight being the 1st episode of the new season and with Jennifer Garner's Elecktra movie coming out soon, I just have to rehash a great speech made by Sydney (Jennifer Garner's character) in one of the two episodes I watched.
Now the synopsis is this -- Sydney has been missing for quite some time and they finally find her but in the time that she went missing, Vaughn her love, moved on and married another woman. Who subsequently turned out to be some psycho double agent bitch, but that's another story altogether.
So cue the speech...
Vaughn: I came by to see how you were.
Sydney: Are you kidding me!?
Vaughn: No, I...just wanted to make sure that you...
Sydney: You didn't come here to see how I am...you came here to see how you are, because you know in your heart what you did...you want to make sure you're okay.
Vaughn: I buried you. (pause) Consider that for what that's...
Sydney (cutting him off): Don't use rational thought as a defense with me, not after all you and I have seen. Vaughn, you and I live and breathe madness every day on the job...there is no...rational thought! I can't even pretend to have a conversation about anything else with you. What it comes down to is faith!
What I was hoping you would say is, "Sydney I gave up; I gave up on us. I lost faith." But what you came here for...was closure...and there is not a chance you are getting that from me!
I'm not gonna say I understand...I'm not gonna sympathize with you and tell you how hard it must be for you... But.. You wanna know how I am!? I am horrible! Vaughn, I am ripped apart! (strained whisper) And not because I lost you... but because...if it had been me... (tears cloud Sydney's eyes) I would have waited...
I would have found the truth...I wouldn't have given up on you!
And now I realize... what an absolute waste that would have been!
(Cut to Vaughn's reaction. He looks wounded by her last remark. Cut back to Sydney as she turns to go, trying to reign in her emotions, refusing to cry in front of him. Cut back to Vaughn as she leaves. An empty sadness fills his eyes as he looks down, as if remembering, brow furrowed, his lips a thin line.)
You hear that bitch?...she would've waited for you!!!...she wouldn't have given up on you!!!...and it would have been a waste of time!!!...how do you like them apples!!!
Ok...I'm getting a little riled up and emotional now. I need to take a few deep breaths and collect myself.
4 comments:
You know what always perplexes me about that show? Pretty much all other TV shows have 2 kinds of formats. One is that they have the intro song and then start the show. Another is that they have a 2 minute intro, and then have the intro song and THEN start the show.
Alias, on the other hand, plays the intro song somewhere in the middle. Like, 20 minutes in you have to wonder, what the hell are they thinking? I think I've caught on by now that I'm watching Alias.
To be honest I've only seen the show twice so I didn't even notice that...but yes that would be quite odd...I wouldn't know if I was coming or going...and everyone wants to know whether they're coming or going. It would throw off my delicately balanced life!!
I do that all the time...come in right in the middle of show when I have no damn idea what's going on....but you kinda figure it out in like two seconds anyway. That's how it always is when I see reruns of Dawson's Creek.
That's quite unruly of you...hopefully you don't walk in while someone's watching and start asking tons of questions...that would be quite irksome :P
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