good god yvonne strahovski, LOOK AT YOUR FAAAAAAACE

[elapses]

HEY GUYS KNOW WHAT I LOVE? SPIES WHO SUCK AT FEELINGS!!!!

SARAH: Who are you Agent Shaw? Because you know, I have never heard of you and neither has Casey. You're a very well-kept secret.
SHAW: I do like my secrets. Don't you? Being the daughter of a con man teaches you that.
SARAH: You really do read everybody's files, don't you?
SHAW: Of course, and I have a few questions for you. Seven months ago, when Chuck was in Prague you went off-grid for three days. This is a surveillance photo of a hotel in Lisbon. This... is you. Beckman ordered you to stay in contact, but you ran. Why?

SARAH: It's not what you think.
SHAW: I don't know what to think. Are you a double agent? A Ring operative? Or is this about Chuck?

SHAW: I do everything I can to protect my people. I lost one spy. It was my fault. And it will never happen again. ...why were you in Lisbon?
SARAH: I went to bury Bryce, my partner. He wanted his ashes there, Lisbon was our first mission. Anyway I wasn't supposed to leave but I promised him I would take care of it so I did. If you want me out just tell Beckman and she'll reassign me.
SHAW: Why would I do that. I need you. I just had to be sure that the Ring hadn't gotten to you already.
SARAH: And now do you believe me?
SHAW: Every word, Sarah.

SARAH: What's in the envelope, Shaw?

SHAW: She was killed by a Ring agent five years ago. Her name was Evelyn Shaw. Eve. We both made the same mistake, Sarah. We fell in love with spies.

All I can think about when I watch that last scene is this line from Marina & the Diamonds' "I Am Not A Robot" that goes "can you teach me how to feel -- real?" which is so obvious I guess, I think it's in the particular delivery. Motherfucker the whole Prague thing was totally a gimmicky writing thing but you can't help but translate it into real (fake) feelings: because this time he wasn't a spy, was he Sarah Walker? And yet here you are all the same.

BUT ANYWAY HEY GUYS I... REALLY KIND OF WANT THEM TO HAVE DELICIOUS ANGSTY SPY SEX (dudes, Shaw is totally one of the miniscule 1% of the male population for whom manpain is actually kind of attractive rather than annoying, because he is not into feelings and therefore he does not like to throw his inner turmoil in your face! THANK GOD, it has been so long since we have encountered an honest-to-god graduate of the Ryan Atwood Brooding school) (AND THEY HAVE TENSION) (AND YEAH, I HAVE FEELINGS).

Um so who's seen tonight's Life Unexpected?

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farahdoodles said that Kristin Kreuk ends every sentence as if she's going to laugh, and I was like, WHOA, BIGGEST COMPLIMENT EVER AND SO, SO TRUE (I actually haven't told her that yet, I should). I just rewatched the long promo that aired after 3x03, where there was a lot of Shaw/Sarah doing things and making me all giggly. CONFLICT, BUT ONLY SORT OF? IDK, IDK, HE'S REALLY ATTRACTIVE, I LIKE HIM AND HIS FACE AND HAIR AND OH, THOSE GLASSES, LET US NOT FORGET THOOOOOSE. (Yeah, I thought that Bryce burying thing came out of nowhere and would have come up in conversation at another point if it were true, but as you say, who knows?)

YES, AMANDA RIGHETTI KIND OF GOT IN THE WAY ON THAT SHOW. It was one of those shows with that had an "afterlife" on another, non-U.S. network, so I found them on some eBay-type website, and GOOD LORD, THE ENDING WAS SO RIDICULOUS AND STUPID AND YOU DO NOT BLOW JASON MATTHEWS' CAR UP RIGHT AFTER HE GOT MARRIED, YOU JUST DON'T. There's this one scene in an earlier episode that had me on the floor with *~*sexay delight*~* (oh my goodness, most awkward thing I have ever written), and I'm pretty sure I still have it on my ReplayTV. I must, must find it. HE IS A GOOD WHISPERER. I like his face A LOT, TOO, ALEX, IT'S APPROPRIATE FOR THIS ROLE/MY FACE LIKING TIMES. (P.S. I still have approximately 68 pictures left to go through/edit for my Joshua picspam, it is both really awesome and SUPER OVERWHELMING.)

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Ohhhhhhhhhhh, SO TRUE!!!! And you are right, such a lovely compliment. I am so glad we get her for awhile (is Smallville even still on?) buttttt I desperately want her to have her own great show, where she does not have to be the fandom's #1 hated lady. BUT IDK, I AM NOT THAT CONFLICTED, TBH. These love interests don't feel gimmicky to me the way past ones have because for once, I just... don't want Chuck/Sarah. I will probably/hopefully loop back around at some point, but right noooooow I am more focused on Shaw and Sarah and their EMOTIONALLY RETARDED SPY TENSION.

THE ENDING WAS SO RIDICULOUS AND STUPID AND YOU DO NOT BLOW JASON MATTHEWS' CAR UP RIGHT AFTER HE GOT MARRIED, YOU JUST DON'T
That is SO MEANNNNNN, I hate how so many finales of cancelled shows are like that. Bitterness isn't pretty on anyone guys! Ngth I kind of want to see the *~*sexay delight*~* moment though. Hmm. (!!!!!!!!! that! Is going to end up being so deliciously colossal!)

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I think she left Smallville a few years ago, but I'm not sure. She seems adorable, and you're right, she should have a show where she isn't the target of everyone's hatred. I actually never mind Chuck with other ladies, because I know that none of them is that serious of a threat in the long run. I liked Lou more than Jill, but that's really only because Jill gave me bad vibes.

That is SO MEANNNNNN, I hate how so many finales of cancelled shows are like that.
SO MEAN, UGH. It makes me wish I had never seen it. I ACTUALLY FOUND THE SCENE ON YOUTUBE! It's in Italian, so it doesn't work as well, and you really just get Jason/Nicole making out rather than Jason being all whispery, but WHATEVAH. It's here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnQOJfuDNtc&feature=PlayList&p=BC8CFA77B601A469&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=69); the scene starts at 6:45 (he's shirtless at the very beginning of part 2 *~*if you're into that*~*.) (I knooow, it will be epic, but it's tiring! That was meant to sound really whiny, unfortunately.)