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seen: the pretty

I’m catching up on Season 4 of Alias via Netflix. (Long story short: by the time Season 4 started, I was still getting up to speed on seasons 1-3 on DVD, so I only came in on S4 midway through.) After watching Disc 1 last night, I went over to TWOP to see their recapper’s take on one of the episodes, and her description of Vaughn in one scene sent me into a gigglefit.

[T]he camera careens over to where Vaughn sits, harassing a bank employee. And this time, the captions clearly state that he is supposed to be speaking in a British accent. Only, it’s unlike any British accent I’ve ever heard in my entire life. It starts out as kind of working-class Brit, then sort of limps into Cockney, turns left into North London, hitchhikes to somewhere in Manchester, takes a boat to Belgium, skydives into a small unknown island off the coast of Italy, takes a submarine to Australia, and then…kind of stumbles into a pub somewhere in South Africa. Yeah. No idea. It’s all over the place. It doesn’t matter. He’s pretty. And he’s pretending to be some vineyard owner who’s pissed off about something. Again, it really doesn’t matter. Pretty.

Hee.

Another bit of funny dialogue from this episode, between Syd and her father on how he wasn’t invited to a party at her house:

Jack: It must have been lost in the mail.
Syd: Your invitation?
Jack: Unless it was an Evite. I don’t read Evites.

And back to Michael Vartan … Did anyone catch his guest appearance on (the now-cancelled) Kitchen Confidential this week? It was a crappy episode, but it was fun to see him and fellow Alias alum Bradley Cooper together again, something that’s acknowleged in an in-jokey bit of dialogue:

We’re a band of brothers. We could be brothers, don’t you think? We look alike, we have the same gait. It’s like we worked together before or something.