I Spy With My Little Eye…

Brie | she/her | Artist |

[code-iris]

I’m Brie, and this is a side blog for Alex Rider (my latest obsession) Was finally able to finish season 3, so now I’m going to stalk the tags for the next month.

I’ve almost finished Nightshade Revenge >:D

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Other side blog for sci fi stuff: (Lunar Chronicles, Star Wars) @star-cinder

Main blog that’s been overtaken by mcyt (hermit/life series) @brie-a-cheese

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Alex Rider TV S1E3 Review

spoilers, etc below

i LOL'd at the "deepfakes of their parents doing donkey porn." Tom Harris, the man you are (omg, and then the line about the haircut. perfection.)

i will say there was a certain vibe about the books taking place in the early 2000s where Alex would have been a bit more unreachable that i did kind of appreciate

yay diversity obviously bc the books desperately needed it (but i'm wondering how this whole clone plot is going to work when there's also girls at Point Blanc)

"what do Fiona call you?" "she doesn't" :sob:

i'm kind of obsessed with the David Friend and Alan Blunt lore

the girl who played Fiona was perfect. no notes.

okay i'm sorry but i hate that Tom found out Alex's secret this on?? like where is my delirious train ride confessional after the boy gets trapped in the sewage systems of venice?? also, the two of them slowly drifting apart in the books until Alex knows that spilling his biggest secret is the only way to keep his only friend????? god they messed this one up imo, such a pivitol point in the books and i feel like they "blew their load" a little quickly on this one.

tom: "i have to suffer because you're a dick" is a crazy line. 11/10

literally tom:

i'm so glad we got Alex Rider King of Sass in that interview with Eva lmfaooo i love this kid

we were also robbed of Alex being the one to tranq Fiona (i remember he had some crazy one-liner too)

[nelc]

[nonlinear-nonsubjective]

I hope you don’t mind, but I slowed the gif down because that is a FANTASTIC move.

[froginakettle]

this is the kind of shit that gets described as “quickly disarmed him” in writing and truly doesn’t do it justice

[vaschenko-chao]

[dxcstrange-stuff]

The Final Plan

[fortisloid]

innocent unarmed child

[moon-reader01-blog]

Blunt: The experience is the payment. Besides he even gets international trips, hospital trip included.

[annt-i]

Last night after a birthday celebration I got pulled over (traumatizing), so you know I had to put Alex in this situation to cope

[rohirric-hunter]

Ever since I got a job as a security guard I can’t take heist movies seriously anymore.

[edgar-allan-possum]

Why is that?

[rohirric-hunter]

Accurate heist movie: The Team is sneaking into a high security facility. An alarm is triggered, they freeze, prepared to knock out whoever responds to the alarm. It takes 40 minutes for someone to respond. When they finally do show up, they shuffle along, annoyed, arms full of 16 bags of pretzels for some reason, and reset the alarm without bothering to check their surroundings. They report that the alarm went off in error. Security control starts a fight about the correct designation of the door. The guard announces that they’re leaving the alarm key in the alarm because it’s always going off for no reason. No one challenges them on this. They shuffle away, leaving an alarm key and several bags of pretzels behind.

The Team knocks out a security guard and steals their radio. The team mimic can perfectly replicate the knocked out guard’s voice. They get caught because they pronounced the name of the company correctly.

The Team disables an alarm. The only way to do this is to rip it out of the wall and disassemble it until it physically can’t make noise anymore. This very loud process is clearly heard by the posted security guard nearby, who rolls their eyes and text their supervisor that the logistics contractors are fooling with the alarms again.

The Team breaks into the facility at night. There they meet a single security guard who is chanting potential names for NPCs in their DnD campaign out loud while they do their patrols. They encounter a fire extinguisher. They pause in their chanting to check that it is properly charged and to apply a sticker that reads, “Anal use only”. This guy is disgustingly good at their job. There’s no way around it, they’re going to catch you. And you’re going to have to deal with the fact that you’ve been had by someone who has a supply of stickers that say “Anal use only” and who unironically wanted to name their NPC shopkeep Mammogrammus.

The Team attempts to bribe a security guard. This is its own post but know there’s no way in hell that would work.

The Team breaks into the high security room and disables all the alarms. Security control sends several guards to investigate why there are no alarms going off.

The Team attempts to break into the high security room but can’t because it’s randomly decided not to let anyone at all in today.

The Team steals a keycard with “””””unlimited””””” access to the facility and gets caught because the computer system that manages keycards randomly revokes access for no reason.

The Team walks past a security guard in broad daylight wearing T-shirts that say, “We are here to rob you”. The security guard does nothing, having seen several people in logistics wearing that exact shirt two days prior.

[rohirric-hunter]

Responses to this post; a handy chart:

[proodence]

oh okay this is just screaming Yassen Gregorovich

[emziess]

Working on a gifset and just wanted to take a moment to appreciate these canon pictures.

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If they did another Alex Rider tv series, set when Alex is in or has finished university. Do you think they would skip straight to Nightshade? (Because of Mrs Jones becoming the head of the department and the subtle references to her children in S3) OR do you think they would adapt a different book?? Thoughts?

If they continued the tv series, which book/s would they adapt?

Ark Angel OR Snakehead OR Crocodile tears

Scorpia Rising and Never Say Die

Russian Roulette

Nightshade and Nightshade Revenge

They would use elements of multiple books

They would create an entire new plot

Voting ended onJul 13, 2024

Put your thoughts in the comments or tags!!

[code-iris]

I kinda forgot I made this poll until now, thanks for sharing your thoughts everyone!! It’s really interesting to see that Russian Roulette came out on top. I think there should have been wayyyy more John and Yassen flashbacks in S3. Russian Roulette is probably my 2nd favourite Alex Rider book, I’d love to see more of them on screen.

I’ve completely forgotten what happened in Snakehead tbh, so I was surprised to see it mentioned a few times in the thread.

As for which book I think could be adapted next, I still stand by Nightshade, because

1: Mrs Jones content, obviously

2: I think it has a more layered plot compared to the rest. It has opportunity for story flexibility/expansion when being adapted for screen yet enough book plot that it can still stay true to the book. Some of the standalone adventures with a one time boss, wouldn’t have enough content to fill 8 exciting episodes, they would have to find subplots to fill up the gaps. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it’s harder to do right when book fans are involved. Nightshade has enough of a plot that would keep the story flow (on screen) effectively paced.

However, I saw a comment saying that Nightshade needs the padding of the other books and I think that’s an excellent point (essentially so it doesn’t go from one big boss to the next—Scorpia to Nightshade—and feel too similar to the first tv show. I agree that that would work also because it’s better build up to the big boss with smaller bosses for bigger impact).

Actually- I can see them doing another trilogy. Instead of Point Blanc and Eagle Strike, they use different standalone adventures, and instead of Scorpia being S3, it’s Nightshade instead…

[petitmimosa]

Okay Sabina but... I mean, Kyra? Kyra.

[turtlesnails]

Even from season one episode one the colours of scorpia (orange) are visible on Martin Willby as he talks in the car- but, the blue colours of the department are shown when Ian talks!

Wow! The lighting in this show! I need to write a whole thing about this!

And maybe find/ make a gif of this scene

[seachick]

hmm Sony just bought a majority stake in Eleventh Hour Films, the producers of Alex Rider. wonder if that could mean anything about the potential for a s4.

[petitmimosa]

so do we think Alex had their coin/token thingy fitted into a ring as the lovesick idiot he is at some point or what

[snap-fyre]

Something I really enjoy about the Alex Rider series is that it’s not shy about showing Alex’s vulnerability.

Reminder that I haven’t read the books since I was a child and have forgotten a lot, but I’m pretty sure in those Alex was usually portrayed as the typical teenage boy protagonist. He was snarky/sarcastic, gave the bad guys henchmen nicknames, and for the most part he really worked alone. I’m almost finished season 2, but a difference I noticed is that he hasn’t got his all the really cool spy gear (that I was always envious of) he would usually be given at the beginning of missions, and when he was in a bad situation he could only rely on himself to get him out of it. But in the show they took those away, and due to that he really has to rely on people.

Both in season 1 and now in 2 he couldn’t have made it without Kyra (when he gets captured/caught and strapped to a table, then when he impersonates K7 and she has to guide him out) and its obvious that his relationship with Tom (Jack too, but I really think Tom’s a big one here) is really special to him, not just because he’s able to think outside the box (like when Alex wanted to just wait all day for the journalist guy and Tom was all ‘i’ll just set off the alarm and evacuate the building) but also because he’s his best friend and makes him laugh/smile. Alex smiles so much at Tom’s antics and I really love the show for choosing to maintain that this is a teenage boy who needs his friends to keep him grounded.

And when he’s all convinced that Yassen is in the area he tells everyone!! Jack, Tom, even Sabina! (who really he should’ve at least tried to keep the whole spy thing a secret from i feel like come on, Alex, please) He jumps out in situations when he should stay hidden! He is not secretive when it comes to those he loves! And you can see that he wants and needs them to believe him. From what I remember, book Alex was more ‘ooh! Cool teenage spy, beating up all the bad guys and saving the world cuz Blunt won’t let him go!’ (Or maybe not, I’ll reread them someday) but this Alex cares!! This version of Alex cared so much about what happened to his uncle Ian, he cared so much that his evil clone was hurting Tom and ran as fast as he could to get to them, he cares so much about Kyra he went on a drugged up rant about how she’s special and he wouldn’t fall for fake Kyra’s tricks again. He cares so much about Sabina and her dad.

TV! Alex I will always love you.