The Bristow Family Tree

Milo47 said:
Jack doesn't seem like he thinks of Syd as a daughter during the show....Sloane seems like he loves her more than Jack does.
Interesting. The man who ordered Sydney killed loves her more than the man who risked his life and cover to save her (Truth Be Told)? I find that difficult to agree with. Jack has risked his life to save Sydney's time and again. The evidence indicates that when "Laura" "died," he rebuilt his life around Sydney. She's really all he has. Sloane's priority, meanwhile, is obsession for Rambaldi, and he's proven that he'll sacrifice Sydney to it, love her or not. Just because Jack has a difficult time expressing emotion doesn't mean that he feels none.

As for parentage, good question. I still feel that Jack's father-daughter relationship with Sydney is a cornerstone of the series and if Sloane should appear to be her father, that will turn out to be a red herring. I'll need verification. Should Sloane turn out to be Sydney's father, and should Jack be aware of that fact, it would make his love for her all the more poignant, but I don't think, in the long run, that it would be a good thing for the series--because what tie would Sydney then feel for the father from whom she has been estranged most of her life? What then explains the deeper bond between them?

It would, however, be interesting to find that both Sloane and Jack believed that Sloane was Sydney's biological father when, in fact, her father were actually Jack. And if Irina were in the position of incubating a "prophecy child" and had the choice, why wouldn't she pull a switch on Sloane and select the father herself? Perhaps someone she loved? Jack's importance to Sloane, moreover, indicates that he has an important, rather than peripheral, role in all this. Sure, I could be wrong.

As for Sark's parentage: I think it's quite likely that Irina is his mother. His age was made a point of, indicating that Irina might well have been pregnant upon her departure. And--yes, there's a soapish tinge--as I've mentioned, it's possible that Irina, knowing that she was escaping and knowing that she might never see Jack again, chose to become pregnant by him. The timing of that pregnancy suggests Jack as the father. The timing of Sydney is more equivocal.

As for Irina: Irina is not a modest woman. She is a tigress who uses her sexuality to get what she wants. It's clearly indicated that this includes climbing into bed with the men who can get her what she wants (from the arrogant Cuvee, for example). But I doubt seriously that she's so careless as to get pregnant without planning to do so.

Sorry this was so long!
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It's true, Jack has acted more like the father but that's because he's been the one who has been with Sydney her entire life, but the one responsible for Sydney's birth is Sloane. Which naturally makes him the biological father!
 
verdantheart said:
And if Irina were in the position of incubating a "prophecy child" and had the choice, why wouldn't she pull a switch on Sloane and select the father herself? Perhaps someone she loved? Jack's importance to Sloane, moreover, indicates that he has an important, rather than peripheral, role in all this. Sure, I could be wrong.
Interesting point verdantheart, but I doubt Irina knew so long ago that her child was to be the prophesy child. I doubt even Sloan knew it, otherwise he could have just as easily chosen Emily as the child's mother, unless of course, Emily is baren. I dont think they ever made metion of such a condition, but they dont have kids of their own and it would explain why Sloan slept with Irina. Maybe it wasnt an act of passion, but maybe he DID know that he would father the prophesy child. I think i just totally contradicted myself. oh well...
 
yeah, the first time we found out that Syd was the "prophecy child" was Ep 15 of Season 1....page 47/Ep 16 - The Prophecy
 
anyone else have thoughts about switched at birth or long lost half-siblings? (im trying to talk about something OTHER than Vaughn being married or not)
 
haha....Sark is half-brother of Will and Sydney i think now....just a shot in the dark on that one though, no real evidence or theory as to how that could happen
 
ew! Will shouldn't be her half-brother cuz then they couldnt hook up!

VAUGHN SHOULD BE HER HALF-BROTHER! HAHAHAHAHA
 
It does say in the Alias Handbook that this show is based solely around the idea of a dysfunctional family. Spying is just the backdrop. If Sloane is Syd's daddy then I would say this is the most dysfunctional family on TV -- and that is saying a lot.
 
aww whatever milo....ur juss saying htat to piss off all of us s/v shippers...u dont really beleive that do u?....
 
how can you not think that?? It's so obvious to me....just the way Sloane and Irina had their "agreement"
 
I'm confused, how is that related to the S/V shippers? i think that is the first thing Milo has ever said that was NOT directed at the S/V shippers.
 
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verdantheart said:
And if Irina were in the position of incubating a "prophecy child" and had the choice, why wouldn't she pull a switch on Sloane and select the father herself? Perhaps someone she loved? Jack's importance to Sloane, moreover, indicates that he has an important, rather than peripheral, role in all this. Sure, I could be wrong.
Interesting point verdantheart, but I doubt Irina knew so long ago that her child was to be the prophesy child. I doubt even Sloan knew it, otherwise he could have just as easily chosen Emily as the child's mother, unless of course, Emily is baren. I dont think they ever made metion of such a condition, but they dont have kids of their own and it would explain why Sloan slept with Irina. Maybe it wasnt an act of passion, but maybe he DID know that he would father the prophesy child. I think i just totally contradicted myself. oh well...
Yeah, they probably didn't know about the prophecy, but they knew that Sydney was going to be important in some way. And there may have been reasons why Sloane couldn't have served as the father, anyway--not being genetically "correct," or whatever. I think it more likely that Sloane wanted to create a child using Rambaldi's knowledge--and he needed either Jack or Irina, or both, to serve as parents--and this could have sparked Irina's own quest because she would have needed to know what Sloane was up to. But this is all just speculation . . .
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create a child? I think that Sloane and Irina have been in on it since the beginning, ever since Irina "died" and went back to the KGB
 
That was after Sydney's birth. Not quite getting your point, here.
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