r/SpecialOpsLioness

I’ve seen a lot of people say “Aaliyah is dead” or “move on,” and I’m not even arguing that she’s definitely coming back. I actually think the bigger question is why the show never gave us any resolution to her story at all.

The S1 mission was ultimately to get to Asmar Ali Amrohi, but Cruz’s actual infiltration was through Aaliyah. Their relationship became the emotional centre of the season, and Cruz genuinely fell in love with her.
There are so many things left unanswered.

Cruz tells her to cancel the wedding, and they see what happens (between them)

Aaliyah then explicitly tells Cruz she doesn’t want to marry Ehsan, and when Cruz tells her to tell him, Aaliyah basically says she already did and her wants don’t matter.

Then Amrohi is killed, Cruz disappears, and we’re left with that final shot of Aaliyah sitting on the stairs completely devastated.

We never find out:
what happened to Aaliyah after that?
whether she discovered who Zara really was
whether anyone found Ehsan’s computer containing Cruz’s information
And that’s what bothers me.

I’m not saying Aaliyah has to become a recurring character, or even that Stephanie Nur is definitely returning. I just think the show created a major character with a huge emotional storyline and then essentially dropped her at the exact moment her story became interesting.

Even if they brought her back for one episode purely to give her closure, I’d be happy.

Also, during the girls’ night, they specifically watch The Notebook, including the scene with Allie and Noah together. Given that Cruz/Aaliyah’s relationship is also about two people falling in love and then being separated by circumstances, I’ve always wondered whether that was intended as a thematic parallel.

Maybe I’m reading way too much into it 😂 but I genuinely think there’s enough unresolved material here that it’s worth discussing.

That’s all, carry on.

It does a great job showing the dynamic between a civilian husband being married to a strong woman in intelligence. I don't even see Neal as a weak or annoying man. He's a great husband, great father and a great doctor. Dude does surgery and cooks for the family and understands his wife is doing what she believes is right. Stress gets to them but still.

The dynamic between them is one of the best writings I've seen since the Americans on FX.

The actress playing Bobby does an amazing job. She reminds me of my buddies cousin. She served 2 tours in Iraq. A butch lesbian that's fkn badass. Sheridan really outdone himself with the writing. Idk if there's another team he's working with but damn. They did pretty well.

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Everytime Kaitlyn's husband is on the screen my bullshit detector goes into overdrive. I feel that I need to take a shower after every scene he is in. Which leads me to believe that he is the nexus of all the shit that Joe finds herself in.

Don't get me wrong, I don't want them to die, but it seems unrealistic that everyone gets out of those fatal situations alive. In Iran they were 8 against hundreds, some of them got shot but recovered. Ukraine mission felt like walking on a minefield, yet they all survived. I would assume to make things more realistic, at least one of them would die in those situations.

It was absolutely hilarious watching the Russian double agent give a Spying 101 seminar to the supposedly elite CIA agents.
“Wait… what’s a honeypot?” 😐
“Oh, they use social media to spread fake news?” 😮
BRO. 😂

What kind of bargain-bin writing is this?

These are supposed to be CIA agents, not interns on their first day of orientation.

“Okay class, today we’re going to cover espionage basics. Please take out your notebooks. 😂”
That entire scene was pure comedy.

During episode one when she was walking back to the Ukraine side after grabbing the Russian guy, that machine stopped right in front of her and has a camera. It came out of the fog telling her to "return to base". It only caught her.
That's what I think 😬😬

someone gets honeypoted by a rival country and gets exposed will the victim face the wrath of the law? They were coerced and had no choice right? so why isn't there immunity? They were just pawns