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What I liked:

Um, that they pretty much reset everything to where it was at the end of last season?
CrazyBastard!Vaughn. If he starts acting all insane and torturous all the time, maybe I will start to like him again.
Injured Sark. Much like MulderTorture, I just can't get enough.
It was very well paced, and it sucked me in right from the beginning, which has not happened in FOREVER.
Lots of other things that I can't remember right now. It may not seem like it, but I actually liked the episode a lot.

What I didn't like:

Sark CAVES TO FEAR? Especially FEAR OF VAUGHN? Um, NO.
Vaughn can fly after having surgery for a collapsed lung? Also, NO. Unless he's a zombie now, because that is hella dangerous, yo. Zombie!Vaughn, though, is a Vaughn storyline I can get behind.
Vaughn arriving in Italy in time to rescue Sydney? If he altered the space-time continuum, maybe. Unless she was sitting behind that rock for, like, 12 hours.
Making out 10 feet from your wife's dead body is so romantic!
Katya. Bleh. What was the point of her in this episode?

What I would like to see next year:

Dark!Syd. We know that during her missing two years she got into some pretty fucked up stuff (I believe Simon used the word "depraved." Heh), but just as the writers got to a point where they could really get into it, especially considering the fact that she was actually doing all those things without the benefit of brainwashing, they decided to back off for some reason. Now that Syd's going to be feeling betrayed by Jack, the CIA, and hopefully, by extension, Vaughn, because I am so sick of the S/V that I could die, she will realize that the CIA has done pretty much nothing but fuck her over repeatedly and decide to fucking do something about it. Ideally, she would break Sark out and together they would bring The Covenant, Sloane, and everyone else who has fucked with them to their knees, with some hot sex thrown in every once in a while for variety. I'm pretty sure that's a pipe dream though, so I would settle for her just going out on her own to bring down The Covenant and to find answers for herself about her missing two years, her programming, etc, without concern for the CIA or Vaughn or whoever else. Lady just needs to take some fucking action, man, because I am sick of her whining and then not doing anything to fix the problem.
Will! I've missed the Will so much this year, you guys. Bradley as Rivers on Touching Evil has helped some (because Rivers is THE MAN), but it's just not the same!
Irina. 'Nuff said.
Better use of Marshall, Weiss, Jack, Dixon, Sark, Lauren (if she's still around), etc. Remember when Sark was not just EVIL EVIL EVIL all the time? And he apparently had some kind of master plan aside from "DO EVIL, BE EVIL, LOOK AT PEOPLE EVILLY, GET BEAT UP SOME"? And Dixon and Weiss and Marshall, like, did stuff (besides getting shot)? Good times, people!
Reveal Sark's master plan, god dammit! The whole "no opposition to working for The Covenant" thing was completely unbelievable to me. The Sark of yore would have gotten back his $800 mil and then kicked their bitch asses to the curb.

In other news, I cannot stop listening to this song. It is so, so addictive. Damn you, JC!