How did you get the scar? Alex Rider, Season 2 & 3

okay but i feel like people don't talk enough about how artistic the lighting in AR is?? like the color palettes do SO MUCH for the cohesion and sometimes watching it feels less like watching a TV show and more like moving through a three dimensional painting. so often it's one base color and one accent and like, nothing else, and it honestly does WONDERS. yeah the green filter joke is funny but they use it so often because it evokes EMOTIONS and goes well with other colors and just. yeah. huge shoutout to the lighting department and the art department they knew what they were doing

Just a small random rant about Yassen and the casting for the series~

Something I love about the tv adaptation's change from the books, was the casting and description for Yassen. It was so different, and no matter what, I couldn't ever dislike it.

In the books, Yassen is described as having light blond hair, fair skin and an athletic build like that of a dancer. In the movie he has red hair and fair skin, again looking athletic but not exactly like how he is described in the books. However, in the tv series, he has dark hair, much more pigment, and his body looks, well, not perfect by standards. He has a normal looking appearance. Not rugged abs that you can see through his shirt or bulky muscles. Instead, he has toned arms but not that slim or thick. His torso is trim, but you can see the vaguest hint of a belly. Yassen isn't, by visual, some ripped, rugged assassin with a crazy build. Instead, he looks like an average person. He looks real. He looks like someone you would run into at a coffee shop on the way home from work. And I love this. I am not trying to shame or point out Thomas Levin's body in any negative way, but to embrace how he fits the role of Yassen. His normalcy in the role of such a complex and wonderful character is incredible, especially in season three when we get more domestic and personal scenes involving Alex and Yassen. It feels so much more believable and developed than if he were "model" perfect, if that makes sense.

I also want to point out how the current Yassen is different from the younger one. In addition to finding out what is expected of him, what he has to do, what he is capable of, what he is taught by John: we can also see how the world and his work changed him. By his mannerisms, we can see through just a few flashbacks the major differences. How he speaks is calmer, more like John in the fact that he is causal no matter the situation. He never shows people what he is really thinking through his tone or expressions apart from a few times when we almost catch a glimpse, and he stops himself (mainly when talking to Alex). He "knows his place." His confidence makes everyone stop in awe, uncomfortable, scared; unsure. Every inch of his body conveys his character in the smallest ways. I love it so very much. Hats off to those who did the casting. Hats off to Thomas Levin. Thank you for making one of my favorite characters even better.

Yassen: this is my partner John, he's the best spy in the whole world and I admire him so much

Yassen: this is my awesome boyfriend Leo, he's super hot and super smart and I love him for it

Yassen: this is Alex. He has rabies.

Rewatched ep 7 and gotta be honest the Blunt interrogation + Cobra meeting in the book >>>> the assassination attempt aftermath in the show for me

Blunt in the book actually interrogating Alex because he was the last one who had contact with Scorpia, asking Alex if he wants to work for Scorpia, telling him he wished they'd never met, Alex being willing to help once he hears thousands of kids will die, Blunt trusting Alex enough to take him to the Cobra meeting and basically lie about Alex being sent to Scorpia by MI6 instead of him actually joining a terrorist organisation of his own free will, Alex actually helping to solve the mystery of the weapon through information he picked up in Scorpia, I just really love these scenes

Okay so....... heres my 2nd attempt at drawing on my new tablet. I finally think Im getting somewhere with drawing faces, and ofc I had to draw one of my favourite characters.

"So, how did [my father] protect you? What happened?" "He saved my life."

Josh Taylor as John Rider and Yaseen Aroussi as Young Yassen Gregorovich in Alex Rider (2020-2024), 3x04 - "Recruit"

what i imagine yassen mentoring alex in season 3 will be like

this show sure loved its blue and green filters may it rest in peace

Since when can you do a bowtie? Alex Rider, S03E01

he's a babyboy, he's a killer, he's the worst spy the uk has ever seen, he's the next james bond, he's more scared of his babysitter than he is of international threats. what's worse? he's blonde.

ALEX RIDER SEASON 3

Alex Rider is a good show because the core trio is so evenly balanced Alex can DO the stuff and Kyra can THINK and HACK the stuff and Tom holds EVERY OUNCE OF COMMON SENSE

"Your father never worked for Scorpia. He always worked for us. Always."

I saw people talking about that scene where Yassen shot Max as a huge betrayal of Alex and it's kinda funny to me like yeah he involved Alex in a murder but also I cannot emphasise enough that Alex decided to join a criminal organisation. People have been telling him he'll need to kill for days now, Alex has watched them kill multiple people already, I get that it sucks for him but you cannot team up with a known killer and be that shocked when actually his secret extra mission was to kill