Orphan Black 3.04
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selenakConference's over, very exhausted am I, etc., but I did manage to catch up with Orphan Black.
Ha, I knew Alison and Donnie had been watching Breaking Bad. Thanks, Donnie, for confirming it. Though I'm wondering whether they watched beyond s1 or mayyyybe s2, given the way Donnie manages to unironically say "I'm protecting this family". (Mind you, it strikes me as entirely ic for Donnie to think he's Walt and that Alison is Skyler while missing out on the fact he's Jesse. While Alison knows she's Skyler but misses out on the fact she's also Walt in personal union.) The entire Alison subplot this season so far has been a Breaking Bad homage, not a badly (though a lightly) executed one which entertains me but makes it look as if Alison will have another season mostly disconnected from the rest of the clones, plot wise, alas.
Also, Alison's mother gets mentioned again when she talks to her high school friend/drug supplier, so I'm more sure than ever that said mother will show up.
Felix hasn't played agony aunt/best friend counselor for Cosima yet, so in this episode, he does that. Incidentally, I'm curious whether the show will let Cosima follow his advice to have some casual sex to get over Delphine before falling in love again, because so far the only clone having sex for unromantic reasons has been Rachel, who's a villain; I hadn't realised until the Felix and Cosima scene. (Which was heartwarming, as all Felix & clone scenes are, but seriously, do give Felix a life on his own as well, show, he deserves it.)
And now for the main plot: first of all, I'm relieved Mark survived, as he is the most interesting of the Castor clones so far, and secondly, I'm a sucker for that "enemies bonding on the run saving each other's lives" trope, especially if the characters have good chemistry, which turns out to be the case with Sarah and Mark here. (I don't mean sexual chemistry, I hasten to add.) Though I'm not sure how much Sarah means the "you're my brother" part and how much it's tactics because she needs to get through to Mark. (If she does mean it, it's a pretty big turnaround for Sarah because it puts a biological, genetic connection on a level with an emotional one. Yes, she now sees Alison, Cosima and Helena as her sisters and fights for them, but those relationships were formed under fire, so to speak.) Not a bad tactic, either, given that the Castor clones were raised to regard each others explicitly as brothers and not allowed any outside attachments at all, plus Mark has already shown himself capable of emotionally branching out by falling in love with Gracie and wanting to be free of the army (once he's accomplished his mission and saved everyone from dying gruesomely of genetic defect).
Speaking of Gracie: the reunion with the Prolethians goes as creepily as I expected but then unexpectly she has a miscarriage and is cast out by her mother, which is a blessing not even in disguise since the Prolethians are written as evil cultish as ever. (No cookies for adding the blind man trope this year, show. Your take on Gracie's mother was far more effective to continue the cult creeps.) Considering Gracie never wanted to have a child in the first place, and certainly not this one, it's probably going to be a relief once she has time to process.
Helena and her inner scorpion manage an escape attempt and we're treated to one of the most gruesome scenes yet when she comes across the Castor clone whose skull has been opened, and who begs her for his death. If you ask Helena for something like this, she obliges, of course, though alas, this gets her captured again. While I'm still not keen on yet another Helena-held-prisoner storyline, I do approve of the fact she's showcased as clever (scouting out the camp before making that escape attempt) and resourceful. And her yelling at Maybe-Susan-Duncan, whom the Castors see as and call "Mother", "you're a shit mother!" makes me wonder whether Helena's murder of her birth mother will be repeated on this one later. Said murder seems less gratitious for the first time to me now because Helena - who, as Sarah mentions this episode, was a brainwashed child herself, trained to kill, just like the Castors - has serious issues about parent figures doing this or abandoning their children to this for obvious reasons.
Ha, I knew Alison and Donnie had been watching Breaking Bad. Thanks, Donnie, for confirming it. Though I'm wondering whether they watched beyond s1 or mayyyybe s2, given the way Donnie manages to unironically say "I'm protecting this family". (Mind you, it strikes me as entirely ic for Donnie to think he's Walt and that Alison is Skyler while missing out on the fact he's Jesse. While Alison knows she's Skyler but misses out on the fact she's also Walt in personal union.) The entire Alison subplot this season so far has been a Breaking Bad homage, not a badly (though a lightly) executed one which entertains me but makes it look as if Alison will have another season mostly disconnected from the rest of the clones, plot wise, alas.
Also, Alison's mother gets mentioned again when she talks to her high school friend/drug supplier, so I'm more sure than ever that said mother will show up.
Felix hasn't played agony aunt/best friend counselor for Cosima yet, so in this episode, he does that. Incidentally, I'm curious whether the show will let Cosima follow his advice to have some casual sex to get over Delphine before falling in love again, because so far the only clone having sex for unromantic reasons has been Rachel, who's a villain; I hadn't realised until the Felix and Cosima scene. (Which was heartwarming, as all Felix & clone scenes are, but seriously, do give Felix a life on his own as well, show, he deserves it.)
And now for the main plot: first of all, I'm relieved Mark survived, as he is the most interesting of the Castor clones so far, and secondly, I'm a sucker for that "enemies bonding on the run saving each other's lives" trope, especially if the characters have good chemistry, which turns out to be the case with Sarah and Mark here. (I don't mean sexual chemistry, I hasten to add.) Though I'm not sure how much Sarah means the "you're my brother" part and how much it's tactics because she needs to get through to Mark. (If she does mean it, it's a pretty big turnaround for Sarah because it puts a biological, genetic connection on a level with an emotional one. Yes, she now sees Alison, Cosima and Helena as her sisters and fights for them, but those relationships were formed under fire, so to speak.) Not a bad tactic, either, given that the Castor clones were raised to regard each others explicitly as brothers and not allowed any outside attachments at all, plus Mark has already shown himself capable of emotionally branching out by falling in love with Gracie and wanting to be free of the army (once he's accomplished his mission and saved everyone from dying gruesomely of genetic defect).
Speaking of Gracie: the reunion with the Prolethians goes as creepily as I expected but then unexpectly she has a miscarriage and is cast out by her mother, which is a blessing not even in disguise since the Prolethians are written as evil cultish as ever. (No cookies for adding the blind man trope this year, show. Your take on Gracie's mother was far more effective to continue the cult creeps.) Considering Gracie never wanted to have a child in the first place, and certainly not this one, it's probably going to be a relief once she has time to process.
Helena and her inner scorpion manage an escape attempt and we're treated to one of the most gruesome scenes yet when she comes across the Castor clone whose skull has been opened, and who begs her for his death. If you ask Helena for something like this, she obliges, of course, though alas, this gets her captured again. While I'm still not keen on yet another Helena-held-prisoner storyline, I do approve of the fact she's showcased as clever (scouting out the camp before making that escape attempt) and resourceful. And her yelling at Maybe-Susan-Duncan, whom the Castors see as and call "Mother", "you're a shit mother!" makes me wonder whether Helena's murder of her birth mother will be repeated on this one later. Said murder seems less gratitious for the first time to me now because Helena - who, as Sarah mentions this episode, was a brainwashed child herself, trained to kill, just like the Castors - has serious issues about parent figures doing this or abandoning their children to this for obvious reasons.
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Date: 2015-05-11 12:23 pm (UTC)Sarah slept with Paul to preserve her cover as Beth and Alison slept with Ainsley's husband.
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Date: 2015-05-11 01:57 pm (UTC)