Does anyone want to start a discussion of Season 3? I don’t see one going and I can’t believe that about such a great show! I tell everyone to watch it because it’s so amazing – both the storyline and the acting. (Yes, I’m a mad member of the Clone Club. Why do you ask?)
So now it’s season 3 of Orphan Black, and it’s becoming even more difficult to give someone a simple overview of the plot. What we learned in this episode…
Now we find out there are male clones as well (Project Castor), bred to be the ultimate soldiers. They’re differentiated by hairstyle and facial hair - one has a mohawk, one has a creepy mustache, and so on.
In watching the marathon leading up to the premier of season 3, I realized that I’d forgotten that Mrs. S (played by Maria Doyle Kennedy) is every bit as badass as Carol from TWD. Possibly scarier, since she seems to have a whole network of crazy people to draw from.
Mrs. S. was set upon by one of the Castor-clones, and despite her being in her late 40s/early 50s, gave him a hell of a fight and did damage before he brought her down.
The plot machinations are a bit excessive, but the show is just so damn fun that I don’t care.
Helena’s dream sequence - hilarious and adorable and sad
Clones playing clones - constantly awesome (and a tour-de-force of acting)
Alison running for office - yes please
Delphine suddenly becoming a ruthless badass - makes no sense, but I’m on board
Count me out. I went from big fan of the show in the first season to be absolutely done with it at the end of the second. Another conspiracy on top of the already existing ones, and like the others, one without any apparent goal, motivation or logic? Not even for an extra Tatiana Maslany- or six.
Yeah, it was becoming more of a chore than a pleasure last season, for sure. I can’t even tell you any more who the bad guys are, what the plot is supposed to be, or what the goal is. It seemed to me to be dribbling into “plot twist for the sake of plot twist” areas. I might catch up on series 3 eventually.
I think part of it is just how TV is these days. A show does 13 weeks in a row and then is gone for what, nine months. Nine months to forget who is who and what is what.
Yeah, certain things here and there that reflect the best of the show. But still too much extra-conspiracy stuff.
One thing that should be addressed itself is the problem of keeping themselves secret from “the normals”. Too many regular or near-regular people know about them. Once that lid gets popped, there’s no putting the toothpaste back in and their lives get a lot more complicated.
The actress that plays the kid is just great. I am always amazed at how many good child actors pop up so often. There’s far more bad ones. But the good ones still exist in surprising numbers.
Alison just wanders about to see if there might be someone sneaking around? Um, does she not “get it” about her situation?
This episode kind of irritated me. On the one hand, there was some awesome stuff… stabbing a guy in his brain, Alison and Donnie interacting with the goon, Sarah bonding with Mark.
On the other hand, there were at least three instances of “oh come ON no one would be that stupid if it weren’t required for the plot” actions:
-Prolethean mom shoots Mark, then doesn’t bother to finish him off
-Sarah whacks Rudy with a shovel, and then instead of whacking him a whole bunch more times she runs away and hides. (Note that Rudy has previously threatened Kira so any instinct towards mercy she might normally feel would be notably lacking here, brother or no.)
-Sarah finds a cache of priceless information in a motel room… and then hangs around in that very motel room while reading it and calling Cosima, etc., instead of getting in her car and driving away.
Also, how did Rudy find them?
I still enjoy this show a LOT, and I know that every show has some issues like this, but it was particularly irritatingly blatant today.
There’s a thing I’ve been thinking about for the last few episodes that kind of made sense at the time, but now totally doesn’t.
The interaction between Paul and Mark at the bar, where they’re both stalking Sarah and Helena … they were interacting like strangers-who-are-vaguely-aware-of-each-other’s-existance.
Which totally made sense then, but doesn’t now. It seems like Paul has in fact been involved with the Castor clones for quite a long time - or did I miss something? They should both know each other really well.
The more recent episodes, especially the 5/23 one, are showing signs of improvement.
One bit in particular was fun: Imitating the “wuh-uuh, wuh-uuh” sound from Altered States during the dream sequence.
Did not need to see Donnie dancing in his BVDs.
The writers really screwed up with the Castor clones. Barely able to tell them apart. Not at all the wide range we see with the Leda ones. Maybe we’re seeing some culling of that bit.
Again, the return of Delphine as a really negative character just isn’t working.
How on Earth would a sexually transmitted Prion-like disease be at all useful in warfare? Either you somehow manage to inoculate your people ahead of time or it kills indiscriminately. And how do you manage to inoculate your people on a massive scale without tipping everyone else off? This part is flat out stupid.
Felix thought she needed to get laid ( not necessarily get into a relationship ). If he hadn’t pushed I doubt she’d have bothered, but once she took the plunge sex is a great ( albeit very temporary and not necessarily productive ) stress reliever. Beats drinking your problems away, anyway.
Problem is scoring Ksenia Solo on an internet date is kinda like hitting a grand slam in the World Series. Thousands of lesbians around the world are now frowning perplexedly, wondering how come they never seem to get that lucky on their web forays.
A woman as smart as Cosima as deeply embroiled as she is in a major conspiracy and after breaking up with her handler cum doctor, should have realized the moment she saw Solo that it is too good to be true.
Maybe she has and is wondering which side of what conspiracy this new woman is playing on?
Yeah, we all don’t trust the new girlfriend, right? I’m not alone in that, I hope.
This season needs less time in the weird camp with the woman who looks like an even more evil version of my former MIL and MORE Donny and Allison doing their LARP of Weeds.