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Sober posted:Orphan Black is definitely guilty of forgetting there was a metaphor or analogy to be made and pushed it away to What metaphor/analogy was that?
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I could have sworn the other season were longer than 10 episodes, but apparently not, this season finale blindsided me. The last few episodes did help start bringing it together, but I did find most of the season's story pretty boring and scattered about. Not exactly sure where the plan to take the show, but whatever story they do go with, I will always find Tatiana Maslany interesting to watch. She sells it on every other character so well, I can sometimes forget it's her doing everything.
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Rhyno posted:Most of the season was so-so but man eps 9&10 were excellent. Has this been picked up for a 4th year yet? Yes.
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Kesper North posted:Yes. Sweet.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Can someone make a gif of Helena kicking the duct tape Into Castor's face? I didn't make this, but I found it. 
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Guy A. Person posted:Yeah Ferdinand went from being a weird little turd to being awesome in a scene. Also the extra layer of conspiracy is obnoxious but the weird bodysnatcher earwig and Ferdinand's innate hatred of the Neolutionists did help sell it for me. Ferdinand randomly killing someone with a bat was awesome and kind of unexpected so it works well. Also Clone Dinner Party not as good as Clone Dance Party.
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Combat Pretzel posted:In some way, we shouldn't be surprised that the Neolutionists came back eventually. I mean, Leeky was one of them and heading DYAD. The contrast between cheap nightclubs and pyramid suites is a little jarring, tho. I think that was on purpose - that Neolutionists are a serious concern but their public face is so ridiculous that they aren't taken seriously (both in-world and by the viewers). Aside from Leekie, who only really talked about Neolution when he was giving lectures and chatting up attractive young scientists, the only other one was Olivier the tail-fetishist. It's like if someone told you that Juggalos were secretly the Illuminati. Poor Jesse Towing and Crystal, though. I was hoping they'd both make it to the Clone Dinner Party but instead they just kind of disappeared.
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Ah, poor Crystal, the loneliest clone. At least Tony was given the choice and didn't want to get involved. Crystal is desperate to know what the deal is but Sarah just can't be bothered. I really do hope they bring her in next season. All the regular clones have settled into their team dynamic, they need someone new to shake things up and make the inevitable impersonation scenes really tense again.
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I'd kind of like the next season to randomly deal with another set of clones trying to figure out about all the cloning stuff just for an episode before they get killed (as Top Side did in Finland).
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Mraagvpeine posted:Oh yeah, what is going to happen to Crystal? She's gonna go on a girlfriend date with Allison of course
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Mraagvpeine posted:Oh yeah, what is going to happen to Crystal? I don't care as long as Helena gets to pretend to be Krystal and give manicures. 'I cut off finger, it's the only way'
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Leospeare posted:Poor Jesse Towing and Crystal, though. I was hoping they'd both make it to the Clone Dinner Party but instead they just kind of disappeared. I hope we get more Crystal next season too. Her ridiculous "big dummy with deep thoughts" attitude is perfect. I was super happy that she kept her eye, but I also thought it was weird that The Big Neolution Worm Conspiracy would kidnap her, knock her out and swap her for Rachel -- but that they *wouldn't* go to the trouble of brain-damaging her and gouging out her eye. Unless they didn't intend the Rachel/Crystal swap to fool everyone forever, they just needed to buy enough time to get Rachel clear...? I don't know. This was the greatest finale. I was on the edge of my seat the whole time waiting for something terrible to happen, but aside from poor gutshot Delphine, all the "big tense scary" moments ended up with the girls having the upper hand! "Oh no, Rudy is stalking Alison! WAIT THEY TOTALLY KNOW HE'S THERE, THIS IS AWESOME!" "Oh no, Rudy is faking it and he's going to stab Helena! PHEW, no, he's just dying." Aaaah tense. I'm really happy everyone remembered Beth. I'm not sure why everyone's so comfortable around Helena, who killed four of their other sestras in season 1...and her own birth mother...and chopped up a bunch of drug dealers last week...but she's Helena and she's adorable so I'm not going to put too much thought into it. Alison seems appropriately unsettled and that's good enough for me. Also: Alison said "sestras"!!! My heart is melting. :3 Ferdinand is my new favorite unpredictable lunatic. I never thought I'd say this but more Ferdinand please. Swinging a bat, a tub of acid, a boiling hate for Neos and begging to be dominated and humiliated by someone, anyone from Clone Club... Hey, do we know for sure that Susan Duncan is with the Neolution folks? I couldn't figure out if the end was "oh no Rachel is imprisoned by the next big conspiracy" or "awwww Rachel is reunited with her mom!" I think maybe it's both... Can't wait for next season! Only what, 42 weeks to go? ARGH. Takei is Okay fucked around with this message at 09:17 on Jun 25, 2015 |
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Leospeare posted:Aside from Leekie, who only really talked about Neolution when he was giving lectures and chatting up attractive young scientists, the only other one was Olivier the tail-fetishist.  This show has so many conspiracies it made me forget about Helena cutting some guy's tail off. That's too many conspiracies.
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The entire clone dinner party I just could not shake the thought that the DEA was going to raid it.
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ETB posted:I think it was mentioned in the finale that Susan Duncan was "corrupted by the Neolutionists". Ah! Missed that, thanks. And hey, more Krystal in Season 4! Finale wrap-up interview with John Fawcett here. Can't wait to see how she and Felix interact...
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sbaldrick posted:I'd kind of like the next season to randomly deal with another set of clones trying to figure out about all the cloning stuff just for an episode before they get killed (as Top Side did in Finland). I'm betting the Neolutionists have figured out a quick cloning process and we'll get clones of everyone. Like the person who shot Delphine was probably a Delphine clone.
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Rhyno posted:I'm betting the Neolutionists have figured out a quick cloning process and we'll get clones of everyone. Like the person who shot Delphine was probably a Delphine clone. All I really want out of this show is a bunch of clones of Rockabilly Bob.
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Takei is Okay posted:Ah! Missed that, thanks.
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BrianWilly posted:It definitely gets pretty hard to suss out just who the frok is on what side and the fruk they really want, but this season actually seemed to clarify a lot of the more absurd conspiracies going on, and it all honestly just comes down to a bunch of similarly shady groups with the same dire case of "Ends justify the means!" syndrome. excellent summary and really the Neolutionists are great fun w/ untapped potential from the original season's dangling plot line. Everything else was derivative and started to crawl up the rear end of inner locking conspiracies that when I heard the revelation they were players in all this it was exciting and a relief. I feel that having them take center stage as opponents to the sister cuts through the corporate and religious factions crap. We need these other sub sects but I'm happy Castor is a one season problem and in the rear-view like the Prolethians. One of the big highlights of the finale was watching the sister have the strategic advantage, especially to the degree that they obviously planned for Alison to be the bait as her life is the toughest to conceal at a moment's notice. I suspect that deep down the entire drug dealer misadventure was unconsciously a partial reaction to Alison's relationship to Sarah. Alison has seen Sarah as the fringe player who takes center stage and deals w/ the chaos in a way which Beth never could and she has that outlaw rebel vibe, the opposite of Alison. They share a relationship with Felix at times in which Cosima and Helena never do. Alison, for lack of this overused term, breaks bad this past season in a way which is clearly influenced by Sarah & Felix and was incomprehensible in season 1. I'm not convinced it led anywhere but her ties to the community and development as a small business owner sure give the sisters more resources and maneuverability then they've had in a while. Felix's apartment, Mrs. S's contacts, Dyad's labs and Art's allegiance are fragile resources and augmenting them w/ a business front isn't a horrible way to go. How long before Crystal begins working for Alison?
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Sober posted:Hopefully they find a useful role for her if she joins or helps Clone Club on the regular. Felt like there were a few throwaway clones that showed up and didn't really do much, and I feel like the current Clone Club has most things covered. Call me crazy but I think Crystal (Krystal? Khrystal? whatever) could have a Season One Sarah kind of vibe. Sarah's changed a lot, from a resourceful but unreliable deadbeat to a leader and problem-solver. Crystal seems flaky and ditzy but Felix discovered that she's desperate to solve the mystery and was investigating it without any clone club support whatsoever. If nothing else she could fill the spot of "rookie who's in over her head" since the main four clones now have so much experience dealing with conspiracies.
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So is Project Castor part of some established military, or basically just their own Blackwater like paramilitary force? And is it and Project Leda both branches of Topside, whatever that is? And are Project Leda and the Dyad Institute the same thing? Sorry if the show has clarified this at any point but if so it obviously sailed past me.
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Okay, this is about to get a bit confusing, partially because I said a few misleading things in the first place: Leda and Castor were both military projects, originally; in fact they were the same project, headed by the Duncans (Rachel's foster parents) (And Susan Duncan has now been revealed to be a major Neolutionist, which would make sense if those guys are claiming to have been controlling everything "from the start"). Anyway, Dyad took no part in the original science, so they're technically not "Project Leda" even though they're the ones that stepped in and took control after the military supposedly shut the project down. But, obviously, the military didn't shut anything down and just carried the project in another direction. Somehow (by Neolution design?), Dyad ended up with the girl clones and the military got the boy clones. And yeah, at least some heads of the military were totally aware of Castor and totally approved of the weapons research; Paul's boss was one of them. Topside is just what lower-level Dyad employees call the upper level Dyad-bosses and is a Dyad-specific thing. It should not, theoretically, have anything to do with the military; though they started as one project, Leda and Castor are two totally separate individual things at this point. That woman Sarah met at the end of the season 2 finale -- the one with the clone child -- is a member of Topside, and she was keeping one of the military clones prisoner so they're clearly not on working terms. There are probably Neolution moles in both Dyad and the military, but even when Wormtongue (  ) revealed that his people were steering both projects, he still suggested that Topside will "unknowingly" hand them the genome, which probably means the "official" heads of both military and Dyad genuinely had no idea they were being steered.Unless...they did! This is Orphan Black, after all. We should probably prepare for the possibility that they're gonna add even more unnecessary complications to their conspiracies, even after they just finished mostly untangling things. v  v
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BrianWilly posted:Okay, this is about to get a bit confusing, partially because I said a few misleading things in the first place: Topside comprises more than Dyad. It's basically a multi industry lobbying group trying to steer policy in favor of themselves.
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aBagorn posted:So I was listening to a podcast yesterday and they talked about how the entire show has only comprised about 4 months in universe. Kira is the fastest growing child ever.
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Tatiana Maslany's been nominated for an Emmy at last.
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Ape Gone Insane posted:Tatiana Maslany's been nominated for an Emmy at last. The system works! 
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Ape Gone Insane posted:Tatiana Maslany's been nominated for an Emmy at last. GOOD!! It's so outrageous that she was overlooked before.
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Was suprised to see activity on this thread, and lo and behold it's great news! Hooray! I hope she wins. (She won't, because people are still dicks about genre, but maybe one of these years...)
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Kesper North posted:Was suprised to see activity on this thread, and lo and behold it's great news! Hooray! I hope she wins. (She won't, because people are still dicks about genre, but maybe one of these years...) Not only is she on a sci-fi show, but she's up against one of Mad Men's leads after Mad Men's last season. She won't win this time around, but I'm thrilled she got nominated!
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macnbc posted:Not only is she on a sci-fi show, but she's up against one of Mad Men's leads after Mad Men's last season. She won't win this time around, but I'm thrilled she got nominated! I'd say Mad Men is probably the least of the concerns in that category. She'll probably lose instead to Viola Davis or Taraji P Henson.
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No comedy lead nomination for Gina Rodriguez or comedy supporting actor for Jaime Camil, Emmys still terrible. edit: Apparently there is an 'Outstanding Narrator' category they got nominated in so there's that at least. OB also has the Season 3 blooper reel up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGMvngMPDAg It's crazy how Pupok was an actual scorpion and ended up looking CGI as hell. CeeJee fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Jul 16, 2015 |
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