It's all in the family
Orphan Black
[Orphan Black SPOILERS]
I wasn’t sure what to think about the Castor clones as all we’ve seen is creepy and mentally disturbed but I started to like Mark at the end of last season. And so far it at least felt like he was a little more sane and sympathetic then all the other ones so I’m very happy he survived. I’m also pretty sure he believes Sarah now - that she is his sister, that she cares about Helena, and that she wants to help. They had pretty nice moments of bonding and he seems like a much nicer person than any of the brothers we met so far (but admittedly Seth was dying and whatever is wrong with Rudy is not about being a clone and we don’t know much about any others). I know he won’t kill her - he just saved her from Rudy (I love that Mark is higher in rank than Rudy) and I watched the promo.
PROMO SPOILERS
I that he takes her to the base because she wanted to get to Helena and it’s a way to get Sarah there. I think she agrees to that. And I think they will then run away together.
END PROMO SPOILERS
It took Sarah a long while to admit that she had sisters and accept any of them as family but once she did it for one it got faster and faster for others. Of course it doesn’t mean absolute acceptance. Helena had to earn it. Rachel never did. Castors have to earn it to but it is also a lever for Sarah to get Mark to trust her and also to get them on her side. She needs to convince Mark they are family to get Helena back. I think her point of view becomes “we are all family and we should stand together against those who want to use and control us”. And now that Helena saw what Coady does to the boys they might even be able to convince others (that was really messed up to do to a kid who thinks of you as a mother and it was nice to see Helena showing compassion). Like that sergeant Owen Miller (he seems pretty sane so far). Poor guy is in charge of keeping Helena in and we all know that doesn't ever work. She's already coming out of boxes.
Allison and Donnie - the drug dealers are even more adorable than when they murder people. And I know there is everything wrong with this sentence but it's also so very true. The soap business. The blackmailing other housewives to vote for her in school trustee election (all of this for the school trustee election!). The reuninon with the high school boyfriend the drug kingpin. It's all beautiful.
I'm still not over Cosima and Delphine breaking up and neither is Cosima but at least she has science. She once cut up her sister so cutting the brain out of a guy who turn out to be her brother no problem at all. Poor Scott - he doesn't have a stomach for this. None of the men have - not Felix, not Art. It's interesting how this show puts women in the roles of people who get things done - good or bad but done. Allison is the one who makes things done in her marriage. Cosima is the one who gets science done. Sarah and Helena can get out of any situation and solve any problem - they get shit done. Even in the Army - dr. Coady is the one who keeps the project together - from rising the little soldiers to cutting them up to find what is wrong with them.
Also - some still seemed to disbelieve this show takes place in Canada but after that hokey scene there should be no more doubts. Cal, Sarah and Kira were a really cute family but Michiel Huisman has a lot of other obligations and Skyler is growing up too fast for show time frame so they both got written out. Too bad - I liked happy Sarah.
[Orphan Black SPOILERS]
I wasn’t sure what to think about the Castor clones as all we’ve seen is creepy and mentally disturbed but I started to like Mark at the end of last season. And so far it at least felt like he was a little more sane and sympathetic then all the other ones so I’m very happy he survived. I’m also pretty sure he believes Sarah now - that she is his sister, that she cares about Helena, and that she wants to help. They had pretty nice moments of bonding and he seems like a much nicer person than any of the brothers we met so far (but admittedly Seth was dying and whatever is wrong with Rudy is not about being a clone and we don’t know much about any others). I know he won’t kill her - he just saved her from Rudy (I love that Mark is higher in rank than Rudy) and I watched the promo.
PROMO SPOILERS
I that he takes her to the base because she wanted to get to Helena and it’s a way to get Sarah there. I think she agrees to that. And I think they will then run away together.
END PROMO SPOILERS
It took Sarah a long while to admit that she had sisters and accept any of them as family but once she did it for one it got faster and faster for others. Of course it doesn’t mean absolute acceptance. Helena had to earn it. Rachel never did. Castors have to earn it to but it is also a lever for Sarah to get Mark to trust her and also to get them on her side. She needs to convince Mark they are family to get Helena back. I think her point of view becomes “we are all family and we should stand together against those who want to use and control us”. And now that Helena saw what Coady does to the boys they might even be able to convince others (that was really messed up to do to a kid who thinks of you as a mother and it was nice to see Helena showing compassion). Like that sergeant Owen Miller (he seems pretty sane so far). Poor guy is in charge of keeping Helena in and we all know that doesn't ever work. She's already coming out of boxes.
Allison and Donnie - the drug dealers are even more adorable than when they murder people. And I know there is everything wrong with this sentence but it's also so very true. The soap business. The blackmailing other housewives to vote for her in school trustee election (all of this for the school trustee election!). The reuninon with the high school boyfriend the drug kingpin. It's all beautiful.
I'm still not over Cosima and Delphine breaking up and neither is Cosima but at least she has science. She once cut up her sister so cutting the brain out of a guy who turn out to be her brother no problem at all. Poor Scott - he doesn't have a stomach for this. None of the men have - not Felix, not Art. It's interesting how this show puts women in the roles of people who get things done - good or bad but done. Allison is the one who makes things done in her marriage. Cosima is the one who gets science done. Sarah and Helena can get out of any situation and solve any problem - they get shit done. Even in the Army - dr. Coady is the one who keeps the project together - from rising the little soldiers to cutting them up to find what is wrong with them.
Also - some still seemed to disbelieve this show takes place in Canada but after that hokey scene there should be no more doubts. Cal, Sarah and Kira were a really cute family but Michiel Huisman has a lot of other obligations and Skyler is growing up too fast for show time frame so they both got written out. Too bad - I liked happy Sarah.