Orphan Black - Season 2 Finale

[crickets]

PSA: Forgot to use DW to crosspost, so I am doing that now. Sorry if you tried to comment on the first post.

I finished up season 2 of Orphan Black and have decided that despite my love of Felix and Allison (and beautiful Cal of course), I probably will only tune into season 3 if I don't have anything better to do.

Comments

[kiki_miserychic]

Basically, they dealt with Helena as a "bad guy" by keeping her fed.

[crickets]

Hahaha, true enough. ;)

I feel like I am very lonely in my being underwhelmed by season 2. That's ok. I'm used to it.

[kiki_miserychic]

Awww, *pets you and gives you raw ramen noodles and a hard boiled egg to eat*

[crickets]

Yuckm.

[catteo]

To be honest I felt as though there was quite a lot of retconning this season. With Helena I sort of felt as though she had always been looking for a place to belong and she was so happy to have found sisters that I didn't find her behaviour to be totally unexpected. I chose to view it as character growth rather than anything else. Paul's character was totally retconned IMO though. Nothing about his S1 character makes any sense in light of the fact that they've chosen to say that he was acting as a double agent all along. I sort of feel as though they started off with a one season show that got so popular that they realised that they'd written themselves into a bit of a corner and didn't have anywhere else to go. A feeling that did not improve once I read a post finale interview where they said that they only decided on Mark as the boy!clone in episode 6 or something. Which, when you're only writing 10 episodes, seems pretty late in the day.

I still enjoyed it overall though. And I'll be back next season!