Hey youtubers it’s Charlie, this week on Orphan Black Doctor Leekie and Sarah both
dropped huge bombs about the original cloning experiment.
A bunch of people seem like they’re changing their allegiances and we got to see some very
pretty dirty sexy Rachel.
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So where do we start.
This episode was filled with a lot of WTF moments that made me laugh a little.
I’m not sure what you’d call that.
But here are my top 5.
Careful for spoilers if you haven’t seen it yet.
Number 5 - Paul Becomes Rachel’s New Daniel
Turns out that’s a pretty demanding job.
I love the power dynamic in all of Rachel’s relationships, not just the sexual relationships.
It’s like any room she walks in to she just dominates.
Unless she’s with Sarah and then there’s always this weird vibe.
Just because I think Rachel is a little afraid of her.
Maybe of Helena too.
It really seemed like Rachel was having fun trying to take Sarah’s toy.
Toy being Paul.
Maybe that’s just a sister joke.
It’s fun to watch her be petty since she’s always so hard to read.
I couldn’t really tell what Paul’s motivations in all this are.
It seems like he’s going to the darkside and Rachel is the Emperor.
In all fairness, if the Emperor in Star Wars looked like Rachel, there would have been
a lot more people trying to join the Sith.
Number 4 - Paul Incriminates Felix To Blackmail Sarah
I loved how this went from really sweet, to funny, to scary so fast.
Felix gets his crazy date night montage with Colin and the one thing he promised wouldn’t
happen happens and the police burst in.
Just as Colin squeezes like the entire tube out on his hand.
The look on his face was priceless.
What this, this is nothing.
And then for just a minute I really thought Rachel had sent Paul to kill Felix.
But it’s all about blackmailing Sarah.
It hasn’t worked yet, so as of the end of the episode.
Felix is rotting in jail.
That whole sequence of events was so crazy you could really pick any one of the moments
out as a favorite, but the actors talked about how hard it was for them to film the gun scene.
Let me know if you think Paul really would kill Felix or one of the other non-clone friends.
I don’t think Rachel would kill any of the core clones.
It was kind of implied that he killed some people for her in Taiwan.
It’s hard to tell when Rachel was looking at him when she first told him she was taking
him along.
I thought she either took him for security or sex.
Or both.
I really do like the way Rachel is blurring the lines with Paul.
It’s funny when they invoke Daniel in their dirty pretty sexy time.
Number 3 - Doctor Leekie Likes Beer I’m so happy with the way allegiances are
changing.
Leekie is best buds with clone club or anything, but he is making them a deal.
At the end of the day I think he just wants to push his project forward and he’s willing
to help Sarah and the Clones if it means they can recover lost data.
There was so much information that got dropped in Cosima’s scenes.
Leekie is searching for the synthetic DNA inside the clones that’s keeping them alive.
My guess is that they won’t be able to cure whatever is making Cosima sick until they
find Rachel’s Father and get whatever Data he has.
I’m also totally expecting Leekie to double cross clone club again.
If he’s lying to Rachel to help Cosima, then why wouldn’t he just turn around and
lie to Cosima at some point.
Let me know if you think he’ll keep helping them after he gets what he needs.
That will be the test.
Number 2 - The Creator Is Still Alive
One of their creators that is.
But it looks like Swan Man, Rachel’s father is alive and hiding out somewhere.
Helena is like the world’s best bloodhound.
If the pacing of the last couple of episodes holds up, they’ll probably find him in the
next 1 or 2 episodes.
Basically all the hard data is supposed to have been lost in the fire.
The original genome they developed to grow the clones.
So they can’t grow more or fix the clones that are breaking down, until they learn more
about it.
And right now it seems like Swan Man is the only one who can help.
I’m wondering how Mrs S is connected to him too.
She’s in her 50s and Swan Man is supposed to be in his 70s.
So maybe she was just like a lab tech or an intern working with them.
Or she was related to one of them.
But I love that were getting so much new information about the original cloning experiment.
It’s like they’re teasing a prequel show for when Orphan Black goes off the air.
It would be like baby Clone Club set in the 70s.
and my Number 1 moment - Sarah Stops Helena from Killing Rachel
I actually thought this moment was more intense than Felix with the gun.
Mostly because Sarah stepped in front of the sniper rifle while she was trying to talk
Helena down.
All while Rachel was mauling Paul.
She’s so fascinating.
It’s like she’s using weird sex as a way to let her emotions out.
And Paul is like a new race horse she’s thinking about buying, so she just inspects
him like an animal.
That was pretty epic as far as sex scenes go.
How amazing was Helena too.
She was by far my favorite Clone this week.
I can’t get Pretty, Dirty, Sexy out of my head.
And that doll.
All of that was why I laughed so hard when Sarah threatened Leekie at the bar later.
I love the dynamic between Helena and Sarah.
It’s like they’re a separate two-member Clone Club inside the larger Clone Club because
they were born as twins.
Helena acknowledges she has other seestra’s, but I think Sarah is the only one she’s
bonded to.
But now it’s your turn, let me know what your favorite moment was.
And which sex scene did you think was the funniest.
I don’t mean intentionally funny, I just mean the one you laughed at the most.
Overall the episode was a solid B plus.
I always get excited when the writers flip a bunch of the relationships on the show.
Leekie helping the clones, Paul letting himself get dominated by Rachel.
Like I said, my favorite clone this week was Helena.
Rachel was fascinating, but this week Helena was like a black hole for my attention.
Just so strong I couldn’t think about anything else when she was around.
You really do forget sometimes that Tatiana Maslany is playing them all.
There’s only so many times you can say she’s amazing until we all just accept it as something
that will always be the same.
Of all the characters right now I feel like Felix and Paul are the weakest, Felix gets
physically dominated for comedy a lot, but Paul is like a Robot that Sarah and Rachel
are controlling.
I think Paul thinks he’s doing everything for the greater good.
But really at the end of the day he has no will of his own.
He’s just an appendage of Rachel’s now.
An appendage she likes to have sex with in really strange ways.
I can’t wait till we get an extended scene with Rachel and Helena though.
They’re like the two heavy hitters on the show right now.
Not to forget any of the other important plot points.
Some of these are interesting and some are just horrifying.
First Gracie in the torture closet.
She is not going to walk away from this season with all her marbles.
The Proletheans are just way too crazy to let anyone stay sane.
Most importantly, she’s probably going to end up having to carry that creepy baby.
As nuts as she is, how can you not feel bad for her.
Kira and Cal are adorable together, but we keep seeing Kira’s supernatural qualities
manifest, like she’s playing a different game from everyone else.
She’s so self aware it’s unsettling.
Like when Cal is making jokes about socks and she’s scanning money, passports and
guns.
And then there’s Cosima’s sickness she’s been hiding from the rest of the Clones.
Sarah understands what’s going on but with Allison in rehab it seems like Clone Club
is slowly coming apart at the seams.
I’m really excited to find out what the Place of Screams is next week though.
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next weekend.
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