#at least john's death makes sense plotwise

[lobeliamaximoff]

"Yellowstone is not the same without Kevin Costner", like have you ever seen season 3 of Pair of Kings? 5B is a masterpiece compared to that bullshit. And Pair of Kings wasn't the same without Mitchel Musso, that's for sure.

[musefulstranger]

5x09 review-One Fettered Slave

I can’t believe we’ve come to this point.

One episode before the final epilogue and it feels so surreal-i can’t even begin to imagine  how it must’ve been for the people that have sticked to this show for 4 years.

Ep 9 was what i imagined it to be: quick paced, action packed and extremely emotional.

I was scared about the analogy between the Helena moments and the general mythology arc cause they had to show a lot of things- especially after Siobhan’s death- but they balanced it well.

let’s analyze the different thematics:

The Funeral

Siobhan’s funeral  started with Sarah speaking . In an episode that is focused on another character i think the writers did a good choice not showing Sarah’s vulnerability.

She’s suddenly the pillar of the family and eveyone is expecting directions from her. She has to be the strong one there’s no other way. Her grief and feelings are not her priority right now  so she won’t break down. Not in front of Kira, not in front of everyone.

Sarah’s grown so much.This moment says it all

what am i supposed to do?

she can’t afford losing her child as well. She’s the reason she’s keeping it together after all. So she stays with her and comforts her. Something Ms S had done all those years when Sarah was absent.

I also adored the symbolism of her wearing her mother’s jacket.

Sarah taking responsibility, lifting the weights of this family

also congrats for letting Tatiana without make up in her  portrayal of Sarah (or rather the “no make up” makeup ya know) cause it made her emotional chaos more humane… her eyes said it all..

also about her breaking down- i believe we’re gonna see her grieve the way she’s supposed to after everything is finally over. Last episode is Sarah centric so it totally fits to have her moment in the epilogue.

What i didn’t like from the funeral scene was the singing at the beginning, which i found anticlimactic..it would be much better if we could just hear Sara and Felix speaking with no other sound in the background..

Also the fact that 4 days after S’s death they could walk and talk in a house that is a murder scene was totally unrealistic..Police had to be all over the place investigating and all…

Unless Art handled the situation in a way..but still a plot hole is a plot hole

Team working together

Cosima,Felix, Art, Hellwizard, Scott, Rachel ok what a pleasant suprise to see everyone working together. I loved the fact that supporting actors got the chance to actually help the ledas and be useful. Each one helped in their own field.

Cosima helped with the Dyad information and Scotty-Hell with the security system (even if it was kinda weak to hack the security system with such convienience-i’m bypassing that lol)

Even Rachel helped!! Rachel!!! My only complaint was Alison’s minimum participation in this but i get that given the circumstances her involvement  would be extremely difficult

Should i talk about Art??

Cause everything

screams

SACRIFICE

and all this time i ‘ve been crazy rambling about how his chances of surving are veeeery  low…. ep 9 built his exodus cause the final episode will be Leda/Sarah Centric…so be prepared guys…

i get Ebro’s schedule..i trully do..and i was fine with Sardinia..i was fine with Geneva as well cause there was a reason behind it plotwise but we’ve come to the point where there isn’t even an explanation about this…

they didn’t clarify the reason she left… cause it doesn’t make sense when Siobhan’s funeral was 4 days after the gallery party…there wasn’t a reason good enough to justify her absence that’s why the writers didn’t give one…they prefered to let the fans decide which reason was good enough…let’s be real though that was sloppy..and as much as i love orphan black i’m gonna point out  it’s weakening points as well.

Coady+ Mark

So Mark died absolutely clueless…his death matched Ira’s death, both manipulated by their creators, hoping for a cure that never existed in the first place.Too bad that there wasn’t any building up to bring tension and to make us care about those characters… so this scene felt kinda flat at least for me…i believe the reason behind this was cause ob writers didn’t want to make Coady a grey character…. well i for once celebrated her death after this scene

wait it is confirmed that Coady is dead right? I mean Helena beat the shit out of her so it would be  impossible to zombie out ?? or should i be worried??

PT + Rachel!Sarah

oh god PT without his wig is like a bulb with ears lmao

anyway so i loved these 2 together…this is the first time Sarah meets John am i right?

also congrats to the props team and the level of detail they use in each scene…i liked that Sarah didn’t wear the same patch Rachel wears…

a++ to the dialogue about PT perving out on Rachel because in that way Sarah put herself on Rachel’s shoes and actually saw for the first time how they were monitoring her sister and what actually means complete lack of privacy…

also both Susan and PT seem to have a perplexed image as to what a father/mother figure looks like

you don’t fuck your ‘son’/ or watch you ‘daughter’ masturbate and then call them “son/daughter” lol

but it gave me pleasure that Rachel never actually called PT “father” and that’s how Sarah got exposed..

the moment she cut him with the knife i was like “yaaaas finish him lol”

HELENA

FLASHBACKS

omg??

don’t get me wrong the kid was very good/ super talented and all

but how could they do this???

i mean it was SO.FUCKING.OBVIOUS that this isn’t the face of a leda clone you couldn’t concentrate on anything else!

at least i couldn’t! Especially when 2 episodes before they used canonically Cynthia!

i mean

??????

it defies logic?? there’s no excuse??

they could have dubbed the ukranian parts i don’t care if little Cynthia couldn’t play that good that was so wrong in so many levels… it had the “Spongebob takes a bath in the sea” logic lol

and it was really such a shame cause the flashbacks were so amazing..

first of all i loved the whole “pleasures of the flesh are unacceptable in a religious environment” thematic cause it adresses real social issues like the austerity and fake puritanism of social institutions.

the reason behind Helena’s bleached hair was a nice touch even though little Helena should also have some  burn marks after this…we got to know why she has those pink shades under her eyes as well so that was good..

as far as to why her hair is still blonde after all this time…well i choose to patch this plot hole by believing that Helena did this to herself again and again..she bleached/dyed them as a sign of punishment, self harm  and guilt cause that was the way she was raised- a mouthpiece and killing machine of others..

the art department did a brilliant job with the dollhouse and the correlation between Helena’s fixation with dolls back in her Rachel assassination attempt

Tomas took her and hide her the fact  that she’s a copy..she grew up in the illusion that she was special..that she was the original..in fact Rachel and Helena fantasized about the same thing and it is so fascinating to see how they are 2 different sides of the same coin…

Most Heartbreaking moment

Oh god this moment…

what kind of mother could you possibly make?

jesus Tatiana each time you give more and more, i haven’t seen an actor as committed and devoted as you are, you deserve all the praise girl woah

Coady found Helena’s weakness and it is not how she smells, looks or talks…it’s about her capacity of giving a future more bright and beautiful to her children than the one her younger self  had to endure…

and at the end of the day she’s willing to take the bait..  it’s either freedom or death…exactly like Rachel..there’s no middle ground..she won’t leave her children become experiments so that’s why i find super important that we finally get a Rachel Helena scene…there’s a high probability Rachel won’t make it in the finale so at least lets have a last glorious scene with the 3 of them as they try to escape…or so i hope…

THE TWINS

YEEEEEESSSSS

all this crazy rambling about this being a Sarah-Helena season finally came true! Everything came full circle and this moment was SO important like you guys don’t understand…

Sarah finally made up for Helena..she gave her her blood to keep her alive…she put each and everyone of her friends and family searching for her, she made her a priority- drowning her grief -cause she couldn’t lose another one..especially Helena.

And now she will help her give birth..she will be there for her, protect her, give her life even..even tho after the obspoilers fiasco my theory now is that Art is gonna save Sarah…because it is super symbolic .. it would be his second chance and his redemption after losing Beth.. now he’s gonna do it right. Idk it is so foreshadowing… i wonder what Rachel’s role is gonna be..i sure hope she’s the one that’s gonna kill PT but who knows at this point.

Ep 9 set the mood for a very powerful ob series finale..Helena’s inner world was raw and pure and it’s going to  parallel  Sarah’s  final  gut-wrenching episode.The twins are going to set the epilogue and i trully hope their journey will be as magical and  satisfying as this show was  for all of us.

[talaricula]

okay so sherlock was just bad

bad and boring

too slow-paced, they dropped the ball on literally all their characters except sherlock, their characterisation is inconsistent as fuck, their storylines are terribly clichéd and just wonky and unrealistic, plotwise, they brought in characters and plotlines they couldn’t handle so they got rid of them in the laziest way possible

the relationship between John and Sherlock is just - yikes, are they even friends by this point? they seem to be just putting up with each other through the force of habit. i ship it, i really do, but not like this. i mean, this episode i found Sherlock’s relationship with Mary a lot more compelling than John and Sherlock - not in a shippy way at all, but as friends, i liked them better

and we all know that i personally love Mary, but even the people who hate her have to admit - that was the laziest fucking death scene ever. they introduced her and realised she threw off their main John and Sherlock dynamic, and just. fridged her. wow. and like she’s an assassin and John is a doctor and they do nothing and she dies (Mary even comments on it, which is even lazier: ‘yes we acknowledge we’re fucking up realism look! we’re so good! we’re not gonna make it better tho’), while Sherlock got shot in the actual heart and survived. the fuck. lazy, boring, inconsistent. also big dramatic speech she manages to wrap up just before dying. and srsly, STOP KILLING CHARACTERS YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH/KILLING OFF CHARACTERS FOR *-*-*DRAMA*-*-* (esp female characters for more manpain. the fuck. this has been done before. it’s sexist and boring)

and JOHN WATSON. i fucking love Watson and they’re doing him SO WRONG. the only way this is consistent writing is if John is a full-on arsehole. and Watson is not an arsehole - I know it’s “their show” but there’s such a thing as staying more or less faithful to the source material. this is on the same level of bad as post-s1 dfp!Sherlock. John Watson would not cheat on his wife with whom he just had a baby, or at least not with a random stranger he made eye contact with on a bus. and if he did, he wouldn’t make big speeches about “talking to each other and working it through” to her when she leaves (for an actual good reason, btw, even tho she could have handled it better). it’s just an obvious set-up for wracking manpain guilt in the rest of the season, having cheated on her and not having gotten closure by telling her. ergh. i mean i get that John may have wanted to escape his marriage but a. if he did, they should have had to show it more last season and this ep, not just the one-ep fall-out that got resolved p quickly, and b. honestly. a stranger. I get that he was a serial dater and dated ppl he didn’t know v well but this is a marriage, guys. if it had been Sherlock or even Molly or wtv I’d have been mad but it would have made more sense. like this it’s just. boring. also way to go with fucking boring relationship conflict. Mary’s conflict is “I am an ex-assassin wracked with guilt but trying to give myself a good lige but I’m putting you all in danger and I keep lying to you.” Joh,’s is “I cheated on you with a woman I met on a bus.” it’s just. so boring.

and John blaming Sherlock for Mary’s death is so fucking ridiculous I don’t even want to talk about it. “You made a vow” yes and we’re all adults here and we know that vows like that are about intentions, not results. You can’t promise to protect and ex-assassin from the ppl who want revenge on her. You can promise to do your best but you can’t promise they won’t kill her. John knew that - it was implied in tsof that he did. He may be projecting his guilt onto Sherlock - fine, but at this level it’s an arsehole thing to do. And John Watson might have a temper and struggle with violent impulses and be shit at expressing emotions, but he’s always tried to better himself and that’s what makes him a good man. And he cared about Sherlock! That was his defining trait. The John Watson from canon and from the two first seasons was a bit of a little shit, sometimes, sure. But he wasn’t a jerk. Now he is, and I’m mad about it.

Let’s not even talk about the hard plot which made no sense and was masturbatory as hell - random villain pulled from one scene at the start who offers a boring as fuck parallel with Mary, “teasing” us with the pearl stroy to make us “expect” they’d follow canon and then completely dropping the ball on the pearl (tie up your loose threads ffs), an introductory case with the least exciting resolution ever (he hid under a fake carseat and had a seizure. wow. w o w.), convenient ex-friend reappearing after six years of torture wanting to kill Mary based on whispers, “such great detective work” to find Mary when she lmeaves - will Mofftiss PLEASE learn to genuinely explain Sherlock’s tactics instead of hand-waving “genius” solutions? when you write a character smarter than you are you follow the consequences, ffs. 

also stop baiting Moriarty. either he’s dead, and then Sherlock shuts up about it or someone talks to him about his prob trauma-based obsession with him, or he isn’t and then you really bring him back, not keep him as a handy boogey-man in the shadows for if you need yet another Dramatic Twist TM

the only thing I genuinely enjoyed were the Sherlock and Mycroft scenes, which had a rly good tone and rly showcased their relationship, and Mycroft as an individual character, too

except for that. bo-ring.