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OB Rewatch: To Hound Nature in Her Wanderings

I’m totally going with @mlleclaudine ‘s fanfic idea that Delphine is the one who brought Scott on board with Dyad.  I mean, look at her.  She’s so damn pleased with herself.

I loved:

This episode couldn’t have started off any cuter.  In the first eight minutes, we have....

“I’m very good with children.” - Yes, you are, Helena!

“Oh, honey! Oh, sugar honey...”  

“You’re the puppy.”

Cosima answering Delphine’s phone with a terrible French accent and Delphine not even caring.

“I know about the clones!”

Shadow puppets!

Just look at our little Scotty, embarking on the journey of a lifetime and he doesn’t even know it yet.

Helena’s story to Jesse about how she was a detective, a brilliant scientist, and a divorcee with rehab drinking problems.  

I liked:

“If you knew where Swan Man was, you would leave me behind.”  Helena, being right on the money, most likely.  Also having a great command of English 2nd conditional.

Angry Felix attacking with paint and listening to angry music.  I don’t like why he’s angry, but I’m glad he’s shown as being angry instead of just the ever-supportive gay accessory, which he’ll go back to being later.

“We’re clones, Victor.  Whaddaya think of that?”  Go, you, Alison, using the C word!

Dear sweet awkward Scott wanting to see a clone.  He’s so green here it’s funny.  He starts to figure out that it’s not all fictional sci-fi fun, though, when Delphine kinda freaks out on him a little bit.  Welcome to Dyad, Scott.

Helena’s drink spread.

Alison’s basketballing around Victor is reminiscent of her vacuuming around Donnie.

“We’re just poking at things with sticks.”

The officer at the station was very sweet to Helena.

Sarah’s little eye roll when she told Duncan that Rachel could get sick, too.  Like, “yeah, I guess it might get Rachel to, or whatever, like anyone cares.”

I didn’t like

Once again, people not waiting more than 2 seconds for the people they’re hiding from to leave/ turn out the lights before they jump into action.  

Oh hey, Vic, I forgot about you, too.  It was even better than forgetting about Paul.

I dislike all the retconning that will go into Mark and Paul which makes their encounter here nonsensical.  I did, however, love the little “Good luck with that,” from Paul on the way out.

Why the fuck didn’t Sarah go immediately after Helena?!  Come on, Sarah, she’s your Sestra!  You didn’t even fucking try to get her from the station.

People just throwing their cigarettes on the ground all over the place in these shows, man!

Siobhan’s a real bitch to Sarah here for no apparent reason.  The last she saw Sarah, Sarah and Kira were being threatened by the Birdwatchers, and Siobhan let them drive away.  Her demeanor here strikes me as being more retconning from TPTB than anything else, and it rings fishy.  I’m digging her new look, though.

Other notes:

Helena’s like an eight-year-old.  You cannot leave her alone somewhere and expect her “not to do anything, please.”  She needs a job, a distraction, an occupation of some kind, or she will find one for herself.

According to Amazon, the song “Crazy” that Helena and Jesse dance to is sung by Diana Salvatore, who plays Bobby.  I just learned that!

I would have liked to have seen:

Not much for this section here - more things I wanted to see less of, like half the male characters.  Checking in with Kira and Cal would have been nice, though.

And, I mean, I always want more Cophine.

I have questions:

How much had Helena drunk in her life before the bar scene here?  She holds her liquor very well, but also acts like someone for whom booze is an unexpected treat.  I’m not sure how the Proletheans feels about alcohol, either.

How does that church connect with the Cold River institute?  I know the archives are there, but why are they there?

How much of Helena’s story does Jesse actually buy?  

Why the hell doesn’t Paul grab Sarah when she leaves the church?  He seems to know she’s in there.  They just drag this out for “tension” or some shit, and I just want to stop seeing Paul’s face on my screen.