#side note i like yvonne's sweater

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Queued posts that aged horribly:

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These guys are my Sandra...

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OB Rewatch: Governed As It Were By Chance

I loved:

“Well, bet  you feel like shit.”  You bet correctly, Yvonne.

Art buying Helena time to flee.  Also, artistically, I liked the wintery shots of Helena fleeing through the sleet.

Cosima does have a sweet lab.  Microwave, minifridge, hot plate with teapot, comfy couch, hot French supervisor (who is nowhere to be seen in this episode and I’m not okay with that!)

Everything about Alison in rehab.  

Especially:

Felix’s delicate handling of Alison.  “People got their money’s worth.”  “We’ll celebrate with brunch and mimosas.  Oh, God.  Or just brunch.”

Alison’s denial.  “There are drunks.  Drug addicts!”  

The cut from Felix saying that rehab will help Alison get back some of her dignity to the scene of Alison peeing in front of Yvonne.  Alison had some dark pee, by the way.  Get that girl some more water.  

Oh, and Alison?  You’ve definitely done the nasty.  His name’s Chad.

“You want I should check his crevices?”

Mrs. S getting herself some.  She deserves it.  I did giggle a little when Carlton said the sex was “bloody spectacular” and she replied, “Well, you have been locked up for a long time.”  

Of course, one of the best lines in the series: “Cosima and Delphine are locked in a transgressive lesbian geek spiral bound to end in tears.”  

“Straight outta Cold Bitch Digest.”  The next time I’m house or apartment hunting, I’m bring Sarah along for commentary.

The entire scene of Helena saving Sarah.  I love the slow jams coming on as Daniel cuts Sarah and continuing as Daniel dies.  I love the way we see the action from Sarah’s perspective - the bumps and crashes, then Daniel’s body staggering into view.  I love Sarah’s terror when she sees Helena.  I love Helena spitting on his body.  I love the choreography of Helena’s embrace at the end.

I liked:

The transition from a close-up of Helena’s face weirded out by the sudden wedding ring to Alison’s face, waking up in rehab.

I might not like the way it  happened, but I do like that Alison had to face her addiction issues.  I just wish, for her sake, that she could face the underlying reasons for her drug and alcohol abuse with, ya know, a trained mental health professional.  Who would never believe in clones, so I guess there’s that.

Alison’s  shirt.

The cowboy look suits Ari Millen pretty well, even if the character is, uh, questionable to say the least.

“Don’t linger, Troy.  I’ll know if you do.”  Sarah does such a good Rachel Duncan.

Cosima’s analysis of Rachel is actually pretty close, but Rachel wasn’t raised that way from birth like Cosima assumes.  We see later that all the corporate training started just before adolescence, so Rachel had already formed close human bonds and a moral compass, and lost those bonds before she was forced to be cold and calculating.  It’s part of what makes Rachel so tragic.

I didn’t like:

Good job grabbing Daniel’s gun with your bare hand, Sarah.  I’m glad Cal called her out on it, but I’m not sure a quick wipe with her sweater is going to get rid of the prints.  I’ll give her a pass because of her head injury, though.  

Covering a car with branches will accomplish exactly nothing.  Even if they can cover it completely, it’ll look a little weird to have a pile of branches bigger than a car suddenly appear on the side of a road in such a rural (ie, not well travelled but familiar to locals) area.

Terrible idea, telling Kira to hide, and then running off and leaving her alone when people like Daniel are after her.

I’m several episodes late in saying this, but the Prolethian fish is ugly.  It just is.

The violation of Helena, obviously, it horrifying.  Well, hopefully it’s obvious.

It would’ve been better for Sarah not to use a flashlight when poking around Mrs. S’s house.  The flashlight just draws attention.

I have questions:

How the hell did Cal know with certainty that he would be able to ram his truck into Daniel’s car at exactly that moment?  I mean, GPS is great, but unless he was tracking their car.... 

Has Kira met Cosima?  She knows her name.

I want to know the backstory between Mrs. S and Benjamin.

What did Sarah think she would accomplish by spiting on the guy who’s got her zip tied to a shower stall because it’s “easier to clean up” in there?  You know, I’ll blame this one a head injury, too.

So, this is indelicate, and disgusting, but... why did Henrik inseminate Helena artificially instead of, like, traditionally?  Was he that hung up on the cattle analogy?  Is that how Gracie came about, too?

Interesting notes:

Alison knew immediately where the toilet was when she needed to puke.  Combined with the straw in the juice carton, it looks like she was awake and mobile earlier, but has no memory of it.  It lends some credence to the idea that she might have signed a consent form to be there, after all.

The Prolethian’s are obviously modeled after the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) church, with the polygamy and simple, homespun ways, but also their embrace of technology and Fisher Price toys.  

An Orphan Black drinking game needs to include someone saying “Kira’s asleep” or asking if she’s asleep as the intro to a scene.  

If anyone is trying to put together a timeline of dates and events for the show, here’s a shot of Daniel’s phone with the date of Nov. 1.  I’m pretty sure it doesn’t match up with dates given in Season 1, but we’ll just pretend.

Sex with Sarah must be really good.  Cal assumes she’s scamming a major, shady corporation, who sent a minion that killed his friend Tom, and he’s totally going with it.  He’s skeptical, sure, but he still drops everything for her cause, and I don’t think it��s just because of Kira.  If he were really concerned for Kira and had no attraction / love for Sarah, he would have just called the cops or social services.

In place of the “Previously on” segment, I would have rather seen: 

All of the scenes that @mlleclaudine​ wrote about in her Cophine series, which takes place during this season.  It would take more than a minute, but could just add an additional episode or five to make the space.