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Andrew spent the past few days binge-watching all five seasons of Orphan Black, having previously seen the first two-and-a-halfseasons in broadcast. Overall, very satisfying, although I thought I saw a late-Season-Five plot twist coming in Rachel’s storyline and then it didn’t, and I’m a trifle disappointed about that, although it would have made a difference to the overall plot.
Kind-of spoilers for a twist that didn’t happen:
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In the flashback to Young Rachel being presented to the Board as the only self-aware clone, when she is asked if she knows her own serial number, it looked to me as though she was crossing her fingers behind her back as she recited it.
Rachel tells Kira she made a friend once, at summer camp as a child.
Rachel, in a flashback to the more recent past, says dismissively of the first clone to die from the Leta autoimmune disorder: “she was living on the street... and her mother was a drunk.”
When told that (redacted) is a fraud, Rachel replies “aren’t we all?”
Based on all this, I was waiting for a revelation that Rachel wasn’t the original Rachel, but another clone she’d accidentally met (possibly at summer camp, Parent Trap-style, though it seems unlikely she’d have been sent to any summer camp open to middle-class kids), that the two girls had swapped places because Fake Rachel wanted wealth and position and Real Rachel wanted freedom, and that Real Rachel was that first clone to die of the disorder.
Oh well.
Meanwhile, I really want to see that upcoming Perry Mason prequel in which Tatiana Maslany plays a character who’s basically Aimee Semple MacPherson.
Kind-of spoilers for a twist that didn’t happen:
Enter your cut contents here.
In the flashback to Young Rachel being presented to the Board as the only self-aware clone, when she is asked if she knows her own serial number, it looked to me as though she was crossing her fingers behind her back as she recited it.
Rachel tells Kira she made a friend once, at summer camp as a child.
Rachel, in a flashback to the more recent past, says dismissively of the first clone to die from the Leta autoimmune disorder: “she was living on the street... and her mother was a drunk.”
When told that (redacted) is a fraud, Rachel replies “aren’t we all?”
Based on all this, I was waiting for a revelation that Rachel wasn’t the original Rachel, but another clone she’d accidentally met (possibly at summer camp, Parent Trap-style, though it seems unlikely she’d have been sent to any summer camp open to middle-class kids), that the two girls had swapped places because Fake Rachel wanted wealth and position and Real Rachel wanted freedom, and that Real Rachel was that first clone to die of the disorder.
Oh well.
Meanwhile, I really want to see that upcoming Perry Mason prequel in which Tatiana Maslany plays a character who’s basically Aimee Semple MacPherson.
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