Orphan Black Season 1 Episode 4
Added 2023-09-24 00:49:22 +0000 UTCComments
Whew! I made it y'all. Sorry I'm a little late to tge party. I moved (again), started back at my job after 7 months on a work injury, and I just finished my birthday weekend, so I've been kinda busy lol. Now, that I've caught up with y'alls reactions, I can leave a comment (it's an unnecessary long one considering it's only been 4 episodes lol)... I'm soooo glad you guys are enjoying it and I knew you guys would have great commentary on it. I just binged your first four eps just like I binged the first season in less than a half a day right after it first came out, and have watched it serval times since. The show itself is very bingeworthy with the way it flows and they way it tends to end leaving you wanting more. Answers some questions, only to leave you with a lot more questions in return lol. So far, we've officially met 6 clones in person: Sarah (the British con artist), Beth (the broken detective), Katja (the ill German), Alison (the defensive soccor mom), Cosima (the boho science geek), and Helena (the mad assassin). Sarah's honestly the perfect character to lead a show like this. She's a grifting con artist, so she's knows how to watch people and her surroundings, and has to be quick thinking with her lies and and catching details because one false move can get her cover blown on a job. Having her pose as a homocide detective is great because it allows her to use her skillset in order to try and counter the skillset she lacks as a detective (the show is kinda quick paced which means the lead has to try and keep up), until she couldn't hold on anymore at the end of the episode (including thinking ahead for recording her message onto her phone for Art in case she got killed by Helena and found her body). She's also not the most moral person, so there's always the question of "what will she do next?". Alison comes across as uptight, suburban, very high alert (possibly, understandly paranoid), but protective and seemingly focused. We find out her kids (who she seems most protective of) are adopted and she does community theater. We see her skillset come into play (although the latter needed work). She adapts enough to fool Mrs. S, and although she didn't fool Kira, she's able to use her mothering skills to reassure Kira and make her feel comfortable enough to trust her. Cosima is our laidback science geek. Her science brain and her studies seem to pull through to help assist Sarah. She's the most casual one about the situation and tries to keep the situation calm while trying to connect the information she gathers from the others and on her science end, even when she's not in the mix in person. She seems so far be the stabling foundation of Clone Club. Then we have Helena who's seemingly very insane and a trained assassin. She's seems to be on a mission to get rid of the clones and currently our main antagonist. She's sneaky, highly skilled in but Definitely the most terrifying clone we've met. Despite the blonde dye job and her talk of light, there's definitely a darkness, almost in a childlike way, which makes her all the more creepy. Sorry I forgot to warn Shamonda about her. I did casually mentioned that despite being kind of a sci-fi conspiracy series, it does slip into varying genres through the episodes lol. Her "horror screech" theme is great (I put it in the same "simple, greatly intense" category as The Governor's theme from The Walking Dead). I actually used to have her screech theme as my text alert on my phone, until I started getting texts at night in the dark. It would come on so sudden and loud that it'd freak me out lol... Each character is very easily distinguishable in their looks and personalities, despite Tatiana Maslany easily makes it believable that they're all different people, while making the characters feel natural and not done in an obvious "Hey, look how different this character is from the other ones!" way. It become very easy to forget that it's all basically 1 actress doing it. Apparently, Tatiana's mother was on the set one day watching them do a scene and wondered outloud when her daughter was coming back, not even realizing that she was already watching her daughter right in front of her doing a scene as one of the clones lol. One of the things that makes the series work is their ability to make to multi-clone scenes look and feel believable for the most part. To have the camera constantly moving while having multiple clones in the same shot and showing their faces, whereas normally someone would do a still shot and then split it in and it'd still would look wonky, it's done really well. Even though Tatiana is majority of the cast, the other characters are great as well. Felix being dragged into his sister's chaos and you can tell that he's used to her shennanigans and getting into trouble. You can tell despite their occassional back & forth, you can tell how close they are and believe they really grew up as siblings since they were kids. Art being the hard detective who's not oblivious and actually picking up on Sarah's inconsistency. He starts off as antagonistic, but then you realize that maybe he really is trying his hardest to protect Beth & himself from herself, who hasn't made it easy, especially with Sarah behind the wheel. A lot of police partners are often said to be even more bonded and closer to each otger than their significant others, so if anyone is going to consistently pick up on "Beth" oddities. Mrs. S has great mom energy and you can tell that she had her hands full with both Sarah & Felix over the years lol. Now, she has her foster granddaughter she's raising and isn't afraid to draw the line that allows her to call out and put her foot down regarding her adult children. Fun Facts: The season 1 episodes are titled after terms from Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species". Orphan Black is a Canadian series that aired on BBC America in the US. Tatiana Maslany (the clones) & Jordan Garvis (Felix) are Canadian (as is most of the cast). Tatiana Maslany was an improve actress as part of a Canadian improve group when she was young (she sometimes improvised certain characteristics, like the weird way Helena ate the muffin ate Beth's desk lol). When the show came out, some people started referring to her as "The Chameleon". To do their multi-clone scenes, they use techdolly where they program the camera to do the exact same shot over and over. Tatiana and her acting double, Kathryn Alexandre, both had to act out every clone in the multi-clone scenes and they had to try and act everything out one way, switch roles, then have to act the exact way the other person did it, making sure that it and that they had the timing for everything on point. It's where able to even get the clones touching one another or handing stuff over to the other while mostly seeming seemless. There's actually a fun video that the show released after every season showing a cool, behind the scenes montage showing how they did their special effects (I'll post a link near the end of the season if y'all to check it out). Fans tend to agree that Tatiana Maslany is the main "special effect" of the series lol. I'm really glad you guys are finally doing the series. In the words of Cosima: Welcome to the trip! 😄...
Ash Lee Can
2023-09-27 16:45:31 +0000 UTC@Nikko Hutton (Shamonda) No, just AOT right now.
Married To Film
2023-09-25 22:10:17 +0000 UTC
