So I
rewatched Season Four of Orphan Black. It was a couple of weeks ago, but stuff kept
coming up and I’m only now getting my thoughts down. But here it goes.
Are
Kira’s … feelings related to Rachel’s visions?
I mean, are they things Westmoreland, or someone else, is sending to her
and she’s receiving through some funky biological way? Part of this is related to one thing that has
always bugged me in the show, and that is the synthetic sequences in their
DNA. I believe Ethan said that they made
cloning possible. I’m not a biologists,
but I don’t think that’s how cloning works.
Which makes me wonder if these synthetic sequences are just something
that Westmoreland had Ethan insert for … reasons. This might explain why Sarah and Helena can
have kids. If there needed to be some
shot when the Leda clones were born to activate the synthetic sequences, since
Sarah Helena’s mother ran away they missed out on the shot. Was that the real point of Sarah’s maggotbot?
Speaking
of Westmoreland, I’m pretty sure they won’t do the super scifi thing like he’s
a time traveler stuck in the past, or an alien or anything like that. My bet is that he just won the genetic
lottery and his genes keep him from aging, or aging very slowly. Could the synthetic sequences then be his
attempt to understand this part of himself?
But without sharing it with lowly clones? Was his ability something that Kira inherited,
allowing for her quick healing when she was hit by the car in Season One? Could Kira be better at whatever it is than
Westmoreland?
Something
smaller. Should Scott get a
girlfriend? If so, how about MK? I’m not thinking a whirlwind romance during
Season Five, just them connecting over some game.
Something
I’ve always wondered is why the clone club doesn’t make a video explaining
everything and tell the bad guys that if anything happens to them, the video
about cloning, plans to genetically alter humans, etc. would go public. I’m sure the reason they haven’t done it is
they worry what would happen to the naïve clones suddenly learning that they
are clones, but at some point that may have to be an option. The upside to them telling the world is there
could be a montage of people learning about clones – such as Angie, Vic, the
reverend, Sara, Alison’s mom, Krystal – as well as a bunch of new clones
learning they’re clones.
That
might be a way to end the series, but I also wonder if they’ll do a Harry
Potter ending of jumping ahead twenty years and seeing Kira with kids, or Scott
and MK married, or Cosima and Delphine with some adopted kids. On one hand, that seems too cheesy, but on
the other hand you feel that these characters deserve a happy ending. I guess if you don’t want it to be too happy,
you could have them all coming together for Mrs. S’s funeral.
I
guess we’ll just have to wait and see where it all goes.
Anyway,
here are the links to the previous season’s overviews as well as my reviews for
each episode of Season Four.
Season
4
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