sarea | Orphan Black through S2 E5

adelagia got a painting for her new place by Afremov, and I loved it so much I had to go right out and get my own! I loved so much of his stuff, but I forced myself to narrow it down to 3. I think hers came out even better than the original, so I'm hoping I'll be really happy with mine. I'm keeping my fingers crossed though that they'll either arrive before I leave for LA (seems super unlikely) or after I get back. I don't want my mom to have to deal with having to handle them and what not, if she doesn't have to.

Speaking of LA... we leave on Saturday! Eeeeeeeeeeeeee!! Harry Potter World, here we come! WE ARE GOING TO DRINK ALL YOUR BUTTERBEER. We're also going to Knott's Berry Farm, do a "sorcerer's study" escape room, go on an Asian food odyssey, go to the beach, and if time and interest allow, do some sightseeing. Also gorge ourselves on Salt & Straw, which we discovered has opened locations down there. :O!!!

Like a couple of other gals in my office, I have replaced my office chair with a fitness ball, and I'm loving and hating it at the same time. I can feel it working, which is good, but I also feel uncomfortable, which is bad. Hopefully I get used to it soon. My posture is going to be SO GOOD.

Anyway, to the subject line of this post!

- Okay well, I didn't expect to meet Kira's dad THIS soon. He seems... okay, I guess? But he does have the issue that all men on this show seem to have, which is that he finds Sarah irresistible, and is willing to go to any manner of length to help her, even after what she did to him. And really, they just hop right back into bed with each other?

- It is so silly the way Felix equated Alison's show opening with Sarah/Kira being ON THE RUN FOR THEIR LIVES. There's no place for you? How about just being there as an uncle/brother/friend? Sheesh.

- Why does poor Felix's love life always get disturbed by Sarah's crazy business, while Sarah seems to find no problem shagging a dude whenever she wants?

- I'm so tired of Alison's useless husband. GO AWAY.

- I'm also still very tired of Paul, who I realized will NOT go away, because

adelagia reminded me that he was at Comic Con last year, meaning he was on the show still as of S3, and also he's kind of her celebrity boyfriend because she has an autographed photo of him, given to her by his sister or something like that. He has nice eyes, but otherwise I have no use for him. I guess I can only hope that his character becomes more interesting, because he is bland as hell. Also, he's such a wuss. He just does whatever they tell him to do. He even sleeps with Rachel without putting up a single fuss! Unreal.

- Some of that is not Paul's fault, of course. The show doesn't seem to know or care about the consistency of his feelings, or that people fall too hard, too fast. I mean, he supposedly was in love with Sarah, right? How could he do ANY of what he's doing, if that were the case? Thank god they were not in any way, shape or form my OTP or I would be seriously upset. I can't imagine ANY hero I loved, in any ship I supported, behaving this way. Ugh.

- I don't find Rachel as interesting as I think they want me to. So she had a happy childhood and the scientists that made her supposedly loved her. Big freakin' deal? I guess maybe finding out that he's still alive, and has been all this time, essentially meaning that he abandoned her, might make her support the other clones somehow? Assuming she doesn't know and isn't in contact with him, I suppose.

- It's funny to me that I jumped to what I think was an obvious conclusion -- that Mrs. S. was the young female scientist in that old photo, especially since the names were blacked out -- and yet apparently we were not supposed to suspect that for second. Oops.

- Helena's growing on me, but I'm really meeeeeeh on her storyline. I haaaate religious freaks. I guess I was right about my speculation on whether their being twins meant that Helena, too, could have children. I don't really get what they're after. And did the guy and Helena get married? She looked like she was wearing some kind of wedding gown, but I wasn't sure... but then she SAID she was married to him, right? I guess at least they went the artificial insemination route instead of the natural route...

- I don't see why Helena has to be the one to carry the embryo. All they needed was her eggs, really, so who cares that she escaped? How they could trust Gracie to carry the baby, anyway, considering how she feels? She would so do everything she could to abort/harm the baby. For that matter, the same goes for Helena -- how could they trust her to carry it, either? They should have a true believer carry it! Gah, so obvious.

- Also, I have an issue with the way we were supposed to believe(?) that Sarah actually cared about Helena? Or is Sarah (and not just Tatiana) a great actress? That scene where she's trying to get Helena to put down the gun and not kill Rachel, all the stuff she said about how she couldn't even tell anyone what she'd lost when she shot and thought she killed Helena -- really? Because from what we were shown, she never gave a single thought to it after it happened! She was more upset that Amelia had died! And she could have told Felix; I call bullshit on her feeling like she had lost something precious and couldn't share that with anyone. As far as we were shown, she didn't have one iota of feeling about Helena other than fear and loathing. It was Helena who valued their twinness, not Sarah, and that was the case from the very beginning, when Helena didn't retaliate against Sarah for shoving a metal stick into her body. If Sarah was just acting, in order to get Helena not to kill Rachel and/or Paul, then fine. But if she really meant those things, they have to do a better job of SHOWING that stuff before we're actually TOLD that those things are true.

- I can't believe Sarah would just entrust Kira into Cal's care. I don't care who he supposedly is, if I had all the shit happen to me as has happened to them, I would trust NO ONE. Plus, I don't know now what I'm supposed to be thinking/feeling about Cal, because

adelagia barely seemed to remember who he was, lol.

- Also, does Kira have ESP or something? And is it because she is the super special progeny of a super special clone? (I assume yes.)