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That's a great pic.
I just recently finished season 2, and was kind of let down by how unfocused and sprawling the show became (Hi! brand new clone, Bye! brand new clone. So glad that you couldn't wait until next season where you could have gotten a story arc, or affected the story in any way shape or form). And then I read about how one of the creators has talked about how he wants the show to go on for 8 season + a film... Yeah, that has me worried that the show will end up with ridiculous levels of conspiracy (Lizard people controlsthe reanimated corpse of Ronald Reagan who controls the Inebriati who controls Topside who controls Dyad who...) I'm not done with Orphan Black yet but they need to step their game up a bit.
Adding the government/military was the next logical step in the conspiracy but I hope that the addition of the Castor clones doesn't dilute the Leda clones roles. This show's strength is in its characters, their individual arcs and how they interact with one another, adding more characters may just make all characters more bland. I mentioned it above but I'm really disappointed in how they handled Tony, who exemplifies everything I disliked, he just ended up being part of the sprawl, taking time from more interesting characters.
Whilst talking about dislikes, they had a good thing going with Ethan Duncan both as a individual character and what he added to the plot. I'm glad that they started to explain the experiment and Ethan was the perfect character to do it with, with his mix of detachment (telling Rachel that they're intentionally barren) and compassion (bonding with Kira). His end was way too abrupt, there is so much more they could have done with the character.
This ended up being a bit of a longer rant than anticipated, anyways I'll do the usual routine of desperately avoiding spoilers until the third season ends up on Netflix next year from here on out probably. I'll just add that I kind of want Allison & Donnie to go full on folie à deux with the entire "I never been so attracted to you [as now that we've buried a corpse together]" thing.
