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“Oh my God, not Cats.”
Apr. 21st, 2014 08:48 pmThat's as close to an Orphan Black spoiler as you're gonna get here. Plenty of theories and sidey-liney trivia, though.
No, the play Alison is in is not Cats, but it is a real script. Emily heard/read an interview with the showrunners where they said they wanted it to be something recognisable (Grease came up as a possibility), but they couldn't afford the rights to it for this purpose; then they toyed with writing their own "script" for Ali's "debut," but that would've just been too painful. So they finally located and bought up the rights to something that can only be described as a clone-ish musical adaptation of Sunshine Cleaning. Like the chopping off of a tail, it hurts, but only for a moment.
The Times review of the series on its S2 premiere was somewhat dismissive of the show, as being too low-budget Canadian sci-fi. But it did blow my mind with one factoid I'd completely missed: the actor who plays Dr. Leekie was, b-b-back in the day, the star of Max Headroom.
So there's that, and Fe in assless chaps, and quite a few other twists and turns. I'm now working a theory that each of the clones, despite their genetic identiality, has her own special superpower. Sarah's, likely, would be the ability to reproduce; Cosima's, her superintelligence; Helena's, her [censored]; and Alison, well? Probably that darned craftiness;)
We have new villains, more dirt on the existing ones, and Art is potentially in a metric tonne of trouble now, but I suspect he rather likes it that way. Plus anything that keeps him around the set is good, because somebody has to build a case against the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for stealing last year's Emmy from Tatiana.
Although Rachel would probably send a smartass lawyer to spring Robin Wright just before she confessed to it;)
No, the play Alison is in is not Cats, but it is a real script. Emily heard/read an interview with the showrunners where they said they wanted it to be something recognisable (Grease came up as a possibility), but they couldn't afford the rights to it for this purpose; then they toyed with writing their own "script" for Ali's "debut," but that would've just been too painful. So they finally located and bought up the rights to something that can only be described as a clone-ish musical adaptation of Sunshine Cleaning. Like the chopping off of a tail, it hurts, but only for a moment.
The Times review of the series on its S2 premiere was somewhat dismissive of the show, as being too low-budget Canadian sci-fi. But it did blow my mind with one factoid I'd completely missed: the actor who plays Dr. Leekie was, b-b-back in the day, the star of Max Headroom.
So there's that, and Fe in assless chaps, and quite a few other twists and turns. I'm now working a theory that each of the clones, despite their genetic identiality, has her own special superpower. Sarah's, likely, would be the ability to reproduce; Cosima's, her superintelligence; Helena's, her [censored]; and Alison, well? Probably that darned craftiness;)
We have new villains, more dirt on the existing ones, and Art is potentially in a metric tonne of trouble now, but I suspect he rather likes it that way. Plus anything that keeps him around the set is good, because somebody has to build a case against the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for stealing last year's Emmy from Tatiana.
Although Rachel would probably send a smartass lawyer to spring Robin Wright just before she confessed to it;)