#proletheans

All the stuff that was alluded before. Things Helena mentioned and the ones we saw at the end of her indoctrination. This time we saw it in fashbacks. The initial punishment that got her the bleached hair. The box the nuns put her in. And most of all Tomas.

It was such a shock to see Tomas again but of course he would be there. He was such a big part of Helena’s life. All the lies he fed her about her sisters on behest of Proletheans. Until she killed for him and realised she is one of those he made her kill. That they have her face. And then he told her the final lie. That she is the original.

But she still mourned them - we see the first cut. We see the last one when she tries to kill herself out of guilt for what she did but also because she feels like she is failing her children. Coady tells her she is unfit to be a mother and says she will take them away and raise them. And when Helena realises she can’t escape she knows she cannot allow her babies to be raised as experiments.

This have damaged to much of Helena’s family already. What Coady did to Castors. What Neolution did to Rachel. What Tomas did to her. He might have filled her head with religious nonsense but it was because he hated the clones and Neolution. In the end she was just an experiment to him too. Better dead then that future.

But, of course, Helena has nine lives and she is never more dangerous then when she is cornered. Once she knows her family is coming for her (and that means all of them - from Rachel to Sarah and from Scott to Art) she is not planning to wait. She kills Coady (finally!) and she and Sarah were ready to run but that’s when her waters broke. Some things can’t wait.

when you try to understand how all the groups and organizations in @orphanblack fit together. this is not yet taking into consideration what has happened in season 5. 

Once upon a time, years before we came to the city that's Not Officially Toronto But Come On, It's Toronto, a woman had two children. As a fugitive from a dangerous secret organization, she had to give them up. One, she decided, to the church, and one to the state. This is the origin story for the two primary protagonists of Orphan Black. Sarah Manning went into foster care, while her sestra Helena went to an orphanage run by nuns in Ukraine.

Helena gets indoctrinated into the Proletheans, an ambiguously Christian sect that serves as one of the major antagonists in the series. The religious motifs around the Proletheans make them terrifying, both with Helena as their assassin and as their prisoner. However, the show misses an opportunity to really dig into the theology of the Proletheans and doesn't truly engage with any number of religious objections to the biotechnology the show presents as being in our immediate future. 

Gracie is carrying Helena’s child with her father (that creepy bastard), right?