We finally get to the truth of what happend to Julie Mao. The episode gives us the events of from prior to the beginning of the series, as Julie is flying the crew of the Scopuli as part of the OPA, trying to intersect the Anubis, knowing is has come from Sophie Station, carrying a "weapon". Julie knew about what was going on on Sophie because the Anubis belongs to her father, the Mao Corporation.
The Anubis crew takes the Scopuli, using it as bait for the Cantebury in an effort to start a war between Earth and Mars, in order to divert attention from their plans for Eros Station. Shortly after, the crew of Anubis is killed by the samples they picked up from Phoebe. We lope back to the opening sequence of the series as Julie finds the crew dead and the blue stuff devoruing the corpses. Knowing that this may be a bioweapon, she hides the stealth ship and heads out to Eros, looking for safety (and an OPA rescue).
Once on Eros, Julie hides away in the rundown hotel, waiting for salvation, but her fate had been sealed when she had touched the blue stuff. It was only a matter of time before it ate her up.
Love how the show bookends with Julie, first planting the questions in the pilot and with the 2part finale, giving us answers to the fate of the infamous Ms. Mao.
Poor Miller, trying to save Julie, only to discover her body. She died alone for a cause that pretended to love and cherish her. In reality, it used her, like it uses anyone it can. For Dawes, and the OPA, she was only a pawn to a larger game.
With the samples of the blue goo, or protomolicule, the Mao Corporation moves forward their plan for Eros: inject the population with the protomolecule and see what happens when it grows.... they are using the station as a giant lab experiements and the belters as their lab rats, infecting them via fake vaccines.
Meanwhile, Christen is trying to figure out who has stole stealth tech from Mars and what are they using it for. She doesn't know it will lead her to the Mao Corporation, the pinacle of money and power in the system. At the same time Johnson releases the information from Donager ship, its info on the stealth ship that attacked them, the Anubis was built on earth. This is the breadcrumb that will lead Chrisjen to the Mao and Phoebe station.
Finally all the pieces of the puzzle are being pulled together: Mao Corporation, Julie/Miller, Phoebe station, The Cantebury, and Chrisjen. We finally we the big picture and it's incredible.
I never thought I would get this obssesed over Orphan Black. I mean, while I was watching the first three seasons, the only thing I could think about and even DREAM about, was Orphan Black. The show really sticks on your brain. Makes you love the characters and you actually get worried about them. So, when I started this season (4) I kind of slow down. I couldn't just watch 4 episodes a day because I knew It wasn't going to last that much, but last night I did it, I finished this season and now I need more. I know there will be a 5th season, but knowing that it'll be the last one makes me sad.
This one was fantastic. But I wish they gave Delphine more screen-time. After the season finale on season 3 I wanted to know she was alive. But she came out in the last minutes of this season finale , so I felt like I was being tortured the whole time.
I'm glad I started watching this show because now I understand is genius, and all the cast is amazing, but I must say, Tatiana Maslany deserves every award on this earth just for the fact that I keep forgetting SHE'S half the cast. Extremely talented... I started loving her since episode one.
In a way, the documentary in itself, portrays the perfect picture of how fast-paced and erratic the world may seem at times. Its full of colours and clips, and seems to be a little bit all over the place. I found this documentrary to be lacking a certain focus and depth. Maybe the documentary needed some Adderall itself.
When introducing ADHD meds, and people who have "ADHD" or ADHD, without ever giving any proper introduction as to how these medications can be tremendously helpful to those who truly needs them, is one of the greatest flaws of this documentary. I think the storyline would have benefitted from a clearer focus, on wheather they wanted to follow personal stories or the social issues leading to the abuse of perscription drugs in the US. Issues regarding the diagnose critera and the competetiveness of today is raised, but not really delwed into.
Rather than watching a 1,5 hour documentary, I'd read a short summary of its contents to save time.
"The US have a massive problem when it comes to perscription drugs. The diagnose criteriea for ADHD are unclear, and needs to be further developed, in order to avoid people being medicated without needing medications. (The documentary doesn't mention the financial situation, and how perscription drugs and drug companies sponsoring doctors might be one of the reasons as to why they would want to give medications rather than non-medicated rehabilitation options).. A lot of people in the documentary talk of how they are happy to not be needing Adderall when their life-situation changed (eg. finishing university), and said that the drug felt amazing when they took it. Some people didn't like the effects."
