Well, the fact that they killed off the black woman almost immediately after we met her kind of proves my point. If they'd kept her on as a character, we could've found out so much more — why she chose to be Sarah and Helena's surrogate mother, what she'd been doing in the years since their birth, and so on. As it is, she remains a cipher.

That plot twist with the male clones was something that really disappointed me. As you can see from this post, what I love about Orphan Black is how unapologetic it is about focusing on women's stories, and the fact that it is, in essence, about the experience of being a woman. Adding male clones shifts this focus considerably. At least the male clones were made for the military, since I think the military is the only area in which men are treated as being 'just bodies' in the way that women frequently are. I'll keep watching, but it wasn't an area in which I wanted the show to go.