At the start of the season, I was optimistic. Though we knew Cophine would be split up, the breakup scene in the hallway was still rooted in love. And I imagined the rest of the season would be Cosima and Delphine working toward a cure in their own ways, and eventually finding their way back to one another.
And then I watched this season unfold. And saw that Cosima’s “arc” was essentially just her growing from despondent to utterly disinterested. At least in everything but Shay.
Suddenly the intelligent, curious, crazy for science Cosima I had spent the last twenty episodes coming to love and respect had been reduced to a sullen, oversexed brat. She has spent more time naked in bed than she has in a lab.
If that’s a choice the writers want to make, then fine. But please articulate for us the why of it. Give us something to latch on to so we can understand the choices she’s making. Because right now it feels so incredibly out of character for Cosima to refuse to pee in a cup, when last season she said she would try anything to find a cure.
Really, Cosima? You won’t pee because it’s Delphine who asked it of you? Because you don’t trust her?
Have the writers made you that petty and vindictive? Or have they just made you that dumb – completely ignorant of all of Delphine’s efforts to save you and your sisters?
As for her relationship with Shay, it’s as one dimensional as Cosima has become: Beyond a story about a bad first date and a high-five at a bar, there’s been no effort to express an intellectual, emotional or spiritual connection between Cosima and Shay. Perhaps that’s the point, and would explain why their scenes are now becoming borderline gratuitous.
Nonetheless, it’s still disheartening to see Cosima go from a relationship with Delphine, that was beautifully complex and layered with love, devotion, science and friendship, to a relationship based solely on sex. One for which she’s shirking all of her other responsibilities.
Again, it feels out of character for Cosima. And again, if the writers would at least offer some insight into why Cosima is throwing herself so deeply into her relationship with Shay, I could try and understand. Was her brush with death and breakup with Delphine so shattering that Cosima is throwing herself into a bubble of denial? Is it just easier for her to ignore everything than to accept her reality as a dying clone?
But the fact of the matter is I don’t know what Cosima as a character wants this season beyond getting laid. And if that’s what the character of Cosima Niehaus has been reduced to by the writers of Orphan Black this season, then they killed her off long before the auto-immune disease ever could.
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