#paul dierden

[demiurgic-aesthetic]

Orphan Black // aesthetic

[zanephillips]

DYLAN BRUCE Orphan Black 2.05 “Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est“

[rotteddesires]

i still think about paul and sarah.

[sestrahulk]

Tatiana Maslany is set to star in The Nightbeast, a pilot for Amazon MGM Studios from Leah Rachel (Chambers) and Travis Jackson (Hemlock Grove).

Maslany will also produce the pilot that follows Amy, a young mother who is unsatisfied with her seemingly perfect suburban life, so she begins an affair with the boogeyman in her son’s closet – a surprisingly sexy man called the Nightbeast. But this harmless affair she thought to be a figment of her imagination begins to have unexpected consequences, as her two worlds increasingly begin to collide in this seductive, darkly comedic tale.

[darkangelofmists]

I started watching Orphan Black again and I got pulled back into the supremacy that were Sara and Paul. Why did they had to kill him? They should have been endgame.

[thelaziestmotherfucker]

Don’t move.

[wolves-etc]

so I'm rewatching Orphan Black at the moment and there's this really understated thing in 1.7 where (spoilers, obviously) sarah's going into a tense situation to help paul, who is during this entire conversation zip-tied to a chair, and who goes from being stubborn and resolved and on top of the situation (in an "I'm gonna be interrogated but I can deal with it" way) to quietly panicking because she's there too.

paul is, to be clear, a badass. paul has been through some shit. paul has an understanding of situations that are military and clandestine etc, and specifically told sarah to run and protect herself. and sarah's badass as well - adaptable and resilient, and a hell of a general grifter, and she's not in there without a plan.

so it doesn't suck as much as it could. but it sucks. the dude there who's in charge (olivier), who is dangerous in ways we don't yet fully understand, is taking the opportunity to give off distinct sexual harassment vibes. it doesn't go far, and I shan't go into details.

and sarah takes the time during this conversation, as soon as she's relatively unobserved, to turn her back slightly on olivier and draw close enough to paul that he can lean towards her. he touches his forehead to her coat and her side; she rests her hand on the back of his head, stroking very briefly.

the second time, when olivier's left his jacket draped over paul's leg and turned away to take a phone call, sarah moves back in to tug the jacket onto the floor and stays close enough that paul can lean slightly against her arm again.

('scuse the awkward screenshots, but they're very short moments.)

and it's interesting to me. we don't see these characters much when they're clearly on the same side, and this is probably the first time both of them can be sure of it. we only see them truly (emotionally) intimate a few times. and this is a clear moment not just of intimacy but physical reassurance, and something that sarah (who is not soft, and not often kind) recognises as important to do. it's a quiet I'm here and I'm looking out for you.

(and it shows something, something pretty wrenching, in how readily he leans towards her too.)

it's a small thing. the subtlety of it always got lost for me before - I always thought sarah was trying to signal something with the jacket, but no, I think now that was about anger and about comfort, for herself and for paul. and these moments really caught me by surprise.

(later, when they're both safe, the first thing paul does that isn't practical - and the thing that draws them together again - is take sarah's hand and just look at her. I really do think that's the only way they know to be there for each other in a way that works.)

[foreveryoungadult]

Orphan Black S3.E06 "Certain Agony of the Battlefield"