3/26/2023 0 Comments Wow character throttled![]() Sarah's reaction to Kira being kidnapped was, surprisingly, telling Siobhan to keep it cool: they would find a way. But also, for the first time, the agony of freedom. The agony of being a woman who had to sacrifice a part of her own body, the agony of being perceived as a mere experiment, the agony of being hurt by those whom she trusted. And the episode blacked out with the image of Rachel in agony. ![]() I usually look away when there is a gross-out scene onscreen, but I couldn't take my eyes out, absolutely no pun intended.Īs Rachel cut her eye out, Westmorland lost control. That eye, a symbol of Neolution's care for her and also their instrument of control. The excessive drinking was part of the plan, as she was dosing herself to ease the pain of extracting her own eye. ![]() She didn't go with them, she didn't join Clone Club, she didn't ask for their help. Dosing Kira, giving Neolution's gunmen a reason to leave Dyad, contacting Art, using the eye-patch to trick Westmorland, and finally giving Kira back to Sarah and Mrs. I was so excited when Rachel put her plan into motion, and she executed it to perfection. But about to claim her freedom, for the first time ever. She is nervous, heartbroken, about to collapse. She drinks, she pretends to be cold to Kira, she watches, with teary eyes, the footage of a day in the park with her deceased parents. In this reality, she is Kira: taken from her family, trapped inside Neolution, treated as an experiment. In another reality, Kira could have been her daughter. She always wanted to be a mother and always envied Sarah for having the ability to conceive. Having the villain bond with the child is an easy writing trick to make the villain sympathetic, or even to have them switch sides, but it makes total sense in Rachel's case. Would she proceed as planned and take Kira to the island? Would she turn her back to Neolution and do the right thing for once?Īlas, "Gag or Throttle" takes us through Rachel's emancipation, and it is absolutely riveting television. From that moment forward, I had no idea what she would do next. Not only wasn't she free as she thought she was, she was even more controlled than her sisters. No wonder Rachel was in total dismay when she found out. He had access to her every moment, her intimacy, her body. Turns out he had Rachel under his constant surveillance. This season, Westmorland was always one step ahead of her, aware of details he could only know if he had some kind of surveillance in every corner of Dyad. Last season Rachel had visions of a swan, and it is clear now that those were computer-generated images. ![]() I have to be honest, I didn't see it coming. The revelation that Rachel's eye was also a camera was a gut-punch. That's a lot of power and it disables her to see that, in the end of the day, Westmorland, Coady and the likes of them think of her as part of their experiment, not as their equal. She gets to run Neolution, she has the power to send out orders to kill her sisters if needed, when she loses an eye they give her a bright new one, she is first in line to get the cure to the illness that kills the Ledas. She is the "pro clone," the one who was raised with self-awareness, who believes she is superior to her sisters because she is with those who rule, not among the oppressed ones. Rachel is the typical person who belongs to a minority but has enough privileges that she doesn't see herself as part of an underprivileged group. What "Gag or Throttle" offers, though, is not only a terrific insight into the character's mind, but a believable turn for her. To be honest, the worst aspects of Rachel's personality are so grating that I didn't want her to have a redemption arc. We already had a clone villain convert and join the Clone Club – Helena – and I wasn't sure if turning Rachel into a good guy would work at all. Before watching this season, I wondered if the writers would maintain Rachel a foe or give her a redemption arc. I find myself tempted to write that over and over, because, wow, was she the boss here. I do think, however, that its final ten minutes are the best ten minutes of television this show has ever produced. This could be the best episode of the entire series. ![]()
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