It's not like Tarantin is famous for his happy endings. It's basically Kill Bill, Jackie Brown, Django, and Death Proof.

That's absolute nonsense. You can't assume a good welfare system means "oh, by the way, we also happened to fix racism".

Your comment seems to just assume anyone who's annoyed by a header being racist is automatically fine with another form of racism. Since I'm against both, it doesn't really work.

I haven't gotten much of a patriarchy vibe from Westmoreland. If anything, the vast majority of the people he puts into power are women.

Given the show's use of cloning, healing factors, telepathy, humans beings with bionic eyes or tails, etc. the biotech is clearly beyond ours to a point where I'm not sure how much we can assume about the process of egg harvesting for them.

It's not even a bad thing, though. "Dress up for a fancy dinner" is just standard manners. If I show up to a wedding in sweats and a dirty tank top, the couple will probably be bothered.

It could, but it does seem like that's just a room he has around for that purpose anyway.

Sure, it's terrible if you assume they'll keep them in cages and kill them if it doesn't go properly, but that's not how they handled the Leda clones at all.

Rachel's a psychopath who stabbed her own mother to seize power, she's a mess of a person. As I said a few comments ago, Rachel is legitimately brainwashed, she was basically raised to do exactly what she's currently doing. But Westmoreland doesn't require all the other women around him to be brainwashed, and even if…

Again, taking away that autonomy is bad, but they're doing so in a fairly minor way. Compared to the cheek implants, the genetically engineered infants, anything Ferdinand's done, or the monitor program, this seems like it's not a big deal.

They act differently around him because they know he has a ton of power over them and is more than a little temperamental. That's not brainwashing, that's just a sensible way to treat a moody boss. It's basically what Delphine told Cosima to do.

The only woman I would say is brainwashed is Rachel. But other than that? Evie Cho, Susan, Delphine during her time in charge of Dyad, etc. Susan is temporarily going along a bit with Westmoreland because Rachel nearly killed her and she knows that if she goes against them she's dead, she's certainly not brainwashed.

Why would you just assume he's underestimating her because of her gender? Weird to jump straight to sexism. Especially from Westmoreland, considering that the upper management of Neolution is so absurdly imbalanced in favor of women that if anything an argument could be made that he's sexist in favor of them. Hell, he…

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying what Neolution is doing is great, but having eggs harvested through a needle while sedated seems like a pretty mild procedure, and given the total number of eggs she has it's not like it'll affect her long-term fertility. It sounds like a milder procedure than a root canal. The whole…

I felt like that moment could have worked, but didn't. It's not like PT refuses to let anyone wear any modern dresses, Rachel's seemed pretty contemporary, he just only has old-timey dresses sitting around. "If you're coming to the fancy dinner, you have to dress up" just sounds like a reasonable rule.

I only know about that show because Scott made fun of it when Kristian Brunn brought it up on Comedy Bang Bang.

Yeah, he never said "and then Darwin graduated and became a great doctor". If anything, I'd bet "guy who knows Darwin's taxidermy record" probably knows if he graduated or not.

Yeah, Westmoreland does some shady stuff, but I don't get a woman-centric vibe from any of it. He'd probably divide men too if there were any significant male duos in the show (who's #1? Scott and comic shop guy?). I guess there's Castor, but you could probably blame him for that falling apart and the various schisms.

Honestly, "harvesting some of the eggs of a child" seems so low on the list of Neolution's crimes I'd say it's barely worth mentioning. From what I've been able to find, the average woman has about a thousand eggs die every month once she hits puberty, so taking 1300 eggs from Kira seems pretty minor compared to…

It's like watching the Wire and going "well, I guess the moral to the story is that black people suck". It's ludicrous.