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If Delphine Cormier shows up in the last five minutes of the final episode, on the island, treating little Charlotte, meets Cosima and she’s got AMNESIA, I’m going to throw a hissy fit the size of Milton Keynes.  

Feeling bad for Orphan Black/Delphine fans.  It’s rotten that they’ve followed up their cliffhanger from last year with absolutely nothing but tiny teases that will likely only lead to ANOTHER cliffhanger fans have to wait ANOTHER year to see any real resolution over.  

That’s terrible writing, OB team.  

It’s been a seriously shitty year for lgbtqs and so-called representation.  

We really need more Russell T. Davies’ out there, producing programmes that actually care about the quality of the (queer) lives featured on-screen.  

Wouldn’t people just shit themselves if it turns out that Shay followed Delphine to the garage (out of curiosity, of course) and saved her after she was shot, only to deliver her to….(Last Five Minutes of Last Episode Big Reveal)? 

orphantrash:

But the real question here is how could Felix casually FORGET to tell Cosima that Delphine did not die in that parking garage?

It felt tacked on and makes me concerned we are only going to be ‘told’ things and we will not actually *see* Delphine at all.

So.  Delphine.

Crap writing just ‘telling’ us rather than showing us what happened to her.  Oh, there’s MORE to tease us about?  Gosh.  

If they knew they’d only have the actress for five minutes in s4, they shouldn’t have given her a big cliffhanger in s3. Send her back to Germany or whatever, but this?  Rotten form.  They’re dragging it out to fill up the space she isn’t in.  Shame.

Is Delphine still with us?  

I believe it is highly likely.  Here’s why:

– Krystal found Delphine and got her help.  Whatever happened between the two of them, galvanised Krystal to find out what is ‘going on.’

– If Krystal found Delphine, a logical place to help her hide is in her own home.  Everyone thinks Krystal is an idiot, so no one is looking at her, and she is even ignored when she ‘investigates’ Brightborn.  It’s possible Delphine has ‘fed’ Krystal some information, perhaps to find out what is going on in Brightborn, but that’s unclear.  Krystal could be acting entirely on her own (but how did she do her ‘research’ that led her to Brightborn?).

– If Delphine is dead, ‘telling us’ she is dead is weak – it also doesn’t hold with Krystal’s ‘tease’ about knowing all about Delphine.  There’s more to the story.

– On the pro-death side, Krystal doesn’t refer to Delphine in any particularly familiar sort of way.  ‘This French doctor,’ isn’t how you refer to someone you know.  However, she was defensive about Donnie knowing who Delphine was (and she assumed Donnie worked for Brighborn) and we know she saw her get shot (why was Krystal in the Dyad parking garage?).  

– Delphine would not be with the Neos, she’s not with Susan Duncan – unless there is a twist where we learn Evie Cho hid Delphine and we find her hooked up to a machine at Brightborn (but why?).  

The teasing/jocular nature of this season’s narrative (starting with that ‘in memoriam’ video) regarding Delphine highly suggests the character is alive, but, perhaps, not in the best shape.  It also suggests we won’t see much of her.  If, however, the producers are simply that callous about her, that wouldn’t surprise me, either.  

It gets to be exhausting being gay and being ‘teased’ by programmes about the fate of gay characters.  It’s so childish.  

Who else thinks Delphine is alive?

ms-archer17:

I mean, I know it’s basically hoping for nothing at this point but I’m still hanging on until I see a dead body or a flashback of what really happened at that parking lot. Also, we still have Krystal’s side of the story right? 

 I also still think we’ll know what actually happened to Delphine in the finale.

(I can’t stand to see Cosima sobbing anymore. It breaks my heart and I just want to give her a big ol’ hug. Can she just be happy with her soulmate after all of this?)

I think she is.  They’ve been too jocular about the entire situation (that memorial video, Krystal in general, including what we haven’t heard from her).  If she’s dead, that would be awfully heartless (not that I wouldn’t put it past them, I just think they have a dark sense of humour).  

That said, I do think they’ll wait until the last minute and we’ll get just a couple of moments with her.