No more Matt Frewer? That's not a good thing. Really unhappy with that. And if they were going to replace him with Michelle Forbes, I wish they would've introduced her earlier so it didn't seem so contrived. I wonder if this was a mid-course correction they had to make due to Frewer having some other commitment emerge.
Also, I kind of wish they'd cast someone other than Forbes. Not that I have anything against her as an actress (nor anything particularly for her), but I already have trouble telling Siobhan and Angela apart sometimes (since they're both wearing knit caps!!), and Forbes has a rather similar facial structure to both of them. It's getting to the point where it's easier for me to tell the clones apart than the non-clones!
One of the reasons I don't entirely love this show is that it does sometimes do things like this that seem to be more about shock value than anything else. It seems like dramas today feel this need to try to top each other for the most shocking and dark and violent moments they can come up with, and that doesn't necessarily equal good or smart storytelling. Indeed, one problem with it is that it's predictable. As soon as I saw Donnie nervously waving that gun around with his finger on the trigger, I knew one of the people in that car was going to get shot.
I do find it amusing, though, that Donnie was Allison's monitor without even
knowing that's what he was. I thought he was just really committed to his character, but he really is a doofus. And now he and Allison have something in common -- although Donnie is more directly culpable for Leekie's death than Allison was for Aynsley's. I don't know about Canadian law, but under US law I don't think Allison really had a duty of care for Aynsley; not intervening to save her may have been an awful thing to do, but I'm not sure it's illegal. But Donnie's guilty of involuntary manslaughter at the very least. Going by what Wikipedia says about
Canadian law, it would be second-degree murder:
where a person, for an unlawful object, does anything that he knows or ought to know is likely to cause death, and thereby causes death to a human being, notwithstanding that he desires to effect his object without causing death or bodily harm to any human being.
Forcing someone into a car at gunpoint is an unlawful object (assuming that means objective or goal), and aiming a lethal weapon at someone with the safety off and your finger on the trigger is something you ought to know is likely to cause death.
Anyway, where did Donnie get the gun? Was it Allison's?
Speaking of people doing bad things, I'm pretty upset at Felix for screwing up Vic's rehab by giving him drugs. That's a rotten thing to do, even if he did do it to help Allison.
Meanwhile, Kira did a really selfless and noble thing to help Cosima, but it was wince-inducing that she did that to herself -- even if the tooth was already loose. It seems like another shock-value moment; Kira's smart enough that she should've realized there could be an easier way to get the tooth removed.
