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Oboeplum Antiheroic antivillain Since: Oct, 2012
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Jun 12th 2014 at 6:56:29 AM •••

Okay so Alison ends up at a rehab centre called new path. In the book A Scanner Darkly there's a rehab centre that's also called new path, and it's a dark sci-fi series where rehab is portrayed as a fairly bad thing. It is a Shout-Out, or just coincedence?

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Hodor Since: Dec, 1969
Jun 12th 2014 at 8:51:39 AM •••

Probably a coincidence. It seemed like when she first got into rehab, there was a suggestion that (IIRC as in A Scanner Darkly) the rehab was connected to a Dyad conspiracy, and I worried that Alison would Go Among Mad People as Donnie would keep her locked up.

However, it turns out to have been a totally normal rehab program with no Dyad connections and Donnie's intentions were actually good. I also wouldn't say that rehab was portrayed as bad. Alison is someone reluctant to admit she has a problem, but to the extent she does, the counseling and separation from narcotics seemed to help, and I think finding out that Donnie was well-intentioned also helped.

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qazwsx Fairy of Tropes (Troper Knight)
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May 11th 2014 at 9:05:49 AM •••

Does anyone think Orphan Black has enough instances of Adult Fear to deserve its own page?

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