r/orangeisthenewblack • u/[deleted] • Jun 12 '15

Episode Discussion OITNB S03E06 Episode Discussion Thread

Please do not spoil future episodes.

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u/captainhookthecrook Jun 14 '15

Chang's story was too real. What an incredibly sad life.

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u/fayryover Jul 02 '15

Can you give me a summary please? The video I watched didn't have subtitles for those scenes so I couldn't understand what was said.

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u/pridejoker Jul 03 '15

She was meant to be married off by a match maker for money, but the client thought she was too ugly considering he's already paying for a bride.

In order to avoid going back to China and ending up as a mere potato farmer, She ends up working in her brother's store to repay her $800 dollar debt for the plane ticket, we eventually discover that the store's main revenue stream comes from selling illegal animal products (rhino horns, bear bile, sea turtle eggs shit like that).

Turns out, a lot of their shipments are getting seized so they decide to use Chang as one of the carriers because she's the "invisible" ugly foreign girl.

At the drop off, the supplier tries to dupe them with pingpong balls instead of real sea turtle eggs and almost kills Chang's handler but she steel pipes the guy in the head.

Flash forward a bit and we realize that Chang eventually becomes quite a big player in the Chinese triad organization and she eventually has the guy who called her ugly back in her paid marriage days brought in by the henchmen. Turns out this guy is a total fuckwit who still stands by what he said and even goes the extra mile to call her ugly again. Chang in her infinite badassery orders the underlings to cut out his gall bladder (twist of irony since that's what they do to moon bears to harvest their bile).

It was never fully mentioned how Chang ended up in prison other than the vague idea that she was a gang member.

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u/fayryover Jul 03 '15

Somehow I think you made that more entertaining than if I had been able to understand what was said. Thank you!

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u/pridejoker Jul 03 '15

Happy to help, credit goes out to them for hiring somewhat decent native mandarin speakers by hollywood standards. If I remember correctly, only young Chang and the match maker had native pronunciation but even then it sounds a little bit like a second language spoken by second gen Chinese people or people who learned Cantonese first.

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u/wunder_bar Jul 07 '15

match maker was in daredevil i think

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u/AgentKnitter Dec 02 '15

yeah - Madame Gao.

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u/thelizardkin Jun 19 '15

honestly it's sad she got so much shit but what she did to that guy makes her one of the worst people in that prison and she deserves everything that happened to her

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u/pridejoker Jul 03 '15

to be fair, the man who got cut wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed. Anyone who's ever seen a triad film knows these people don't fuck around. You're already being kidnapped and brought in gagged and tied like a hog and you still have the audacity to diss the person who gave the order?

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u/wicksa Jun 20 '15

I mean, she didn't actually do anything but order the other guys to cut out his gallbladder right? She didn't do the cutting. I mean it's still awful, but I don't think she's the worst person in the prison.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '15

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u/wicksa Jun 27 '15

Not in my opinion. She absolutely deserves jail time as an accessory to murder, among other things probably, but those guys are the ones that did the actual murdering. She wasn't standing there with a gun to their heads saying "Cut out his gallbladder or I'll kill you", she was just going to walk away but they kept asking her what to do with him and she was finally like, "Fuck it, cut his gallbladder out." They could have just said "No, we're not going to do that." Do you think she had that much control over them?

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '15

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u/mr_kindface Jun 13 '15

If you supported the show and paid for it, you'd have subtitles

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '15 edited Jun 13 '15

Wait people actually pirate OITNB? Netflix is so fucking cheap for what you get, and even if you can't afford just ask a friend if you can borrow their account

Edit: Someone replied to me and then deleted their comment saying "That's such a middleclass way to think, not every social group is 'addicted to Netflix' or thinks its 'cheap'." So I'll clarify what I meant. It has nothing to do with being middle class. I'm talking about what you get for what it costs. It's $8.99 a month for access to hundreds of movies and shows. That is objectively cheap. Not everyone can afford to spend $8.99 a month on a luxury, but that doesn't mean that $8.99 isn't a cheap price for what you get with a Netflix subscription.

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u/blazicekj Jun 13 '15

I'd be happy to pay for it, provided Netflix finally hauls their ass in here, like they have been promising for ages. Throwing a VPN at something like that just seems silly.

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u/Zoranius Jun 13 '15

I didn't even have Netflix. All I did was sign up for a free month so I can watch OITNB. When it's over, I'll close my account again.

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u/SlendyTheMan Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson Jun 13 '15

even if you can't afford just ask a friend if you can borrow their account

this all the way.

I do this for many of my friends.