I heard that the comic prequels involve breaking up a Skynet coltan mining ring, which amuses me greatly, since coltan is a bit of continuity from the show, not the movies.
Place the pasta in the water and the salt in the water and the water in the pot and the pot on the fire.
In the pot? The fire in the pot?
No. The water in the pot. The pot on the fire.
The pasta in the water?
Yes, in the water.
And the salt in the fire?
No. The salt in the water.
And the water on the fire?
No. The water in the pot and the pot on the fire. Not the water on the fire. For then the fire will die and dying be dead.
Nor will the water boil and the pasta will drain dry and not cooked and hard to the teeth.
The salt falls nor does it cease to fall.
The water boils. So be it.
Cease from placing your hand in the boiling water. Place your hand in the boiling water and it will cause you pain.
Much pain?
Very much pain.
In the pot the bubbles bubble up and bubble some more. The bubbles are bubbly. Never more bubbly bubbles bubbling bubbliest. And having bubbled the bubbles still bubbly.
Or bubblier?
Or bubblier.
Across the kitchen a board intended for chopping. Here. Take it. Chop.
What will I chop? There are no ingredients to chop.
Just chop. Don't cease from chopping. To chop is to become a man.
After 10 minutes. The pasta stiff and dry and upright no more. The pasta lank and wet and soft. In the eternal damp of water.
Pour water free like some ancient anointing. The pasta left alone in the pot. Alone and naked.
The salt? Where's the salt?
The salt is gone. Lost to the water and gone forever.
I grieve for the salt.
It is the salt for which I grieve.
Tip the pasta out.
The pasta?
Yes. Tip it out. Onto.
A plate?
Yes. And stop.
Finishing your sentences?
Yes.
Why?
Because it's so.
Irritating?
Nothing in your memory anywhere of anything so good. Now the pasta is eaten. Disappeared. The pasta disappeared as everything disappeared. As the comma disappears and the semicolon disappears and the inverted comma disappears and the apostrophe disappears and the adjectives and the pronouns all disappear.
Adelle is the mole. I've said this from the beginning. She has the control and access to make all of the things happen that need to. A few others have noticed that she is the only one that knows she was miss lonely hearts so how was victor programed to meet her then? She is the one programming him. She is the one leading agent Ballard and sending him messages. She is working towards giving Echo a composite event. I think she wants to stop what the doll house's "mission" is and Echo is her key maybe she made Alpha too. I don't know exactly how Alpha fits in but we know he also has been giving Ballard hints so if I'm right (And it makes sense that I am) then it makes sense that him and Adelle are working towards the same goals at least.
@Kevin Howell: Topher doesn't always know all of the mission parameters of the dolls he programs. There's a "confession booth" where you speak directly to the computer and it analyzes your desires, without Topher ever knowing all the details. This was covered in a previous episode.
If you're going to make obscure references, please link them to wikipedia so we don't have to look them up to fully appreciate what a smarty you are. Not all of us are conversant in 30-year-old British television.
On the plus side, only a couple of more weeks before the last time any Dollhouse references need to be pointed out.
@cljohnston108: Yes! I was so happy to see her! I had to blink a few times to be sure. She was great on The Dresden Files. And the fact that she's Victor's handler means that we'll probably see her again!
I was hard on Dollhouse in its first few week (understandably, too), but I'm completely sold now, and this episode has pretty much cemented it for me. The thing about Whedon that I've always liked is that even at his worst, he puts out TV that's unlike anything else on the air. And it'll probably be replaced by a show about an eccentric detective who solves crimes, or an eccentric doctor who saves lives, or an eccentric lawyer who tries cases.
I thought it was really interesting that Topher assumed Boyd was the mole, and went to warn him before reporting it. So, Topher willingly works for the Dollhouse and has no moral objections to the work (that we've seen), and when he discovers that there's a mole, he's concerned about the safety of the Dollhouse... So I wonder what it is about Boyd specifically that makes Topher:
a) Suspect him immediately, and
b) Want to protect him.
Was Topher trying to look out for someone he considers a friend? Or is there something more at work here? This show just gets better every week!
a.Just because he has no morals, doesn't mean that he can't understand why others wouldn't find the whole place morally wrong. So he knows that Boyd isn't a big fan of what they do AND is probably more vocal about it then anyone else.
b. Now I think he tried to help him just because Boyd is probably one of the few people that doesn't try to knock him off his high horse all the time OR belittle him.
@jp182: Yeah, I could see that he thinks Boyd is a decent guy and would want to protect him. But if he knows that Boyd doesn't agree with what they do, then why does he think Boyd is working there? Why IS Boyd working there? I smell a mystery.
Topher took a huge risk warning Boyd first, and I've never gotten the sense from him that he'd be willing to put himself in that kind of danger for anyone, even Boyd, especially if he (Boyd) was working against the Dollhouse and, by extension, Topher himself. I'd think he'd be more pissed about someone messing with his equipment, compromising his imprints and maybe stealing his work than worried about Boyd getting captured. It just seems like a hell of a risk to take for someone who hasn't treated him as badly as some of the others have.
This could be (and probably is) a case of the show not letting us get to know the characters well enough to get a real sense of them yet. Or it could be a hint of something deeper. They didn't NEED to put that scene in there; it didn't really add anything to the plot, and it stands out, at least in my mind, as unusual. I have a feeling it may become important later.
@Slovenly Muse: Boyd doesnt seem like he would work for The Dollhouse. And Topher doesnt seem like the type of guy who would warn him bc he thought he was a mole. Im not sure if its just inconsistent - or more will be revealed about those characters that will make it make more sense.
@Slovenly Muse: But wait, it gets even better: Spyhunter-Echo judged Boyd to not be the mole because she felt she could trust him, be since he is her handler that is something that she would do regardless of the situation she finds her in.
So there is no way (yet!) to know if Boyd really is innocent or not...
@blorp: Yeah, I really hope it was significant! So far, the writing has been pretty subtle and consistent, so I'm more inclined to believe that it was intentional and leading up to something awesome, rather than just a new (and kinda out of the blue) angle on the characters, or sloppy writing.
@TheLostVikings: Absolutely! And from the ending it looks like she's going to keep on trusting him, regardless of the new handler they're trying to pair her with.
This may be a little out there, but if Echo is self-aware enough to know that she's a Doll, could she be aware enough to sense or feel that Boyd IS working against the Dollhouse, and asked Topher to be imprinted so that she could lead the investigation in an attempt to protect Boyd? I'd buy her trying to protect Boyd more easily than her trying to protect the Dollhouse. But this is more of a crazy guess than a solid theory, obviously.
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So... by the time I've finished reading this article, it's already 100 years old, yah? /lame lightspeed joke #publishing
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Next time try to actually watch the trailer and not just read the headline before you voice your reply ;)
Or shut yo mouth your ignorance is showing...
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Who am I kidding. I'm still gonna see it.
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Norks?
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I just don't want to live there.
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Pasta. Plain. But Good.
INGREDIENTS:
Pasta.
And salt.
And water.
And Fire.
DIRECTIONS:
Place the pasta in the water and the salt in the water and the water in the pot and the pot on the fire.
In the pot? The fire in the pot?
No. The water in the pot. The pot on the fire.
The pasta in the water?
Yes, in the water.
And the salt in the fire?
No. The salt in the water.
And the water on the fire?
No. The water in the pot and the pot on the fire. Not the water on the fire. For then the fire will die and dying be dead.
Nor will the water boil and the pasta will drain dry and not cooked and hard to the teeth.
The salt falls nor does it cease to fall.
The water boils. So be it.
Cease from placing your hand in the boiling water. Place your hand in the boiling water and it will cause you pain.
Much pain?
Very much pain.
In the pot the bubbles bubble up and bubble some more. The bubbles are bubbly. Never more bubbly bubbles bubbling bubbliest. And having bubbled the bubbles still bubbly.
Or bubblier?
Or bubblier.
Across the kitchen a board intended for chopping. Here. Take it. Chop.
What will I chop? There are no ingredients to chop.
Just chop. Don't cease from chopping. To chop is to become a man.
After 10 minutes. The pasta stiff and dry and upright no more. The pasta lank and wet and soft. In the eternal damp of water.
Pour water free like some ancient anointing. The pasta left alone in the pot. Alone and naked.
The salt? Where's the salt?
The salt is gone. Lost to the water and gone forever.
I grieve for the salt.
It is the salt for which I grieve.
Tip the pasta out.
The pasta?
Yes. Tip it out. Onto.
A plate?
Yes. And stop.
Finishing your sentences?
Yes.
Why?
Because it's so.
Irritating?
Nothing in your memory anywhere of anything so good. Now the pasta is eaten. Disappeared. The pasta disappeared as everything disappeared. As the comma disappears and the semicolon disappears and the inverted comma disappears and the apostrophe disappears and the adjectives and the pronouns all disappear.
Leaving just full stops and And.
And And?
And And.
And And.
04/22/09
um enjoy?
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I can't find the it on their site, but this dude reposted it on his blog:
[www.rosslaird.com]
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On the plus side, only a couple of more weeks before the last time any Dollhouse references need to be pointed out.
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Nice seeing her get some work.
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I thought it was really interesting that Topher assumed Boyd was the mole, and went to warn him before reporting it. So, Topher willingly works for the Dollhouse and has no moral objections to the work (that we've seen), and when he discovers that there's a mole, he's concerned about the safety of the Dollhouse... So I wonder what it is about Boyd specifically that makes Topher:
a) Suspect him immediately, and
b) Want to protect him.
Was Topher trying to look out for someone he considers a friend? Or is there something more at work here? This show just gets better every week!
04/13/09
a.Just because he has no morals, doesn't mean that he can't understand why others wouldn't find the whole place morally wrong. So he knows that Boyd isn't a big fan of what they do AND is probably more vocal about it then anyone else.
b. Now I think he tried to help him just because Boyd is probably one of the few people that doesn't try to knock him off his high horse all the time OR belittle him.
04/13/09
Topher took a huge risk warning Boyd first, and I've never gotten the sense from him that he'd be willing to put himself in that kind of danger for anyone, even Boyd, especially if he (Boyd) was working against the Dollhouse and, by extension, Topher himself. I'd think he'd be more pissed about someone messing with his equipment, compromising his imprints and maybe stealing his work than worried about Boyd getting captured. It just seems like a hell of a risk to take for someone who hasn't treated him as badly as some of the others have.
This could be (and probably is) a case of the show not letting us get to know the characters well enough to get a real sense of them yet. Or it could be a hint of something deeper. They didn't NEED to put that scene in there; it didn't really add anything to the plot, and it stands out, at least in my mind, as unusual. I have a feeling it may become important later.
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This was a great ep though!
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So there is no way (yet!) to know if Boyd really is innocent or not...
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Only a few eps left to find out!
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This may be a little out there, but if Echo is self-aware enough to know that she's a Doll, could she be aware enough to sense or feel that Boyd IS working against the Dollhouse, and asked Topher to be imprinted so that she could lead the investigation in an attempt to protect Boyd? I'd buy her trying to protect Boyd more easily than her trying to protect the Dollhouse. But this is more of a crazy guess than a solid theory, obviously.