I've never seen the credits to Dollhouse. I'd like to know if Whedon gives any kind of credit to William Gibson or Joe Haldeman. The idea of a whorehouse with brain-wiped playmates sure sounds an awful lot like the House of Blue Lights out of Gibson's story "Burning Chrome." And Haldeman wrote a novel titled "All my Sins Remembered," that featured a government undercover agent who was given personality overprints so he could impersonate various people in order to infiltrate criminal organizations. Seems to me like Whedon used a Chinese restaurant approach for developing the idea for this show - one from Column A and one from Column B.
@klhra005: Re: Gibson -- yeah! I need to do a re-read of the Sprawl stuff, so I'm sorta forgetting, but... isn't that how Molly pays for her bio-implants? #dollhouse
About your quibble - that was something that was bothering me a lot until this week's episode. I think this week they made it clear that the "adults" of the Dollhouse are increasingly losing their certainty and sense of control, meaning that they're less likely to notice or care about the dolls' odd behavior.
Boyd doesn't do "nothing" about Echo's sentience - he actually helps her, giving her an access card. And that doesn't surprise me at all. We don't know why Boyd works for the Dollhouse. (In this episode Adelle mentions that all the employees other than Topher were chosen because they are morally compromised, and in Omega, Boyd remarks to Ballard "There's always a girl.") However, it's clear that Boyd is deeply troubled by the Dollhouse's work, and resigned at best to his own involvement in it. Far more powerful than his feelings about the Dollhouse are his feelings for Echo. He wouldn't turn her in, either because he wants her to bring the Dollhouse down, or simply because he couldn't bear for anything bad to happen to her.
As for Adelle - The show has always made it clear that she is charmed by Echo, and treats her differently from other dolls. Maybe she sees herself in Caroline? And the "morally compromised" comment applies to her. The Rossum boss says that Roger is the least of her indiscretions. So we get the sense that she may not have come into the job completely willingly, and she's certainly not free to leave now ("You wouldn't like the retirement package"). And she now knows that Rossum doesn't share the moral code that allows her to justify the Dollhouse. So she's probably feeling very ambivalent about her work right now, and less likely to police the behavior of her charges.
I was really disappointed with Topher's choice to send Priya Tsetsang to confront Nolan Kinnard - unarmed. He couldn't have programmed in a bit of ninja/kung fu/boxer/fighting skills with Priya? This was like a blacksmith sending a member of his family out to meet the Black Knight. "yea, I could give you a sword or something but... Nah. You just go as yourself and everything will be fine." BS. I knew it was Priya pretty quick but I kept expecting her to have a killer fighting skill or something. Nice job Topher. #dollhouse
"And of course, Dichen Lachman absolutely rocked out as Sierra/Priya ..."
Are we watching the same show? Dichen Lachman is possibly the only person on the show that can be outacted by Eliza Dushku. She's got the grand total of one facial expression, and her acting boils down to how loud her voice is. It works just fine when she's a doll, and I used to think that this was on purpose, but now that she got more screen time, it looks as tho it's just plain old bad acting.
It was a great episode none the less. The whole nightmarish scenario of being driven crazy with pills scared the crap out of me. I loved Fran Kranz, I think he's really getting into his own as Topher. Both the character and the portrayal are getting better by the episode. And the creepy mother/son vibe between him and Adelle is something I'd like to see more of. Adelle is also growing on me.
And Enver Gjokaj is definitely the best actor on the show.
The only thing I really hated about the episode is the bird symbolism. I mean come on, I expected something a bit more challenging than bird=me and bird surrounded by blackness=me sad. Also, if that (the drawings) happens only after Sierra sees Nolan, what kind of fucked up message is the show sending? Like there's different degrees of rape or something?
IMHO, that's just lazy writing.
And another thing, the directing was crap, there was no way to tell what was happening when and I got confused about the time line more than once. #dollhouse
This was likely the best episode of the entire series. I was blown away and reminded of how much that I really DO love this show and the potential that is has seeping from its undermined reserves. I also agree and think that the show has the ability to become a legendary series if it stands up and pushes the envelop. Having a lot less lactating baby-feeding episodes would go a long way to help this, too. :P #dollhouse
I just started watching it for the first time and somehow I missed the fact that Sierra was not a doll at the beginning the first go-round. It really gives the way the guy treated her at the art showing have even more impact. No idea how I glossed over that before... #dollhouse
The thing that ripped my guts out about this episode was that part between Topher and Sierra at the end (the part with the video up there). It just reinforced why I love the show so much. If Topher ever decides to restore Priya's personality, he can erase the murder so she'll never have to live with it. He, however, will have to live with it. I wonder if he'll put himself in the chair at some point to forget what he's done. For me, the reason I find this show one of the best Whedon's done, is that it is all about trying to run away from pain and regret. Life is brutal, and it'd be nice to just put those really bad days out of our lives for good. But if we did that, who would we be? Even the imprints the Dolls are given have painful backgrounds, according to what was shown in the pilot. When they have it all taken away, they're just... well, dolls.
The only thing that I wasn't sure if I bought was Topher's growing conscience. I mean, he's a diagnosable sociopath. Can someone like that just spontaneously grow a conscience?
Oh, and I think Boyd does do something about Echo's growing sentience. He hides it from the Dollhouse and gives her a key. I don't see why he'd be the "company man" and tell Adele when he so obviously finds the idea of the Dollhouse repugnant. #dollhouse
@DarthChimay: Oh I don't think Topher is a sociopath. He wouldn't want a friend for his birthday if that was the case. No I think Topher is just, to put it simply, really messed up.
Here's the thing: he "freed" Priya to confront her attacker but if he wanted to really play with people he could have programmed her with sleeper assassin and cleaner skills herself. #dollhouse
@Alessar: A sociopath doesn't hate people. They just don't see beyond themselves. Topher's creating a friend for himself is a great example of his being a sociopath. A sociopath has no empathy and sees people as objects. He (or she) also tends to have no morals. When Topher creates a friend for his birthday, he's making a person who he can control and then put back in a box when he's done with them. It's nice and tidy, without having to deal with other people's baggage and whatnot. That's just one way to read it.
I will say that I'm not entirely certain that Topher is innately a sociopath. I wouldn't be surprised if his amoral, non-empathic condition was due to the chair somehow. #dollhouse
@DarthChimay: Speaking of the Chair, Topher does fit the physical profile of a doll very well. Right age, right approximate fitness level (i.e., that of a healthy actor) ... I wouldn't be shocked if Rossum created a composite persona made out of several scientists and cooked it together to make a custom genius.
As to the sociopath angle, he just doesn't seem to have that sort of "tear off wings" for kicks thing you usually see. Put him up against Dexter for instance, who is constantly having to intellectualize all of his interpersonal emotional responses.
@Alessar: I had always understood that the difference between a sociopath and a psychopath was, in part, the whole "tear off wings" thing. In other words, it's "antisocial" vs. "dissocial." #dollhouse
@MS-18E Shadoblak: It's used (or misused) so often, though, that it will probably eventually come to mean either or both of those things you said. That's just the way language evolves. #dollhouse
Right now some of the richest most powerful people in the world have
1) Made preemptive war okay- responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of people.
2) Made torture legally acceptable, even necessary and have used the media (24) to justify it.
3) Brought the world to the brink of financial destruction and then made the uppowerful people pay for their loses. (BTW, listen to some recent This American Life episodes for some great stories about the humans and their thinking behind the failure to regulate and selling crummy CDS to investors)
We can look at what the powerful rich people do to the dolls but also what they currently do to conscious people. Think about all the people who have enabled the three things above, not just the Top Powers We all have to pay the mortgage so we convince ourselves we have no choice or convince ourselves that we are actually on the moral side, "I'm defending my country from terrorists. I'm helping interrogators find out from terrorists where the ticking time bomb is! I'm contributing to the GNP and helping people get homes they couldn't have gotten otherwise. "
What ethical choices have we made that helped us arrive in positions that enables the rich and powerful to accomplish their goals?
I think of the communications people in the White House who worked with Cheney and Bush to do the linking that Saddam was working with Bin Laden. Their job was to write speeches that linked the two. Then there are all the cable TV people who, when someone pointed out this blatant linking attacked the people who called it out as "UnAmerican". They knew that it was BS, (as Richard Clarke clearly explained) but they did it anyway. This moral comprise directly lead to billions of dollars being spent and 100,000s of thousands of lives being lost. Did they convince themselves that the story was true? Or if they knew it wasn't true, there were plenty of other good reasons to do this. "Well Saddam was a bad man. So even if he wasn't behind 9/11 we should do something anyway."
How many in the media were waiting for someone else to make a better argument against the war?
Think of the lawyers who made torture okay. What did Yoo and Bybee tell themselves they were doing? Do you think that their counter parts at Rossum corporation wrote the contracts for the Dolls?
I wonder if the clients have to sign contracts? Corporations like Rossum are doing extra legal things yet they still have the dolls and clients sign contracts. Why? Does the contract say that if raped they have to go to arbitration like KBR and Halliburton? Who is that contract really for? They don't dare let it go to court. #dollhouse
@spocko: Interesting post, with some very valid points. But there's something even deeper than what you've alluded to. Just today I watched a TED talk about global crime networks, the "mafia" of the 21st century. And it's nothing like the gangsters of yore. Watch it here:
storytelling about the stuff that we're all dealing with in our lives — the people who want to turn us into what they want us to be, the compromises we all make to get along —Charlie Jane Anders
Charlie. Excellent, excellent review. Thank you for digging into what is going on in this episode on a deep level.
I love the Dollhouse writers for tackling these issues.
Who would sign a contract that says if you are raped you can't do anything about it? (Like the Dolls did)
Thousands of women sign that contract every dad when they go to work for KBR in Iraq. Jamie Leigh Jones, the woman whose alleged gang rape at the hands of co-workers at defense contractor KBR inspired the bill Sen. Al Franken got passed
which prohibits the government from contracting with companies that refuse to allow employees to pursue rape allegations in court. [rawstory.com]
30 Republican men voted against this. Rossum corporation clients? What did they tell themselves that made them okay with this? More relevant to us is the question "How did I facilitate this morally repugnant act by these Senators. I"m not a monster so do I spin it so that I can tell myself it's not about Rape it's about business?
Read this letter from the Kansas City Star then read the attacks on the person who wrote the letter and the Senator who introduced the bill. [blogs.kansascity.com]
The commenters are so filled with hate against Franken that they can justify rape. Would they be in favor of what the Dollhouse does? Sure, as long as it was done for national security. What if it wasn't done for national security? I can hear the rationalization now, "The Dolls signed a contract, they are like actresses in Porn movies. They had free will. Nobody forced them to sign up. It's all legal. Besides the Rossum corporation has only one duty, to deliver value to the shareholder." #dollhouse
1) In terms, of presaging Epitaph One, we have Topher at the beginning working on the remote wipe technology, talking to himself.
2) Does anyone else think it's kind of cheating to have Priya back in the Dollhouse, but this time under her own steam? She killed a man who was trying to violently rape (and possibly kill?) her...if they'd successfully "disappeared" Nolan, they could've just let her go, she could've just run off. Maybe Boyd wouldn't let her (he has a conscience, but we still don't know how much), but it seemed a little convenient that she was back, but now it's sort of ok she's there.
3) Do we think she knows that her first handler raped her? Probably not I guess.
4) With giving Echo the access card, let's be honest: is Boyd the spy from Season 1? That's long been the theory (very supportable by the Boyd/Ballard stuff in Season 1), though I'm new to these comment boards so I don't know what people here are thinking. That would also explain why, in Epitaph One, he has to run off and can't even stop for medical treatment if he needs it.
5) I agree with whoever said that it's weird how they're doing nothing about Whiskey's escape.
6) I'm so into the differences between the Echo/Boyd relationship and the Echo/Ballard relationship. Paternal/Watcher-y versus sexual/romantic. Remember in the very first episode, where Boyd was kind of down because Echo'd "finally met the right guy" but now was getting wiped? Whereas Ballard has a revulsion against all her romantic engagements. And Boyd hated the fake marriage (which was Ballard's idea) in kind of concerned fatherly way. I still really like the bit early on when Boyd initially thought of Echo as an empty simpleton, inhuman, worthy of some derision, but the whatsitcalled, I want to call it Imprinting except that means something else on the show--when the active is made to trust the handler completely. That act of bonding really affected Boyd. The Handler-Active relationship is one of the most interesting part of the show I think.
Question: how can DeWitt cave to Harding in this one but stand up to Mr. Ambrose in Epitaph One? I guess we don't know that she does, except that Victor's still around. But it's the same conflict: "you can't just take someone else's body" "watch me." #dollhouse
@Susan B.: I think between now and then we're going to see the different Dollhouses become much more self-contained and self-sufficient, and the central authority over them become much weaker. I'm fully expecting that part of the apocalypse is a covert war between different Dollhouses that becomes overt.
Or in other words, by the time Mr. Ambrose makes that demand, DeWitt will believe that they can all just hole up inside the Dollhouse and fight off any attempt to remove her. #dollhouse
That random thought makes sense... I was wondering where Ballard was in the whole episode. There was a few mentions of Saunders leaving that seemed to be too well-inserted to be afterthoughts, but Jed Whedon did write Dr. Horrible so I guess anything goes. #dollhouse
Fantastic episode, but I have a question: if both Echo and Victor were at Nolan's party when he was trying to seduce Priya... then why wasn't the Rossum Corp. (and Adelle especially) cognizant of the fact that Priya was not, in fact, schizophrenic... and that this Nolan guy wanted her so badly that he hired TWO actives for a night - and had them programmed specifically to help make Priya more susceptible to his advanced??
Doesn't this indicate that both Adelle and Topher, at the very least, should have known *something* was going on when all of a sudden the woman at the center of this seduction attempt turns up as a possible doll because she's cra-zay??
Also, I loved Priya's paintings about birds. Nice touch of symbolism - she became a caged bird, and then when she had the chance to be free she chose to remain in the cage. Interesting.
Lastly, what was Wild Bill talking about when he mentioned that Mrs. Lonely Hearts wasn't Adelle's only "indiscretion"!?!?!? My ears totally perked at that one. I know she's "morally compromised" and all... but what else exactly has she been up to as Dollhouse Mistress!?!?!?!? Want more details plz!!!!!! =D #dollhouse
@rachaeljean: I wondered about the seduction/psychosis thing too... my theory is that Adelle and Topher didn't know who the woman was that Rossum Corp. wanted to arrange a seduction of. They just know some Rossum Corp. bigwig wanted a fancy scenario to impress a babe. And then later, maybe a few weeks later, they hear about this woman who's suffering from schizophrenia. And they don't make the connection, because why would they? #dollhouse
@rachaeljean: hmmm... I just took Carradine's comment to mean that the company was well aware of all Adelle's weekends with Victor. If I remember last season's episode correctly, they mentions that's been more than one encounter. #dollhouse
@rachaeljean: "Also, I loved Priya's paintings about birds. Nice touch of symbolism - she became a caged bird, and then when she had the chance to be free she chose to remain in the cage. Interesting."
The use of paint is intriguing. One of the last scenes is an image of Priya rising in front of her own painting (in Nolan's house) as a black shadow. It recalls the paintings Sierra makes in the DH... Topher and Boyd (and we, at first) seem to interpret the shadow as Nolan, an evil, outside force, but from the last scene, I think she was painting herself all along.
And then you go back, and look at the scene in the shower, with Victor and Sierra playing around, painting each other... marking each other? Recognizing that each is similarly screwed in the head, damaged?
I think Priya chose the cage, because she just couldn't live with the memories. She realized she was killing a part of herself, by doing this wipe... I think that's what the last beer was about, a stand-in for a last cigarette (but cigarettes aren't cool anymore, so...)
@Charlie Jane Anders: Right. I think Nolan hired Victor to play as a buyer, but it backfired, 'cause Victor did his job a bit too well, and ended up seducing Priya when he wasn't supposed to. That's why they offer him a treatment and drag him out, before he can screw up anything else for Nolan. #dollhouse
@Charlie Jane Anders: That's what I thought too... but then, since Victor & Echo were both programmed so specifically to talk up this ONE person - they had to know her name, what she did, etc... it just doesn't seem to make sense that Topher at the very least didn't have her name. You know? I think it's just a plot hole =/ #dollhouse
@Allen_Richards: I'm pretty sure he said something about Victor being the "least" of her indiscretions! I want to know what really morally compromised her! ;) #dollhouse
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Boyd doesn't do "nothing" about Echo's sentience - he actually helps her, giving her an access card. And that doesn't surprise me at all. We don't know why Boyd works for the Dollhouse. (In this episode Adelle mentions that all the employees other than Topher were chosen because they are morally compromised, and in Omega, Boyd remarks to Ballard "There's always a girl.") However, it's clear that Boyd is deeply troubled by the Dollhouse's work, and resigned at best to his own involvement in it. Far more powerful than his feelings about the Dollhouse are his feelings for Echo. He wouldn't turn her in, either because he wants her to bring the Dollhouse down, or simply because he couldn't bear for anything bad to happen to her.
As for Adelle - The show has always made it clear that she is charmed by Echo, and treats her differently from other dolls. Maybe she sees herself in Caroline? And the "morally compromised" comment applies to her. The Rossum boss says that Roger is the least of her indiscretions. So we get the sense that she may not have come into the job completely willingly, and she's certainly not free to leave now ("You wouldn't like the retirement package"). And she now knows that Rossum doesn't share the moral code that allows her to justify the Dollhouse. So she's probably feeling very ambivalent about her work right now, and less likely to police the behavior of her charges.
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Are we watching the same show? Dichen Lachman is possibly the only person on the show that can be outacted by Eliza Dushku. She's got the grand total of one facial expression, and her acting boils down to how loud her voice is. It works just fine when she's a doll, and I used to think that this was on purpose, but now that she got more screen time, it looks as tho it's just plain old bad acting.
It was a great episode none the less. The whole nightmarish scenario of being driven crazy with pills scared the crap out of me. I loved Fran Kranz, I think he's really getting into his own as Topher. Both the character and the portrayal are getting better by the episode. And the creepy mother/son vibe between him and Adelle is something I'd like to see more of. Adelle is also growing on me.
And Enver Gjokaj is definitely the best actor on the show.
The only thing I really hated about the episode is the bird symbolism. I mean come on, I expected something a bit more challenging than bird=me and bird surrounded by blackness=me sad. Also, if that (the drawings) happens only after Sierra sees Nolan, what kind of fucked up message is the show sending? Like there's different degrees of rape or something?
IMHO, that's just lazy writing.
And another thing, the directing was crap, there was no way to tell what was happening when and I got confused about the time line more than once. #dollhouse
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And I just love the imagery of Priya standing up as a dark silhouette against her painting on the wall after killing Nolan.
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The only thing that I wasn't sure if I bought was Topher's growing conscience. I mean, he's a diagnosable sociopath. Can someone like that just spontaneously grow a conscience?
Oh, and I think Boyd does do something about Echo's growing sentience. He hides it from the Dollhouse and gives her a key. I don't see why he'd be the "company man" and tell Adele when he so obviously finds the idea of the Dollhouse repugnant. #dollhouse
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Here's the thing: he "freed" Priya to confront her attacker but if he wanted to really play with people he could have programmed her with sleeper assassin and cleaner skills herself. #dollhouse
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I will say that I'm not entirely certain that Topher is innately a sociopath. I wouldn't be surprised if his amoral, non-empathic condition was due to the chair somehow. #dollhouse
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As to the sociopath angle, he just doesn't seem to have that sort of "tear off wings" for kicks thing you usually see. Put him up against Dexter for instance, who is constantly having to intellectualize all of his interpersonal emotional responses.
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1) Made preemptive war okay- responsible for killing hundreds of thousands of people.
2) Made torture legally acceptable, even necessary and have used the media (24) to justify it.
3) Brought the world to the brink of financial destruction and then made the uppowerful people pay for their loses. (BTW, listen to some recent This American Life episodes for some great stories about the humans and their thinking behind the failure to regulate and selling crummy CDS to investors)
We can look at what the powerful rich people do to the dolls but also what they currently do to conscious people. Think about all the people who have enabled the three things above, not just the Top Powers We all have to pay the mortgage so we convince ourselves we have no choice or convince ourselves that we are actually on the moral side, "I'm defending my country from terrorists. I'm helping interrogators find out from terrorists where the ticking time bomb is! I'm contributing to the GNP and helping people get homes they couldn't have gotten otherwise. "
What ethical choices have we made that helped us arrive in positions that enables the rich and powerful to accomplish their goals?
I think of the communications people in the White House who worked with Cheney and Bush to do the linking that Saddam was working with Bin Laden. Their job was to write speeches that linked the two. Then there are all the cable TV people who, when someone pointed out this blatant linking attacked the people who called it out as "UnAmerican". They knew that it was BS, (as Richard Clarke clearly explained) but they did it anyway. This moral comprise directly lead to billions of dollars being spent and 100,000s of thousands of lives being lost. Did they convince themselves that the story was true? Or if they knew it wasn't true, there were plenty of other good reasons to do this. "Well Saddam was a bad man. So even if he wasn't behind 9/11 we should do something anyway."
How many in the media were waiting for someone else to make a better argument against the war?
Think of the lawyers who made torture okay. What did Yoo and Bybee tell themselves they were doing? Do you think that their counter parts at Rossum corporation wrote the contracts for the Dolls?
I wonder if the clients have to sign contracts? Corporations like Rossum are doing extra legal things yet they still have the dolls and clients sign contracts. Why? Does the contract say that if raped they have to go to arbitration like KBR and Halliburton? Who is that contract really for? They don't dare let it go to court. #dollhouse
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[www.ted.com] #dollhouse
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Charlie. Excellent, excellent review. Thank you for digging into what is going on in this episode on a deep level.
I love the Dollhouse writers for tackling these issues.
Who would sign a contract that says if you are raped you can't do anything about it? (Like the Dolls did)
Thousands of women sign that contract every dad when they go to work for KBR in Iraq. Jamie Leigh Jones, the woman whose alleged gang rape at the hands of co-workers at defense contractor KBR inspired the bill Sen. Al Franken got passed
which prohibits the government from contracting with companies that refuse to allow employees to pursue rape allegations in court.
[rawstory.com]
30 Republican men voted against this. Rossum corporation clients? What did they tell themselves that made them okay with this? More relevant to us is the question "How did I facilitate this morally repugnant act by these Senators. I"m not a monster so do I spin it so that I can tell myself it's not about Rape it's about business?
Read this letter from the Kansas City Star then read the attacks on the person who wrote the letter and the Senator who introduced the bill. [blogs.kansascity.com]
The commenters are so filled with hate against Franken that they can justify rape. Would they be in favor of what the Dollhouse does? Sure, as long as it was done for national security. What if it wasn't done for national security? I can hear the rationalization now, "The Dolls signed a contract, they are like actresses in Porn movies. They had free will. Nobody forced them to sign up. It's all legal. Besides the Rossum corporation has only one duty, to deliver value to the shareholder." #dollhouse
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1) In terms, of presaging Epitaph One, we have Topher at the beginning working on the remote wipe technology, talking to himself.
2) Does anyone else think it's kind of cheating to have Priya back in the Dollhouse, but this time under her own steam? She killed a man who was trying to violently rape (and possibly kill?) her...if they'd successfully "disappeared" Nolan, they could've just let her go, she could've just run off. Maybe Boyd wouldn't let her (he has a conscience, but we still don't know how much), but it seemed a little convenient that she was back, but now it's sort of ok she's there.
3) Do we think she knows that her first handler raped her? Probably not I guess.
4) With giving Echo the access card, let's be honest: is Boyd the spy from Season 1? That's long been the theory (very supportable by the Boyd/Ballard stuff in Season 1), though I'm new to these comment boards so I don't know what people here are thinking. That would also explain why, in Epitaph One, he has to run off and can't even stop for medical treatment if he needs it.
5) I agree with whoever said that it's weird how they're doing nothing about Whiskey's escape.
6) I'm so into the differences between the Echo/Boyd relationship and the Echo/Ballard relationship. Paternal/Watcher-y versus sexual/romantic. Remember in the very first episode, where Boyd was kind of down because Echo'd "finally met the right guy" but now was getting wiped? Whereas Ballard has a revulsion against all her romantic engagements. And Boyd hated the fake marriage (which was Ballard's idea) in kind of concerned fatherly way. I still really like the bit early on when Boyd initially thought of Echo as an empty simpleton, inhuman, worthy of some derision, but the whatsitcalled, I want to call it Imprinting except that means something else on the show--when the active is made to trust the handler completely. That act of bonding really affected Boyd. The Handler-Active relationship is one of the most interesting part of the show I think.
Man I loved this episode.
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4)I've long since thought Boyd was the spy.
5)I'm sure they're keeping tabs on her. My theory is she's actually keeping in touch with Boyd. #dollhouse
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Or in other words, by the time Mr. Ambrose makes that demand, DeWitt will believe that they can all just hole up inside the Dollhouse and fight off any attempt to remove her. #dollhouse
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Doesn't this indicate that both Adelle and Topher, at the very least, should have known *something* was going on when all of a sudden the woman at the center of this seduction attempt turns up as a possible doll because she's cra-zay??
Also, I loved Priya's paintings about birds. Nice touch of symbolism - she became a caged bird, and then when she had the chance to be free she chose to remain in the cage. Interesting.
Lastly, what was Wild Bill talking about when he mentioned that Mrs. Lonely Hearts wasn't Adelle's only "indiscretion"!?!?!? My ears totally perked at that one. I know she's "morally compromised" and all... but what else exactly has she been up to as Dollhouse Mistress!?!?!?!? Want more details plz!!!!!! =D #dollhouse
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The use of paint is intriguing. One of the last scenes is an image of Priya rising in front of her own painting (in Nolan's house) as a black shadow. It recalls the paintings Sierra makes in the DH... Topher and Boyd (and we, at first) seem to interpret the shadow as Nolan, an evil, outside force, but from the last scene, I think she was painting herself all along.
And then you go back, and look at the scene in the shower, with Victor and Sierra playing around, painting each other... marking each other? Recognizing that each is similarly screwed in the head, damaged?
I think Priya chose the cage, because she just couldn't live with the memories. She realized she was killing a part of herself, by doing this wipe... I think that's what the last beer was about, a stand-in for a last cigarette (but cigarettes aren't cool anymore, so...)
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