tv thoughts: Dollhouse 1.12 - OMEGA
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orangerfulokay okay, now that I've had a few days to mull it over...thoughts on the season finale of Dollhouse
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faeriesfolly was right, Dr. Saunders is a doll. Or was a doll? I guess the question here is - how long can a doll have the same personality before they are that person. I mean, you could say that Echo is not any of the people she has been imprinted with, because she is them for only a day or two at most. But as far as we can tell, Claire has been Dr. Saunders for a year now, ever since the attack...
While we're on the subject, do you think there was a Pre-Whiskey/Topher connection? He seems very upset when he finds her at his computer and when he says "You didn't look, you don't want to know who you are?", the emotion in his voice made me think they had a connection before she was a doll. Even more so because of the line that Claire says back "Why was it so important that I hate you?" - they must have been romantically involved at some point, or maybe Topher was just attracted to her and felt it would be safer if he knew she was not attracted to him at all...
Does this mean something similar will happen with Victor? I don't want him sent to the attic but what use will they have for a doll that has the same scars as The Joker? Who will they turn Victor into? Can he become a handler? Or will they just program him to be the janitor or something? Will Claire insist on keeping him, maybe as an assistant of some kind, because she understands (sort of) his pain?
So, the original set of dolls were prisoners? All of them or just Alpha? What about Whiskey? Now I'm wondering about that connection between her and Topher again...
Alan Tudyk was owning this week's episode as Alpha. He managed to make you feel bad for him, then be scary as hell, and then realize that he was just nucking futs beyond all belief. And he got away, of course, so he will be back! Though him and Paul have something in common - their obsession with Echo/Caroline has very little to do with who she really is, but just her exterior. I mean, both of them decided that they needed to save her without ever consulting her. and really, both of them want to change her - Alpha wants to force her to live with all of her imprints and Paul wants to drag her back into the world she was trying to avoid.
Boyd might be my favorite character on the show. I can't wait (or, I guess I should say, I HOPE) until we find out his backstory - even Paul sensed that there was more to him than he let on. They will make a great team next season *crosses fingers*
Omega/Echo was amazingly cool. Becase, at Echo's core is Caroline, and Caroline is a good person so even though Alpha assumed giving her all the imprints at once would make her want to team up with him, he forgot about that part of her that is always there. The showdown between the two of them was great, especially with Alpha holding a gun to the harddrive "wedge". LOL!
And Paul finally got to save Caroline, though not in the way he had imagined.
The ending did feel a bit rushed, like there was another 15 minutes in there somewhere that we lost. And I was surprised to see that so much of the Dollhouse was still intact and that they were willing to take Echo back into the fold so quickly. I found the story of the people at the dollhouse (paul, boyd, claire, topher, dewitt) a lot more interesting than Echo's story, even though I wanted to see more Crazy!Alpha. But the idea that she was everyone at once, that Topher had somehow hollowed her out inside enough for her to be Echo and all of the others, and still have Caroline at her core in some weird way...great idea.
I want to see where it is going, I really do, but I wouldn't be surprised if FOX didn't pick it up. It might be too cerebral for them, no matter how many tank tops they put Eliza in. But stranger things have happened.
faeriesfolly was right, Dr. Saunders is a doll. Or was a doll? I guess the question here is - how long can a doll have the same personality before they are that person. I mean, you could say that Echo is not any of the people she has been imprinted with, because she is them for only a day or two at most. But as far as we can tell, Claire has been Dr. Saunders for a year now, ever since the attack...While we're on the subject, do you think there was a Pre-Whiskey/Topher connection? He seems very upset when he finds her at his computer and when he says "You didn't look, you don't want to know who you are?", the emotion in his voice made me think they had a connection before she was a doll. Even more so because of the line that Claire says back "Why was it so important that I hate you?" - they must have been romantically involved at some point, or maybe Topher was just attracted to her and felt it would be safer if he knew she was not attracted to him at all...
Does this mean something similar will happen with Victor? I don't want him sent to the attic but what use will they have for a doll that has the same scars as The Joker? Who will they turn Victor into? Can he become a handler? Or will they just program him to be the janitor or something? Will Claire insist on keeping him, maybe as an assistant of some kind, because she understands (sort of) his pain?
So, the original set of dolls were prisoners? All of them or just Alpha? What about Whiskey? Now I'm wondering about that connection between her and Topher again...
Alan Tudyk was owning this week's episode as Alpha. He managed to make you feel bad for him, then be scary as hell, and then realize that he was just nucking futs beyond all belief. And he got away, of course, so he will be back! Though him and Paul have something in common - their obsession with Echo/Caroline has very little to do with who she really is, but just her exterior. I mean, both of them decided that they needed to save her without ever consulting her. and really, both of them want to change her - Alpha wants to force her to live with all of her imprints and Paul wants to drag her back into the world she was trying to avoid.
Boyd might be my favorite character on the show. I can't wait (or, I guess I should say, I HOPE) until we find out his backstory - even Paul sensed that there was more to him than he let on. They will make a great team next season *crosses fingers*
Omega/Echo was amazingly cool. Becase, at Echo's core is Caroline, and Caroline is a good person so even though Alpha assumed giving her all the imprints at once would make her want to team up with him, he forgot about that part of her that is always there. The showdown between the two of them was great, especially with Alpha holding a gun to the harddrive "wedge". LOL!
And Paul finally got to save Caroline, though not in the way he had imagined.
The ending did feel a bit rushed, like there was another 15 minutes in there somewhere that we lost. And I was surprised to see that so much of the Dollhouse was still intact and that they were willing to take Echo back into the fold so quickly. I found the story of the people at the dollhouse (paul, boyd, claire, topher, dewitt) a lot more interesting than Echo's story, even though I wanted to see more Crazy!Alpha. But the idea that she was everyone at once, that Topher had somehow hollowed her out inside enough for her to be Echo and all of the others, and still have Caroline at her core in some weird way...great idea.
I want to see where it is going, I really do, but I wouldn't be surprised if FOX didn't pick it up. It might be too cerebral for them, no matter how many tank tops they put Eliza in. But stranger things have happened.
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Date: 2009-05-11 03:01 am (UTC)Come on FOX, make the right decision!!!