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DOLLHOUSE #3:Belle Chose/Season 2/2009
Belle Chose
At the request of a Dollhouse shareholder, Victor is imprinted with the mind of the man's nephew. The man's unstable, psychotic, homicidal nephew. Now, just as Ballard is starting to adjust to his new role, he must call upon all of his FBI training when Victor escapes the Dollhouse to wander the streets with a killer in his head.
I liked this episode. The guy who plays Victor sure looks like he had a ball when "Kiki" jumped into his head. I also liked when Ballard was talking to Victor (as Terry), and while belittling him for surrounding himself with surrogates he could control, pretty much everything he was saying could be equally applied to Adele. Boyd also had a great line early on when he told Adele that Topher had a problem with the ethics of reviving Terry the serial killer. All in all, pretty good.
And according to the previews, Summer Glau will be joining the cast in three weeks (which is two episodes from now, as we don't get an episode next week). Coolness!
Yeah, I like Ballard's line about Topher as well, and Topher's response. "Hey, thanks for selling the point with that."
The whole Terry with his "dolls" angle went right over my head...pretty obvious when it's pointed out...
I missed the Terry-Adele thing as well. That makes me wonder if the professor's speech is a metaphor for someone as well.
However, once again, Echo's story is a snoozer.
Ballard/Adele/Victor were much more interesting. The lack of GPS in Victor was a cop-out, especially if it would have been easier just to let Victor go and track him. It was a sloppy set-up, even if Ballard got to be awesome and there was continuity with the remote wiping idea.
I missed the Terry-Adele thing as well. That makes me wonder if the professor's speech is a metaphor for someone as well.
However, once again, Echo's story is a snoozer.
Ballard/Adele/Victor were much more interesting. The lack of GPS in Victor was a cop-out, especially if it would have been easier just to let Victor go and track him. It was a sloppy set-up, even if Ballard got to be awesome and there was continuity with the remote wiping idea.
I figured Echo's story was supposed to be a snoozer; for story purposes, the writer's just needed her out on an assignment when the power drain/flush/swap/wipe thing happened.
I figured Echo's story was supposed to be a snoozer; for story purposes, the writer's just needed her out on an assignment when the power drain/flush/swap/wipe thing happened.
I think they needed it to have Victor go wild, because that was hilarious and I hope the actor had as much fun playing that scene as I had watching it. (Or more )
The college professor guy was definitely creepy, too. But I guess anyone ordering his doll for sex is at least a little bit of that. The circumstances and the character he made up just make it worse.
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The quality of the show seems directly linked to the amount of Dushku in it.
The actor that plays Victor is a pretty good mimic....watching him play Terry, and his copying of the mannerisms, vocal inflection, where quite good.
Dushku....not so much. Obviously you could not write Echo off the show w/o at lot of effort, but going more Ensemble is the best Joss can do.
I think they needed it to have Victor go wild, because that was hilarious and I hope the actor had as much fun playing that scene as I had watching it. (Or more )
I agree, Goran Va.. V... something, was hilarious in that scene.
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Originally Posted by satori01
The quality of the show seems directly linked to the amount of Dushku in it.
The actor that plays Victor is a pretty good mimic....watching him play Terry, and his copying of the mannerisms, vocal inflection, where quite good.
Dushku....not so much. Obviously you could not write Echo off the show w/o at lot of effort, but going more Ensemble is the best Joss can do.
When the show debuted, I posted that the biggest problem on the show was Dushku. The rest of the cast (and some of the guests) are routinely upstaging ED, acting circles around her with seeming ease. That's a problem, when the show is based around her character.
However, at this point I think the show had/has numerous problems, of which ED is only one. I don't think it's entirely correct, nor fair, to put it all on her.
I actually thought that the Echo mission had the virtue of at least having some funny lines ("I just don't understand Chauncy!" "I took mid-evil literature because I figured, it's not advanced-evil, so I should be able to handle it"), but yes, the Victor scene in the club pretty much stole the show.
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Loved this episode more than the others of this season.
I think Echo's engagement was interesting in that it offered a bit of knowledge about what was going on inside Terry's mind: when she was discussing "Chauncy" with the professor, they talked about the power of women and how subtletly they used it to get what they want. Terry grew up repressed by all those women, so he started "playing with dolls" (even if only in that controlled environment) to reassure himself of his own power. Wich draws a lot of paralels with dollhouse clients (and workers)...
I'm wondering who's the next BSG regular to show up in this series, as we already got Tahmoh Penikett (Helo) as Ballard, Jamie Bamber (Apollo) as the arms dealer and Michael Hogan (Tigh) as the uncle. It's almost as if Joss actually wished he had something to do with BSG.
I'm wondering who's the next BSG regular to show up in this series, as we already got Tahmoh Penikett (Helo) as Ballard, Jamie Bamber (Apollo) as the arms dealer and Michael Hogan (Tigh) as the uncle. It's almost as if Joss actually wished he had something to do with BSG.
I certainly hope we see them more often. They were all awesome.
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However, at this point I think the show had/has numerous problems, of which ED is only one. I don't think it's entirely correct, nor fair, to put it all on her.
I would not put it all on Dushku, obviously Joss and the writers get quite a bit of blame for the slow pacing, but pacing is fixable, Dushku suddenly becoming a compelling actress...probably not....which is the 800 lb gorrilla in the room, and can only be mitigated by going to a more ensemble style (which the show did in the second half of the 1st season).
Frankly I am not enamored of the actor that plays Helio/Ballard, I find him wooden and pouting (even on BSG), but he is tolerable.
Honestly, Dollhouse as a show is mediocre. Good enough to watch, but I am not particuliarly excited by it. My Joss loyalty is high, so it has a spot on the DVR.
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